Alan (the Lone Librarian on film festival hiatus) Teder’s Reviews > Sinead O’Connor's Universal Mother > Status Update

Sinéad’s trajectory toward mental illness was a slow build, the seeds having been sown in childhood as recounted on this LP. “Mental illness” sometimes proves physically spectacular and entertainment worthy for the exploiters, but the cost to those struggling is insurmountable. For Sinéad, public flogging took its toll.

This fire-breathing dragon who loved us with a warrior’s passion lived a public feminism germane to Universal Mother, a feminism especially relevant to the sorry state of our present world. That is, even though I will try my very best to go lightly, this book is feminist as fuck.