Revisiting SPIN's 1991 Sinead O'Connor cover story

[mayjailer]

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[frejasface]

Love this post, OP!

Damn, she was not wrong about a fucking thing.

[mayjailer]

thank you! your series was definitely an inspiration.

[maidenhell]

I was a kid when everything went down with her and the media influenced a lot of the reaction (as it does today). Now that I am revisiting Sinead, I appreciate her more (and honestly want to give her a hug).

[skeetertuskin]

she was so ahead of her time and in lot of ways still is. i love her so fucking much and it hurts me to see her still in so much pain.

[therearewords]

👏

[irajaxon]

those interview highlights are on point. it's crazy to think that the pope rip was so controversial to the point of being career-ending. she took it all on the chin and she really wasn't wrong. like, even if there wasn't any child abuse going on in the church, the catholic church would still be a historical force of evil. the pope literally split the americas in two and gave half to spain and half to portugal, and look what followed.

also, if any of you (especially women) ever feel the urge to shave your head, go for it. i know hair can be very important, and being to let it and what it represents go is very invigorating.

[ahkna]

the only thing i disliked about shaving my head is that i suddenly saw my own resemblance to my brother lmao. but it was a great experience for me. i might do it again this summer.

[irajaxon]

do ittttt!

i'm currently on a 5-to-7-year hair growing process (i'm teaching myself to be ok with my natural hair color; i've always dyed it) which will culminate in me shaving it all off and tattooing my head.

[rubie_dubidoux]

lol I already look *startlingly* like my brother even with regular long hair. when that gender-swap Snapchat filter came out my brother and I each took a picture and showed our parents and they legit thought they were pictures of each other

[dollhouseretard]

She speaks a truth I don’t think people were ready to hear then, and now. It is sad how spit on she is about a lot of this, but is seen as crazy for ripping a picture on SNL. I wish people could see outside of religion to the truth.

[bellwetherr]

sometimes you read older interviews and they age so poorly

but this is like perfection

[owl_get_you]

She’s a fucking Cassandra and I can’t imagine how tired she must be right now. She was right about everything and she’s now having to grieve even more personally and if I think about it too much it’ll genuinely make me cry.

[bellwetherr]

she's been through SO much

[vulcan_rhapsody]

it's really striking, she was so ahead of her time. What a bold woman.