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What I admired most about #Sinead was her openness about her mental health struggles.
Too often society sanitises what that actually looks like. And the media mocks it or uses it to sell sensationalism. They also use it to silence women just like Sinead.
We don’t see people when they are at their most vulnerable being publicly unapologetically honest about it. In all it’s scary, “crazy”, completely irrational messiness.
She just put it all out there. I loved that about her.
Women are taught from a young age not to take up space, be too loud, too fierce, too honest. We need to portray an image of respectable calm. Never seem out of control. They locked us up for being hysterical & still label us if we don’t conform.
Sinead defied all of that by just being her true self & giving the world glimpses of what it’s like to live with demons that sometimes you can control and sometimes you can’t. And that’s not a flaw. It’s just real life.
And she was so very real.
I was saying to my friend last night how I always saw Sinéad O'Connor as a walking manifestation of Irish female trauma.
I felt this accutely during her performance of Snow Patrol's Run during the Shine A Light evening of the first ever lockdown. In our darkest times, we turned to her. I bawled my eyes out watching that performance. No one else could make it mean so much.