KIN star wants to play more of these roles after secretly welcoming first baby

KIN star Yasmin Seky has said she would love to land ‘more badass’ roles since becoming a mother. The Dubliner, best known for her role as gangster’s moll Nikita Murphy in the hit drama and more recently competing in season eight of Dancing With The Stars, surprised fans when she welcomed a baby girl, called […]

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Oddkin

Kin is a wild category that all sorts of people do their best to domesticate. Making kin as oddkin, rather than, or at least in addition to, godkin…troubles important matters, like to whom one is actually responsible….What shape is this kinship, where and whom do its lines connect and disconnect, and so what?

Haraway is reclaiming kin to mean not merely blood relatives (“godkin”) but…

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Make kin not nets

But I think all of this elides the real and justified reasons for feeling icky about networking: the act, as it’s usually discussed, distills human relationships into resources to be mined

YES! That's one of the issues I've had with it. It's like, "I'm not interested in you, you can't provide me any value, so I'm not going to engage with you..."

It translates caring and caretaking for one…

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Kin by Tayari Jones

Contributed by Mark Simonson

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For Kin (2026), Tayari Jones presents a striking cover designed by John Gall, published by Alfred A. Knopf and selected for Oprah’s Book Club. The design is set entirely in Etna X Condensed by Mark Simonson Studio—title, author name, and cover blurb unified in a single typeface.

What makes the cover…

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Emmett J. Scanlan in 'dark place' for years after wife suffered devastating miscarriage

Actor Emmett J. Scanlan has shared how he was stuck in a 'dark place' for years after he and his wife, Claire Cooper, lost a baby. The Kin star and his wife Claire Cooper suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage in 2019 before welcoming their son Ocean. Today's top videos Emmett said after losing his son, Phoenix, […]

Kin star Clare Dunne shares the tiniest teaser as gangland drama set to return

Fans of RTE’s gangland drama Kin have been celebrating this week after it was revealed that the show is indeed coming back to our screens. Filming for the third season is set to begin in the capital this summer, with new funding secured through a partnership between RTÉ, the BBC and Screen Ireland. The critically […]

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