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Abby Keating

@abkeating.bsky.social

Film lecturer @ucc, writer, maker. Co-founder of Alphaville Journal. Researching women in film & protest media. Runs on music. abbkeating.wordpress.com

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign@ipsc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Writer Alan O'Gorman, accepting the IFTA for best film for Christy, talked about the importance recognising and destigmatising the experience of being in the care system, said "Free Palestine, Free Palestine, Saoirse don Phalaistín, get the US army out of Shannon." RTÉ cut this part of his speech..

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign@ipsc.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Bravo to Olwen Fouéré and Margo Harkin, who turned down honorary doctorates from the University of Galway over its ties to Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology which works closely with the apartheid state's "defense industries", key to its genocide of the Palestinian people. #BDS

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Abby Keating@abkeating.bsky.social · last yr.

Una Mullally today on the hope of the #MarRef moment - “Ten years ago, when we came together, when empathy was expressed, the movement became broad and porous… If we can tap into that again, who knows what kind of society we could be?” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Marriage equality 10 years on: A boy sees us hold hands and says ‘I f***ing hate gay people’

I miss the optimism and unforgettable beauty of that time, whatever ugliness came before or after

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Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.

Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress: "They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"

New York Magazine@nymag.com · last yr.

Ralph Fiennes and Yorgos Lanthimos were among over 350 artists to sign an open letter denouncing the industry’s silence in response to Cannes film subject, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.

Filmmakers Denounce Industry ‘Silence’ About the Killing of Cannes Film Subject

Ralph Fiennes and Yorgos Lanthimos were among over 350 artists to sign an open letter denouncing the industry’s silence in response to Cannes film subject, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona.

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UNRWA@unrwa.org · last yr.

It has been over 9 weeks of siege on #Gaza, with the State of Israel banning the entry of all humanitarian aid, medical, and commercial supplies. UNRWA has thousands of trucks ready to enter and our teams in Gaza are ready to scale up the delivery. The siege must be lifted.

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Abby Keating@abkeating.bsky.social · last yr.

“TERF stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, but there is nothing radical or feminist about othering and excluding, about making another person a non-being.” www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Suzanne Harrington: Trans women are not a threat — there is plenty of room for all

TERF stands for Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, but there is nothing radical or feminist about othering and excluding, about making another person a non-being

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · 2y ago

“If we accept that war is inevitable, that inequality is inevitable, that environmental destruction is a necessary cost of progress, then we abandon the possibilities of transformation..” President Michael D Higgins What’ll we do without him?

Jennifer Szalai@jenszalai.bsky.social · 2y ago

WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People": "In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."

Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?” So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.)Yesterday, when I reached out to Daniels for a response from Meta, he wrote back: “Do you plan to write something about it, or are you just curious how we’re responding?” It’s always about controlling the narrative. But apparently, that’s not going so well. This morning, “Careless People” is No. 3 on Amazon. I know this is a long item, the longest I’ve ever written for the Book Club newsletter. But when one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.