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In my gender and sexuality studies seminar just now, the students all decided they were queer critics because of their vocal and obstructive opposition to AI - totally unprompted by me! Glimmers of hope! I will not be hearing a word against Gen Z thank you!

Friends - I'm launching my book in London at @qucl.bsky.social on May Day - I promise extra anti-capitalism in honour of the occasion 🥖🌹and if that isn't enticement enough, I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Sophie Chauhan and @jackconneely.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns

qUCL are pleased to welcome Dr Naoise Murphy (Manchester) to discuss their new book, disrupting common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Chaired ...

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Queering 20thC Irish Women’s Writing 1 May 5:30pm @naoisemurphy.bsky.social will discuss her new book, disrupting narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality & race in the postcolonial state. With Sophie Chauhan, @jackconneely.bsky.social & @ctlnkane.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns

qUCL are pleased to welcome Dr Naoise Murphy (Manchester) to discuss their new book, disrupting common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Chaired ...

ucl.ac.uk

Friends - I'm launching my book in London at @qucl.bsky.social on May Day - I promise extra anti-capitalism in honour of the occasion 🥖🌹and if that isn't enticement enough, I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Sophie Chauhan and @jackconneely.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns

qUCL are pleased to welcome Dr Naoise Murphy (Manchester) to discuss their new book, disrupting common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Chaired ...

ucl.ac.uk

NEW CfP! 🌈🎓 📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space 8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you! Deadline 31 March www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

Presenting queer visual history (PicMe) | Tampere universities

Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) constitute the Tampere Universities community. Our areas of priority in research and education are technology, health and societ...

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I'll be back in Oxford on Friday! Come along / tell your Oxford friends? torch.ox.ac.uk/event/irish-...

Irish Women's Writing | Discussion with Dr Naoise Murphy

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naoise murphy@naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Oxford friends: 5pm on 6 March, location TBC, I'll be chatting to the wonderful Queer Intersections Oxford network and the Feminist Thinking Seminar

Some exciting upcoming events from EACW's Centre for the Study of Sexuality & Culture! Venues across Manchester, throughout the semester. Speakers include @naoisemurphy.bsky.social, @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, @katiehbarnes.bsky.social, @lizrosenfeld.bsky.social & @noisybits.bsky.social

The book is out, it exists in hardback, and I'll be talking about it in three different cities over the next few months! 🧵

🚨Earned settlement consultation ends Thursday🚨 Proposed changes risk pushing hundreds of thousands of children into poverty and destroying lives. We have created guidance on how to tell the government we need a genuinely fairer system. www.migrantvoice.org/img/upload/J... www.gov.uk/government/c...

Today is the last day to respond to the government's horrifying proposals on "earned settlement" - the Amnesty guidance is very helpful, so there's no excuse for not doing it media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

Two fully funded studentships at Manchester to support research in queer and trans healthcare and creativity www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Surreal to see my book available in the library to read! 📖

The eight Palestine Action hunger strikers have now been held without trial for months, and three have been hospitalised. Here's a toolkit with 11 proposed actions you can take to support them.

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line

On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

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New webinar! Are you worried about immigration raids on your business and community? Join the Migrants' Rights Network (MRN) and Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) as we hear from a legal expert with 15+ years experience of challenging civil penalties. Register here: buff.ly/WxEWmWa

My book is coming out soon and you can ask your library to order it! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queerin... If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing

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ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W@andraswf.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...

Use this tool to contact the relevant government officials and foreign offices, demanding they protect their citizens on the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza - it couldn't be easier globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...

📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help! 🏊‍♀️ 🏊🏊‍♂️ They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat. Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Large protests and growing labour strikes across the globe in response to the illegal seizure of the Global Sumud Flotilla last night. Protests tonight starting 5:30pm across London's major train stations. Solidarity with the people of Gaza! Break the siege!

@networkgender.bsky.social (FGEN)’s statement about Newnham College excluding trans women from its scholarships.

FGEN Statement on Newnham College Transphobic Fellowship Announcement - Feminist Gender Equality Network

On behalf of our membership, the Feminist Gender Equality Network (FGEN) condemns Newnham College for advertising an explicitly trans-exclusionary Research Fellowship Award. The decision by Newnham Co...

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@newnhamcollege.bsky.social has adopted a transphobic policy, excluding trans women from its research fellowship competition. Firstly, boycott this competition and tell everyone else to Secondly, write to them to persuade them to reconsider. The principal’s address is principal@newn.cam.ac.uk

Carol Atack@carolatack.bsky.social · last yr.

The @newnhamcollege.bsky.social research fellowship competition is now open - if you're a woman looking for a 3-year postdoc in one of this year's subjects (see next post), please apply! Our research fellows bring so much to the life of the college & get great support. newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

Absolutely grim to see Newnham College actively complying in advance with the Supreme Court ruling, but you could tell they were Like This since forever with demanding GRCs from any trans women who applied. Won't end here.

Carol Atack@carolatack.bsky.social · last yr.

The @newnhamcollege.bsky.social research fellowship competition is now open - if you're a woman looking for a 3-year postdoc in one of this year's subjects (see next post), please apply! Our research fellows bring so much to the life of the college & get great support. newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

super happy that my article on Race Today and the Imperial Typewriters strike is out now and open access in @ersjournal.com! doi.org/10.1080/0141...

Black struggles, black workers? Race Today and the 1974 Imperial Typewriters strike

In May 1974, around 500 ‘Ugandan Asian’ workers walked out of Leicester’s Imperial Typewriters factory. For the recently formed Race Today Collective (RTC), which published the radical journal Race...

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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

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indexing is boring so here are the most fun/incongruous pairings that the alphabet is throwing up for me (my book is weird)

👉We need to hear from you so we can record incidents of racial profiling by police officers on 'cross-border' public transport within the The Common Travel Area which is an open borders area comprising the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. 👇See thread