I see the right wing bros, (including the make crime illegal again muppet and the anti migrant gobdaws) the TERFS and the Ionaites are having hissys and fits of the vapours about the National Stategy for Womrn and Girls 2025-2030. Poor little snowflakes!

Challenging the tradwife and manosphere narratives - excellent letter from Maedbh King www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

Challenging the tradwife and manosphere narratives

Small wonder so many women recognise something of their own lives in the tradwife story

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I love when people come over to Bluesky to beg us to fight with them on X again. You lost! We’re not playing with you anymore!

I get to do talks in some lovely venues and the Great Hall in Queens, Belfast is up there among them - we were also provided with the obligatory, restorative bourbon cream - however, instead of awful conference coffee, we can have some lovey iced peach tea 🫖

Dr Mary McAuliffe@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2d ago

Another beautiful morning - enroute to Belfast, which seems to be the place to be these days. Really excited to do this keynote today and hear papers from other researchers in gender and sexuality research. So much work now being done in this area

Another beautiful morning - enroute to Belfast, which seems to be the place to be these days. Really excited to do this keynote today and hear papers from other researchers in gender and sexuality research. So much work now being done in this area

Neko Case is doing very raw and very important writing about the allegations against Glen Hansard, and about how people respond to learning this information about someone they admired: open.substack.com/pub/nekocase...

GARBAGE DISPOSAL

It’s been a few days since my last post about lionizing a horrible man who has died.

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Finally got to see her this evening - she does not disappoint #revolutionarywomen

Beautiful tralee bay #wildatlanticway #thekingdom

‘We now have a fitting tribute to the monumental women at the centre of those terrible times’. Spiorad Ban Chiarraí (Spirit of the Kerry Women) in Tralee www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Clodagh Finn: A lesson in how to reawaken the spirit of our revolutionary women

Clodagh Finn looks at Kerry’s revolutionary women whose spirit has been reawakened and honoured in a majestic bronze sculpture that stands 2.5m tall in the centre of Tralee Town Park

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American activist and advocate for women’s equality Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born on this day in 1890. She helped U.S. workers form unions coast to coast. A founding member of the ACLU, Flynn was also a vocal supporter of women’s right to vote and have access to birth control. #Rights #History

8/7/1890 — b. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American reformer, labor organizer, #feminist. Full-time organizer for Industrial Workers of the World, a champion of basic civil liberties, and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (1920) #womenshistory #labor #stikes #civilrights #ACLU #PolSky

#DIBLives A master portraitist & fierce force for culture, painter, stained-glass artist, art activist & founder of An Túr Gloine, Sarah Purser was the first woman admitted to the RHA. She died #OTD 1943 from a stroke precipitated by the 'bad art' on a commemorative stamp. www.dib.ie/biography/pu...

Kathleen Stock and the rest call this sort of thing collateral damage and have said, clearly, they're ok with it happening.

Jo Yurcaba@joyurcaba.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

MSPC material contains new first-hand evidence relating to an attempted massacre of five IRA prisoners in County Kerry on 7 March 1923. It occurred on the same day that the National Army killed eight prisoners at Ballyseedy and four at Countess Bridge. militarypensions.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/r...

R20 – Attempted fourth Kerry massacre on the same day as Ballyseedy (March 1923)

The 20th release of MSPC material contains new first-hand evidence relating to an attempted massacre of five IRA prisoners in County Kerry on 7 March 1923. It occurred on the same day that the Nati…

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This is misogyny and anti-disability discrimination on par with old-timey doctors claiming women are prone to ‘hysteria’ and the vapours. It is unacceptable seeing this in any newspaper. UK philosophers should loudly condemn it as a whole, since it is authored by an ex-colleague. It is wrong

Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time

Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle.me · 5d ago

Really? Because I keep seeing them in charge of everything from car dealerships to the White House, and they seem to doing just fine despite their obvious handicaps.

How women in the Irish music/comedy/arts/entertainment industry in general don't go completely insane is beyond me. Same issues over and over and over. How many have been subtly, quietly pushed out or felt they had no choice but to abandon careers. How much talent have we silently lost.

New public information campaign warns of the terms ‘tradwife’ and ‘manosphere’ www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

New public information campaign warns of the terms ‘tradwife’ and ‘manosphere’

Government-funded strategy takes aim at stereotypical gender roles promoted by influencers

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‘If we let only our opponents tell the story, then it becomes a parable about the hazards of striving for progress and equality, rather than about the institutions that reduced equality to a mere PR exercise’. Very good on the Cambridge Professor mess www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye

The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye

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Jack Chambers wants you to believe that the Climate Act of 2021 is the reason for decades of poor infrastructure delivery and not the decisions of decades of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael governments

What could we cut back on as the world literally burns?🤔

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 6d ago

Climate Act curbs could be considered to avert infrastructure ‘paralysis’, Chambers says

There are 279 parking spaces, for its planned 1,046 homes in the Montpelier (O’Devaney) development. All streets around have / will have residential parking. People in Montpelier will be dependent on the worst Dublin bus service (the No 11)-Fintan is right on this www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Fintan O'Toole: Dublin 4’s version of Marie Antoinette’s ‘let them eat cake’? Let them get the bus

The northside is a different country – especially when it comes to transport options

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The U.S. is starving Cuba like Israel is starving Gaza.

Ah hear, the dating and naming of faux old Irish pubs has gone to a new low on Baggot St., with Sally McLennane’s, supposedly founded in 1862 - that’s the McLennane’s of Mayo I presume. (I know it’s a Pogues song, but still!) it will annoy me everyday as I pass on the way to UCD … sigh 😞

Rainforest isn't the only important species habitat here on the farm, far from it. This wildflower meadow is in a field by the house (traditionally named 'Glan'). Glan was previously severely overgrazed, but is now ever more biodiverse, full of flowers and invertebrates like butterflies.

Ireland’s notorious mother and baby institutions operated until the late 1990s. Zoei Bonny was the last baby to die under the care of Bessborough, in Cork, in 1994. Her mother Cindi shared her story with me a few days ago. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Bessborough survivor Cindi Bonny on the death of her baby Zoei in 1994

Podcast Episode · The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · 31 July · 36min

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Ken O'Flynn TD happily sharing a photo with a white nationalist who makes money by inciting abuse and harrassment against others. a man who advocates ethnic cleansing of immigrants, who complains of "controlled opposition by the jews" just racist buds hanging out at the Gript summer school

Anyway in other news, Kerry have another chance, in 2026, to win an All Ireland - TG4 Women’s Championship against Galway today in Croke Park. C’mon the Kerry women #CiarraíAbú #UptheKingdom

Hate to admit this person from Non-Dublin has some points here. Nowhere is the Dead Dublin Theory better illustrated than the proliferation of new pubs done up to look like old pubs imo. Toxic to native fauna but serving the customer base it seeks. www.westernpeople.ie/opinion/dubl...

Dublin is now a shell of its once former self - opinion - Western People

Dublin is now a shell of its once former self - opinion - Western People

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The thought of that malignant, twisted, war mongering, rapist, racist, misogynist here is infuriating. I bet our governing muppets will roll out the forelock tugging welcome - an embarrassment to us all! if one Doonbeg local does an ‘shure isnt he great’ interview!! 🤬🤬🤬#feckofftrump #nototrumpvisit