Irish Sex Work Research Network (ISWRN)
@iswrn.bsky.social
We are a platform for those interested in sex work and sexual governance scholarship within the island of Ireland.
What happens when intimacy becomes a middle-class service economy? New Red Umbrella Research Brief: The Price of Authenticity Bernstein (2007) Watch here: youtu.be/JJbA6E7-ucA Please subscribe! #Sociology #DigitalLabour #PlatformEconomy #Class #Research #redumbrellaresearch
Who Benefits from Rescue? New Red Umbrella Research Brief: The Rescue Economy Plambech (2016) Watch here: youtu.be/QxEFeOKDN5s Please subscribe to support the channel! #migration #deportation #criminology #politicaleconomy #research #redumbrellaresearch
When “rescue” becomes surveillance... New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Racialised Bordering Politics Mai et al. (2021) Watch here: youtu.be/-OvzQ2fFj_0 Please subscribe to support the channel! #research #sociology #criminology #migration #trafficking #border #ResearchBriefing #RedUmbrellaResearch
Another police offender who deliberately targeted sex workers www.irishnews.com/news/uk/poli...
Police officer who died now being probed over sex offences and attempted murder
Alan Greer, 47, was arrested on April 24 this year after a woman came forward to say she was raped in her home in Glasgow in 2012.
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A challenge to the ‘choice/coercion’ binary… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Labour Unfreedom Cruz (2018) Watch here: youtu.be/_mPmsWVoLm8 Please subscribe to support the channel! #labour #migration #marxist #research #RedUmbrellaResearch
Open Access by Leigh-Ann Sweeney "The Closure of Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI): Implications for Sex Work and Social Work" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Social impact among academics can look like this… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Quiet Academic Activism Laing et al. (2022) Watch here: youtu.be/R_Jp7k00BXU Please subscribe to support the channel!
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social reviews 'Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922–1972', by Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @templeunivpress.bsky.social
Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922–1972, by Averill Earls
In the last decade or so, Ireland has emerged as one of the world’s most progressive countries when it comes to matters of sexuality and gender. It was the
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When we move beyond simple choice-or-victimhood narratives… New Red Umbrella Research Briefing: Agency Under Constraint Bungay et al. (2011) Watch here: youtu.be/ZgnWuB17PxY Please subscribe to support the channel!
Participatory action research- a tool for change… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Research as Resistance O’Neill (2010) Watch here: youtu.be/FlE-C5k7pMw Please subscribe to support the channel! #Criminology #SocialJustice #ParticipatoryActionResearch #RedUmbrellaResearch #ResearchBriefing
Criminalisation, a health risk… New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Policing & Health Risks (Meta-analysis) Platt et al. (2018) Watch here: youtu.be/kaauYz3mgzI Please subscribe to support the channel! #ViolencePrevention #HealthResearch #Criminalisation #RedUmbrellaResearch
Carceral frameworks can produce the very harms they claim to solve.... New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Graham (2017), “Governing Through Crime.” Watch here: youtu.be/dGuSrntxjxM #Criminalisation #Policing #Structuralviolence #Criminology #RedUmbrellaResearch
Decriminalisation…Job’s Not Finished! New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Bennachie et al. (2021) @NZPC_ Watch here: youtu.be/PrLbeho2Xxo Please subscribe to support the channel! #Decriminalisation #MigrantRights #ProstitutionReformAct #Aotearoa #RedUmbrellaResearch
Happy June 2nd! ❤️ This year ESWA celebrates by releasing a documentary on the origins of International Sx Worers Day, and how sex workers around Europe celebrated its 50th anniversary last year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtp_...
And When They Had Money, They Had Power: 50 years of fighting for sex workers' rights
YouTube video by ESWA - European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance
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New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Professionalism & Empowerment, Gloss (2024) Watch here: youtu.be/QEeytp0NXRM Please subscribe to support the channel!
We would be delighted if you can join us on Trinity campus next week - Tuesday June 2nd 2-4pm - Dr Lynzi Armstrong: Sex (Work), Lies, and Decriminalisation: Reflections from Aotearoa/New Zealand
Elizabeth Malcolm has left us much fine scholarship isaanz.org/the-passing-...
The passing of Elizabeth Malcolm
19 May 2026. Elizabeth Malcolm died peacefully in Melbourne following a long illness aged 77. Elizabeth was the inaugural Gerry Higgins professor of Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne. Sh…
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New Red Umbrella Research Brief: Stigma, Discrimination & SW Law, Armstrong, et al. (2024) Watch here: youtu.be/RvAkthO--lM Please subscribe to support the channel!
Grim subject but fantastic article. May interest sex work scholars as we know the Regina Coeli was a hostel that housed many sex workers.
Máiréad Enright@maireadenright.bsky.social · 3mo agoPoison for Penitence: A Hydrogen Peroxide Experiment on Infants in Dublin’s Regina Coeli Hostel nursingclio.org/2026/05/06/p...
“Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” @cornellupress.bsky.social featured in the Guardian! 🥹 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
‘Live and let live’: Northern Ireland historian uncovers surprising era of tolerance of gay men
Public records and private papers reveal compassion and tacit acceptance before ‘moral panic’ took hold in the 1950s and 1960s
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A new must follow 👍
ruresearch.bsky.social@ruresearch.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe first Red Umbrella Research video is now live on YouTube. Discourse of Disposal, Lowman (2000) Watch here: youtu.be/CHFf0s-2sx8?... Please subscribe and support the channel. More to come! #Decriminalisation #Policy #Criminology #HarmReduction #ResearchBriefing
I'm soft-launching 'Red Umbrella Research' a YouTube Channel sharing #research briefings that promote academic studies & community reports about #adultindustries #sxworkers. Full launch- end of April. Please follow me on socials. Solidarity! youtube.com/@redumbrella...
*drum roll* Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026! I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...
📣 Sex Work Studies and History workshop, with an opening talk from NUM CEO, Lynsey Walton! In-person and online, free to attend, full details below #RightsNotRescue
Dr Ezra Horbury@ezrahorbury.bsky.social · 7mo agoPlease share this announcement for our (free!) workshop on Sex Work Studies and History at the University of York (March 20), with @nationaluglymugs.bsky.social www.york.ac.uk/english/abou...
Wonderful to be at the Dublin launch at another great book on Irish queer history - ‘Love in the Lav; A social biography of same sec desire in Ireland, 1922-1072’ by @aearls.bsky.social #irishhistory #history #irishqueerhistory is such an exciting area for scholars these days … finally! #spéirghorn
Free to everyone to download academic books are a blessing!
Caroline Derry@carolinederry.bsky.social · 7mo agoNow published and free to download! 'Law and Justice in the 1950s' is a fantastic collection, edited by Fiona Cownie and Rosemary Auchmuty. My chapter is on the Wolfenden Report, homosexuality and women - others cover everything from legal education to Beeching to London smog.
Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain. Interesting looking book launch coming up👇
Lorraine Grimes@lorrainegrimes.bsky.social · 7mo agoIt is an honour to have the brilliant activist, campaigner and academic Ailbhe Smyth launch my book on Thursday 5 February at 7pm in the Irish Film Institute #booklaunch
A very knowledgeable academic account to follow @drcamillewaring.bsky.social if you are interested in non consensual images and wider questions
