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Cathy Juliet

@cathyjuliet.bsky.social
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Migrant and proud. LGBTQIA+. Belfast. Ireland. Comms, community development, human rights activism. Feminist of course.

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Allan @allanartist.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Sarah Clancy and Chris Andrews have both been kidnapped by the IDF. Contact Dept of Foreign Affairs: Address: Iveagh House, 80 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, D02 VY53 Website: www.ireland.ie/dfa Telephone: +353 1 408 2000 #globalsumudflotilla
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Doctors of the World @dotwuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Deadly UK border policies have taken four lives this weekend - including a child. These are entirely avoidable deaths. Safe routes must exist so people seeking safety no longer have to risk their lives.
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Child dies while reportedly trying to reach UK in small boat
Body of teenager found on beach in northern France after three other people die in Channel crossings on Saturday
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Tools for Solidarity needs a new van. Can you help through donating or sharing? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tools-for-...
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Tools for Solidarity
To raise funds to buy a new electric van.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Do you think this will stop here and roll back, now that these people have been shown they can demand and get this level of permission to run riot from government, police and press? Or do you think they will take this as the bare minimum, and push for more and worse.
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Progressive Politics NI @ppni.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Everyone out this afternoon in Belfast to take a stand against racism & stand with asylum seekers! ✊🏻
Say no to racism

Ten Square Hotel
Sat 9th Aug
1pm

Stand with asylum seekers.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I regret to inform you that Starmer’s been tweeting dehumanising videos of migrants again. These videos have been shown to increase support for Reform, by increasing salience of migration. He has to go.
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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A year after the far-right riots which swept the country, we continue to see violence against migrants and marginalised communities. Together we can stand against it. Share your pics and visas and stand #UnitedAgainstDivision👇 www.migrantvoice.org/home/pagenew...
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Belfast Pride 25. Proud and happy to walk with those amazing guys
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This is the scarcely believable testimony of Gaza journalist, Motasem A Dalloul. The tiny amounts of aid getting in to Gaza is used as bait in a Squid Game-style nightmare. Except this is real. Families forced to choose between dying of starvation or dying trying to get food. The end of days.
Each time, around 60,000 to 70,000 Palestinians converge at the designated site. 
Loudspeakers announce that when the green light turns on, people have just *10 minutes* to grab between 300 to 400 aid packages—though much of the critical supplies, like flour, sugar, and salt, are snatched up first by gangs and collaborators. After the 10-minute window, the light then turns yellow, signaling that only 5 minutes remain to flee before automatic machine guns open fire indiscriminately on anyone still in the area”
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Just an agonising few kilometres away from the starving, thousands of tons of food aid lies wasting in the sun as the Israeli blockade continues. Gaza is now being systematically starved. The war crime of the 21st century. REST OF THE WORLD UPDATE: Still watching. (🎥 BBC)
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
NEW: Gaza hospitals now fill with children just the width of their bones. Doctors faint from hunger doing rounds & journalists trying to document cases are too weak to walk the wards [WaPo] Meanwhile, Israeli quadcopters hover over shelter tents shooting mothers while they breastfeed [Guardian]. 🧵
Extract from Guardian story which reads:

In recent days, I operated on two women who were shot by quadcopters while sheltering in their tents near one of the locations, according to the people who brought them in. One was breastfeeding her child when she was hit; the second was pregnant. Thankfully, both have survived their injuries so far. These women weren't even seeking aid - they were simply sheltering in areas that are supposedly "safe" but exposed to indiscriminate fire from the IDF's weaponised hunger apparatus.
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Migrant and proud!
Foot prints in clay soil
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The United Against Racism Belfast and Mid-Ulster statement is spot on
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
For those young uns in the TUV who are complaining about the 'vulgar' stained glass window in City Hall, a bit of history that explains how it started: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_Ul... tomasoflatharta.com/2020/04/04/c...
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Hungary’s new anti-LGBT+ legislation is a shameful attack on the rights of LGBT+ Hungarians. The European Union must respond swiftly and with decisive action. a.allout.org/s/OBZG8/
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European Union: Take action against Hungary’s anti-LGBT+ law
Hungary’s new anti-LGBT+ legislation is a shameful attack on the rights of LGBT+ Hungarians. The European Union must respond swiftly and with decisive action.
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Anti-racist rally at Belfast City Hall yesterday
Love our human race placard at anti-racist demo Refugees Welcome flag at anti-racist demoSome of the crowd at anti-racist demo. At the edge of the crowd, NIPSA placard and man wearing t-shirt that says 'more blacks more dogs more Irish'
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Bumped into @queensips.bsky.social at Belfast's Refugee Week Picnic today, encouraging migrants to exercise our right to vote and make politicians aware that our voices count too. Particularly important in the current climate. #MigrantDemocracyProject
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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
How far-right misinformation hijacked a tragedy in Carlow. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Cianan Brennan: How far-right misinformation hijacked a tragedy in Carlow
Misinformation spread rapidly online after the Carlow shooting. Despite Gardaí efforts, far-right figures amplified false claims to huge audiences
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Magnus Ramage @magnusramage.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Moving piece about PIP cuts, and more generally the awfulness of PIP assessments, by Elsa Williams, an autistic writer who co-writes the (very funny) site The Daily Tism.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 30/05/2025
En direct, guerre à Gaza : « Gaza est l’endroit le plus affamé au monde », déclare un porte-parole de l’ONU
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En direct, guerre à Gaza : « Gaza est l’endroit le plus affamé au monde », déclare un porte-parole de l’ONU
« C’est la seule zone délimitée, [le seul] pays ou territoire défini à l’intérieur d’un pays, où la totalité de la population est menacée de famine. 100 % de la population est menacée de famine », a lancé Jens Laerke, porte-parole du bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires de l’ONU, vendredi à Genève.
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Stuart Bailie @stubailie.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Sue Pentel was held for 9 hours at Musgrave police station, Belfast, May 24. She had been protesting outside Barclay’s Bank, Castle Place when the PSNI took her away on suspicion of criminal damage. Sue, 72, is a member of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign & Jews for Palestine. 📷 @stu_bailie
Sue Pentel, activist with Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and Jews for Palestine. Speaking outside Musgrave police station, Belfast. Photo by Stuart Bailie 
Supporters of Jews for Palestine. Speaking outside Musgrave police station, Belfast. Photo by Stuart Bailie 
Sue Pentel, activist with Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and Jews for Palestine. Speaking outside Musgrave police station, Belfast with Martine, who was also detained. Photo by Stuart Bailie Sue Pentel, activist with Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) and Jews for Palestine. Speaking outside Musgrave police station, Belfast. Photo by Stuart Bailie
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Brian Pelan @brianone.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Palestinian activist Sue Pentel makes a statement after being released from Musgrave Police Station in Belfast today. She was arrested earlier today in a protest outside a Barclays bank
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Some of my favourite bits of my #LGBT+ history in this country, now in Belfast City Hall window 😁 ❤️🏳️‍🌈
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
We'll over 1,000 at march for Trans Rights, Belfast, yesterday ❤️🌞
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 18/05/2025
Want to see how big the Trans Rights march in Belfast yesterday was? Here you go... Video via @imamammie.bsky.social
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
Poem response to Starmer's Farage/Powell cosplay - full text in the link
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I was thinking if we changed the word 'trans' to 'gay' in UK tabloids it would bring me back to my youth so I did a quick Google search. Here's the first pictures that came up. Mostly from the 80s and 90s, although some from this century as well. Looks like the time of dinosaurs...
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Folks in the Assembly: THE EQUALITY ACT 2010 DOES NOT APPLY IN NI 🙄
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Exactly this. The Supreme Court ruling was on their interpretation of law as it stands, it’s up to Labour to enhance protections, fix grey areas and anomalies in law. They are in power.
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Omagh Pride @omaghpride.com · 25/04/2025
We are dismayed and angered by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council's statement on the Supreme Court ruling. Full statement in alt text.
Omagh Pride is dismayed and angered by the statement from Fermanagh & Omagh District Council that it will be “implementing the provisions” of the recent British Supreme Court ruling, the implication of which is that trans people would be excluded from single-gender spaces. The Supreme Court’s ruling does not apply in Northern Ireland, as we have separate equality legislation, and we therefore cannot understand how or why the council has rushed to this position.Coming on the back of the Stormont Executive’s puberty blocker ban, this is yet another decision that would have a deeply adverse impact on trans people, adding to isolation and putting their safety at risk. Trans people are a small minority who are, unfortunately, already marginalised in society and facing rising hate crime, in the context of growing demonisation from the far right, as well as sections of the media and the political establishment.We reject the baseless implication that trans people represent a threat to women and girls. There has been a horrifying rise in gender-based violence, including femicide, in Northern Ireland over recent years, but this violence has overwhelmingly been perpetrated by cisgender men, not trans people. Misogynistic attitudes are fomented by precisely the same right-wing forces which are leading the attack on trans people and their rights. We reject cynical attempts to counterpose trans rights and women's rights from those who have no interest in either.We call on our local elected representatives to immediately and clearly speak out against this statement from Fermanagh & Omagh District Council and to ensure that no changes to policy are implemented which would undermine the rights and risk the safety of trans people. We intend to contact our elected representatives on this issue and we encourage the wider LGBTQ+ community and allies to do the same.


If this decision is not immediately overturned, Omagh Pride will be working with others to organise a protest at the next meeting of the council at the Townhall in Enniskillen on the evening of Tuesday 6th May.
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Staunch Women by @lauren-j-joseph.bsky.social - a great read open.substack.com/pub/laurenjo...
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S-T-A-U-N-C-H women
The Supreme Court are horrid, horrid girls.
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A Mere Solicitor @ameresolicitor.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
@carladenyer.bsky.social was the only MP who pointed out one key issue with the response to the Supreme Court’s judgment in the FWS case: Trans people have a right to privacy. Making trans people out themselves breaches that right to privacy.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Charities have urged the Prime Minister to scrap the two child benefit cap
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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Get this signed. And if you live in an area that has no outwardly sympathetic MLAs, that's even *more* reason to sign. They can claim that slmost everyone supports this approach if none of their constituents tell them otherwise. Don't let them say that.
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
goodlawproject.org/the-supreme-...
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The Supreme Court ignored trans voices. I’m ashamed of what our law has become | Good Law Project
The Supreme Court’s decision to exclude trans voices has harmed trans people – and harmed the fairness of their ruling.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/03/2025
Exclusive: Sinn Féin councillors on puberty blocker ban support & Pride bans hleehurley.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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Exclusive: Sinn Féin councillors on puberty blocker ban support & Pride bans
On Friday, I travelled for an hour with three others for what was meant to be a meeting with a Sinn Fein MLA.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🚨 MPs are being asked to vote on disability social security cuts without knowing the full impact. This is a political choice. It’s cost-cutting at the expense of people with disabilities. Reckless and cruel. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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MPs to vote on disability benefit cuts without knowing ‘full impact’
Britain’s economic watchdog may not publish forecast of employment prospects until the end of October
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The far-right who keep trying to get a foothold in Belfast are anti-refugee, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-abortion, misogynist, Islamophobic, racist and are often linked to proscribed terror orgs. We are calling on everyone to show up for our city this Sunday. Not an inch to the far-right.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 19/03/2025
Fin de la trêve à Gaza : nombre de morts, zones bombardées et cibles visées... L’ampleur des nouvelles frappes israéliennes Par CheckNews ⤵️
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Fin de la trêve à Gaza : nombre de morts, zones bombardées et cibles visées... L’ampleur des nouvelles frappes israéliennes
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
'Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”. '
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Poland experts release clinical guidance on trans youth healthcare. They define the Cass Review as of "low scientific value and credibility". journals.viamedica.pl/endokrynolog...
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Framework guidelines for the process of caring for the health of adolescent transgender (T) and non-binary (NB) people experiencing gender dysphoria — the position statement of the expert panel | Gawl...
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is my favourite flag in the world: Rainbow Refugees NI, Unity in Diversity!
Rainbow Refugees NI flag. Shows graphic of diverse queer people waving a pink welcome flag. With Rainbow Refugees logo and slogan Unity in Diversity. Carried by two people (you don't see their faces, jimust their hands and a bit of their raincoats), in a sports pitch, on a rainy day.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I wrote this on the most consistently terrible, and fatal, idea in centrist politics today. On Fanta, rebadging, and why attempting to win votes from fascists is morally disgusting and politically suicidal. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: Appeasing the far-right won't placate them — they'll just want the next cruelty
Their concerns are not about society, the economy or public safety, they’re an ever-moving target of fear and hatred that cannot be sated, it has to be challenged.
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Brenda Gough @brendagough.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Proud to be part of an amazing event involving Falls Women's Centre, Shankill Women's Centre, Reclaim the Agenda and the Three Sisters Gardening Community Group, an International Women's Day event. Belfastians....all welcome 🙏 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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NIRWN @nirwn.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
An important & powerful listen. Echoes all the things we know to be true: -supporting women supports all ‘something powerful happens when women come together’ -VAWG increases during conflict -the arts give us hope -NGOs are providing the frontline support podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
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Catch Up with Zahra Legris of Medecins San Frontieres
Podcast Episode · Catch Up with Louise McSharry · 14/02/2025 · 52m
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Cathy Juliet @cathyjuliet.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I love my wee granddaughter's quiet determination ❤️ #StrongWomen
Blond curly haired toddler pushing toy wheelbarrow in backyard, wearing embroidered coat and flowery wellies. View from the back so her face can't be seen.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/02/2025
The Guardian view on Trump’s foreign policy: an alarming new order takes shape | Editorial
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The Guardian view on Trump’s foreign policy: an alarming new order takes shape | Editorial
The US’s former allies must not normalise or legitimise the president’s lawless concept of international deal-making Nothing about Donald Trump’s notion that Gaza should come under US control makes sense according to established laws and norms of…
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Jeez. Trump has signed an EO to withdraw the US from the UN Human Rights Council. Just think about that
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 05/02/2025
This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Lift restrictions on prescribing puberty blockers to trans children.
We want the Government to reverse the restrictions it has introduced relating to the prescription of puberty blockers to children. The Government introduced legislation banning them from being prescri...
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