Reposted by Carol BallantineNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful: 4259125
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A friend is looking for screenshots of hateful/ transphobic content (headlines/ comments) for appropriate educational purposes. If you’re aware of any sites or people who collect these would you let me know? DM please 😔 @mimmymum.bsky.social @fiercemum.bsky.social @notrightruth.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Carol BallantineHuman Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 29/09/2026Marcia Gay Harden is right: You deserve love, kindness, and empathy. NO MATTER WHAT. 08919
Reposted by Carol BallantineCiara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions. 12456141
Reposted by Carol BallantineTim Clare @timclare.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So much of what we think of as 'good' style in persuasive or informative writing asks us to strip out 'hedging' phrases that limit or qualify claims. We want clear, bold theses - they're easier to understand, quicker to read, more exciting, & we take lack of qualifiers as a sign of authority. 161
Reposted by Carol BallantineLiv @fixyourheartsor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Are YOU a transgender and/or non-binary filmmaker? Would YOU like to have your work screened as part of a bustling mid-April weekend of trans film in beautiful Dublin City? THE THIRD ANNUAL TRANS IMAGE / TRANS EXPERIENCE FILM FESTIVAL IS OPEN FOR SHORT AND FEATURE SUBMISSIONS 178
Reposted by Carol Ballantine🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Britain’s original plan for New Zealand had the islands split into three provinces, with nonsensical borders typical of any British colonial project. The provinces were named after Irish ones (the guy who came up with them was an Anglo-Irish colonial officer). These didn’t last for long. 515334
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I’d devour a long read about this history and its lessons for today 011
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I’d devour a long read about this history and its lessons for today 010
Reposted by Carol BallantineBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The agentic vizier software I bought to automate my whispers to the sultan has developed its own agenda and long story short I'm getting beheaded at dawn 274130669
Reposted by Carol BallantineHazel Katherine Larkin @hazelklarkin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The Quiet Return is for women to write about traumatic experiences. The focus is on writing, not disclosure, achieved thru facilitated workshops at an exclusive property in a stunning environment ✨ Ten places 📍 Olhão, Algarve 🗓️ November 7-14 More details: bit.ly/4uiMRDu #SpeirGorm #BookSky #Writerstraumarecovery.ieThe Quiet Return Writing Retreat :: traumarecovery.ieThe Quiet Return Writing Retreat 084
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This is powerful: heartfelt testimonies of Jason Arday from his former students. Teaching really isn’t valued in the academy. He transformed lives. Rest in power. 001
Reposted by Carol BallantineRanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"People would share a meme about a book they have not read rather than having read the fucking book." From Plato, 'The Republic' 35813
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Many people struggling this week with the perennial problem of a famous artist who was also a known groomer, warned about among young women. The fact that our lives are bound up with those of abusers is hard to deal with. We have been here before, we are never not here. Some writing has helped me: 2195
Reposted by Carol BallantineJohnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Engineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the space division of General Dynamics, 1964 811335224
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Really helpful detail on the range of approaches to conversion practices in the uk 020
Reposted by Carol BallantineNed Hartley @nedhartley.com · 28/08/2025When two words sound the same but have a different meaning it’s called a 10388123
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Some news: my memoir, Little Oases, will be published in March! 🥳 It's about what mothering my identical twins taught me, an Irish feminist sociologist, about gender and sex. Preorders and shares very welcome! @eoinpurcell.bsky.social fullsetbooks.com/products/lit...fullsetbooks.comLittle Oases. Carol Ballantine book, published by Full SetCarol Ballantine book, Little Oases: A memoir, draws on Carol's personal and academic expertise to explore questions about gender identity in childhood as she raises her twins. Published by Full Set. 062
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Sharing this for the next time I’m teaching homonationalism 001
Reposted by Carol BallantineAnne 🕊️ 🎵🧶🏃🏻♀️🥖🐈 @amlaffertydelgado.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I found this 17 year old opinion piece on The Guardian from back when Benny 16 lifted the excommunications. It, ah, explains the ick that guy gave me to the point I stayed away from mass until a year before Francis passed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comResponse: Lefebvre's religious sect is steeped in racism and hatredResponse: Archbishop Lefebvre's followers should have no place in the Catholic church, says Andrew Horn 114420
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 03/07/2026This is a fascinating discussion of laws named for people- often victims - like cocos law in Ireland. Might interest @jodymooreponce.bsky.social 031
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Fascinating stuff, has this crossed your radar, @aislingwalsh.bsky.social? Looks right up your street! 110
Reposted by Carol BallantineA. Joel @ajoellie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This is a piece that's very personal to me. Thanks a bunch to the greatly supportive editors and reviewers of the REACPOL network and Red Lines for making its publication possible. 132
Reposted by Carol BallantineOutspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 26/06/2026On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.” 17974432604
Reposted by Carol BallantineAisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026As someone who researches and writes in the trauma space (decolonial & post-conflict) this book is unavoidable and yet there are so many better texts written by feminist researchers without dubious professional records that deserve attention... I am so here for this takedown 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1217
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 08/06/2026My twins are doing the Junior Cert so I'm reading the exams every day. Today was science. And look at this.... I'm assuming that points will be given for the following answers: Consent, autonomy, freedom, choice, violence, coercion, equality, force, oppression.... 000
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Loved this piece. @darach.bsky.social represented all that was best about Irish twitter, and judging by the first column, this new series could be a snapshot of that fascinating, surprising, funny, friendly space we used to have. 😮💨 031
Reposted by Carol BallantineFinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 09/05/2026When my son was aged about 2-5yrs he had long hair & liked pink. I remember looking at children's books in a progressive bookshop in London & noted that too many of the "boy books" were things like "boys can like pink too" "stories for boys who are different because their hair has grown long"... 1203
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Crowd-sourcing question for cis people with trans +GD young people in their lives: What are the books, films or other creative outputs that you love, or recommend to others? It's for a presentation at a conference on the arts + healthcare. RT! @mams4transrights.bsky.social @mimmymum.bsky.social 000
Reposted by Carol BallantineJavier @arriaga.eurosky.social · 30/04/2026I don't think it can compete with "aibohphobia", the fear of palindromes. 051
Reposted by Carol BallantineClaire Bradley @cbgenealogy.ie · 20/04/2026I think this is my favourite so far. Alice Knox in Blackrock, Co. Dublin who is very glad to be single. #1926census nationalarchives.ie/collections/... 832793
Reposted by Carol BallantineSeb Schmoller @schmoller.net · 18/03/2026Here's a link to the website for the Norwegian campaign against enshittificatiom, and below is the table of contents of the associated report: www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/ 0358
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Brilliant analyse by Jen Keane: I’d love to integrate this in a gender & public policy class… 020
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Imagine if we could have such an impact with our bicycles… 020
Reposted by Carol BallantineDave Pell @davepell.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Financial Times issues a correction that defines an era. 2235
Reposted by Carol BallantineErin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork. 451864324
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Very good article, on the nexus created by media coverage of legal cases in the UK. Nicely maps some of the ways that a broadly trans-inclusive society got reshaped into one of the most trans exclusionary places in Europe. 12716
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 27/03/2026If you’re interested in how sporting organisations assign sex, and the many problems with this, this short piece is an excellent primer and usefully clarifies the trans-obsessed spins in the msm. 0139
Reposted by Carol BallantineSinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Let’s do this Ireland… 🇮🇪⚽️ #COYBIG 26115
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Announcement on Galway-Dublin train: arrival time 8.00 This is a message for the passengers in coach B holding the doors open. You’re delaying the train, we all want to get home to see the match. To the passengers in coach B, we want to watch the match! #COYBIG 010
