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The Centre, based at Queen’s University Belfast, promotes engaged feminist research and collaboration between academics, activists and students. Visit our website qub.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-f…

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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Looking forward to our first event of the academic year @centreforgender.bsky.social centreforgender.substack.com/p/under-auth...
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Under Authoritarian Eyes: Feminist Solidarity and Resistance in Russia and Serbia- book talk with Dr Leandra Bias
We are looking forward to hosting Dr Leandra Bias at the Centre to discuss her new book.
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Dance first, think later? This is a project I have been working on for a while. If you have journeyed through clubs, raves, dancefloors, sounds and crowds of 1990s/early 2000s Northern Ireland I would love to chat!
The image contains a disco ball in a purple & yellow background and states If you have tales from the dancefloor, clubs, rave and the spaces in between I would love to hear from you for my research on dance culture in Northern Ireland contact dr Maria A. Deiana Queen’s University Belfast m.deiana@qub.ac.uk
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
ÆRN Workshop: Affect, Emotion, and the Politics of Crisis Wednesday 10 June 9.30–16.00 Maths & Physics Teaching Centre, 0G/017, Queen's University Belfast www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/affect-emo...
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Affect, Emotion, and the Politics of Crisis
You are invited to the ÆRN: Affect and Emotion Research Network first public event at Queen's University Belfast
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
As a journal editor, PLEASE PLEASE don’t ignore review requests or take one on and disappear. It adds so much time to the review process. Just decline or let editors know if you cannot complete the review anymore. #AcademicWriting
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Millennium: Journal of International Studies @millennjournal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
❔Can art help us theorise feminist peace? ❗Maria-Adriana Deiana & Heidi Riley use two contemporary art exhibitions in post-Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland to show how aesthetic methods reveal peace as necessarily 'unfinished,' exceeding the conflict/peace binary. 👇 tinyurl.com/yntw4nhn
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We @centreforgender.bsky.social are so sad to hear of Naomi’s passing. We have been lucky to learn and be inspired by her feminist activism, creativity and commitment to social justice. Keeping Naomi, her family and the many who love her in our thoughts. www.alliance4choice.com/naomi-connor...
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Alliance for ChoiceNaomi Connor
Alliance for Choice campaigns for abortion rights in Northern Ireland as we believe in bodily autonomy for women, trans men and non-binary people. We want free, safe and legal abortion healthcare for ...
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Read QUB Conflict Transformation and Social Justice MA Helena Meehan's student blog on 'The Bathroom Question: Transgender Women's Bathroom Rights and Panopticon Surveillance'. open.substack.com/pub/centrefo...
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The Bathroom Question: Transgender Women’s Bathroom Rights and Panopticon Surveillance
On the 11th of June 2025, a transgender barrister, Robin White, was confronted by two anti-trans activists outside of a women’s bathroom in the House of Commons.
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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Reflections on Trans* Research Association Ireland’s Second Annual Symposium 2025
Towards an Irish Trans Studies: Crossings & Thresholds; or the Formation of a Field
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Check out our New Aims & Scope. Get in touch to discuss ideas for Special Issues on the relationships between war and culture. We welcome submissions from diverse fields. We are keen to support & amplify the work of scholars from underrepresented fields/backgrounds. #AcademicSky #IRSky
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Exciting to have these brilliant PhD researchers join our centre #FeministSky
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Centre for Gender in Politics Introductions: Rebecca O'Keeffe and Mhairi Claire Lynch. Today's blog post is from our new 1st year PhD students working within the centre. centreforgender.substack.com/p/centre-for...
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Centre for Gender in Politics Introductions: Rebecca O'Keeffe and Mhairi Claire Lynch
Today's blog post is from our new 1st year PhD students working within the centre.
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Another world is possible.
HAPP students draft feminist manifesto
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Students don’t need to go to university to use generative AI. They need critical thinking and analytical skills, the ability to understand complex ideas, to make connections and informed arguments, to cultivate creative thinking and develop original ideas. And yes it is hard work. The rest is SLOP
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This Friday. Join us if you are in Belfast #Speirgorm
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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Belfast book launch today! 📚
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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Lovely to launch my book this evening at Queens Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social thanks to everyone who came along and to @drdeiana.bsky.social @frecklescorp.bsky.social @mhairiclaire.bsky.social for organising and commentary 💚 @manchesterup.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
3 people in front of a screen with book cover 'women's troubles: Gender and feminist politics'
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
brilliant conversation on feminist activism and gender politics celebrating @clairepierson.bsky.social new book with @mhairiclaire.bsky.social @frecklescorp.bsky.social @centreforgender.bsky.social
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Shared Future News @sharedfuture.news · 28/11/2025
‘Hope on small scales’: Women’s Troubles book explores gender and feminist politics in post-Agreement #NorthernIreland Read our article by Jessica HADDEN 👉 sharedfuture.news/hope-on-smal... @centreforgender.bsky.social @clairepierson.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @mhairiclaire.bsky.social
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Looking forward to co-hosting the Trans* Research Association of Ireland (TRAI)’s 2nd Annual Symposium, taking place today and tomorrow as a collaboration between TRAI, Outburst Queer Arts Festival and the @centreforgender.bsky.social at Queen’s www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-trans-...
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The Trans* Research Association of Ireland’s Second Annual Symposium
Eventbrite - Taylor Follett presents The Trans* Research Association of Ireland’s Second Annual Symposium - Friday, November 21, 2025 | Saturday, November 22, 2025 at Queen's University Belfast, Belfa...
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We invite you to join us next Friday, 28th November, to celebrate the launch of Dr Claire Pierson's new book "Women's Troubles". Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) will be in conversation with Dr Emma Campbell (UU) and Mhairi Claire Lynch (QUB). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
With the first semester well and truly underway, we decided to kick start our blog post series introducing our members! Interested in getting involved? Drop us a message or say hi on campus! open.substack.com/pub/centrefo...
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Welcome to the Centre for Gender in Politics!
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be posting an introduction blog from some of our members in the Centre of Gender in Politics!
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Registration is now live for the Trans Research Association of Ireland’s 2nd Annual Symposium! We’re excited to take part, and look forward to seeing you there! The Trans* Research Association of Ireland’s Second Annual Symposium www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-trans-...
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This Belfast Trans Pride weekend, we reiterate our absolute solidarity with Belfast’s trans, non-binary and intersex communties. Judith Butler nailed it.. ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’. #TheNorthSaysTransJoy #BelfastIsAntiFascist
Photo: Belfast, April 2023

The North Says Trans Joy banner drop over the River Lagan.
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
New publication in @millennjournal.bsky.social Theorising Feminist Peace with Northern Ireland’s Contemporary Art. Co-authored with my colleague Heidi Riley as part of our project Talk4Peace #IRSky #FeminsitSky #AcademicSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Unfinished Peace, Unfinished Memory: Theorising Feminist Peace With Northern Ireland’s Contemporary Art - Maria-Adriana Deiana, Heidi Riley, 2025
The critical engagement with everyday lived experiences and the politics of memory are key dimensions in Feminist Peace Research. They help us theorise feminist...
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We are delighted to announce that the Trans* Research Association of Ireland (TRAI)’s 2nd Annual Symposium will take place on the 21st and 22nd of November 2025 in Queen’s University Belfast in collaboration with Outburst Queer Arts Festival and the Centre for Gender in Politics at Queen’s. [1/8]
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Our #BISA2025 keynote speech by @bleiker.bsky.social is now published! 🎉 Entitled: 'Seeing and sensing world politics' - co-authored with Dr Emma Hutchinson - this year's keynote was recorded as a lasting memento from #BISA2025 🌟 Watch now 👉 buff.ly/IXfXfpA @visualpolitics.bsky.social
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#BISA2025 keynote recording: Professor Roland Bleiker - Seeing and sensing world politics
Watch the #BISA2025 50th anniversary keynote from Roland Bleiker on seeing and sensing world politics.
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UCD Gender Studies @ucdgender.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
#jobklaxon #speirgorm The National Women's Council of Ireland - JOIN OUR TEAM: P.A. to the Director / Operations Officer www.nwci.ie/index.php/le...
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JOIN OUR TEAM: P.A. to the Director / Operations Officer
An exciting opportunity has come up to join our team as P.A. to the Director / Operations Officer, a key role supporting the smooth and effective running of the organisation’s leadership, governance a
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Out in @ifjpglobal.bsky.social our collective conversation “Base Women and Beyond”. A first step in our ongoing project for a contemporary feminist research agenda on military/nuclear installations and their discontents. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Base women and beyond
Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
We had an amazing time at #BISA2025 this week - including a panel on Base Women and Beyond, which looked at both nuclear and military sites. This included discussions around what happens when the military leaves a base and feminist approaches to military studies. 🧵 - 1/3
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Panels from our Base Women and Beyond project that seeks to extend contemporary feminist research agendas on military/nuclear installations and their discontents #BISA2025
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Reflecting on gender, peace and security with Northern Ireland’s feminist activists and Prof. Cynthia Enloe #BISA2025
A group of NI peace/feminist activists and researchers with Prof. Cynthia Enloe A roundtable on the contribution of women to peace and feminist activism
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We are delighted to announce our keynote talk by Cynthia Enloe has just started entitled ‘What feminists reveal when they investigate masculinities: The case of military ‘manpower’’ 🌟 A fascinating, extremely important topic with an incredible speaker🎉 @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
a portrait picture of Juliet Dryden, Cynthia Enloe, Kyle Grayson, Juanita Elias, Eve Harrison-Taylor and QUB staff.
a landscape picture of Juliet Dryden, Cynthia Enloe, Kyle Grayson, Juanita Elias, Eve Harrison-Taylor and QUB staff.
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Dr Leandra Bias 💙💛 @openlybiased.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
What a start into my #BISA2025 with this panel with women activists who contribute(d) in manifold ways to peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. Thanks for putting this together @drdeiana.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Kicking off #BISA2025 we attended the key note lecture by Cynthia Enloe, chaired by Marsha Henry. The lecture was an engaging conversation about who is considered "canon fodder" and why people become canon fodder, as well as the role of military recruitment from a feminist perspective.
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We spent the morning in conversation with Cynthia Enloe at St Comgall's Ionad EIleen Howell. It was a super engaging session on why we need to keep going, keep educating and keep learning as both activists and educators! A big thank you to the Women's Assembly for organising!
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Getting ready for #BISA2025 this week in #Belfast! In addition to 3 days filled with panels, roundtables & discussions here are a few highlights we are looking forward to: Meet the Editors w/ the International Feminist Journal of Politics & Creative Interventions in Global Politics Series 📚
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Marysia Zalewski @profemzed.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Call for abstracts! Routledge Companion on “gender and the politics of violence:violent unravellings” editors shine choi, Cristina Masters & Marysia Zalewski
Call for abstracts- details Call for abstracts- details
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
🌟 BISA Gendering IR WG event w/ @centreforgender.bsky.social‬ 🌟 17 June 'Meet the editors: publishing and networking workshop for gender & international studies scholars' w/ @cristinamasters.bsky.social‬ & @profemzed.bsky.social‬ 📝 details here 👉 buff.ly/VT3YLMW @julietdryden.bsky.social‬
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Join us in welcoming Dr Shine Choi at the Centre for Gender in Politics as this year’s AHSS Global Fellow. Looking forward to hearing more about her research and continuing our collaboration! centreforgender.substack.com/p/dr-shine-c...
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Dr Shine Choi Joins Centre as AHSS Global Fellow
We are delighted to welcome shine choi at the Centre for Gender in Politics as this year’s AHSS Global Fellow .
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Alexa (dot) Moore @alexadotm.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
For LGBTQIA+ Awareness Week, the Rainbow Project is hosting an event focused on Trans Rights, the Supreme Court judgement and the Windsor Framework. We're delighted to be joined by @colinmurray.bsky.social, @aoifemod.bsky.social & @anuragdeb.bsky.social. www.rainbow-project.org/event/trans-...
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Trans Rights, the Supreme Court and the Windsor Framework - Workshop - The Rainbow Project
Join us for a workshop exploring the human rights protections in the Windsor Framework and any overlap with the recent Supreme Court ruling.
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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.’ Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work ‘The Slapper’ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social
Book cover with sculpture made out of yellow lego
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Excited to co-host this Publishing and Networking workshop with the BISA - Gendering IR working group on Tuesday 17 June. Meet editors Shine Choi, Cristina Masters & Marysia Zalewski. Brainstorm research ideas. Connect with feminist scholars. open.substack.com/pub/centrefo...
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Meet the Editors
Publishing and Networking Workshop for Gender & International Studies Scholars
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sad to hear this.
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
What a loss, the passing of the great feminist standpoint theorist Sandra Harding. #philsci #philsky #FeministSky
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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
On the global day of action to #CloseBases we visited the Faslane Peace Camp in Scotland established in 1982 to protest the UK naval base at Faslane host of Britain’s nuclear weapons
A group of women outside the Faslane Peace Camp A sign that states “this way for uk nuclear weapons of mass destruction”Entrance sign “Faslane peace camp since 1982 visitors welcome”
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Check out our new student blog post. HAPP graduate Mhairi Claire Lynch reflects on gender, feminist ethics of care and experiences of dementia open.substack.com/pub/centrefo...
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Considering Gender in Lived Experiences of Dementia
blog by HAPP graduate Mhairi Claire Lynch
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Centre for Gender in Politics @centreforgender.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Our Centre is now live on BlueSky. Give us a follow and subscribe to our blog for all things feminism/gender justice/activism www.qub.ac.uk/research-cen...
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