Reposted by frecklescorpInto The JennyVerse @jennymckinnon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026it is safe and guilt-free to watch Father Ted. He doesn’t get a penny 69920
Reposted by frecklescorpWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12/05/2026#OtD 12 May 1971 21 NYC Black Panthers were acquitted on charges of conspiring to bomb buildings after it was shown that undercover police had infiltrated the group and planned the violence, then framed the Panther 21. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/loo... 011753
frecklescorp @frecklescorp.bsky.social · 12/05/2026So honoured and grateful to be alongside these amazing researchers in this publication #abortion #reproductiverights #reproductivejustice 022
Reposted by frecklescorpPregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Framing a Feminist Abortion Erica Millar, Carrie Purcell, Fiona Bloomer, and Emma Campbell (@frecklescorp.bsky.social) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...journals.uchicago.eduFraming a Feminist Abortion | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 51, No 4Abstract With reproductive health and rights actively under attack, it is critical to support researcher and activist communities in pushing beyond basic access. In this article we propose a framework... 032
Reposted by frecklescorpKate Watson @loreandordure.com · 16/04/2026Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed. But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic. 4996390
frecklescorp @frecklescorp.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Just heard we are facing swingeing job cuts at Ulster University - they estimate 450 full time posts equivalent will have to go - gutted for all the students and staff that will face the consequences of this crisis @ucu.org.uk @ulsteruni.bsky.social welcome to #neocapitalism in education 110
Reposted by frecklescorpNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/02/2026As far as we know, the primary cause of death in ICE custody is a refusal to provide medical care. It’s a form of structural violence and extremely common component of eugenics and ethnic cleansings. 8436186
Reposted by frecklescorpAlliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Sunday Sofa Activism! 🛋️ Wholly Trinity: Abortion, Art and Activism in Ireland 🎬 Film Screening 📍 Black Box 📅 Thursday 27th March ⏰ Doors 12.30, screening 1pm – 2pm (film duration 30 mins) Bring your own lunch, coffee and tea provided! 012
Reposted by frecklescorpTACC @tacc.org.uk · 01/02/2026Conservative candidate for Gorton & Denton by-election is a trustee of Sex Matters, set-up 'Police SEEN', and a member of WRN and LGB Alliance, all transphobic organisations with very close links to hate groups. @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @greenparty.org.uk 23716
Reposted by frecklescorpBugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 01/02/2026the confirmation of contemporary transphobia as a political movement has been the brainchild of a boys club made up of some of the most disgusting monsters in recent memory to explicitly keep trans women disenfranchised so as to subjugate and exploit us for their own sexual gain is like a lot, dawg 7853761597
Reposted by frecklescorpAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/11/2025As Jesus once put it: "what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and then have to pay the mansion tax?" 124707157
Reposted by frecklescorpEnd Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Last night disinformation designed to incite racist riots was rife on TikTok following the court’s decision yesterday. One video deliberately used footage from June’s riots to imply that Ballymena was rioting again last night. Allison Morris is 100% correct here - regardless of facts, the ... [1/n]belfasttelegraph.co.ukRacists are already using yesterday's court events over Ballymena case... facts rarely matter to themThe withdrawal of the prosecution of two Romanian teenagers charged with the attempted rape of a 14-year-old girl in Ballymena on June 7 is far from the end of this appalling case. 11713
Reposted by frecklescorpClaire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Lovely 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 0116
Reposted by frecklescorpDr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 28/11/2025brilliant conversation on feminist activism and gender politics celebrating @clairepierson.bsky.social new book with @mhairiclaire.bsky.social @frecklescorp.bsky.social @centreforgender.bsky.social 094
Reposted by frecklescorpShared 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 075
frecklescorp @frecklescorp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Can’t believe 4 men experts were asked about reproductive responsibility when the bulk of labour, time off work and caring for kids still falls to women. One of the most expensive rates for childcare in Europe. There is a tax on women who have children. It’s 2025! @jeremyvine.bsky.social 111
Reposted by frecklescorpMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them. 24196803029
Reposted by frecklescorpEnd Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 24/07/2025By End Deportations Belfast - The Proscription Of Palestine Action: Double Standards Laid Bare.enddeportationsbelfast.wordpress.comThe Proscription Of Palestine Action: Double Standards Laid Bare.On July 1, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper submitted a bill to Parliament that proposed the proscription of Palestine solidarity group Palestine Action. This decision came on the heels of Palestine Ac… 01613
frecklescorp @frecklescorp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025The law and policing were invented to mind property and land - not mind people and the environment. It’s gross 🤢 010
Reposted by frecklescorpSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 23/07/2025A Tennessee woman was denied prenatal care by her doctor because she is "unwed." Let's be clear: the Republican agenda is not pro-life or pro-family. If it were, pregnant women wouldn't be forced to flee their home states to get basic prenatal care.newrepublic.comDoctor Denies Woman Prenatal Care Because She’s UnmarriedA Tennessee woman was forced to flee her state to seek treatment for her pregnancy. 1322325642
Reposted by frecklescorpI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/07/2025What is the point of negotiating anything with these people? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...nytimes.comU.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS 321043317
Reposted by frecklescorpIreland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Urgent support needed 👇👇 11310
Reposted by frecklescorpMother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/07/2025“The whole game for Jonathan Mitchell is to get into federal court, both because he wants to shut down doctors in shield-law states, like everyone in the anti-abortion movement, and because he wants a federal court to weigh in on the Comstock Act.”motherjones.comHe’s suing his girlfriend’s doctor for prescribing abortion pills. Could this gut access everywhere?Texas lawyer Jonathan Mitchell is going after a California doctor, Here’s why that’s terrifying. 1181092479
frecklescorp @frecklescorp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025My favourite story about the mace is that Bernadette McAliskey wanted to thwack the then British Home Secretary with it when he lied about the state killing of innocent civilians in Bloody Sunday - but she didn’t think she could lift it so she slapped him instead. #notallheroeswearcapes 010
Reposted by frecklescorpWomen's Resource and Development Agency @wrda-team.bsky.social · 24/07/2025@womensaidni.bsky.social We stand with Women's Aid in expressing our sympathies with the family and loved ones of Vanessa Whyte and her children. Vanessa is the 28th adult women to be murdered in NI since 2020. 012
frecklescorp @frecklescorp.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Remember to tell friends and colleagues - esp if they work with potential abortion seekers, Stanton are NOT an abortion clinic. They are closely affiliated with Precious Life and funded by an anti-abortion organisation in USA with the same name. @corporatewatch.bsky.social @enddbelfast.bsky.social 053
frecklescorp @frecklescorp.bsky.social · 12/07/2025It’s time our health department did something about this. The struck off doctor was investigated for spreading misinformation about Covid, yet it’s somehow fine to spread misinformation about abortion 054
Reposted by frecklescorpEnd Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Excellent piece by @ismiseliam.bsky.social in today's @belfasttelegraph.co.uk on Stanton, a rogue anti-abortion 'clinic' targeting migrants & refugees with “emotionally manipulative” tactics including telling service users they were “killing” or “murdering” their child. With global far-right ..[1/2]belfasttelegraph.co.ukBelfast abortion advice clinic ‘targeting vulnerable women from warzones’, report claimsA Belfast advice clinic has been “targeting vulnerable women coming from warzones” with anti-abortion rhetoric, a report has claimed. 179
Reposted by frecklescorpAlliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Alliance for Choice, @enddbelfast.bsky.social and @corporatewatch.bsky.social have launched a new report today on Stanton Healthcare Belfast, which is part of a network of dark-money funded, Christian-right, anti-abortion centres operating internationally. corporatewatch.org/stanton-belf... 179
Reposted by frecklescorpEnd Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 10/07/2025End Deportations Belfast, @all4choice.bsky.social and @corporatewatch.bsky.social have joined forces to uncover some of the shady links and dark money connected to Stanton Healthcare Belfast, a rogue ‘crisis pregnancy’ centre that’s been operating in the north of Ireland since 2016. [1/3] 1810
Reposted by frecklescorpCorporate Watch @corporatewatch.bsky.social · 10/07/2025🚨NEW REPORT OUT NOW🚨 with @all4choice.bsky.social and @enddbelfast.bsky.social Rogue health clinic, Stanton Healthcare Belfast, is part of a network of anti-abortion centres in the US - backed by dark money - that are targeting vulnerable women locally. corporatewatch.org/stanton-belf... 054
Reposted by frecklescorpMark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Starmer saying he lost his grip on the welfare issue cos he was distracted by foreign policy. When did a Labour leader need to be reminded not to fuck over people with disabilities?!?!? 522827
Reposted by frecklescorpReclaim the Agenda @reclaimtheagenda.bsky.social · 23/06/2025'Speaking at Saturday's anti-racism rally at Belfast City Hall, Helen Crickard from Reclaim the Agenda said it was about education not violence. "We are disgusted violence against women and girls is being used in this way," she said.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 053
Reposted by frecklescorpKellie Turtle @kellieturtle.bsky.social · 23/06/2025This unresolved horror show is why the general approach of political unionism to loyalist fronted racist mobs claiming migrants and Muslims are a threat to children, is tacit complicity. The alarm is coming from inside the house guys so stop trying to drown it out and fucking do something about it. 035
Reposted by frecklescorpUilliam Mac G ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 17/06/2025"...the guards approach people who aren't white and demand ID. If they can't produce it they're taken off the bus, while white passengers aren't." [Since 2019] "We've never heard of a white person being taken off the bus." #Racism #Ireland 22819
Reposted by frecklescorpKellie Turtle @kellieturtle.bsky.social · 17/06/2025I'm not saying policing is easy but this does not strike me as being either human rights compliant or trauma-informed. The impact of police standing by & letting terrorist mobs destroy people's homes is catastrophic for human rights, equality, personal safety & dignity. @policeserviceni.bsky.social 3237
Reposted by frecklescorpM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 15/06/2025The people in power will try their hardest to maintain this status quo always. Anyone who tries to challenge it won’t make it to power. 39827
Reposted by frecklescorpSeána @grantsana.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Honest to god I feel like we are hours away from another atrocity similar to the Quinn boys who were killed when their house was set alight by loyalists who wer whipped up into a hate filled frenzy. We know how this ends 3298
Reposted by frecklescorpMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media? 21759812513
Reposted by frecklescorpJeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025The Freedom Flotilla sailing toward Gaza is not just carrying life-saving aid. It is carrying solidarity, hope and our shared humanity. 271151336
Reposted by frecklescorpRuth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Watch this beautiful 30 min mini documentary by the OU How art and artists changed the conversation around #BodilyAutonomy across the island of Ireland A wave of possibility generated by making noise, being cheeky, and reclaiming public space with fun and pleasure! www.open.edu/openlearn/wh...open.eduWholly Trinity: Abortion, Art and Activism in Ireland"…art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it... 143
Reposted by frecklescorpAsylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Imagine fleeing a country where your identity is criminalised, only to face doubt, discrimination & danger in the UK, where you should be safe. That's the reality for far too many sanctuary seekers. This #PrideMonth let's fight for dignity & freedom for all LGBTQ+ people seeking asylum.buff.lyThe journey to safety: the struggles of LGBT+ asylum seekers and refugeesThis LGBT History Month, as we reflect on the theme of Activism and Social Change, it’s important to recognise the experiences of LGBT+ asylum seekers and refugees, and the work being done to create… 0117
Reposted by frecklescorpReclaim the Agenda @reclaimtheagenda.bsky.social · 02/06/2025A new report 'calls for a repeal of the two-child limit, the adoption of a self-certification model for survivors and improved practitioner training and awareness.' www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/... 001
Reposted by frecklescorpSafe Abortion Action Fund (SAAF) @safeabortion.bsky.social · 02/06/2025"Three doctors have been charged over the death of a pregnant woman, named only as Dorota, while she was in hospital under their care." notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/30/d...notesfrompoland.comDoctors charged over death of pregnant woman in Polish hospital that prompted abortion protests 031
Reposted by frecklescorpUniversity and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 08/05/2025“Not a single party is standing up for working class people and Reform offers nothing but division. No plan for the NHS. No plan for transport. No answer to the cost of living crisis. If we want change, we need to come together and demand it.” drjogrady.bsky.social on BBC Question Time tonight. 1525390
frecklescorp @frecklescorp.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Out today open access - such a brillaint team to work with for the research and my first ever taking part in a systematic review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comWomen’s experiences of needing abortion care whilst incarcerated: a systematic review of the international literatureIncarcerated women are confined in institutions designed to punish. These sites often ignore the complex mental and physical health needs of people who are incarcerated. Despite the World Health Or... 042