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University of Hertfordshire UCU @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

In my gender and sexuality studies seminar just now, the students all decided they were queer critics because of their vocal and obstructive opposition to AI - totally unprompted by me! Glimmers of hope! I will not be hearing a word against Gen Z thank you!

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Friends - I'm launching my book in London at @qucl.bsky.social on May Day - I promise extra anti-capitalism in honour of the occasion 🥖🌹and if that isn't enticement enough, I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Sophie Chauhan and @jackconneely.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

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Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns

qUCL are pleased to welcome Dr Naoise Murphy (Manchester) to discuss their new book, disrupting common-sense narratives of modernisation, gender, sexuality and race in the postcolonial state. Chaired ...

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

NEW CfP! 🌈🎓 📸 VISUAL HISTORY NOW: Using photographs to study the history of gender, sexuality, and space 8-9 Oct, Tampere Uni, Finland If you research gendered, sexual, queer or trans histories using visual materials, this is the conference for you! Deadline 31 March www.tuni.fi/en/research/...

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Presenting queer visual history (PicMe) | Tampere universities

Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) constitute the Tampere Universities community. Our areas of priority in research and education are technology, health and societ...

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I'll be back in Oxford on Friday! Come along / tell your Oxford friends? torch.ox.ac.uk/event/irish-...

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Irish Women's Writing | Discussion with Dr Naoise Murphy

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UoM English, American Studies & Creative Writing Department @uomenglish.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Some exciting upcoming events from EACW's Centre for the Study of Sexuality & Culture! Venues across Manchester, throughout the semester. Speakers include @naoisemurphy.bsky.social, @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, @katiehbarnes.bsky.social, @lizrosenfeld.bsky.social & @noisybits.bsky.social

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The book is out, it exists in hardback, and I'll be talking about it in three different cities over the next few months! 🧵

A copy of the book Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing: Uneasy Moderns by Naoise Murphy. An orange cover with a painting of Powerscourt Waterfall by Mainie Jellett.

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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

🚨Earned settlement consultation ends Thursday🚨 Proposed changes risk pushing hundreds of thousands of children into poverty and destroying lives. We have created guidance on how to tell the government we need a genuinely fairer system. www.migrantvoice.org/img/upload/J... www.gov.uk/government/c...

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Today is the last day to respond to the government's horrifying proposals on "earned settlement" - the Amnesty guidance is very helpful, so there's no excuse for not doing it media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Surreal to see my book available in the library to read! 📖

Screenshot of the Manchester University Library website showing Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing: Uneasy Moderns available to read online.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The eight Palestine Action hunger strikers have now been held without trial for months, and three have been hospitalised. Here's a toolkit with 11 proposed actions you can take to support them.

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Toolkit for UK Hunger Strikers

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Anna Aslanyan @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

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Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line

On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...

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Migrants' Rights Network @migrantsrights.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

New webinar! Are you worried about immigration raids on your business and community? Join the Migrants' Rights Network (MRN) and Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) as we hear from a legal expert with 15+ years experience of challenging civil penalties. Register here: buff.ly/WxEWmWa

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

My book is coming out soon and you can ask your library to order it! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queerin... If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 02/10/2025

#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Use this tool to contact the relevant government officials and foreign offices, demanding they protect their citizens on the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza - it couldn't be easier globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...

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Official Contacts - By Country - Global Movement to Gaza

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help! 🏊‍♀️ 🏊🏊‍♂️ They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat. Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

Consultation on the future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds:

Executive Summary

This consultation seeks your views on access arrangements at the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds -Highgate Men’s Pond, Kenwood Ladies’ Pond and Hampstead Mixed Pond, with a particular focus on potential changes at the Highgate Men’s Pond and the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond.

Following the recent Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland, and in line with other service providers, the City of London Corporation is reviewing its policies, including those at the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds. Your feedback will help inform decisions about future arrangements, alongside legal obligations, equality and safeguarding duties, financial constraints, and practical considerations.

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Melanie Richter-Montpetit @mellimo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Large protests and growing labour strikes across the globe in response to the illegal seizure of the Global Sumud Flotilla last night. Protests tonight starting 5:30pm across London's major train stations. Solidarity with the people of Gaza! Break the siege!

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Alexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

@newnhamcollege.bsky.social has adopted a transphobic policy, excluding trans women from its research fellowship competition. Firstly, boycott this competition and tell everyone else to Secondly, write to them to persuade them to reconsider. The principal’s address is principal@newn.cam.ac.uk

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Absolutely grim to see Newnham College actively complying in advance with the Supreme Court ruling, but you could tell they were Like This since forever with demanding GRCs from any trans women who applied. Won't end here.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

indexing is boring so here are the most fun/incongruous pairings that the alphabet is throwing up for me (my book is weird)

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

👉We need to hear from you so we can record incidents of racial profiling by police officers on 'cross-border' public transport within the The Common Travel Area which is an open borders area comprising the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. 👇See thread

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Celebrating Refugee Week and Pride with a beautiful free festival in Bethnal Green on Sunday - book a ticket here and join us! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✨🌷https://www.outsavvy.com/event/27411/queer-migrant-pride-fest-2025

Poster for Ice&Fire Theatre presents Queer Migrant Pride Fest 2025. Sunday June 22nd, 12pm to 9pm. St. Margaret's House, 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green E2 9PL. Tickets available on Outsavvy or email seb@iceandfire.co.uk

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

new blog! on why everyone is obsessed with the idea of the white working-class northern man! this continues to be depressingly relevant with reform in the ascendant, starmer's 'island of strangers' and blue labour's attacks on EDI 🙃🙃🙃 blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...

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The myth of the white working-class Northern man

By Saskia Papadakis, Royal Holloway, University of London In 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair dismissed the English North-South divide as a ‘myth’. Calling the North-South divide ‘simplistic’, he po…

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I made a new zine! It's full of advice on how allies can work alongside trans people to take action in the current moment, lovingly cut-and-pasted over the words of my enemies. Plus lots of nice pictures and memes. Available as a free PDF! Read online or print your own copy! Share with everyone!

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PDF zine: But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic

This is the latest version of a zine I have distributed at wormboys gigs over the last couple of years. I’ve recently updated it to address recent events, including the April 2025 Supreme Cou…

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Alexandra Pugh @allypugh.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Oxford's BDS pledge - following the principles of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel - now has nearly 250 signatures. If you work (or are a research student) at Oxford or one of its colleges, you can sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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University of Oxford Staff and Research Students Commit to the BDS Movement for Palestine

Published April 2025 As signatories of this pledge, we form a collective of staff and research students at the University of Oxford and its constituent Colleges who individually commit to the terms of...

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 16/05/2025

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Today! Oxford people, see you there!

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

want to read something very smart about the North-South divide and some of the many ways in which this country is completely fucked? read this!

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Looking forward to hosting some absolutely brilliant thinkers next week in Oxford, on a topic that only seems to get more and more urgent. All welcome - please share with comrades and friends! www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-cr...

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Why Critiques of Gay Imperialism Still Matter

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I have just signed the open letter "Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia" in response to the recent hateful and harmful Supreme Court ruling I hope others will too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia

We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

sign this before 7pm today please

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Simon Lamrock @simonlamrock.com · 19/04/2025

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

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Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#WelfareNotWwarfare Across the UK disabled people are mobilising. DPAC has a national day of Action on 26th March 2025 As we begin the resistance against Labour Government “Disability Benefits Poll Tax’ Wednesday 26th March 2025 11am Meet at Downing Street, Whitehall London SW1A 2AA

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Wednesday 26th March 2025
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Meet outside Downing Street
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Then March to Parliament and Lobby your MP!

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Sent a document called 'Final manuscript' to the lovely editors at @edinburghup.bsky.social this morning. I guess this is happening!

Boring image of a white page with the book title 'Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing: Uneasy Moderns' and my name, Naoise Murphy.

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Migrants' Rights Network @migrantsrights.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

If you have witnessed or experienced an immigration raid since July 2024, get in touch anonymously by emailing policy@migrantsrights.org.uk, sending a Whatsapp/Signal message to 07534 488696, or by filling in our reporting tool at www.raids.migrantsrights.org.uk Please get in touch by 28 March.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 23/02/2025

Cambridge is trying to criminalise protest on campus. But not all protests. Only protests related to *one specific viewpoint* they consider inconvenient. They claim to do this in the name of "scholars of the university." Sign our open letter if you weren't consulted docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE CLAIM NO:
KING BENCH DIVISION
BETWEEN:-
CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS
OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Claimant
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PERSONS UNKNOWN WHO, IN CONNECTION WITH CAMBRIDGE FOR
PALESTINE OR OTHERWISE FOR A PURPOSE CONNECTED WITH THE
PALESTINE-ISRAEL CONFLICT, WITHOUT THE CLAIMANT’S CONSENT (I)
ENTER OCCUPY OR REMAIN UPON (II) BLOCK, PREVENT, SLOW DOWN,
OBSTRUCT OR OTHERWISE INTERFERE WITH ACCESS TO (III) ERECT ANY
STRUCTURE (INCLUDING TENTS) ON, THE FOLLOWING SITES (AS SHOWN
FOR IDENTIFICATION EDGED RED ON THE ATTACHED PLANS 1 AND 2):
(A) GREENWICH HOUSE, MADINGLEY RISE, CAMBRIDGE, CB3 0TX
(B) SENATE HOUSE AND SENATE HOUSE YARD, TRINITY STREET,
CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1TA
(C) THE OLD SCHOOLS, TRINITY LANE, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1TN
Defendants
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PARTICULARS OF CLAIM

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Queer Migrant Pride Fest is the best day of the year - read about why on the Refugee Week blog, and please donate to our fundraiser if you can! We need support to make sure it can happen in 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎊✨ refugeeweek.org.uk/queer-migran...

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Queer Migrant Pride Fest 2025

Queer Migrant Pride Fest 2025 – Save the Date! On 22 June 2025, Queer Migrant Pride Fest will be returning to St. Margaret’s House in Bethnal Green. Hosted by ice&fire theatre company, the event take...

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