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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Join us for a day of learning, strategising and celebration as @corporatewatch.bsky.social marks 30 years(!!!) of research for action

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This is going to be a great debate! If you’re in or near #Glasgow and interested in news, media and #journalism 📰 join us on 24 June

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Kit Heyam (they/he) @krheyam.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I wrote about @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social's essential new book, and the importance of strategic pluralism, dealing with defeat, and talking to our elders, for @redpeppermag.bsky.social: www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

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Deviants and trailblazers - review - Red Pepper

Rebecca Jane Morgan’s account of trans peoples' fight for recognition is a valuable resource for activists, writes historian Kit Heyam

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Luke Butterly @lukejbutterly.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Free seminar for journalists on Monday 18th May in Dublin on emerging issues in law governing protection of journalists and their source relationships in Ireland. The focus of the seminar will be on surveillance of journalists and the status of journalistic privilege.

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Seminar: Legal Protections for Journalists and their Sources in Ireland

This seminar will explore recent legal developments around protection of journalists sources on the island of Ireland. Open to journalists

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Happening now, looking forward to joining the session “Study Against Walls” at 4pm (UK) / 11am (EST) Free and open to folks around the world — solidarity & learning, across & beyond borders! #abolition #education

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

BBC reports on rogue legal “advisors” promote *multiple* right-wing narratives - Binaries of good/bad; genuine/“bogus” asylum seekers - System is fair, places limited; “abuse” is the problem - LGBTQ+ people get “special” treatment - False accusations of domestic violence are rife #asylum #media

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A great newspaper with a brilliant anti-capitalist, pro-community model. Check out DOPE if it’s not on your radar #UKmedia #indy

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

At @redpeppermag.bsky.social we work on a very tight budget, but *always* prioritise accuracy/ quality over quantity of articles With #Goodwin and #AI trending, here’s why fact-checking — of the most time labour-intensive tasks in journalism — is getting harder… and why we take it so seriously 🧵📰

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The carpet bombing terror campaign further destroying Lebanon with less impunity than a mild shrug This is an illegal war. There is no security council resolution. These are war crimes.

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The 2026 @redpeppermag.bsky.social annual print edition has landed! So proud to be part of this work, publishing engaging left/ radical analysis in a thoroughly independent + beautifully illustrated magazine. We CAN have good things. Subscribe or buy a copy & join the conversation/ community!

The cover of the new Red Pepper magazine, “Striking Back” shows a montage of archive clippings of the 1926 General Strike, with RP bookmarks near by

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

All I can do is echo this: @notrightruth.bsky.social's feminist work - in all the ways - is an inspiration and a spur to keep learning, keep expanding, keep questioning. Thank you Ruth - love to see this!

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

"Coogler disrupts the cosy narratives of ‘victimhood & sufferance’ associated with the Irish diaspora" @aislingwalsh.bsky.social picks up an under-appreciated theme in #Sinners: Irish complicity in colonial violence against Black + Indigenous people & investments in ‘terra nullius’ mythology

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Sinners sinks its teeth into Irish settler colonialism - Red Pepper

Ryan Coogler's thriller highlights how Irish people were often complicit in colonial violence against black and indigenous peoples

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

One part informed analysis of why for-profit investment in housing will always fail to address availability crises, four parts TMNT references, makes for a great read

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Seeing as mashups of war and pop culture are doing the rounds, here’s an alternate take on US militarism, chauvinism and war crimes through that lens vimeo.com/40127773?fl=...

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Why Does This Happen?

A video mash-up made in response to the killing of 17 Afghan civilians by a US soldier on March 10, 2012 and the media coverage it provoked. Winner: Best Super…

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

One from the archives. I co-wrote this in Mexico in 2011… Context and history for those interested in how cartels and the war on drugs has shaped daily life for decades

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I’m so glad my parents had this book at home—and let me read it even when very young. I’m so glad Raymond Briggs wrote a comic, so simply conveying the folly and horrors of war As we learned about war at primary school, this taught me to be anti-war. I’m so glad it’s on my local pub bookshelf now

The front cover of a graphic novella “The Ton Pot Foreign General and the Old Iron Woman” by Raymond Briggs. It shows two metal faces, with wild eyes and clenched teeth, saying “mine!” over a tiny island, which is saying “help!” The backdrop is a red white and blue cross

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

When Trump’s first term began, Bezos added a slogan to The Washington Post: ‘Democracy dies in darkness’ Media barons *always* have power to turn off the lights. There is no surprise here Support independent media; now, always

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Looking forward to this important day of learning, discussion and strategy from @declassifieduk.org Challenging the War Machine — join us in London or online! I’ll be there with @redpeppermag.bsky.social exploring the media’s role in contesting militarisation

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Basic premise of asylum is that war + persecution impact people who are poor; ‘unskilled’; don’t have assets needed to secure visas otherwise etc. New UK laws are overly designed to punish those who lack social+financial capital (working class); reward rich elites (already hyper-mobile)

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A real treat to write about Jurassic Park as anticapitalist inspiration for the new @leftcultures.bsky.social (with brilliant illustration as ever) A great project celebrating radical politics in unexpected places

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🚨BREAKING: We’re deeply concerned at the use of counter terrorism powers to target protest groups. This is the latest in a succession of measures taken by the UK government to clamp down on protest in the UK.

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

It has always been genocide Israeli politicians state clear intent Palestinians livestream atrocity Millions protest, face arrest & smears Experts present data & facts Arms sales-handshakes-passive voice-excuses-denials continue ‘New’ headlines echo a truth foretold It has always been genocide

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Feeling energised and inspired to action by the sharp insights, provocations, debates and ideas suggested in our rapid-fire workshop Right wing influence/ dominance in the media *can* be opposed, through alliance & action beyond media spheres… “Off the doom scroll into communities!” Great advice

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Do not give up hope, do not look away, do not stop doing what you can do (and you can do a lot) to end genocide and occupation 👇

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Article embracing the challenges of collaboration in research and curation — and celebrating queer sensibilities in action. (Hat tip to Halberstam!) 🚨 for academics exploring applications of queer theory, creative methods, participation intellectdiscover.com/content/jour... 🌈🎓

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The uses of failure: Transnational collaborative curation through a queer lens | Intellect

This article examines some of the challenges, possibilities and rewards of transnational collaborative curation through a queer lens by reflecting critically on my work within the UKRI-funded GlobalGR...

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

The @pef-online.bsky.social Conference showed in every moment that different, fair, data-driven economic (& related social) policies are on the table… but ignored by politicians locked into neoliberalism. An inspiring but painful event, as Labour sinks itself & squanders opportunity for change

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I have frequently been racially harassed by police and civilians. I have been detained and cross examined by racist border guards just because I have a Muslim first name. No newspaper has ever said people like me have “legitimate concerns” about racism in Europe. We don’t get that privilege.

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

If you’ve somehow not left Labour yet, as a member or a voter, go now. Tell your MP why on the way out… Racist rhetoric, cruel cuts, promoting transphobia, punishing disability, illegally selling weaponry, supporting genocide, protecting private industry, refusing to tax millionaires… 🥀🥀🥀

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

WEER at @sohotheatre.bsky.social is astoundingly good. One of the best physical theatre/ clowning performances I’ve ever seen, complemented by archly queer pop-culture skewering from Natalie Palamides (Seeing a packed house (700+…?) for alt. theatre with affordable tickets is also magic 🪄)

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

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The uses of failure: Transnational collaborative curation through a queer lens | Intellect

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Josh Jowitt @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter supporting trans rights & sharing concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers ruling. If you work in the legal profession in the UK (eg, academics, practitioners, anyone else 'doing law') please consider signing: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers

A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 18/04/2025

Our social relationships are never unphysical. Our physical relationships are never unsocial. Our bodies are ourselves and they are situated in a social environment at the same time. The projections onto our varied bodies and minds based on this are expansive and unavoidable everywhere.

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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Red Pepper is entering a new era. Help shape our future at our first community forum on 5 April at 12 pm BST online. Readers from all corners of the globe are invited. 🌶️ www.redpepper.org.uk/community-co...

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Community Forum Registration – Online - Red Pepper

Join a small group of Red Pepper readers to review and debate the future forms Red Pepper might take. Spaces are limited so book now to avoid disappointment! Can’t make this Forum? See our Community C...

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Left media is facing tough challenges as production costs rise & digital platforms push paid, clickbait & fact-free content @redpeppermag.bsky.social wants to hear from YOU: what’s needed now? Share your insights in our survey & community forums. First up: online, 5 April, 12-1.15pm Details ⤵️

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A hard decision—but this is not the end Independent, accessible & trustworthy journalism needs investment. If we want better than “free” platforms run by millionaires fuelled by algorithms, ads & dishonesty we must build it Join our upcoming Community Consultation to forge a stronger left media

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Will be thinking long on #TheYears, so thoughtfully staged & layered. Both tribute to feminist movements & indictment of how the bourgeois can benefit while removed; mistaking knowledge of global liberation struggle for engagement. Complex complexities. Incredible cast.

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Local independent news co-operatives like Bristol Cable doing essential work. Institutional racist police forces are not going to hold themselves to account — only communities can do that

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Only a few filmmakers make art, fewer still can make serious work that captures & revels in the utter bizarreness of human emotion & everyday life. A rare gift Anyway. Here are my parents enjoying David Lynch’s invitation to loose their heads in his work (Manchester International Festival 2019)

A man in a white hat pokes his head through an artwork that says: My Head is Disconnected

A person with grey hair looks at a series of framed micro paintings

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It's been obvious for some time that the scale of Israel's mass slaughter of civilians in Gaza has been grossly underreported. This won't stop the denialists here and elsewhere, of course.

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“Zuckerberg [believes] that he knows better than the rest of us and that his company’s services are good for us. He is not acting as a mercenary capitalist. He is acting as a megalomaniacal ideologue” Informed, historical analysis of #Meta (ignore the headline) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Mark Zuckerberg has gone full Maga | Siva Vaidhyanathan

It’s a mistake to describe the Meta CEO’s move as a retreat from ‘fact-checking’: it’s a retreat from limiting harm to users

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The same headline must have been repeated over a dozen times already - America ‘trying’ to get a ceasefire in Gaza while its ally Israel, the one America arms and funds, commits another massacre

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Dangerous & notable that so many journalists & Labour MPs are dodging talking about the explicit racism in Reform/ Musk/ Jenrick etc “calls” for new rape gang inquiry It’s a shift from response to Braverman/Sunak (April ‘23). As with ‘24 riots, they will not name Islamophobia Only fuels the fire

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

📽️ Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat traces how colonial & capitalist subterfuge pulled jazz icons into battles over Congolese independence, Cold War geopolitics & UN power Its compelling beats skip across time & place, drumming into life a complex mosaic of archive clips with reverberations for today. 5⭐️

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The work of a generation of historians - to sweep aside jingoistic fairytales and give us a richer, more accurate understanding of our colonial histories - will continue unabated. And over time, the embittered, chauvinistic backlash against their work will fade into background noise.

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Right wing political parties continuing to fuel anti-migrant sentiment on the “hell site”

Tweet by UK Labour Party that reads: “The Tories lost control of our borders. Labour are taking it back.” Below is a photo of PM in front of a Union Jack flag with a headline stating: “Keir Starmer has organised the three largest deportation flights in UK history”

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Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Brilliant to see @redpeppermag.bsky.social active on here, proud to help edit an independent magazine punishing for the international left since 1994! Lots of ways to support & get involved — start with a follow & get reading so many great articles!

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 25/11/2024

Tomorrow in Manchester near Arndale. There was a massive police action over the weekend targeting Traveller youth

Traveller Solidarity Demonstration

Turn up and show that the Manchester community says no to police brutally and aggression displayed by greater Manchester police towards Romany and traveller youth.

We support the harehills resistance to police brutality, we must protect young people from state violence whether that's in Leeds, Manchester or elsewhere.

Where? Arndale shopping centre, exchange square entrance steps, exchange square, m11pw

When: Tuesday 26th November 6pm

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erin l. durban @erindurban.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

i’m facilitating a year-long reading group where trans* studies meets critical disability studies—happy to share the “syllabus” with anyone who is interested! today our group worked through “becoming trans, becoming disabled” (puar 2015) and “becoming disabled, becoming trans” (durban 2017).

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Dear Editors — If you’re considering publishing an article about issues related to transgender people, then perhaps you should consider assigning that article to a transgender journalist. Don’t have any transgender journalists in your newsroom? @transjournalists.org has several valuable resources:

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Trans Journalists Association

Promoting more accurate, nuanced coverage of trans issues and communities in the media. Supporting gender-expansive journalists in their careers.

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