naoise murphy

I'll be back in Oxford on Friday! Come along / tell your Oxford friends?
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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

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 ...

London friends: my dear comrade Juliana Demartini-Brito will be asking me questions about the book for the qUCL network, 5.30pm on 1 May: www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-resear...

Manchester friends: the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture are giving me the loveliest welcome by reading and responding to my book. 4pm on 25 March, A115, Samuel Alexander Building

Oxford friends: 5pm on 6 March, location TBC, I'll be chatting to the wonderful Queer Intersections Oxford network and the Feminist Thinking Seminar

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.

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

🚨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.
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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...

Two fully funded studentships at Manchester to support research in queer and trans healthcare and creativity www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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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Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing

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 📚📚

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.

#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...

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
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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.

📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
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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.
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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!

FGEN Statement on Newnham College Transphobic Fellowship Announcement - Feminist Gender Equality Network On behalf of our membership, the Feminist Gender Equality Network (FGEN) condemns Newnham College for advertising an explicitly trans-exclusionary Research Fellowship Award. The decision by Newnham Co...

@networkgender.bsky.social (FGEN)’s statement about Newnham College excluding trans women from its scholarships.

@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

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.

Black struggles, black workers? Race Today and the 1974 Imperial Typewriters strike In May 1974, around 500 ‘Ugandan Asian’ workers walked out of Leicester’s Imperial Typewriters factory. For the recently formed Race Today Collective (RTC), which published the radical journal Race...

super happy that my article on Race Today and the Imperial Typewriters strike is out now and open access in @ersjournal.com!

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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...

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.

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rest in power leslie, I feel I have disrespected your memory somehow...

Nancy Spain and Spicebag

sex wars, Shakespeare, Shannon Airport

John Gielgud and Paul Gilroy

Leslie Feinberg and Fianna Fáil

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

👉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.

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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

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

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…

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 🙃🙃🙃
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