Aisling Walsh
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None but the King of Gender may command me! Writer/Translator/Reader @ANMLY_LIT She/Her Find my writing at:
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Writing in 2022 had its highs and lows but I still managed to get some work out there! Thanks to
@catapult
@ElectricLit
@lithub
@MagazinePuca
@PhoebeJournal
@CrowKeys
@madness_press
@orangesjournal
for providing a home for my sometimes strange & unusual words 💜
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This is the cuteest thing I've ever seen 😍😻
This is Raylan. He has helped raise over 150 foster kittens. 14/10
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Clodagh Hawe, Anna Kriegel, Aishling Murphy, the woman murdered in Tullamore and countless others... when are we going to have a real conversation about male violence in Ireland and how, three out of four times, the victims know their agressors?
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@meganodriscll
Don't forget the sequel: then i got a publishing deal so i can spend all day writing from the home i own about how sad it is to be famous especially since i'm still a marxist and how my pandemic novel is composed of sad emails about how sad i am about the end of the world
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@IBJIYONGI
The Auschwitz Memorial has a whole section dedicated to the establishment of Israel and justification of Zionism that sat really uncomfortably with me, but this is a whole other level 😟
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@john_boyne
Nice bit of queer erasure going on here & determining the sexuality of someone you don't even know who is obviously just trying to process the horrific news coming out of her home county. We should be in mourning, not denying the legitimacy of someone's identity
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Delighted to share that, just over four years from the day I began, I just submitted my PhD!
I could not have done it without support from my supervisor
@sumingkhoo
, who believed in this project from the beginning, my friends & colleagues in
@GalwaySocAndPol
&
@IrishResearch
!
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The fact that hate crimes in Ireland, targeted at migrants, refugees & the LGBTQI+ community are becoming a more than weekly occurrance signals a national emergency... how long more are the powers that be going to ignore this???
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Another great episode from
@MaintenancePod
! Amazing how insidious anti-vaxx propaganda continues to be & in blaming Autism on vaccinations, the implication of Autism as a tragedy that must be prevented or cured persists
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@john_boyne
@BoldGerg
Isn't this you headlining the 'Queer Love' anthology from the
@MunLitCentre
?? I'm confused 🤔🤔🤔
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Congratulations to
@sumingkhoo
on winning the
@nuigalway
teaching excellence award for 2022!! 🥳🥳🥳
Dedicated to her work & students and an incredibly supportive mentor, I can't think of anyone more deserving!! 👏👏👏
Excellence is a core strategic value of NUI Galway. We are honored to celebrate teaching excellence at NUI Galway in a special ceremony today, where awards were presented to staff members for outstanding efforts in teaching. Read more about our strategy👉
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My girlfriend's Irish education continues with this little ditty from Cork!
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I wrote this four years ago about Ana Kriegal... Sadly it remains relevant as we try to come to terms with the events in Tullamore and another femicide perpetrated by a teenager against
#LornaWoodnutt
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Man bullies and misrepresents marginalised group on social media, get's called out on it from said marginalisdd groups, leaves social media in a huff then writes for a national daily (once again) about how he's been "silenced" 🙄🙄🙄
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Delighted to share that my story 'A Creeping Ulcer' won the Michael Mullen Charity Fund Short Story Competition for 2022 judged by the wonderful
@NiamhBoyce
& read very eloquently at
@KildareReaders
last night by
@edoloughlin
from what I'm told!
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For
@Jezebel
I wrote about growing up queer & autistic & all the ways Barbie provided company, connection & an escape for my imagination!
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@AngryBlackLady
I mean I generally don't feel sorry for the Royals but god, Harry and Megan deserve so much better than these people.
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What's this, you ask?
Oh, just the first full print-out of my manuscript... 😀😲😀
#WritingCommunity
#amwriting
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I would love to have seen something from Róisín Murphy along the lines of 'I'm sorry for my baseless comments, I've done some research & realised I was misinformed, I want to reiterate my support trans people & the queer community who have been so supportive of my own career' 🏳️🌈
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Nature is so much wilder than our beliefs and rules for it 💜
NEW EPISODE! Fly with us, lesbian seagull. This week
@Radiolab
’s
@lmillernpr
brings us a story of queer nature and scientists in denial, featuring seagulls, penguins, rams, swans, dolphins, and—maybe the gayest animal of all—humans.
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Lot to love in this episode but this gave me all the feels: "legitimising the many face of abuse... your parents not deserving the relationship they perhaps want to have with you or society telling you you're duty-bound to have with them."
NEW EPISODE! This week, survival correspondent
@BlairBraverman
tells Sarah the story of a Supertramp. Sarah and Blair talk about the Chris McCandless archive and its legacy in conversations around wilderness, Alaska, violence, and more.
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It shouldn't need to be said but:
Why is Autistic self identification valid? A thread by an Autistic psychotherapist.
#AutisticsPleaseChimeIn
#ActuallyAutistic
🧵
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I'm not a historian but I love losing myself in the past & it's all too rare to find histories as compelling, vivid, politically incisive & urgent as Federici's 'Caliban & The Witch', Hatman's 'Wayward Lives' or
@GhoshAmitav
's 'Nutmeg's Curse', all devoured in the last year! 💜
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Not sure how I would have gotten through the last week of self-isolation if it were not for this little one, even if she spent most of it trying to attack my hands and feet 😹😻😹
#CatsOfTwitter
#KittensOfTwitter
#CovidKitty
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@mightbeautistic
Yes, I've often wondered about Eleven (Matilda obvs 😉) but also they also seemed to be overtly positioning Robin in the last season of ST as neurodivergent
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I decided to wrap up
#NeuroPride
with a review of some of my favourite
#ActuallyAutistic
&
#Nuerodivergent
reads featuring
@WalkerSensei
@EricMGarcia
@drdevonprice
@awnnetwork_
@AutisticTyping
You can read the full round-up here:
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I'm uncomfortable with
#dailprayer
, blasphemy, rape, nuns running the
#NMH
& lack of action on
#repealthe8th
@simoncoveney
@MichealMartinTD
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So this summer marks 10 years ( 😱 ) of only reading women* and, guess what, I still haven't run out of amazing things to read!
Shocking right??
And here are some of the gems lined up for the next few months...
#readwomen
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@alexsteed
In reality, he has very little power, more a Head of State type role, but as well as having gorgeous dogs he also has a tea cosy! 😅
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Cannot think of a better
@IrishResearch
Research Ally then
@sumingkhoo
, who is not only a friend but has supervised my undergrad, masters and now PhD thesis (!!) and provided endless encouragement & support since I was a wee undergrad all the way back in 2009! 🥳🥳🥳
We are delighted to announce the awardees of the Research Ally Prizes. 72 Research Allies were nominated by students and staff from across the Irish higher education system, celebrating the role of mentors, supervisors, research officers and support staff
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@AutisticCallum_
I wrote about this recently for
@lithub
, whether or not she is autistic, she is certainly celebrated for traits that are canonically autistic
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Boosted..! a free & efficient service in Guatemala this morning but it's worth remembering these vaccines are only available because of donations, which have been patchy at best. People should not have to rely on the 'goodwill' of the West
#VaccineEquity
#PeoplesVaccine
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I got a haircut today and everytime I look in the mirror I just see my mother, she would have been 62 this October. Aging is wierd but also 💜
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#fueelestado
#GuateDeLuto
36 girls burned alive & left to die in a state run orphanage on
#IWD2017
#JusticiaYa
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For
@CatapultStory
I wrote about trying to be a writer with rejection sensitive dysphoria, a common experience for neurodivergent folks...
Thanks again to
@ssrosecw
for her amazing edits!
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#RussellBrand
's wellness grift is just like every other dreadlocked white boy (and girl) who comes to Guatemala to get their three-day shamanic certificate and return home to peddle overpriced cacao ceremonies to other spiritually starved Westerners
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Best thing I've read on this debacle so far: "Like real-world white flight [leaving twitter] is premised on a single privileged assumption: that there are, somewhere, safe and comfortable spaces of existence."
@ProfSunnySingh
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My mum, Ursula, would have been 62 today. I miss her everyday but somehow birthdays are always worse, the sense of time trundling forward without her... So to mark the day I thought I'd share some of the texts I've written recently about her and our relationship...
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@ambernoelle
Yes!! My GF and I were talking last night all about how LOTRs is really about Tolkein processing his war trauma
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Delighted to be one of the guest editors for this special collaboration between
@LASCDublin
&
@Channel_LitMag
open to Latinx writers anywhere in the world. Submissions of prose, poetry & art accepted in Spanish, Portuguese & English until February 28th!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new project: Living Well / El Buen Vivir / O Bem Viver, a trilingual, transcontinental collection of nature writing and artwork engaging with the Latinx experience produced in collaboration with
@LASCDublin
!
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I'm usually the grinchiest of all the grinches, but this year my incredibly thoughtful, creative and talented girlfriend surprised me with a customised pink Christmas tree, and well, I couldn't help myself...
A very gay Christmas to all!
❤🧡💛💚💙💜
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OMG! My first Pushcart nomination!!!! Thank you soooo much
@SoToSpeakJrnl
We are thrilled to announce this year’s Pushcart nominees! Each of these pieces is beyond amazing, and we are so proud to recognize the hard work of these authors ❤️❤️
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I saw Sinéad in Vicar Street in 2019 and she was transcendent, most of the audience cried our way through the concert! She deserved more than this world was ever willing to allow her. Rest in Power Sinéad 💪
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@Jairo_I_Funez
@Prof_FSultana
Even worse those who remain silent or digging their heels into zionist rhetoric
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@j_zimms
Many neurodivergent people (like me) have audio processing disorders so while we don't have issues with our hearing per se we miss a lot of info... also my GF is a Spanish speaker so its a win win!
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Delighted to join
@Jamiejhagen
, Pascha Bueno-Hansen & all the panelists for 'Queer Trans Feminist Engagements with Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice' at
#ISA2023
, discussing possibilities for post-conflict reconciliation in Guatemala
#LoveIrishResearch
@IrishResearch
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@shannsmith18
It probably jarred more because it felt geared towards neurotypical patients without any consideration of neurodivergence.
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So pretty... 💜 And so happy to have my short story 'Queen of Tarts' featured in this issue 🤗
issue two cover reveal !!
we are absolutely delighted to share our gorgeous cover ahead of our launch this friday !
this cover was created by the lovely and immensely talented Sophie McGurk
@smcgurk98
!
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Guess who got 2000 words down on the first draft of a new essay this evening...???
#WritingCommunity
#amwriting
#CNFcommunity
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Dreading to know what I'll realise about how messed up I was as a 15 year old who loved this movie 🙈
NEW EPISODE! Do we have soul? That all depends. We time travel back to the Year Two Thousand, crush on John Cusack, and talk High Fidelity with the splendiferous
@Girly_Juice
!
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Delighted to share a new article out on
@thirdworldq
"Embodied healing & Justice in Wounded Territories" exploring the legacy of colonial & conflict-related woundings in Guatemala as part of my PhD
@GalwaySocAndPol
&
@IrishResearch
#LoveIrishResearch
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For the women who have been forced to travel & those who don't have the option.
@TwoWomenTravel
@freesafelegal
#choice4xmas
#repealthe8th
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@shannsmith18
For real? I found it largely unreadable to be honest, the arrogance just wafts of the page and considering I'm writing a thesis on trauma there was actually very little I found useful in it!
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Beyond thrilled to have an essay in the latest issue of
@PhoebeJournal
... a personal-political exploration of embodied grief, gynae health & Ireland's
#cervicalcheck
scandal. Thanks to
@which_is_to_say
and Emilie Knudsen for their thoughtful editorial support!
🎉Issue 51.2 is finally here! We've got an incredible selection of work to show you, so click the link to see it!
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Women in Ireland can go to prison for a medical procedure that's legal in most European countries
#UncomfortableAboutThe8th
@simoncoveney
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She gets a fresh bowl of filtered water every day, but yeah, I guess dustpan rain water is better???
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My cat & I are basically the same being: We eat the same food at the same time everyday, need regular cuddles from one special person, hate changes to our routine, hide under the duvet at loud noises & sleep 16 out of 24 hrs
#CatsOfTwitter
#ActuallyAutistic
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@Jairo_I_Funez
Great to see
@GladysTzul
and Aura on this list! I would also add Marko Chivalán-Carrillo and Emma Chirix from Guatemala. Silvia Cusicanqui from Bolivia
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I just found my Leaving Cert art project and, though I hated it the day I made it and hid it away forever, 20 years later (😱) it doesn't seem to bad for something I did when I was 18!
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Writing for
@lithub
on confronting grief, motherhood & the apocolypse... With a special shout out to my favourite podcast
@youaregoodpod
without which I might never have remembered Terminator was one of my mother's favourite movies 🤗
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For the record, you DO NOT speak for me, nor my girlfriend 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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To celebrate
#WorldAutismAcceptanceWeek
I took a break from talking about film for a round-up of my favourite neurodivergent podcasts, staring:
@youaregoodpod
@squarepegautism
@NDM_podcast
@AutHourPod
@AutismCinema
&
@21andsensory
Happy listening!
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In my writing group today we discovered that we're all equally obsessed with the
@BechdelCast
@yourewrongabout
@youaregoodpod
@MaintenancePod
universe and it was just so...
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Aaaaand another one bites the dust... I can hardly think of one woman who does not have some kind of gender based trauma, but it doesn't give us a licence to spread hate about any marginalised group of people.
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@fochti
@JoanneLimburg
has done this on a smaller scale with her wonderful book Letters to My Weird Sisters!
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The legitimising of hate speech against marginalised communities, the rise of white nationalism coupled with the pent-up aggression of 3+ years of pandemic, a cost of living crisis & the percieved loss of privileges of certain groups
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@NoNonsenseND
Controversial perhaps, but Jaws is a film about three oddballs, outcasts and obsessives on a boat... you can read more on my theory here:
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In the 16 years since I first took one of
@sumingkhoo
's classes I've always felt extremely lucky to have had the kind of educational experiences bell hooks writes about in 'Teaching to Transgress' 💜💪💜
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Q2: I try to live according to feminist principals but life is full of contradictions esp in hetero relationships!!
#feministstory
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Rounding up the year, I would like to thank the wonderful...
@SoToSpeakJrnl
@EntropyMag
@Refinery29
@BarrenMagazine
@SquawkBack
@rejectionlit
@cordellapress
@nopartiesmag
@LitroMagazine
...for providing a home for my words in 2021! 💜
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Does the Booker Prize have an autism problem?
For
@PublishersWkly
I wrote about autistic representation in fiction, the rewarding & awarding of authors who continue to reproduce tired & damaging stereotpyes & why autistic readers & writers deserve more!
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One chapter ends and another begins... delighted to share I was awarded an Arts & Disability Connect mentoring grant to work with Gavin McCrea on finishing my novel! 🥳🥳🥳
The Arts Council and Arts & Disability Ireland have announced the awarded artists for Opportunity One of the Arts and Disability Connect scheme 2023.
Congratulations to all the artists awarded !!
@artscouncil_ie
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Is it only in Ireland that we write accolades for convicted paedophiles? Cop on
@IrishTimes
Not one mention of the child, the fact Humphries is a paedophile, or indeed why he was in court in this piece.
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Epic!!! This is not only the movie that introduced me to Philip Seymor Hoffman, it made me love him forever... and yes, it is his best role ever! 😍
NEW EPISOE! Did you see my cows out front? We talk Twister—the most artful action movie ever made that features both Philip Seymour Hoffman and Roach from the People Under the Stairs—with
@nikostratis
!
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If you listen to one thing today why not this
@yourewrongabout
episode on why Sinéad matrers and why she deserved more 💔
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Why is it not surprising that this documentary was made be Channel 4 and not RTE?
#UnreportedWorld
“It is really heartbreaking...you are almost being exported". Meet the women in Ireland flying to the UK for abortions. 7.30pm on
@Channel4
.
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