Lloyd Meadhbh Houston (They/Them)
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IRISH MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL HEALTH @OxUniPress ; Leverhulme Fellow @Cambridge_Uni ; SPR @TrinCollCam ; Comms @BAIrishStudies ; Co-host @CensoredPod
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Wrote something about my experiences of autism, queerness, and gaming for this year's fantastic
@eurogamer
Pride Week series:
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I've been sitting on this for a while, but I am delighted to announce that in May I will be joining the Faculty of English at Cambridge as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow.
Chuffed to bits, so I am.
@Cambridge_Uni
@LeverhulmeTrust
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Over the moon to have been appointed as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Very much looking forward to joining the
@TrinCollCam
community.
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Delighted to announce that I was awarded the Swapna Dev Memorial Book Prize for the best doctoral thesis in English literature at the
@UniofOxford
Sincere thanks to
@engfac
,
@HertfordCollege
, and my supervisor, Dr David Dwan.
#IrishStudies
#Modernisms
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"Women who pushed queerphobic boulder down hill now realises her home is in its path."
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So, can't quite believe this is happening, but, "Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health" is now under contract with
@OUPAcademic
!
I'm hugely grateful to my editors, readers, DPhil examiners, mentors, and, of course, my DPhil supervisor for making this all possible.
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It's here and I am lost for words. It is such a surreal delight to be able to hold a copy of this thing.
It's a week until the official publication day, so if you are thinking of ordering a copy and would like a 30% off discount code, DM me.
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Just finished
@GreatDismal
's 'The Peripheral' and am struck by how rare and heartening it is to encounter a book with a prominent (and bad-ass) trans character whose gender identity, while personally significant for them at times, is not their defining feature. [1/2]
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Ecstatic to announce I've been awarded an
@SSHRC_CRSH
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at
@UAlberta
with
@RobertJBrazeau
.
I'll be exploring the medicalisation and politicisation of sex in early c20 British, US, Canadian, and Caribbean culture.
#HistMed
#HealthHums
#Modernism
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@EmilySteinlight
Mrs Dalloway said she would go to the lighthouse herself to look at the waves with Orlando and Flush, but not till, between the acts, she'd called at Jacob's room of one's own... The Years.
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@griffski
Rorschach: 'So, what do you see in this image?'
Horny Internet Time Traveller: 'A face I would sit on.'
R: 'What...?'
HITT: BLOT ME INK DADDY!
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@V_Ben
I can't avoid hearing this in the cadence of 'Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!' and it's only adding to it.
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Like a lot of trans readers, the Case/Molly SimStim sequences in 'Neuromancer' always triggered rather strong gender-feelings in me, and its nice to see these ambient elements of
@GreatDismal
's work come to the fore in sensitive and thought-provoking ways. [2/2]
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Absolutely delighted to have been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Early career history folk (particularly 'cultural history' types like myself), I'd definitely suggest getting involved.
@RoyalHistSoc
#Twitterstorians
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This is what an actual threat to academic freedom looks like (and a clear consequence of the demonisation of gender theory by media and politicians).
Solidarity with the victims and all those who now have to fear violence for simply wanting to teach and learn about gender.
"A witness told the student newspaper that a man between 20 and 30 years old had entered the classroom and asked the [Gender Studies] professor what the class was about. He then pulled two knives out of his backpack, the witness said."
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Chuffed to bits that Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health has been Highly Commended in this year's
@BAIrishStudies
Book Prize. My thanks to the judges, and huge congratulations to
@tortietabby
for her well-deserved win!
BAIS Book Prize, 2024
Highly Commended: Lloyd Meadhbh Houston
@lejhouston
, 'Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health' (Oxford University Press)
& Andrew Phemister
@APhemister
'Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War' (Cambridge University Press)
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Gave my first faculty lecture today, romping through some of the greatest hits of queer theory. Start as you mean to go on...
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There are, seemingly, nothing but good photos of that Outside-Dice-Euro-Xbox-Game-Breaker cross-over
@AoifeLockhart
,
@IanHigton
,
@zoe_dels
,
@Farrantula
,
@KubeWhelan
,
@boardgameyogi
,
@doesdarkmagic
@eurogamer
@EGX
#Monikers
#EGX2021
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Neil Hannon of
@divinecomedyhq
once complimented me on my bow-tie and said he should wear them more, I agreed, and the following evening he wore one on
@BBCLater
. I'm not saying it was my doing, but...
What's your weakest claim to fame? I once dated the cousin of someone who played a cat nun on Doctor Who.
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'A year did not pass! It's not true! It's bullsh*t! It did not - Oh, hi March.'
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This Ulysses inflation crisis is getting out of hand...
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A reminder that, in my time-line, it's a Christmas movie.
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So thrilled to be featured in this week's
@TheTLS
reviewing "100 Queer Poems", "Queering the Green", and "The Sun Isn't Out Long Enough", a trio of excellent anthologies of contemporary queer poetry.
This week’s
@TheTLS
, featuring
@TimParksauthor
on Italo Calvino;
@15thcgossipgirl
on the Wife of Bath;
@NshShulman
on Prince Harry; Fredrik Logevall on Jefferson the writer;
@lejhouston
on queer poetry;
@RSmythFreelance
on Ronald Blythe - and more
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Consummatum est.
#DPhil
-ed
#PhDone
#Submission
#IrishStudies
#IrishLiterature
#IrishModernism
#IrishPolitics
#Modernisms
#HistMed
#SexualHealth
#Twitterstorians
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My name is Lloyd Meadhbh,
I provide the content you creadhbh,
But, before we head to the readhbh,
I'm going to need to sheadhbh.
My name is Sadhbh
My brain is fradhed
Some days it's hard
To be aladhbh
- a poem
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Tfw
@Farrantula
is on your cup to guarantee that your morning coffee is ethical...
@OutsideXbox
@outsidextra
@janedouglas
@MikeChannell
@lukewestaway
@icklenellierose
#FairTradeFarrant
#CorazonCoffee
#OxBox
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Very pleased to have spent
#BiVisibilityDay
looking deeply un-straight. Love and solidarity to all those gettin' bi / facing down hostility and erasure.
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"Well, no-one ever told me this petard was capable of hoisting *me* as well!"
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Couldn't be more excited to be talking Joyce and sexual health this summer in Trieste.
#HotJoyceSummer
We’re delighted that Dr Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston
@lejhouston
will be speaking at the 2023 Trieste Joyce School!
#TJS2023
@UniTrieste
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Serving my finest boy drag for a family wedding
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Nothing like attending a vigil for a child half your age who was murdered for living authentically to make you furious and devastated in equal measure.
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Book Launch: Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health -
@HertfordCollege
, Wed 10 May, 5pm -
@oxfordirishsem
Oxford friends,
#Modernism
, and
#IrishStudies
types, please join me and the inimitable Prof David Dwan to welcome the book into the world with some wine!
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Sure, 'tis a grand day to beat the Brits.
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Slàinte,
@AoifeLockhart
,
@IanHigton
, and
@zoe_dels
! (And sorry for the 'Silent but Deadly Assassin' pun...)
@eurogamer
,
@EGX
#HappyHourTavernTime
#HHTT
#EGX2021
#Eurogamer
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Couldn't be more excited to start my new role next month under the mentorship of
@RobertJBrazeau
, and to join the vibrant academic community
@UofA_EFS
.
Many thanks to Geoff McMaster for the very generous profile.
#HistSex
#HistMed
#Modernism
#ModWrite
The U of A's newest Banting postdoctoral fellow, Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston, plans to build on their prize-winning research at Oxford, exploring the politics of sexual health through a literary lens:
#UAlberta
#BantingFellowship
@UofA_Arts
@UofA_EFS
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Well, here it is, people, the greatest Halloween costume ever. We can all go home now.
This Halloween I dressed up as one of the scariest things I could think of... a gender reveal party
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Modernism(s) + Queer Theory + Intersectionality = Great Conference.
Agree? Check out the CFP for
@queermodernism
:
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Huge congratulations, also, to Sarah, whose work was singled out by that vicious, AHRC-bashing ex-journalist a few months ago. I hope this Prize makes clear how valuable her scholarship is for those in Irish Studies, History, and Gender Studies, and for the public at large.
BAIS Postgraduate Essay Prize, 2024:
Sarah Mason ‘Community Nostalgia and Transgenerational Trauma: Reconciling dichotomies from a women’s oral history of West Belfast, 1975-1995’
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I feel like 'a dagger' is the most
@zoe_dels
unit of measurement imaginable...
I'm now wondering what
@AoifeLockhart
and
@IanHigton
would use as their signature measurements? A squat and a jort? A piece of beautiful glassware and a VR headset? Kitty and Titch?
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I wrote a piece for
@eurogamer
about
#Erasure
,
#QueerHistory
, and
#IrishCulture
in
@dreamfeelx
's
#IfFound
:
It's a truly beautiful game that I can't recommend highly enough.
#IrishStudies
#QueerGaming
#TransPride
#TransHistory
#Pride
#LGBTQIA
+
#Gaeilge
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A school where I did an assembly and workshop on
#trans
identities and
#GenderDiversity
covered the day in their
#LGBTQIA
+ magazine and I am a) incredibly touched, b) hugely impressed by the talent of their students, and c) blown away by the commitment to
#QueerVisibility
.
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My piece for
@TheTLS
on the construction and policing of queer identities in the
@bodleianlibs
' Phi Collection, to mark the end of
@sapphicapuella
's fabulous 'Story of Phi' exhibition.
#QueerModernisms
#QueerHistory
#LGBTQIA
#Library
#Obscenity
#Erotica
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To the gentleman who came to the gym at midnight in psychedelic floral-print knitwear to eat a huge bag of popcorn while laughing at people lifting weights: I salute you.
But, also, a) please stop laughing at me, and, b) can I have some popcorn?
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Sarah's project was a recipient of a
@BAIrishStudies
Postgraduate Bursary and is absolutely fantastic. I'm glad it's getting attention (even if it is because someone with zero intellectual curiosity is throwing a shit fit about it...)
"Critically, my project aims to move away from the compartmentalised research of the binaries that have separated the Republican Catholic communities and their Loyalist Protestant counterparts."
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So immensely proud to be part of this programme, and to see it reshaping access and outreach
@UniofOxford
:
Congratulations to
@arusbridger
and all at
@lmhoxford
#FoundationYear
#Access
#Outreach
#Equality
#Diversity
#Oxford
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Greml-Ian and his smoochy paint cans took to the stage...
@IanHigton
,
@zoe_dels
,
@AoifeLockhart
,
@eurogamer
,
@EGX
,
@KineticGame
#ThighsOfSteel
#SquatMaster
#SmoochSmooch
#Phasmophobia
#EGX2021
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Seems like my
@eurogamer
#HeadphoneWarning
t-shirt arrived just in time...
Thanks
@AoifeLockhart
,
@IanHigton
, and
@zoe_dels
for all the ear-drum-perforatingly good times.
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This
#NonBinaryPeoplesDay
, I hope everyone, regardless of the label(s) that resonate for them, feels free to inhabit and explore gender in a way that feels liberating and authentic. Oh, and my curse be upon every Tory leadership candidate who's demonised trans people for votes.
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Delighted by this thorough and extremely generous review of "Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health" by the wonderful Abby Bender for the Journal of British Studies:
@abbysbender1
@JBritishStudies
@OUPAcademic
#IrishStudies
#Modernisms
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@sandraschulze
How does it feel to have literally an entire country fact-checking you with the same fact?
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@sweatyhabibti
I've always liked that it sort of hovers between adjective and verb. Like, I'm not just passively genderqueer, I'm actively queering gender.
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That a full-time job would pay well enough to allow a person to meet their basic needs.
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Very excited to review the page proofs for my contribution to
@PaulEamonnFagan
,
@johnjgreaney
, and
@Trillianapher
's 'Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities', out in September with
@BloomsburyAcad
:
#IrishStudies
#IrishModernism
#ModWrite
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You could say this was a... Top
@IanHigton
moment.
Well done
@AoifeLockhart
and
@zoe_dels
for keeping it together during this.
@eurogamer
@EGX
@joindicebreaker
@OutsideXbox
#Monikers
#Eurogamer
#EGX2021
#Top
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Amazing roundtable on "Writing While Trans" curated by
@ereidbuckley
, with
@LaurenMcPoet
,
@WilliamKeohane_
, Matt Kennedy (
@Belong_To
), and Raevynna El Messaoudi.
#IASIL2022
(1/3)
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Was delighted to encounter "Irish Modernism and the Politics of Sexual Health" among the many fabulous
@OUPAcademic
offerings
@Jack_McNichol
has brought to
@msatweet
.
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Ah, shite... Who told them about the altar?
Enoch's mother, Martina Burke, also took to her feet waving the Irish Constitution around like a red card at the All-Ireland Junior Football Final. She kept accusing the judges of "bowing before the altar of transgenderism."
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Finnegans Wake, Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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It's here! So proud to be a part of this collection. It's absolutely bursting with thoughtful and thought-provoking reflections on Irish Modernism and all it might (and might not) encompass. Check it out.
#IrishStudies
#IrishLiterature
#IrishModernism
#Modernism
#ModWrite
Happy publication day to "Irish Modernisms: Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities", edited by
@Trillianapher
,
@johnjgreaney
and myself🍾🎉I'm so excited for everyone to finally read the contributors' excellent work and scholarship. Order your library copy here:
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@_akpiper
It's often less a case of scholars in the humanities being 'resistant to numbers', and more a case of scholars in the humanities being resistant to numbers being treated as the only valid, valuable, or epistemologically robust form of evidence, right?
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@KatyMontgomerie
'The Spirit of Glinner' sounds like it should be the name of an airship that exploded in the 1930s, which, I guess, is an apt metaphor for a dangerous and over-inflated wind-bag who's recently gone down in flames...
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Excited to be in the latest
#JJQ
reviewing
@Katherine_Ebury
and
@fuyerescaper
's 'Joyce's Non-Fiction Writings', especially alongside glowing reviews of books by
@twinkling_sheep
and
@GenevieveSartor
.
#JamesJoyce
#JoyceStudies
#Modernisms
#Reviews
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It's
#TransDayOfVisibility
No-one owes the world visibility, and it's something many of us can't safely enjoy, but, amid so much hostility to trans life, it feels important to affirm that we exist, have always existed, and cannot be willed or legislated out of existence.
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My article on 'Ulysses', legal deposit, and obscenity is Editor's Choice in 'The Library': / DM me for a copy.
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It me.
👏NEW FLANN O'BRIEN PUBLICATION👏
"Veni, V.D., Vici: Flann O'Brien, Sexual Health & the Literature of Exhaustion"
by
@lejhouston
in "Flann O'Brien: Gallows Humour"
@CorkUP
Discourses of sexual hygiene in Cruiskeen Lawn, The Hard Life, Slattery's Sago Saga
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[Inland Empire: Success] This was an extremely prudent impulse purchase, Bratan! Now people can see what a hideously stylish Bratushka you really are!
#DiscoElysium
#HideousNecktie
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On my way to teach my first (in-person) tutorials of the term with the English freshers
@lmhoxford
. A day of
#Dickens
, imagined communities, and chosen families awaits.
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Turns out my partner has spent years thinking Will Smith was 'shooting some meat-ball outside of school' in the Fresh Prince rap.
Learning is truly a lifelong pursuit.
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For the day (and month) that's in it, I want to take a leaf from
@AlisonBechdel
's book, and not only wish
#Joyce
and
#Ulysses
a happy birthday, but acknowledge the talent and sacrifices of all the queer people who made the book possible:
#LGBTQIAHistoryMonth
[1/6]
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OR, we could interrogate the socio-economic, cultural, and psychological structures that generate the felt obligation (and, in many cases, genuine financial necessity) to monetise our passions and erode meaningful notions of leisure in this way...
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Angela Bourke's fantastic keynote at today's event on the Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire was, among many things, an unapologetically personal and situated performance, weaving in its own notes of lament as it charted an oral history of the keen and the scholarship it has inspired.
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Absolutely chuffed to have been shortlisted for the final of this year's
@RCPIArchive
Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Award. Very much looking forward to presenting my research at the College's St Luke's Symposium in October.
#IrishStudies
#SocHistMed
#MedicalHumanities
Very excited to announce the four finalist for this years Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Award -
@lejhouston
@ashshalvey
@TrionaWaters
and
@szimme7
. They will be presenting their research as part of the College's St Luke's Symposium on Thurs 18 Oct.
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Seriously blown away by all the amazing work being shared via
#BAISDay2021
- check it out for a
#StPatricksDay
fix of
#IrishStudies
, Irish culture, and Irish scholarship (and give
@BAIrishStudies
a follow to keep up-to-date all year long).
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About to give my paper on the fraught intersections of
#Race
,
#Religion
, and the
#SpanishCivilWar
in Kate O'Brien's Spanish writings at
#IWWNSymposium2021
.
@IWWNetwork
#IrishStudies
#IrishModernism
#QueerModernism
#ModWrite
#KateOBrien
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Is absolutely delighted to have been elected to the council of
@BAIrishStudies
. If you are a PGR working in
#IrishStudies
and have any issues or suggestions, please do get in touch.
My sincere congratulations to
@DrMagennis
on her election as Chair. Oh captain, my captain!
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OR, hear me out, more needs to be done to prevent Tory councillors from misrepresenting innocuous encounters with trans people in a manner that is seized upon and signal-boosted by a ravenous right-wing press.
She said 'I'll just wipe them on my jeans'. You absolute ghoul.
More needs to be done to protect single sex spaces.
Prisons, changing rooms and toilets.
‘I’m going to wipe my hands on my penis.’
This is threatening and intimidating language.
See my experience in a women’s toilets this week…
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