“[How] can artistic practices enable us to visualize the legacies of conflict and visions for peace beyond established conventions?” Maria-Adriana Deiana & Heidi Riely (@hidrx2.bsky.social) explore this in a new article in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Trans people have been warning about this kind of thing for over a decade. Look through the comments. Cisgender people are beginning to shit themselves now they think the far right is beginning to effect *them*.

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

'Nearly a quarter of a million women and girls in Gaza are starving, many of them dying, in one of the worst hunger crises in modern history. Over half a million more are facing extreme hunger and acute malnutrition.' www.unwomen.org/en/articles/...

Join us for our new workshop on Raise Your Voice Against Misogyny! Monday, 29th Sep, 7-9pm online RSVP: forms.gle/pS92p6oNkWjT...

I cited actual Kirk quotes where he calls Black women less intelligent, demonizes me for being Muslim, & dehumanizes LGBTQ people—& his supporters are upset at me for “speaking evil of the dead.” If quoting him is “speaking evil” maybe ask yourself why you followed someone who believed evil things.

This Belfast Trans Pride weekend, we reiterate our absolute solidarity with Belfast’s trans, non-binary and intersex communties. Judith Butler nailed it.. ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’. #TheNorthSaysTransJoy #BelfastIsAntiFascist

New publication in @millennjournal.bsky.social Theorising Feminist Peace with Northern Ireland’s Contemporary Art. Co-authored with my colleague Heidi Riley as part of our project Talk4Peace #IRSky #FeminsitSky #AcademicSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We became educated, advanced in knowledge and experience and then said 'nah we actually want to be stupid now so some rich assholes can become obscenely more rich while they destroy the environment '.

What can go wrong? Will this apply to PSNI who engaged in discriminatory policing during BLM? 'confidence among ethnic minority communities in policing had been “severely damaged”.' They continue to deploy stop and search to disproportionately target black & ethnic minority communities.

“To suddenly start building data centres so much denser in terms of power use, chips cost 10 times as much, there is unproven demand, which eat all up available grid power & suitable real estate — all that is an extraordinary challenge and a gamble." What could go wrong? ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

Mary Robinson: It is utterly devastating to see the sheer volume of vital materials sitting there. Oxygen tanks, generators, wheelchairs, crutches. It is unbelievable www.independent.ie/irish-news/m... #speirgorm

Reverend Bill Shaw nails it.

Exactly right. They simply want the end product — whether it’s an actual production of art or music or the end result of hard work like a PhD — without doing the work. It’s cheat codes all the way down.

This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing. www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...

Worried about going to your GP? We’re running our free Seeking Support From Your GP Zoom workshops again. Come along to find out what you’re able to ask your GP for. The next 2 hour workshop is on 14th August. Sign up at: form.typeform.com/to/n47vyAzR #workshop #TransHealth #Transgender #Trans

Call out for poets and writers! We are organising a virtual fundraiser event for mutual aid efforts in Gaza, on the 19th of August (evening London time) and are asking for folks who would be up for sharing a poem/reading. Please get in touch if you are interested in taking part!

President of the international association of Genocide Scholars: "it is without a doubt that we are witnessing a genocide now in Gaza, and state parties to the Genocide Convention are failing in their obligation to prevent and punish genocide" opiniojuris.org/2025/08/04/i...

Perhaps the text should be: “Thanks to the efforts of international organizations, Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a country deeply divided …”

And just like that, the DUP minister bans drag story hour from libraries in N. Ireland. 1. The Department of Justice refuse to act on far-right due to a ministerial strategy of appeasement with loyalist paramilitaries & the far-right. 2. DUP censors LGBTQ+ existences under the cover of disorder.

Gordon Lyons and bigots: "Children are in danger from Drag Artists". Meanwhile, in this abnormal hellhole.....

SAVE THE DATE RECLAIM THE NIGHT BELFAST SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2025 Join us in Writers Square at 5:30pm for speeches before march through Belfast to reclaim public space for all at our annual march against gender based violence and street harassment. #16Days

Between 10–15 academics from Gaza will be speaking — it’s so important we show up in solidarity. Please sign up to attend and support their voices: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-fro... #Gaza #AcademicSolidarity

Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.

Finally, a huge thank you to Oisin Ralph (@oisinralph) for creating our incredible poster! [8/8]

Submission deadline is 31st August 2025. Notifications regarding acceptances will be sent out by early September. All information is available via texerenetwork.com/trai/ or in the link in the TRAI Instagram bio. [7/8]

We are delighted to announce that the Trans* Research Association of Ireland (TRAI)’s 2nd Annual Symposium will take place on the 21st and 22nd of November 2025 in Queen’s University Belfast in collaboration with Outburst Queer Arts Festival and the Centre for Gender in Politics at Queen’s. [1/8]

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

Our #BISA2025 keynote speech by @bleiker.bsky.social is now published! 🎉 Entitled: 'Seeing and sensing world politics' - co-authored with Dr Emma Hutchinson - this year's keynote was recorded as a lasting memento from #BISA2025 🌟 Watch now 👉 buff.ly/IXfXfpA @visualpolitics.bsky.social

This is the Washington Post (yes, that one): names in Arabic and English, and ages, of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, plus portraits and stories where available: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip. It is not a threat. It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people. Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.

“Let us remember Vanessa not just by the way she died, but by the life she lived, her smile, her strength, her incredible powerful love for her children. " “We remember James and Sara, not just as victims of violence, but as children who played and who laughed” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dr HA Hellyer: "The airdrops.. letting in some aid, even if that aid is less than 1% of what's needed, provides Netanyahus govt the ability to say they've done something in response to international demands.. but its not doing what's necessary on the ground"

"Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it." #SocialJustice www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

"The purpose is to quieten the public, or distract it by the lowest-cost calls for recognising a Palestinian state. These are phantom wins, a grotesque exercise in reputation laundering and public opinion management. Innocents are now starving to death. All that is not action is noise"

“Food airdropping game.. Most aid airdropped today landed in no-go military areas through Gaza!” - Moatasem Daloul, Gazan Journalist

Domestic violence is a major threat to women around the world but it is also a warning sign for political violence. And yet, it rarely gets the political attention it deserves and requires.

180y ago, the Great Hunger killed over a million people in Ireland as the Great Powers stood by & ignored the horrific suffering of children. Famine stalks Gaza, babies are arriving at the makeshift triage & dying. The death toll from genocide will grow as famine & disease murder more. Donate:

This morning alone, at least three children died from hunger and malnutrition. Don’t look away. Don’t normalize genocide.

Urgent support needed 👇👇

#BoycottZARA ZARA has chosen to fashion-wash genocide and apartheid. #BoycottZara until it ends its criminal complicity. bdsmovement.net/news/boycott...

"We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families."

No aid supplies left, staff starves in Gaza "Our last tent, our last food parcel, our last relief items have been distributed. There is nothing left," Jan Egeland, the secretary general of the council, told Reuters @sg-nrc.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/middle...

A foreigner living abroad & unfamiliar with British politics could be forgiven for reading this & thinking Starmer is a Tory or Reform MP. Hard to believe we thought he was left leaning & would be radical & compassionate once in office.

STOP STARVING GAZA NOW: The people of Gaza have called on us to act. We are joining the call to people of conscience to stand against the U.S.-backed Israeli-manufactured famine in Gaza. People of all age groups are being gruesomely starved, with deaths due to malnutrition on the rise every day.

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years. “There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

When Israel launched its assault against Palestinians in Gaza, violence in the occupied West Bank skyrocketed, another front in its war of annihilation.