Join us as we mark 10 years since the Marriage Equality Referendum with a vibrant, community festival celebrating love, progress, & pride! Family-friendly activities, New LGBTQIA+ guided tours, National Museum of Ireland– Collins Barracks Sat, 24 May 2025 🕚 11AM– 7PM www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/W...

Intersex Insights, a conference dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary conversations on intersex studies and the social, cultural, medical and ethical approaches to Variations of Sex Characteristics (VSC). Hosted at Dublin City University on June 9th and 10th, 2025. www.dcu.ie/snpch/dcu-ev...

Camogie sportswear has evolved dramatically, reflecting broader changes in women's sportswear and celebrating strides towards equality and functionality. NMI Curator Siobhán Doyle dives into camogie kits' history and current controversies. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Join the 2025 PsyHuman "Psychology and the Humanities" Summer School: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Individual and Community Well-being, running from June 16 to June 27 at University of Trento, Italy. Details and link for application here: eventi.unitn.it/it/psyhuman-... Apply by: April 30, 2025

The TITE film festival arrives to @lighthousecinema.bsky.social in April. Check out our programme preview: filmindublin.ie/2025/03/19/a...

DCU, Ireland’s first formally designated University of Sanctuary, has announced five new scholarships for postgraduate taught Master’s for refugees and international protection applicants who are not eligible for state support. Find out more here: launch.dcu.ie/42JvTDx

📣 Apply to the TEPSA Academy & Skills Lab today❗ Learn more on our website 🔗 tepsa.eu/events/acade...

Book now for Pride and the Pen – a monthly LGBTQ+ tour of MoLI, taking place this Saturday, 29 March, at 3pm. The tour looks at Ireland’s storied queer heritage, from censorship to celebration. Limited availability – don't miss out! Book now at moli.ie

The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson

Join us at the DCU Postgraduate Open Day this Thursday, 20 March, from 4-7 pm in the U Building on Glasnevin campus, to ask your question about the MA in Gender and Sexuality Studies in person. Registration and further information here: www.dcu.ie/postgraduate

Invitation: Launch of the DCU Institute for Research on Genders and Sexualities (IRGS), a dynamic new research hub dedicated to gender and sexuality in political, social, cultural, and technological contexts. Guest speakers: Prof. Ailbhe Smyth, alongside Bulelani Mfaco and Dr. Arpita Chakraborty.

I completed the MA in Sexuality Studies in 2012, and went on to do a PhD in Sexuality Studies in DCU afterwards… The course gave me the skills to become a media commentator in sexuality-related topics, and helped me to progress to my current role...

Invitation: Join us in DCU for a talk on "Living Queer Politics: A Psychosocial Study of Queer Activist Trajectories in Brazil" with Gab Siqueira, University of Groningen (NL) / University of São Paulo (BR), tomorrow, 19 February, at 12 noon. dcu-queer-activism-brazil.jimdosite.com

We are looking forward to this important talk by Dr. Jilly Boyce Kay from Loughborough University on 27th February in UCD.

DCU MA in Gender and Sexuality Studies @magendersexuality.bsky.social is now open for applications (starting Sept. 2025). Open to students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and with different career trajectories. Please apply here (queries to [email protected]) dcu.ie/courses/post...

Warmest congratulations to Ailbhe Smyth on being awarded the prestigious Légion d’Honneur by the Embassy of France in Ireland! gcn.ie/ailbhe-smyth...

“Completing my MA in Sexuality Studies equipped me with essential skills that have shaped many aspects of my work… Now I serve on advisory groups for key global health organisations such as UNITAID, lead a nationwide HSE anti-HIV stigma campaign, ...

Book launch: 'Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin's Forgotten Red Light District', by Dr. Caroline West, former MASS postgraduate and SALIS Sexuality Studies PhD. Chapters Bookstore, Parnell Street Rotunda, Dublin 1, D01 P8C2. Thursday, February 20th, 18:30. www.dubraybooks.ie/product/wron...

Interesting article in light of the constant calls for positive male role models on the left (as an antidote to the 'Tate effect') - Mulley and Epstein challenge the notion that boys’ ideas of masculinities stems solely from mimicking male norms and behaviours. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/K2PDB...

This important new report on ‘Learning From Survivors of Rape and Sexual Violence’ was launched in the Royal Irish Academy on Thursday by Rape Crisis Ireland. www.rapecrisisireland.ie/wp-content/u...

Girls and young women worldwide consistently feel excluded from politics. The National Women's Council (NWC) has called for measures to increase the number of women in politics, including the introduction of gender quotas of 40% for local elections. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

J.Koebler & E.Maiberg (404 Media) on how hundreds of AI-generated influencers are stealing videos from models and adult content creators, giving them AI-generated faces, and monetizing their bodies with links to dating sites, Patreon, OnlyFans competitors, and AI apps. www.wired.com/story/ai-pim...

New volume of Global LGBTQ Health co-edited by @drmichellekaufman.bsky.social. This #OAbook is the first-known book to date that comprehensively covers global LGBTQ health Free download: bit.ly/4940e0B

Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them in the same week that it changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are 'mentally ill'. www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

Latest publication by Prof. Debbie Ging, lecturer on the MA in Gender and Sexuality Studies at DCU, on bystanding and sexual violence workshops in England, Ireland and Canada, led by Jessica Ringrose with Kaitlynn Mendes, Betsy Milne, Tanya Horeck and Faye Mishna. www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

We were incredibly privileged to have Prof. Jack Halberstam deliver a powerful and inspiring lecture yesterday on 'Anarchitecture After Everything', hosted by EROSS@DCU and the new DCU Institute for Research on Genders and Sexualities @magendersexuality.bsky.social

Arts Council announces two new writers-in-residence for DCU. Réaltán Ní Leannáin and Sarah Gilmartin join YPCE Artists-in-Residence Dave Rudden and The Ark for 2024/’25. Read: launch.dcu.ie/40EUKre

👇A great looking forum! Excited to see Rice's Carly Thomsen here🦉

Remembering Dolores Lynch and her dreams of safety and respect for Dublin’s “street girls”: Lynch stood up to pimps and gardaí, fought stigma and campaigned, calling for respect, equality and safety for sex workers. She was murdered in 1983. dublininquirer.com/2...