Can’t believe 4 men experts were asked about reproductive responsibility when the bulk of labour, time off work and caring for kids still falls to women. One of the most expensive rates for childcare in Europe. There is a tax on women who have children. It’s 2025! @jeremyvine.bsky.social

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

By End Deportations Belfast - The Proscription Of Palestine Action: Double Standards Laid Bare.

The law and policing were invented to mind property and land - not mind people and the environment. It’s gross 🤢

Love to see it!

A Tennessee woman was denied prenatal care by her doctor because she is "unwed." Let's be clear: the Republican agenda is not pro-life or pro-family. If it were, pregnant women wouldn't be forced to flee their home states to get basic prenatal care.

What is the point of negotiating anything with these people? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/h...

Urgent support needed 👇👇

“The whole game for Jonathan Mitchell is to get into federal court, both because he wants to shut down doctors in shield-law states, like everyone in the anti-abortion movement, and because he wants a federal court to weigh in on the Comstock Act.”

My favourite story about the mace is that Bernadette McAliskey wanted to thwack the then British Home Secretary with it when he lied about the state killing of innocent civilians in Bloody Sunday - but she didn’t think she could lift it so she slapped him instead. #notallheroeswearcapes

@womensaidni.bsky.social We stand with Women's Aid in expressing our sympathies with the family and loved ones of Vanessa Whyte and her children. Vanessa is the 28th adult women to be murdered in NI since 2020.

Remember to tell friends and colleagues - esp if they work with potential abortion seekers, Stanton are NOT an abortion clinic. They are closely affiliated with Precious Life and funded by an anti-abortion organisation in USA with the same name. @corporatewatch.bsky.social @enddbelfast.bsky.social

It’s time our health department did something about this. The struck off doctor was investigated for spreading misinformation about Covid, yet it’s somehow fine to spread misinformation about abortion

Excellent piece by @ismiseliam.bsky.social in today's @belfasttelegraph.co.uk on Stanton, a rogue anti-abortion 'clinic' targeting migrants & refugees with “emotionally manipulative” tactics including telling service users they were “killing” or “murdering” their child. With global far-right ..[1/2]

Alliance for Choice, @enddbelfast.bsky.social and @corporatewatch.bsky.social have launched a new report today on Stanton Healthcare Belfast, which is part of a network of dark-money funded, Christian-right, anti-abortion centres operating internationally. corporatewatch.org/stanton-belf...

End Deportations Belfast, @all4choice.bsky.social and @corporatewatch.bsky.social have joined forces to uncover some of the shady links and dark money connected to Stanton Healthcare Belfast, a rogue ‘crisis pregnancy’ centre that’s been operating in the north of Ireland since 2016. [1/3]

🚨NEW REPORT OUT NOW🚨 with @all4choice.bsky.social and @enddbelfast.bsky.social Rogue health clinic, Stanton Healthcare Belfast, is part of a network of anti-abortion centres in the US - backed by dark money - that are targeting vulnerable women locally. corporatewatch.org/stanton-belf...

Starmer saying he lost his grip on the welfare issue cos he was distracted by foreign policy. When did a Labour leader need to be reminded not to fuck over people with disabilities?!?!?

'Speaking at Saturday's anti-racism rally at Belfast City Hall, Helen Crickard from Reclaim the Agenda said it was about education not violence. "We are disgusted violence against women and girls is being used in this way," she said.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This unresolved horror show is why the general approach of political unionism to loyalist fronted racist mobs claiming migrants and Muslims are a threat to children, is tacit complicity. The alarm is coming from inside the house guys so stop trying to drown it out and fucking do something about it.

"...the guards approach people who aren't white and demand ID. If they can't produce it they're taken off the bus, while white passengers aren't." [Since 2019] "We've never heard of a white person being taken off the bus." #Racism #Ireland

I'm not saying policing is easy but this does not strike me as being either human rights compliant or trauma-informed. The impact of police standing by & letting terrorist mobs destroy people's homes is catastrophic for human rights, equality, personal safety & dignity. @policeserviceni.bsky.social

The people in power will try their hardest to maintain this status quo always. Anyone who tries to challenge it won’t make it to power.

Honest to god I feel like we are hours away from another atrocity similar to the Quinn boys who were killed when their house was set alight by loyalists who wer whipped up into a hate filled frenzy. We know how this ends

The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

The Freedom Flotilla sailing toward Gaza is not just carrying life-saving aid. It is carrying solidarity, hope and our shared humanity.

Watch this beautiful 30 min mini documentary by the OU How art and artists changed the conversation around #BodilyAutonomy across the island of Ireland A wave of possibility generated by making noise, being cheeky, and reclaiming public space with fun and pleasure! www.open.edu/openlearn/wh...

Imagine fleeing a country where your identity is criminalised, only to face doubt, discrimination & danger in the UK, where you should be safe. That's the reality for far too many sanctuary seekers. This #PrideMonth let's fight for dignity & freedom for all LGBTQ+ people seeking asylum.

A new report 'calls for a repeal of the two-child limit, the adoption of a self-certification model for survivors and improved practitioner training and awareness.' www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

"Three doctors have been charged over the death of a pregnant woman, named only as Dorota, while she was in hospital under their care." notesfrompoland.com/2025/05/30/d...

“Not a single party is standing up for working class people and Reform offers nothing but division. No plan for the NHS. No plan for transport. No answer to the cost of living crisis. If we want change, we need to come together and demand it.” drjogrady.bsky.social on BBC Question Time tonight.

Out today open access - such a brillaint team to work with for the research and my first ever taking part in a systematic review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

If you see this, post the most recent photo of yourself from your camera roll.

She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.’ Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work ‘The Slapper’ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

It is deeply weird that only after a sustained years-long campaign to deprive trans people of every right enjoyed by cis people did the Guardian ask someone from a womens' refuge if they had ever had problems resulting from trans women using their services & got the reply 'Never, in fifteen years"

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

This one made me laugh today

cis people you can just do this you can make it impossible for them to police any of this and all it will take is a trans flag badge

Thousands of people rallied in London and Edinburgh in support of trans rights, after a landmark UK court ruling on the definition of a woman

Share this image far and wide Whilst innocent people protested for trans rights, cops were using facial recognition cameras on the crowd in busses. Is this the society we want to live in.

"A Palestinian artist and photojournalist who is the protagonist of a documentary due to premiere in Cannes in May has been killed in an Israeli air strike. Fatima Hassouna died with nine members of her family in a direct strike on their home in Gaza City on Wednesday."

So, if you see any Britain-fixated Irish politician or columnist suggest that yesterday’s U.K. Supreme Court’s decision should be followed here, you may point out that Ireland’s legal system recognises the CJEU, not the U.K. SC, as its superior court.

1,075 articles attacking trans people from the Times, Telegraph, Mail and Guardian/Observer in the space of 365 days. They've been doing joyous spite relentlessly for years.

My speech to council a few weeks ago talking about Trans day of Visibility. I suppose my comments are much more apt today in light of the supreme court's decision this week. Trans people exist in our society, their lives and experiences matter, and we need to consider that in the days ahead.

Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism. Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism. The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.

Yesterday the Supreme Court said (having refused to hear from any trans people): "this interpretation would not be disadvantageous to or remove protection from trans people with or without a GRC." Today. Trans women - and gender non conforming cis women - are now going to be 'frisked' by men. 👇🏻

U.K. Gov abuse of people they should have protected. ‘A Syrian woman arrived in the UK with her husband & 5 young children, but when her husband complained about conditions at Manston he was removed from the site and placed in an immigration detention centre. ‘ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...