Comrades from across unions and orgs came together this past Saturday for the Feck Fascism Carnival in Dublin. It was great to see so many marching and gathering together to visibly and vocally oppose racism, fascism, transphobia, misogyny, ableism, and all systems of oppression!

🔔☎️ RING RING ☎️🔔 Hello? … Slow down, what's that? … Oh, a new Carantes newsletter has been posted and sent out? … And you can access it on our website linked below? Well now that's a reason to be excited! … Bye, love you too! carantes.org/2025/09/22/s...

It's the 3 year anniversary of Carantes! 'But Cassandra', you say, 'you're so smart and so pretty and so funny, but what IS Carantes??' Well, dear reader, firstly, thank you I really needed that, and secondly, allow me to explain: #celtic #antiracist #antifascist #medieval #academia

With @carantes.bsky.social I've organised a panel at the @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social 40th Anniversary conference, on Celtic Studies and the Contemporary Far-Right. Papers on discourse analysis of far-right Celticism, reading transphobia in medieval Welsh poetry, and Celtic-American fascism.

Our current obsession: Umberto Eco's 'Ur-Fascism'. In 1995, 50 years after the liberation of his native Italy, Eco—medievalist, philosopher, and a fascinating man—published this tract which presents 14 ways to spot a fascist. Now, 30 years later, we will discuss his points in the coming days: (1/)

Also! The next Reading Group Meeting will be this next Tuesday 2nd September from 4–6pm Welsh time. Under discussion is @nahir.bsky.social's The Other Faces of Arthur: Chivalric Whiteness in the Global North Atlantic. More details here: carantes.org/2025/08/27/s...

ICYMI: Our August Newsletter went out last week with the notes from our fruitful Lughnasadh meeting and is now up on our website! Check it out here: carantes.org/2025/08/19/a...

UPCOMING: Lughnasadh public meeting on Sunday, August 3rd from 4:00pm to 6:00pm UTC+1 (British summer time). We will be discussing two articles relative to celticity and constructions of whiteness used for fascist purposes. Email us: [email protected] if you'd like to attend.

Our newsletter for July 2025 is out now: carantes.org/2025/07/21/j... !

Upcoming: Carantes reading group, Friday June 27th, 6pm GMT+1. We will be discussing: Matthew H. Hammond, "Ethnicity and the Writing of Medieval Scottish History" (2006) eprints.gla.ac.uk/2916/ and Coral Lumbley, "Geoffrey of Monmouth and Race" (2020) www.jstor.org/stable/10.11... Email us to RSVP

UPCOMING: Public Beltane Meeting, May 9th 2025 at 6pm UTC+1. We will be discussing Walter Benjamin's seminal essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," but you are welcome even if you've only done part or none of the reading. Email us to RSVP

UPCOMING: Reading group meeting, April 25th at 4pm UK time (GMT+1). Readings are Patrick R. O’Malley’s The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century (2023) and the article ‘Irish Whiteness and the 19th Century Construction of Race’. Email toRSVP

I'm organising a panel at this September 2025 conference in Aberystwyth under the @carantes.bsky.social banner - papers to address egalitarian anti-fascist approaches to Celtic Studies (broadly defined), non-traditional ideas welcome, happy to chat details over DM

UPCOMING: Reading Group meeting, Feb 27th, 7-9pm UTC. We will be discussing Hazel Carby's "What is this 'black' in Irish popular culture" (2001) and Charlotte Williams' "Can we live together? Wales and the multicultural question" (2004). Email (@in bio) for links and to RSVP.

UPCOMING: Imbolc public meeting, Feb 7th 7pm UTC. We'll be discussing Kathleen Belew's "Crunchy to Alt-Right Pipeline" (2022) and Cynthia Eller's "Matriarchy and the Volk" (2012). Email (@in bio) for article links and to RSVP