Our final paper from the WHO Abortion Policy Implementation Study which I led, is now published! “Restrictive points of entry” applies a reproductive justice framework to look at the compounding effects of barriers to
#abortionaccess
[1]
In March last year
@ErinPritchard15
& i edited a book & it was published. Today, it is now unpublished, it has been silenced &we have received a reversion of rights. Im proud of this collection, of everyone who wrote a chapter, the bravery of every single author. We will be back.
@Shehla_Rashid
Yes! However, Brahmanism is not kind to upper-caste women who transgress the norms of sexual morality encoded in caste endogamy. It shouldn't come as a surprise that she's being targeted by the family of her deceased partner's family who've now unleashed a lynch mob on her
Done done done! Defended my PhD thesis today. Many thanks to
@WendyHarcourt3
and Prof. Kathleen James-Chakraborti for their thoughtful engagement with my thesis.
@sini_malesevic
for his support throughout my journey and
@DecolonialUCD
Alice, for her love, support &encouragement
I can’t believe but Karan Johar’s done liberal feminism better in Rocky and Rani than Greta Gerwig in Barbie! I can’t believe how underwhelming the latter is!
My f***ing god! This whole pronunciation policing is so outrageous at so many levels!! As someone who does have experience teaching, I simply can’t imagine literally insulting a student in front of others!
It was an Irish man, Mark Hennessy, who abducted and murdered Justine Valdez in 2018. It was 2 Irish lads who almost blinded 17 year old Alana Quinn just two weeks ago! No coordinated large-scale national protests/vigils for these tragedies!
#AshlingMurphy
Theory is often assumed to be abstract: something is more theoretical the more abstract it is, the more it is abstracted from everyday life. To abstract is to drag away, detach, pull away or divert. We might then have to drag theory back, to bring theory back to life-
@SaraNAhmed
"How did Stan Swamy die? Why is that when Umar Khalid, Meeran Haider, Khalid Saifi criticised the govt it was turned into a criticism of the country?" - Rajya Sabha MP
@manojkjhadu
I've started interviewing women in the Derry/Donegal area. I would love to hear from women from im/migrant backgrounds about their experience of living along the UK/Irish border. Please feel free to reach out to me over the next couple of days.
📢 Are you a woman who lives near the border on the island of Ireland? Do you cross the border on a regular basis?
@niall_gilmartin
(
@UlsterUni
)
@dyutich
& I (
@UCC
) are conducting research on women's experiences of living near the border and we are looking for participants.
Very excited that our first co-authored paper with
@DecolonialUCD
and
@penn_emm
on pluriversalising the feminist scholarship on respectability politics is now published with the Journal of International Women's Studies. here's the link to our article
I wonder if the decolonial theorists would have given up on it if they knew how some that vocabulary was lending itself to a hopeless and in some cases a violent misleading search for a mythical 'prestine' precolonial - India being a case in point.
The dangers of the failure of the ‘decolonial turn’ to address the question around the nature of solidarities signaled by its rejection of universalism.
#AfghanistanBurning
Had 3 separate discussions about
#AfghanistanBurning
situation with fellow PhD candidates & each led to someone saying ‘But one can also see the Taliban situation through a decolonizing lens’. Reminding myself it’s impolite to slap people & seriously considering quitting my PhD.
This brown woman can vouch for
@alfgunvald
‘s language skills and scholarship (maybe read a book first before deciding to review or not. Oh wait, facts don’t matter when you slander someone 🤷🏽♂️)
On a serious note, this is why south Asian studies is such a toxic cesspit.
Extremely encouraging to see CPIML's electoral performance in
#BiharElections2020
Rajdeep Sardesai may say what he wants, there IS an increasing appetite for Left politics in India!
@RanaAyyub
not only student leaders, agricultural workers, trade union leaders. The one with the highest margin till now among our candidates is Rambali Singh Yadav, who is leading on Ghoshi by more than 15000 votes.
Flights booked! Looking forward, yet nervous, to travel back to see family in December. Would love to know more about traveling via Heathrow during
#Covid_19
Certain identities (Muslim, Irish nationalist, male) have more potential for violence than others (Amish, Scottish nationalist, female). Must call out extremists but accept moderates.
'Abortion policy implementation in Ireland: Lessons from the community model of care' led by
@JoannaMishtal
, our PI for the WHO policy implementation study, is finally published with
#PLOSONE
. Congratulations to co-authors
@reeves_karli
@lorraine_grimes
Spoke about the competing interests between data collection and archiving protocols, especially while navigating tight project time frames at UCC Library’s Conference on Data Papers and OA Humanities Data today
#OpenAccess
Happy to report that it’s done! In fact it was done before I realized! God! The nurse was so kind when I told her how scared I am of needles!
#ForUsAll
An important lesson for most EDI initiatives across universities that are happy to use our broucherable brown and black faces but do little to mitigate the challenges we face at third level education!
So this is a good time to repeat:
1. Decolonisation is a PRACTICE not a THING
2. Decolonisation is not diversity though diversity is valuable
3. Decolonisation means precisely DOING the work yourself
What a brilliant lecture by
@YashicaDutt
on the rather quiet salience of caste and caste supremacy within the South Asian diaspora and their cultural productions like “Indian Matchmaking” and very visibly so, in Mindy Kaling’s “Never Have I Ever” (which in my opinion was garbage)
A fantastic talk where Prof. Ghosh concludes by noting the entanglements between patriarchy and neoliberalism and says 'we cannot fight patriarchy without fighting neoliberalism and neoliberalism will not survive without patriarchy'
"There's a widespread misconception that neoliberalism is when the state withdraws, leaving the economy to markets. This is wrong. The state doesn't withdraw. It's as active as ever. It's active in preserving and reinforcing the interests of large capital." -
@Jayati1609
🚨
@BernieSanders
was discrediting the use of genocide to describe what the Israelis are doing to Palestinians saying the word made him “queasy” … and he was shamed for it in Ireland yesterday.
🩸The protesters accused Mr Sanders of being a
#genocide
denier.
He was on a book
Further affirms wht I knw of UCD’s architecture of stifling student activism! Always happy to hv the UCDSU act as a managerial conduit btwn the students & the University Management Team bt violently remove their presence when the SU President rightly raises voice against [1/
I was thrown out with excessive force from Nancy Pelosi's honorary doctorate of law
@ucddublin
earlier today for representing the views of students as
@UCDSU
President. Why does UCD continue to platform Zionist warmongers whilst silencing students?
We are looking forward to organising the first Irish working-class studies conference in Dublin, later this year! We are now accepting abstracts for the same. Please consider sending us a description of your intended contributions.
@ucdsociology
@Soc_Assoc_Ire
We are so excited to announce the first Irish working-class studies conference taking place on the 12th & 13th November 2021 in Dublin, Ireland. See our call for papers below. For more information visit or get in touch at irelandworkingclass
@gmail
.com
Paul also spoke about asylum seekers having to go through the circuitous routes of travel to attend appointments in Dublin from Donegal
#sharetheisland
Paul Kernan, Donegal Intercultural Platform, tells conference about the fact there is no non-denominational cemetery in Donegal. When someone of Muslim background died in Donegal, they had to be buried in Derry. Some family members could not travel to pay respects
#sharetheisland
@ProfSunnySingh
So much of it reminds me of the Rebellion of 1857, including the exaggerated picture of violence against British women and children, instrumentalised to justify vicious and indiscriminate British reprisals.
God! Love this!!
@AntiCasualUcd
@UCDSU
we should get some drums and make some more noise next time! In the meantime, more power to comrades across the Irish Sea!
#EndPrecarity
Looking forward, however nervous, to our panel this morning! Feel quite pumped up after the brilliant roundtable chaired by
@EbunJoseph1
and the brilliant keynote speech by
@GKBhambra
If you are in UCD at the moment, come and talk to us. It's time for us to build momentum and work towards fixing the broken system that works for no one in the university!
Holy fuck! It’s not even a dog whistle! It’s outright hate! These clowns in their suits fan racist tension and anti-migrant racism in the country!
#DublinRiots
Some thoughts on the day's events, if I may:
When thousands of people protested peacefully in East Wall, and in other communities across Dublin and the country, their reward was not to be recognised or engaged with for their peaceful political participation.
Their reward was
@saharisright
@AnnOwens_
I'm a PhD candidate in Sociology at University College Dublin. I work on the body politics of respectability and autonomy in contemporary feminist struggles in India and Ireland. I have also worked on reproductive health research in the past.
When we talk about reproductive justice, what do we mean and who does it include? Today marks 9 years since the death of 31-year-old Savita Halappanavar when she was denied a life-saving medical abortion.
The 4 brilliant papers presented at panel 1 a on 'Body and Class' at
#wcsc21
traces the dynamics of governance and claims-making on the bodies of working class women across different geographical landscapes - from menstrual governance as the cornerstone of 'Swachh Bharat', (1/)
I am delighted to have chaired one of the Race and Ethnicity study group panels at the 2023
#SAI50
conference. Congratulations to all speakers with talks on Racislizing legacies at the margins; place and space.
@Soc_Assoc_Ire
“This is a text book case of genocide. The European, ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in Palestine has reached its final stage”, writes the UN High Commissioner
Honest question - What are you (as a foreign citizen living in Ireland) supposed to do in order to find a goddam GP in this country, when every single of the 20 practices you call up say they're full?! Why is healthcare so bad in this country?
I wonder how does this US diplomat look at himself in the mirror, knowing what he has vetoed against?!! The active US complicity in
#GenocideinGaza
is beyond mind boggling!
#CEASEFIRE_NOW
A brilliant, important and urgent plenary addressing the social and structural borders for racialized minorities in the island of Ireland by
@zelieasava
at
#EFACIS2023
conference hosted by
@IrishStudiesQUB