Jennifer Schweppe
@jschweppe.bsky.social
Professor of Law, Co-Director European Centre for the Study of Hate, University of Limerick. Mammy of 3; Rescuer of plants from clearance sections of garden centres; Eurovision fan. Typically either over- or under-caffeinated.
The PSA from our school on the presidential election was perfection #speirgorm #aras25
October 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The PSA from our school on the presidential election was perfection #speirgorm #aras25
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FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT. Thank you @eimermcauley.bsky.social
🗣️ "Are we going to have a conversation, on the level that you are about deportations here, about the crisis of male violence against women in this country?” - News Correspondent, The Journal Eimer McAuley
#TonightVMTV
#TonightVMTV
October 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT. Thank you @eimermcauley.bsky.social
“Hate speech loads the gun before violence pulls the trigger”. Inspiring call to action by the Permanent Representative of Malta to the Council of Europe, Francesca Camilleri Vettiger at the opening of No Hate Speech week in Strasbourg.
June 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“Hate speech loads the gun before violence pulls the trigger”. Inspiring call to action by the Permanent Representative of Malta to the Council of Europe, Francesca Camilleri Vettiger at the opening of No Hate Speech week in Strasbourg.
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🧵 Were you one of those straight Irish people dancing in the streets, after the same sex marriage referendum?
Time to start campaigning again. This time so that trans adults & kids get timely & best practise healthcare.
Scarily the HSE has signed up to the widely dismissed & inhumane UK model [1]
Time to start campaigning again. This time so that trans adults & kids get timely & best practise healthcare.
Scarily the HSE has signed up to the widely dismissed & inhumane UK model [1]
‘It left me traumatised’: The barriers to accessing transgender healthcare in Ireland
The HSE has admitted that transgender healthcare is ‘limited’ and is ‘not meeting people’s full range of needs’.
www.thejournal.ie
April 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🧵 Were you one of those straight Irish people dancing in the streets, after the same sex marriage referendum?
Time to start campaigning again. This time so that trans adults & kids get timely & best practise healthcare.
Scarily the HSE has signed up to the widely dismissed & inhumane UK model [1]
Time to start campaigning again. This time so that trans adults & kids get timely & best practise healthcare.
Scarily the HSE has signed up to the widely dismissed & inhumane UK model [1]
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I can attest to this being the norm with the HSE. I don't know a single trans person who trusts the NGS. And from what I hear, plans are to make it even worse.
#Speirgorm
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
#Speirgorm
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
‘It left me traumatised’: The barriers to accessing transgender healthcare in Ireland
The HSE has admitted that transgender healthcare is ‘limited’ and is ‘not meeting people’s full range of needs’.
www.thejournal.ie
April 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I can attest to this being the norm with the HSE. I don't know a single trans person who trusts the NGS. And from what I hear, plans are to make it even worse.
#Speirgorm
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
#Speirgorm
www.thejournal.ie/investigates...
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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
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www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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
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www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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GDPR, gender identity & why the UKSC decision doesn’t apply to Ireland... “… without coming undone from the principles of data protection, the UK state can't lawfully take actions to process people's gender data in a way that ignores their lived experience in favour of their gender status at birth.”
New Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
An unusually long Gist on the data protection implications of the UK Supreme Court's decision to define what is the meaning of the word 'woman' in a single UK Act.
(Also: the CJEU, colonialism, Joyce's Ulysses and Sinn Féin)
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
The Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.
www.thegist.ie
April 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
GDPR, gender identity & why the UKSC decision doesn’t apply to Ireland... “… without coming undone from the principles of data protection, the UK state can't lawfully take actions to process people's gender data in a way that ignores their lived experience in favour of their gender status at birth.”
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“Thousands of trans rights protesters gathered in central London on Saturday, days after the U.K.'s Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female & that transgender women are excluded from that legal definition.”
Solidarity is our power. We will make our communities flourish.
Solidarity is our power. We will make our communities flourish.
Thousands gather in London to support trans rights following ruling over definition of woman
Thousands of trans rights protesters gathered in central London, days after the U.K.‘s Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from...
www.independent.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“Thousands of trans rights protesters gathered in central London on Saturday, days after the U.K.'s Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female & that transgender women are excluded from that legal definition.”
Solidarity is our power. We will make our communities flourish.
Solidarity is our power. We will make our communities flourish.
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For anyone finding today and the coming days difficult #itsoknottofeelok #itsgoodtotalk 🫶🏻
#SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGhorm
December 24, 2024 at 10:27 AM
For anyone finding today and the coming days difficult #itsoknottofeelok #itsgoodtotalk 🫶🏻
#SpéirGhorm
#SpéirGhorm
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So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.
December 18, 2024 at 7:41 PM
So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.
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Full submission is 15 pages long and will be released once it's up on the NICF website.
December 19, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Full submission is 15 pages long and will be released once it's up on the NICF website.
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"...You know what I think is reprehensible? Seeing the scale of civilian deaths that we’ve seen in Gaza. You know what I think is reprehensible? People being left to starve and humanitarian aid not flowing."
2/2
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
2/2
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Ireland will not be silenced by Israel over criticism of Gaza war, PM says
Simon Harris accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of using decision to close embassy as ‘diplomacy of distraction’
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2024 at 7:39 PM
"...You know what I think is reprehensible? Seeing the scale of civilian deaths that we’ve seen in Gaza. You know what I think is reprehensible? People being left to starve and humanitarian aid not flowing."
2/2
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
2/2
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third… ”
Judith Butler on throwing the Trans community under the bus. english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
Judith Butler on throwing the Trans community under the bus. english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:58 AM
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third… ”
Judith Butler on throwing the Trans community under the bus. english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
Judith Butler on throwing the Trans community under the bus. english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
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Ok, time for an explainer on trans health care for kids, and how it's changed over the years.
First, and if you're reading me, I'm sure you already know this, but this is for the kids in the back...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TRANS SURGERIES ON KIDS. PERIOD.
First, and if you're reading me, I'm sure you already know this, but this is for the kids in the back...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TRANS SURGERIES ON KIDS. PERIOD.
December 11, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Ok, time for an explainer on trans health care for kids, and how it's changed over the years.
First, and if you're reading me, I'm sure you already know this, but this is for the kids in the back...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TRANS SURGERIES ON KIDS. PERIOD.
First, and if you're reading me, I'm sure you already know this, but this is for the kids in the back...
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TRANS SURGERIES ON KIDS. PERIOD.
A great reminder to support independent journalism - a lovely holiday gift for the person that literally has everything!
Okay, the end of the year is in sight, so maybe it’s a good time for us to tell you about our financials, here at Dublin Inquirer HQ at the Digital Hub on Thomas Street in Dublin 8. We ask for transparency from others, so some transparency from us is good too, right? 1/
December 11, 2024 at 1:20 PM
A great reminder to support independent journalism - a lovely holiday gift for the person that literally has everything!
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My 17 year old had a GP visit this morning. We popped into the chemist in our small border town on the way, to pick up his injection. The delivery was late so the lovely pharmacy staff rang around the other pharmacies,found one that had it and one of them ran down the street to borrow it.(1/4)
December 11, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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Our extremely rural school is part of the pilot for hot school lunches - brilliant in theory but they are provided in plastic containers that go straight in the recycling bin. That’s 90 plastic containers every day from our small school - this must be part of the evaluation programme.
The hot food programme for schools "needs to be evaluated," according to the HSE’s National Clinical Lead for Obesity.
School hot meals need evaluation, says HSE obesity lead
The hot food programme for schools "needs to be evaluated," according to the HSE's National Clinical Lead for Obesity.
www.rte.ie
December 10, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Our extremely rural school is part of the pilot for hot school lunches - brilliant in theory but they are provided in plastic containers that go straight in the recycling bin. That’s 90 plastic containers every day from our small school - this must be part of the evaluation programme.
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Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.
December 5, 2024 at 3:59 AM
Trans folks held a dance party in the Capitol bathroom to protest the bathroom ban on there.
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The European Federation of Journalists will stop publishing content on Elon Musk’s XTwitter.
EFJ said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda”
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
EFJ said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda”
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:38 PM
The European Federation of Journalists will stop publishing content on Elon Musk’s XTwitter.
EFJ said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda”
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
EFJ said it can “no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda”
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
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For the #SpeirGorm & #Spéirghrom fans 👇🏻
This feed pulls in both #speirgorm and the more accurate #spéirghorm spelling for general Irish zeitgeist posts.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Using #IrishPolitics or #IrishPol might be a good idea... I wonder what the consensus will arrive at
#GE24
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Using #IrishPolitics or #IrishPol might be a good idea... I wonder what the consensus will arrive at
#GE24
December 2, 2024 at 12:03 PM
For the #SpeirGorm & #Spéirghrom fans 👇🏻
Kids enjoying the electoral process, and have a healthy appreciation of PRSTV. Wouldn’t it be lovely to see a woman elected in Limerick county some decade… #GE24
November 30, 2024 at 5:44 PM
Kids enjoying the electoral process, and have a healthy appreciation of PRSTV. Wouldn’t it be lovely to see a woman elected in Limerick county some decade… #GE24
