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MA in Gender and Sexuality Studies @ Dublin City University
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Explore and analyse cultural, artistic and social expressions of sexual orientation and gender identity from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
Applications are now open:
https://www.dcu.ie/courses/postgraduate/salis/ma-gender-and-sexuality-studies
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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
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This new guided LGBTQIA+ tour at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks views the exhibitions through alternative lenses, bringing some hidden histories and perspectives to the fore. Focusing on objects and individuals from the 17th to the 21st century, the tour reveals a wide variety of identities, genders and sexualities along the way.
May 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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.
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Intersex Insights | School of Nursing, Psychotherapy & Community Health
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May 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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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.
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Illustration of new camogie uniforms suggested by fashion designer Neillí Mulcahy (1969) on display at the GAA: People, Objects & Stories exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks. © National Museum of Ireland Maeve Gilroy's tweed camogie dress that she wore playing for Antrim in the 1960s (DT:2023.11) © National Museum of Ireland on display at the GAA: People, Objects & Stories exhibition at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks. © National Museum of Ireland
May 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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:
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Apply by: April 30, 2025
PsyHuman Summer School of Psychology and the Humanities
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April 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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The TITE film festival arrives to @lighthousecinema.bsky.social in April.

Check out our programme preview:
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poster for the Trans Image Trans Experience Film Festival April 25-27 2025 at Light House Cinema. @titefilmfest, tite.ie. Two people look off uncertainly mid-embrace.
March 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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
April 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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📣 Apply to the TEPSA Academy & Skills Lab today❗

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March 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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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
March 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson
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The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson

'Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.'

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The Gender of Sound by Anne Carson
Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine idea...
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March 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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
Postgraduate Open Day - March 2025 | Student Recruitment
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March 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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.
February 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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...
February 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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.
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February 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We are looking forward to this important talk by Dr. Jilly Boyce Kay from Loughborough University on 27th February in UCD.
February 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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 olga.springer@dcu.ie)

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February 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Warmest congratulations to Ailbhe Smyth on being awarded the prestigious Légion d’Honneur by the Embassy of France in Ireland!

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Feminist and LGBTQ+ activist Ailbhe Smyth receives prestigious award from French Ambassador
The Ambassador of France to Ireland, Céline Place, presented Ailbhe Smyth with the Legion of Honour award on February 7.
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February 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“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, ...
February 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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.
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Wrong Women - Dubray Books
A feminist history of Europe's largest red-light district and an examination of the lives of the women who worked there. Tucked away in Dublin's north inner city, Monto - purported to be Europe's bigg...
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February 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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.

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Redefining Masculinities for Boys: Beyond Male Role Modelling in Cultivating Healthy Identities
In the wake of the Australian Royal Commission into Family Violence, the imperative to prevent gendered violence has gained significant attention in policy and research. The National Plan (2022-203...
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February 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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.

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February 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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.

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‘It’s 2025 not 1955’: Just six women appointed Ministers of State while FF’s Robert Troy handed ministerial return
Jerry Buttimer appointed Minister of State with Robert Troy also making a ministerial comeback
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February 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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...
Inside the Booming ‘AI Pimping’ Industry
AI-generated influencers based on stolen images of real-life adult content creators are flooding social media.
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January 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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
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Global LGBTQ Health
This open access textbook examines LGBTQ health through global and comparative perspectives across diverse regional and country contexts.
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January 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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'.
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Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
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January 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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...
Postdigital Bystanding: Youth Experiences of Sexual Violence Workshops in Schools in England, Ireland, and Canada
In this paper, we report on creative- and arts-based sexual violence and bystander intervention workshops we developed and researched in England, Ireland, and Canada, through evaluation surveys, obser...
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January 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM