naoise murphy
@naoisemurphy.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester
Collecting mid-twentieth-century fictional dykes - send tips
www.naoisemurphy.com
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queering-twentieth-century-irish-women-s-writing.html
Collecting mid-twentieth-century fictional dykes - send tips
www.naoisemurphy.com
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queering-twentieth-century-irish-women-s-writing.html
My book is coming out soon and you can ask your library to order it! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queerin...
If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚
If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚
Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing
Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My book is coming out soon and you can ask your library to order it! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queerin...
If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚
If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚
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ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.
October 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.
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#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...
October 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...
Use this tool to contact the relevant government officials and foreign offices, demanding they protect their citizens on the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza - it couldn't be easier
globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...
globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...
Official Contacts - By Country - Global Movement to Gaza
globalsumudflotilla.org
October 2, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Use this tool to contact the relevant government officials and foreign offices, demanding they protect their citizens on the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza - it couldn't be easier
globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...
globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...
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📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
October 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
📣 Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds need your help!
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
🏊♀️ 🏊🏊♂️
They’ve always been firmly trans-inclusive, but now this is under threat.
Please respond to their consultation to show how much public support there is for trans-inclusive arrangements.
hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...
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Large protests and growing labour strikes across the globe in response to the illegal seizure of the Global Sumud Flotilla last night.
Protests tonight starting 5:30pm across London's major train stations.
Solidarity with the people of Gaza! Break the siege!
Protests tonight starting 5:30pm across London's major train stations.
Solidarity with the people of Gaza! Break the siege!
October 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Large protests and growing labour strikes across the globe in response to the illegal seizure of the Global Sumud Flotilla last night.
Protests tonight starting 5:30pm across London's major train stations.
Solidarity with the people of Gaza! Break the siege!
Protests tonight starting 5:30pm across London's major train stations.
Solidarity with the people of Gaza! Break the siege!
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@networkgender.bsky.social (FGEN)’s statement about Newnham College excluding trans women from its scholarships.
FGEN Statement on Newnham College Transphobic Fellowship Announcement - Feminist Gender Equality Network
On behalf of our membership, the Feminist Gender Equality Network (FGEN) condemns Newnham College for advertising an explicitly trans-exclusionary Research Fellowship Award. The decision by Newnham Co...
feministgenderequality.network
August 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
@networkgender.bsky.social (FGEN)’s statement about Newnham College excluding trans women from its scholarships.
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@newnhamcollege.bsky.social has adopted a transphobic policy, excluding trans women from
its research fellowship competition.
Firstly, boycott this competition and tell everyone else to
Secondly, write to them to persuade them to reconsider.
The principal’s address is principal@newn.cam.ac.uk
its research fellowship competition.
Firstly, boycott this competition and tell everyone else to
Secondly, write to them to persuade them to reconsider.
The principal’s address is principal@newn.cam.ac.uk
The @newnhamcollege.bsky.social research fellowship competition is now open - if you're a woman looking for a 3-year postdoc in one of this year's subjects (see next post), please apply! Our research fellows bring so much to the life of the college & get great support. newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
Research Fellowships
newn.cam.ac.uk
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
@newnhamcollege.bsky.social has adopted a transphobic policy, excluding trans women from
its research fellowship competition.
Firstly, boycott this competition and tell everyone else to
Secondly, write to them to persuade them to reconsider.
The principal’s address is principal@newn.cam.ac.uk
its research fellowship competition.
Firstly, boycott this competition and tell everyone else to
Secondly, write to them to persuade them to reconsider.
The principal’s address is principal@newn.cam.ac.uk
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Absolutely grim to see Newnham College actively complying in advance with the Supreme Court ruling, but you could tell they were Like This since forever with demanding GRCs from any trans women who applied.
Won't end here.
Won't end here.
The @newnhamcollege.bsky.social research fellowship competition is now open - if you're a woman looking for a 3-year postdoc in one of this year's subjects (see next post), please apply! Our research fellows bring so much to the life of the college & get great support. newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
Research Fellowships
newn.cam.ac.uk
August 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Absolutely grim to see Newnham College actively complying in advance with the Supreme Court ruling, but you could tell they were Like This since forever with demanding GRCs from any trans women who applied.
Won't end here.
Won't end here.
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super happy that my article on Race Today and the Imperial Typewriters strike is out now and open access in @ersjournal.com!
doi.org/10.1080/0141...
doi.org/10.1080/0141...
Black struggles, black workers? Race Today and the 1974 Imperial Typewriters strike
In May 1974, around 500 ‘Ugandan Asian’ workers walked out of Leicester’s Imperial Typewriters factory. For the recently formed Race Today Collective (RTC), which published the radical journal Race...
doi.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
super happy that my article on Race Today and the Imperial Typewriters strike is out now and open access in @ersjournal.com!
doi.org/10.1080/0141...
doi.org/10.1080/0141...
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An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
docs.google.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
indexing is boring so here are the most fun/incongruous pairings that the alphabet is throwing up for me (my book is weird)
July 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
indexing is boring so here are the most fun/incongruous pairings that the alphabet is throwing up for me (my book is weird)
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👉We need to hear from you so we can record incidents of racial profiling by police officers on 'cross-border' public transport within the The Common Travel Area which is an open borders area comprising the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands.
👇See thread
👇See thread
November 16, 2024 at 12:54 PM
👉We need to hear from you so we can record incidents of racial profiling by police officers on 'cross-border' public transport within the The Common Travel Area which is an open borders area comprising the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands.
👇See thread
👇See thread
Celebrating Refugee Week and Pride with a beautiful free festival in Bethnal Green on Sunday - book a ticket here and join us! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✨🌷https://www.outsavvy.com/event/27411/queer-migrant-pride-fest-2025
June 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Celebrating Refugee Week and Pride with a beautiful free festival in Bethnal Green on Sunday - book a ticket here and join us! 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈✨🌷https://www.outsavvy.com/event/27411/queer-migrant-pride-fest-2025
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new blog! on why everyone is obsessed with the idea of the white working-class northern man!
this continues to be depressingly relevant with reform in the ascendant, starmer's 'island of strangers' and blue labour's attacks on EDI 🙃🙃🙃
blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...
this continues to be depressingly relevant with reform in the ascendant, starmer's 'island of strangers' and blue labour's attacks on EDI 🙃🙃🙃
blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...
The myth of the white working-class Northern man
By Saskia Papadakis, Royal Holloway, University of London In 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair dismissed the English North-South divide as a ‘myth’. Calling the North-South divide ‘simplistic’, he po…
blog.geographydirections.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
new blog! on why everyone is obsessed with the idea of the white working-class northern man!
this continues to be depressingly relevant with reform in the ascendant, starmer's 'island of strangers' and blue labour's attacks on EDI 🙃🙃🙃
blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...
this continues to be depressingly relevant with reform in the ascendant, starmer's 'island of strangers' and blue labour's attacks on EDI 🙃🙃🙃
blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...
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I made a new zine! It's full of advice on how allies can work alongside trans people to take action in the current moment, lovingly cut-and-pasted over the words of my enemies. Plus lots of nice pictures and memes.
Available as a free PDF! Read online or print your own copy! Share with everyone!
Available as a free PDF! Read online or print your own copy! Share with everyone!
PDF zine: But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic
This is the latest version of a zine I have distributed at wormboys gigs over the last couple of years. I’ve recently updated it to address recent events, including the April 2025 Supreme Cou…
ruthpearce.net
May 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I made a new zine! It's full of advice on how allies can work alongside trans people to take action in the current moment, lovingly cut-and-pasted over the words of my enemies. Plus lots of nice pictures and memes.
Available as a free PDF! Read online or print your own copy! Share with everyone!
Available as a free PDF! Read online or print your own copy! Share with everyone!
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Oxford's BDS pledge - following the principles of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel - now has nearly 250 signatures. If you work (or are a research student) at Oxford or one of its colleges, you can sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
University of Oxford Staff and Research Students Commit to the BDS Movement for Palestine
Published April 2025
As signatories of this pledge, we form a collective of staff and research students at the University of Oxford and its constituent Colleges who individually commit to the terms of...
docs.google.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Oxford's BDS pledge - following the principles of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel - now has nearly 250 signatures. If you work (or are a research student) at Oxford or one of its colleges, you can sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Today! Oxford people, see you there!
Looking forward to hosting some absolutely brilliant thinkers next week in Oxford, on a topic that only seems to get more and more urgent. All welcome - please share with comrades and friends!
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-cr...
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-cr...
Why Critiques of Gay Imperialism Still Matter
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
May 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Today! Oxford people, see you there!
want to read something very smart about the North-South divide and some of the many ways in which this country is completely fucked? read this!
It's out! It's here! My first ever journal article 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' is out today with @tibg.bsky.social 🤩
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by L...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
want to read something very smart about the North-South divide and some of the many ways in which this country is completely fucked? read this!
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#OtD 13 May 2021 local residents in Glasgow won the release of two people who had been detained by immigration officers by surrounding the vehicle and blockading it for several hours stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8509/glasgow-deportat...
May 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
#OtD 13 May 2021 local residents in Glasgow won the release of two people who had been detained by immigration officers by surrounding the vehicle and blockading it for several hours stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8509/glasgow-deportat...
Looking forward to hosting some absolutely brilliant thinkers next week in Oxford, on a topic that only seems to get more and more urgent. All welcome - please share with comrades and friends!
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-cr...
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-cr...
Why Critiques of Gay Imperialism Still Matter
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
May 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Looking forward to hosting some absolutely brilliant thinkers next week in Oxford, on a topic that only seems to get more and more urgent. All welcome - please share with comrades and friends!
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-cr...
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-cr...
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I have just signed the open letter "Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia" in response to the recent hateful and harmful Supreme Court ruling
I hope others will too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I hope others will too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia
We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement:
‘Not In Our Name’
We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...
docs.google.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I have just signed the open letter "Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia" in response to the recent hateful and harmful Supreme Court ruling
I hope others will too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I hope others will too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
sign this before 7pm today please
Trans people in the UK are (finally) getting organized!
This letter, started by a single passionate ally, has garnered nearly 1000 signatures in just a few days.
Now, two trans rights orgs are throwing their weight behind it, demanding MPs act
Sign it. Share it.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This letter, started by a single passionate ally, has garnered nearly 1000 signatures in just a few days.
Now, two trans rights orgs are throwing their weight behind it, demanding MPs act
Sign it. Share it.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Re Operation of Single-Sex Services after the Supreme Court Ruling
Explainer: FGEN (feministgenderequality.network) and TransActual (transactual.org.uk) have thrown their support behind this letter and want to make it an official petition for a face to face meeting ...
docs.google.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
sign this before 7pm today please