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Irish Sex Work Research Network (ISWRN)
@iswrn.bsky.social
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We are a platform for those interested in sex work and sexual governance scholarship within the island of Ireland.
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iswrn.bsky.social
Best wishes to Linda who will be very sadly missed as will SWAI 😢
swaiireland.bsky.social Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 6d
We are sad to say goodbye to our Communications and Advocacy manager, Linda Kavanagh, who has been with SWAI for 7 years.
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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usihs.bsky.social
Exciting news! Filming will soon start on a Bad Bridgets film, inspired by Elaine Farrell & Leanne McCormick's great book. We're delighted to have both Elaine & Leanne on our USIHS Committee (for many reasons, this is just today's extra one) @badbridgetbook.bsky.social
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Daisy Edgar-Jones And Emilia Jones To Star In ‘Bad Bridgets’ From LuckyChap
Daisy Edgar Jones and Emilia Jones are set to star in 'Bad Bridgets', from 'Kneecap' director Rich Peppiatt.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
iswrn.bsky.social
ISWRN member Caroline West's wonderful book - Wrong Women - on the history of Monto, Dublin's famous red light district is up for the @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social History Book of the Year in the An Post Irish Book Awards 💚irishbookawards.bsky.social You can vote online www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
An Post Irish Book Awards Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin's Forgotten Red Light District
October 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
iswrn.bsky.social
Pious and promiscuous, but was there sex work? Will probably have to buy or find a library to borrow from to find out! Congratulations on your book Dr Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social
leannecalvert.bsky.social Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 28d
Today is officially publication day of my book 🥰 Thank you to everyone who made this a reality and to those who pre-ordered a copy! She exists 😍 @ria.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Get yours here:
shop.ria.ie/products/pious

#HistSex #IrishHist #HistFam #NewBook #Family
October 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
iswrn.bsky.social
New publication from our Board member Dr Doris Murphy Murphy, D. (2025) 'Street walking, crip talking, care imagining: Disabled sex workers in Ireland', The European Sociologist, 52. europeansociology.org/european-soc...
European Sociological Association
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September 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
iswrn.bsky.social
A reminder that ISWRN is not a closed shop! We welcome new members, including academics, practitioners, sex workers and students. Complete the form on our website to join iswrn.org/membership/
Membership – ISWRN
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September 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
iswrn.bsky.social
Important reading for academics conducting research involving sex workers 👇
eswa-network.bsky.social ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · Sep 17
Yesterday, ESWA launched Gold Standard Guidelines for Safe and Ethical Sex Work Research in Europe ⭐

Watch the launch webinar:
www.youtube.com/@sexworkeuro...

Read and share the research here: www.eswalliance.org/gold_standard
New Research: Gold Standard Guidelines for Safe and Ethical Sex Work Research in Europe
www.eswalliance.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
iswrn.bsky.social
Deleted ISWRN Twitter/X today. It is no longer a place we want to be on.
May 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
iswrn.bsky.social
Pretty special event coming up to mark 50 years since the historic Saint-Nizier Church occupation in Lyon. Taking place in many countries across Europe but can be viewed online. Well done @eswa-network.bsky.social 👏 #sexwork #history #skystorians
eswa-network.bsky.social ESWA @eswa-network.bsky.social · May 12
🎉 This year's Sx Workers' Day will be nothing short of epic. With events all over Europe, we wish we could be everywhere at once - and we can! All the events will be live streamed on ESWA channels.

💌 RSVP to join, or on- or offline:
www.eswalliance.org/50years
May 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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drhannahstevens.bsky.social
Thank you so much @iswrn.bsky.social for sharing this. I've just listened to the lecture. Incredibly important research, stories and perspectives being shared. And so much I didn't know. I will be getting a copy of Caroline's book ASAP!

Lecture available here: ucc.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
May 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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drpaulryan.bsky.social
Thanks to Caroline West for a great lecture on the lives of women selling sex in Dublin’s Monto at the turn of the nineteenth century. @iswrn.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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wendylyon.bsky.social
Highly recommend this. Laura herself would have loved it.
iswrn.bsky.social Irish Sex Work Research Network (ISWRN) @iswrn.bsky.social · May 10
If you are looking for something amazing to watch this weekend, UCC has left this link up for now and you can watch back! #skystorians #sexwork #humanrights
May 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
iswrn.bsky.social
If you are looking for something amazing to watch this weekend, UCC has left this link up for now and you can watch back! #skystorians #sexwork #humanrights
May 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
iswrn.bsky.social
We are very much looking forward to welcoming attendees to the Laura Lee Annual Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture with Dr Caroline West today at 5pm. Webcast link is now on the event page and will also reply to this post with it. www.eventbrite.ie/e/laura-lee-...
Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture
Presented by Dr. Caroline West, bestselling author of Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin’s Forgotten Red Light District
www.eventbrite.ie
May 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
iswrn.bsky.social
Our Board Member ☺️
treesaw.bsky.social Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · May 8
Lovely to see my friend, @drpaulryan.bsky.social being honoured with a well-deserved @sociologyireland.bsky.social Lifetime Achievement Award at #sai2025 this evening.
May 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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all4choice.bsky.social
Join Here NI and the Body Politic for this upcoming 'The Housewife and the Heteropatriarchy - Far Right Versions of Control' event taking place on 15th May 3pm-5pm. To register email policy@hereni.org. @hereni.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
iswrn.bsky.social
Reminder that the brilliant bestselling author Dr Caroline West is talking tomorrow evening (Friday 9 May 5pm) about the history of sex work in Ireland at the Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture. Cork and online. Register at EventBrite www.eventbrite.ie/e/laura-lee-... #skystorians #spéirgorm
Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture
Presented by Dr. Caroline West, bestselling author of Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin’s Forgotten Red Light District
www.eventbrite.ie
May 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
iswrn.bsky.social
If you are looking for something more like a party on Friday night and you are in Dublin, the amazing Red Umbrella Éireann, who sit on our Board, are hosting what promises to be an unforgettable night to help raise funds for their film festival later this year www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/red-umbrel...
RED UMBRELLA FILM FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER
Dancing, drag and burlesque. Come join us and help raise funds for this year's sex worker film festival!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
iswrn.bsky.social
The Third Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights lecture is this Friday 9 May. It will be presented by Dr Caroline Ryan, bestselling author of Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin's Forgotten Red Light District. Free entry. Come and meet us in Cork or join online! www.eventbrite.ie/e/laura-lee-...
Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture
Presented by Dr. Caroline West, bestselling author of Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin’s Forgotten Red Light District
www.eventbrite.ie
May 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
iswrn.bsky.social
Are you going to the Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) conference in Cork this week? At 5pm on Friday 8 May you can attend the Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture www.eventbrite.ie/e/laura-lee-... #sociology #irishsociology #history #humanrights #speirgorm
Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture
Presented by Dr. Caroline West, bestselling author of Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin’s Forgotten Red Light District
www.eventbrite.ie
May 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
iswrn.bsky.social
Can now confirm this event will be livestreamed online, so please register if you want to watch online as you cannot make it to Cork.
May 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
iswrn.bsky.social
This @royalhistsoc.org call for papers could include topics of policing in countries like Ireland where British imperialism has and continues to shape policing and of course histories of trafficking
royalhistsoc.org/calendar/mob...
Mobilising Imperial History: Crime, Policing and Control in the British Empire – CALL FOR PAPERS | RHS
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May 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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all4choice.bsky.social
Join us for The Body Politic Dublin event- the first in a series of three workshops which look at bodily autonomy beyond abortion!

📅 Sat 17 May
⏰ 16:00 - 18:00
📍 Naughton Institute
🎟️ buff.ly/k4xkRv7

Please share! 📢
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May 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
Historians for Trans Rights - open letter, please sign - you don’t have to be a UK based historian to sign the letter #allyship #solidarity docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...
Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
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May 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
iswrn.bsky.social
You are warmly invited to the third Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture, which will be taking place at University College Cork (UCC) on Friday 9th May 2025 at 17:00. www.eventbrite.ie/e/laura-lee-... #sexwork #humanrights #skystorians #speirgorm
Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture
Presented by Dr. Caroline West, bestselling author of Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin’s Forgotten Red Light District
www.eventbrite.ie
May 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM