lizahern22.bsky.social
@lizahern22.bsky.social
Cork based | Community Work | Social Policy |Social Justice | Feminism | Neurodivergence
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(long🧵) Watching some gays & lesbians celebrate that heinous UK Court ruling against trans women has me again thinking about how little most gay people know about their own history. No, I'm not rehashing if trans people were at Stonewall (they were). I'm talking about the long arc of what it even...
April 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The process of applying for the #MotherandBabyHome #Redress scheme is disgraceful.
For the state to treat survivors with such contempt is nothing new, the State holds all relevant records yet survivors have to prove length of stay.
No other section of society has been treated with such disdain!!
December 14, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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A lack of widespread electoral success does not denote far right movements are not important or a concern. The problems are things like the acute harms that far right conduct and discourses cause to marginalised communities and wider harms to democratic engagement and participation.
November 30, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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Lawyers Against Racism have compiled a fact sheet on asylum seekers and immigration rules in Ireland, to stem the flow of disinformation from far right groups during the general election. They are below:
November 24, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Leaving disabled people to their own devices (and the care of their family, which you're going to need to have) is a *policy choice*.

We all remember this from before the Referendum on Care. A different leader now, but the same party.

I truly feel this weekend is a *moment* in #GE24.
November 23, 2024 at 1:52 PM