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Niall Herron
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PhD anthropology student @ QUB. Interests: social movements, assemblage, queer oral history, the everyday, space and my cats. Researching queer experiences in NI during the Troubles.
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Call for Contributions to all academics, artists, and students: present your creative research and practice at the annual online symposium 'Around the Fire' at the Centre for Creative Ethnography, Queen’s University Belfast.
Info in the comments.
#academics #artists #students #onlinesymposium
September 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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New on NOTCHES 🚻✨

“Dolled up to the nines to go to a flippin' public toilet!”: Cruising in Belfast During the Troubles by Niall Herron. How did queer cruising unfold during the Troubles, and what can it teach us about sexuality, space, and conflict?

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September 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Piece I wrote tracing the historical context of last month’s riots in Ballymena and elsewhere in NI. We have a long history of immigration in NI and also, sadly, a long history of racism.

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Northern Ireland has a long history of immigration and diversity. And of racism.
Dr Jack Crangle discusses recent anti-immigration disorder in Northern Ireland, and places it in historical context.
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July 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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enddbelfast.bsky.social
Again we urgently call on ALL MLAs to go to their communities under threat at locations where far-right actions are being announced. With confirmed paramilitary involvement, they must be on the ground tonight as observers or in solidarity.

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Urgent: A Call For MLAs To Stand With Their Communities.
On the third day of far-right racist violence across Northern Ireland, tonight we urgently require that all MLAs attend the pre-notified far-right protest locations to act as observers at the least…
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June 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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If women rioted every time one of us was attacked Northern Ireland would lie in ashes.
June 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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‘My children are frightened to go outside’ - Filipino mechanic’s home targeted after Ballymena riots
‘My children are frightened to go outside’ - Filipino mechanic’s home targeted after Ballymena riots
Kevin Rous had been on night shift in the Wrightbus factory when his family home was attacked.
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June 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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We must first acknowledge the girl whose violation sparked the chain of events. We stand in solidarity with her and with her family now and always.
Instead, ostensibly because of the ethnic background of the boys accused of carrying out this attack, the vigil was hijacked by people intent on harm.
Violence in Ballymena text above WRDA RTA WSN NIRWN logos We must first acknowledge the girl whose violation sparked the chain of events. She and her family will have to navigate her trauma and grief from this incident as well as to engage with the criminal justice system, which is challenging for any survivor, and particularly for one so young. We stand in solidarity with her and with her family now and always. Her family called for a peaceful and inclusive vigil to draw attention to the epidemic of violence against women and girls, and this could have been a moment for the community to come together on this issue that plagues every part of our society and impacts such a huge number of women and girls across our lifetimes. Instead, ostensibly because of the ethnic background of the boys accused of carrying out this attack, the vigil was hijacked by people intent on harm. Their actions harmed families and individuals and left many without shelter, including women and girls who were removed from their homes by this destruction. They have also left people in fear for their safety, particularly people from an ethnic minority background. None of this helps the victim in this case. None of this will address the broader issue of VAWG. Most gender-based violence and most sexual violence is carried out by people known to the victim. In the reporting year 2023/24, 1,681 files were sent to the PPS regarding sexual crimes. Many of these were not prosecuted, and many, many more were never reported. We do not usually see vigilante actions in response to incidents of rape, and in this case it is clear that these actions, which defied the family’s wishes, were motivated by racism. We welcome outrage at the trauma that this girl has suffered, but this outrage can and must be channelled correctly. We need reform within the legal system, we need to address the culture that makes these incidents so common, we need to tackle prejudice and racism, and we need to redouble our efforts to achieve the goal of ending violence against women and girls.
June 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Come along to our PG conference on 7th May - in the Blue Sky room at the QUB SU - it's free and open to the public. Looking forward to hearing from our panellists, the roundtable discussion, a workshop from Dr Kayla Rush and a keynote from Dr Ana Ivasiuc.

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The Self under Siege: Re-thinking Selfhood Across Disciplines Queen's University Belfast Anthropology Postgraduate Conference 2025 7th May, 9am-5pm Blue Sky Room, One Elmwood QUB Student Union
May 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The wonderful people that form the Sanctuary team at QUB (including the ever energetic Federica Ferrieri) have put this amazing event together. The wonderful Sorina Toma will be leading.

Come along or share the news among anyone interested!

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March 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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It is good to tell our stories.

For this museum to be most educationally useful, it must go beyond tales of derring-do and also address the huge role Irish soldiers played in the brutal and racist colonial expansion and exploitation of the British Empire. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/educati...
New £13.6m museum to tell story of Irish soldiers in British Army
The history of Irish involvement in the British Army will be told in a new museum planned across two sites in Belfast and Enniskillen.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
March 5, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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On International Women’s Day, solidarity with the women of Palestine, Sudan, Congo and all others living under bombs, bullets and forced displacement. No feminism without peace, justice and freedom from imperialism and colonialism ✌️✊🇵🇸

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Why Palestine is a feminist issue: a reckoning with Western feminism in a time of genocide
Published in International Feminist Journal of Politics (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2025)
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March 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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ralucabiancaroman.bsky.social
Our Anthropology PG students have organised an interdisciplinary postgrad conference around the theme of the 'Self'

📨Abstracts due by 01/04
250-400 words for presentations 15-20 minutes

📅07/05, 9am-5pm
🏛️Blue Sky Room, One Elmwood Student Centre

forms.office.com/e/SuX3pycBrW
March 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Call for papers! PGR Conference at QUB on 7 May 2025 "The Self Under Siege: Re-thinking Selfhood Across Disciplines". Submission deadline 28 March - scan QR code for more info.
March 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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**Call for Papers** Public History in an Age of Anxiety CPH Annual Conference, Belfast, 2025
February 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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A thread worth considering in light of some of our politicans deciding now is the time to boycott the White House St Patrick's Day party over Palestine. Why now and not before? How "principled" can the stance be if explusions under Biden weren't enough, but under Trump they are...
leftistlawyer.com Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine @leftistlawyer.com · Feb 23
Joe Biden spent eighteen months enabling a genocide in Occupied Palestine. That's a fact. And saying that we must ignore that fact is saying the people murdered *with our American weapons, paid for by our American tax dollars* don't matter.

Saying people should have ignored a genocide is monstrous.
February 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Now, how about we apply this revolutionary concept to the rest of Northern Ireland? Or is that too much to ask? 🌍💚 #PublicTransportMatters #GreenPartyNI #SustainableTravel
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February 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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a4cderry.bsky.social
Our Shá is fundraising to get a mural of Nell McCafferty in the Bogside.

Nell was a daughter of Derry.

She was an incredible journalist and a women's right activist.

We would appreciate your help in making this happen!

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Donate to Mural for Nell - Peaball will be painting the mural, organized by Sha Gillespie
Hi, my name is Shá and I'm fundraising to get a mural of Nell McCaff… Sha Gillespie needs your support for Mural for Nell - Peaball will be painting the mural
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February 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme now open for 2025.

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Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme – Dublin Freelance
Lyra McKee
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February 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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"... people are slowly becoming tools, machines in sync, bodies in motion, but rarely minds." @jamescuffe.bsky.social & @fionamur.bsky.social in @allegralab.bsky.social on the emergence of the 'fungible subject' under the drive for automation allegralaboratory.net/being-fungib...
Being Fungible - They Only Want Us from the Neck Down - Allegra Lab
They Only Want Us from the Neck Down Across the airport car park, a figure in a mad dash—a sprawl of limbs in motion, with bags flapping like the wings of
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February 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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"When it mattered most, Long sided with cis power over trans survival" - My meeting with Northern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long to discuss why they backed a puberty blocker ban -

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Exclusive: Naomi Long tries to explain why Alliance backed puberty blocker ban
After a month of anticipation, I left my meeting with Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister Naomi Long feeling deeply frustrated and ultimately deflated.
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February 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM