@treesaw
Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology. I write on feminism and conflict, state violence, gender and social movements, and academic precarity. Cork by way of Dublin, Belfast and Newfoundland. She/her. 🍉
Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed 394 people over the past week, including 83 children and 42 women, the country's health minister has said, after Israel expanded its attacks to a hotel in central Beirut today
jrnl.ie/6978728
Today's evacuation orders in Beirut displace 100,000s - including elderly people, children, people with disabilities, etc. etc., all having to leave in a hurry with no idea what will happen to their homes. This kind of mass forced displacement is illegal under international law.
Palestinians returning to Gaza from Egypt report being tortured and pressured to collaborate with Israel as informants.
buff.ly/j7TrOZO
Death toll from strike on Iranian school rises to 165 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-strike-iranian-school-rises-165
Professor Jacob George - who helped get the puberty blocker trial shutdown turns out to be captured by the GCIM making multiple anti-trans posts.
"Professor Jacob George is recused from *further* involvement on the Pathways clinical trial as a precaution.”
Am pleased they admit he was involved. But you can't cure bias after the fact and our lawyers will be writing to the MHRA about its ascientific 'concerns' about the trials.
Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.
"AI will cure cancer"
No bro, it is fully on cancer's side
Statement from the student at the heart of the IBSA incident in UCD. UCD and the School of Medicine should be utterly ashamed of how they have treated this woman, a student to whom the institution has a duty of care. Disgusting! Let's be honest, this misogyny is endemic throughout Irish highered!
Organizing against borders can seem utopic, but there are many concrete fights:
1 Mutual aid networks
2 Rapid Response actions
3 Stopping PIC construction & budget fights
4 Ending agreements w/ local enforcement
5 Non cooperation of public institutions (hospitals etc) w/ immigration
6 Status 4 All
Reform saw how easy it was to undermine the Equality Act by UK Government not legislating to protect a group excluded by elements of a court judgement. What Reform will finish, Labour started by treating the FWS 2025 decision as if it was written in stone and parliament no longer had supremacy.
A joint statement with @mams4transni.bsky.social
"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, "
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Irish government officials have so far avoided answering questions about if the treatment of the migrants on the flights violates Irish law."
- @gbrockell.bsky.social
NEW from me today:
Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.
xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...
Could anti trans MAGA people kindly shut up about the Tumbler Ridge shooting?
Canada doesn’t have regular mass shootings. We handle them differently than the US.
Stop using it to push a political agenda.
Stop using it to punch down on an entire group of marginalized people.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
‘We're seeing eviction rates not seen in Ireland since the 1850s'
- a headline out government should be ashamed off, but do they even care? A reminder - the 1850s was the period during and after the devastation of the Great Famine #spéirgorm www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Delighted to get this one across the line and into #DIFF2026. It's been a mad scramble over the past month! This is the story of a city fighting for itself as a broken property market ruthlessly chews up its citizens for profit, treats homes as assets and people as obstacles to be moved out.
At the risk of constantly repeating myself, academia is cesspit.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone.
He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein
We have published it in full.
www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...
TW Suicide trans children
Every year about 200 children die due to suicide in the UK
% of trans kids in population is 0.7%
Expected trans suicide rate = 1.4
In 2021 a devastating 22 children took their own lives. 15.7 times the expected rate!
In 2021 the UK ended de facto trans healthcare.
💀🇮🇪🫠🇵🇸
“It is absolutely reprehensible that any ICE deportation flights would be allowed stop & refuel in #Shannon. The taoiseach & minister for transport must intervene & ensure this ends.” He added: “Ireland cannot in any way be complicit in these #ICE flights.”
#spéirghorm #IrishPol #Palestine
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
Remember - the UK Home Office and its contractors, Mitie, were found routinely detaining pregnant women in N. Ireland's immigration detention centre. There have been zero consequences. We FOI'ed UK Home Office and found 8 pregnant women had been detained in Larne House between 2016 and 2022. [1/2]
We Shall Overcome- Free Derry.
Derry ❤️
