It wasn't easy work emotionally either. For many families and friends who lost loved ones in situations relating to the Garda, Vicky was the first person to care about their loss, to ask if they wanted to talk, to take down details of individual deaths. As ever she did this with so much compassion.
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This started with Vicky creating and announcing her own database to collate as much of this data as possible
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Appreciation today for the late great Dr Vicky Conway who did so much of the groundwork to get this to happen. She is always loved and remembered by the many, many people she helped ๐
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MRCI's announcement of Bill Abom's death
Verysad to hear about the loss of Bill Abom. ๐
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pictures of Collette, Rita, Emma and Becca alongside logos for Red Umbrella, Trans Pride NI and Chidambaram.
Speaker Line Up! Hear some rallying calls before we set off to Reclaim public space for all accompanied by Chidambaram samba band! Gather in Writers Square from 5pm for speakers at 5:30pm Saturday 29th November 2025. #RTNBelfast #16DaysNI
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New #CallforPapers! This issue will aim to highlight cases of intersectional, intermovement alliance and solidarity building between different marginalised and oppressed groups. See call ๐๐ผ www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at... Guest editors @drellac.bsky.social & @joelquirk.bsky.social
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This year @decrimnow.bsky.social researched the reasons why sex workers in England and Wales are currently entering and remaining in the industry.
Read the full report by here: decrimnow.org.uk/2025/10/30/d...
#16DaysOfActivism #SexWorkIsWork
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The Critical Trafficking and Sex Work Studies Research Cluster's infographic for its candlelight vigil for the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. The image features lit candles, a red umbrella (the international symbol for sex workers' rights), and forget-me-nots. The image also has the date and time of the event.
(1/6) Please join the Critical Trafficking and Sex Work Studies Research Cluster (at York University: www.yorku.ca/cfr/traffick...) for a candlelight vigil on December 17, 2025, from 12-12:30 PM EST in recognition of the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.
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Letter from President
What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
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Irish is on a par with British in UK if there is any chance you are eligible.
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RSVP for catering purposes.
danielle@reclaimtheagenda.org
Placard Making for Reclaim the Night
27 November, 5:30 - 7:30pm PS2, Rosemary Street
Drop into PS2, Rosemary Street,ย to make a placard for Reclaim the Night,ย a badge to wear your feminist politics out and about, and have a chat over pizza!
Free, materials provided.
#16DaysNI #16Days
21.11.2025 09:12 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions
Explore the complexities of trafficking and the importance of effective evaluation in anti-trafficking interventions and measures.
Despite huge sums spent on anti-trafficking, there are staggeringly few evaluations of interventions & growing evidence of harms caused.
This new edited book with @uclpress.bsky.social is our attempt to help change that. 1/
Open access with free digital downloads: uclpress.co.uk/book/evaluat...
19.11.2025 09:13 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Best wishes to Linda who will be very sadly missed as will SWAI ๐ข
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Daisy Edgar-Jones And Emilia Jones To Star In โBad Bridgetsโ From LuckyChap
Daisy Edgar Jones and Emilia Jonesย are set to star in 'Bad Bridgets', from 'Kneecap' director Rich Peppiatt.
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
deadline.com/2025/10/dais...
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An Post Irish Book Awards
Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin's Forgotten Red Light District
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 ๐irishbookawards.bsky.social You can vote online www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
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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
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European Sociological Association
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...
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Membership โ ISWRN
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/
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Important reading for academics conducting research involving sex workers ๐
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Deleted ISWRN Twitter/X today. It is no longer a place we want to be on.
19.05.2025 13:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
There isn't an Irish event, which is a shame, but to be expected given where we currently are in terms of sex worker rights in Ireland. But lets join our European friends and also hope for better conditions for sex workers in Ireland one day too!
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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 ๐ #sexwork #history #skystorians
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Thank you Hannah, we'll be sure to pass this comment to Caroline and we sure she'll be chuffed ๐ Caroline is not on BlueSky yet but with comments like yours we may get her over soon!
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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...
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Thanks to Caroline West for a great lecture on the lives of women selling sex in Dublinโs Monto at the turn of the nineteenth century. @iswrn.bsky.social
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Highly recommend this. Laura herself would have loved it.
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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
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Laura Lee Lecture 2025 - Dr. Caroline West
Webcast link for online viewing: ucc.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
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Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Conference exploring the intersections of sex work and sex technology| Oct. 17-19, 2024|
Conference recordings: https://archive.org/details/@beyond_the_interface
Historian and Writer at Queenโs University Belfast. MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLEโS HISTORY out now with Hurst: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/multicultural-britain/
Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary
Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
Research Fellow @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social, Houses of Parliament | Historian of the press, publicity, and popular political action in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
writer and organizer @decrimny.bsky.social | she/her/ella
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Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
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Repository of my erotics archive
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Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics. And for a newspaper.
Assistant Professor in Eighteenth-Century Studies, School of English, Trinity College Dublin | Author of Mere Bagatelles: Womenโs Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810
PhD-Candidate โชโชCharles Universityโฌ | Historian of Medicine | First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Ritual Dynamics within the Christianisation of Temple Sleep in 200-700 | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Criminologist interested in student engagement, drug policy, media representations of violence, and drug-related harm.
Durham University's Department of History is nestled right at the heart of this historic city, sitting alongside the World Heritage Cathedral and Castle.
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Global tax politics, economic sociology, political economy, equality. Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, Ireland
Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
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Policing Advisor at the UK Home Office. Previously Director of the Police Foundation and Associate Director at IPPR. Dad. From Teesside #UTB.