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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote recently about the difficulties of being "Aut" compared to "Out" archive.ph/wMeIT

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

As a late diagnosed autistic I can safely say the problem is mostly ableism...

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Doaa and her three children have just been displaced to the south. As the situation grows more desperate each day any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏

Doaa Madhoun @doaa66.bsky.social · 1d

I'm Duaa from Gaza. The war is over. I had a beautiful home, a wonderful life, and healthy children😞. Everything is destroyed. We're homeless. We've even lost our livelihood. Donate. I want to save my children from this devastation and live a better life.😞😞💔

More in the comments.
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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

A message from Gaza this morning 🥹

Screenshot of whatsapp message from Doaa in Gaza: the war is over with two crying emojis and a tearful smiley face

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2d

TD and author Naoise Dolan among five held after Gaza flotilla intercepted www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

TD among five held after Gaza flotilla intercepted

Independent TD Barry Heneghan and author Naoise Dolan are among five Irish citizens detained by the Israel Defence Forces, after a number of flotilla vessels heading to Gaza were intercepted overnight...

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Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social · 4d

My sincere thanks to everyone who has supported the Global Sumud Flotilla. I'm home safe & will be followed by the other Irish people today. I'm just catching up and have much more to share but for now I am so so grateful for everyone's attempts to free us. Remember that Gaza is the story not us.

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 3d

ANMLY is now open for new work!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap40

ANMLY Submission Manager

**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 3d

Honor Greta, Palestinians, and the global movement for liberation by deciding today not to hang out or celebrate any of the upcoming holidays with authoritarians who do not care about the survival of the planet or of our species.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 4d

“I urge everyone to join the global uprising for justice, freedom, and equality. And to apply real pressure on our governments and institutions to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure human rights for everyone. We have truth, morale, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity with...

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 4d

I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Doaa and her three children have just been displaced to the south. As the situation grows more desperate each day any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏

Doaa Madhoun @doaa66.bsky.social · 4d

I arrived in southern Gaza with my children, walking six hours without anything. Now I'm sitting in a tent shared with my brother. We have no tent, no mattress, and no food. Visit us, donate, or repost. We want to buy a tent, food, clothes, and mattresses 😞
we are tired😭😭
gofund.me/7fc0e346

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 5d

Lyra Iorek GIF

ALT: Lyra Iorek GIF

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 5d

Can't wait for rhe last book!

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 5d

I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Doaa and her three children have just been displaced to Deir al Balah. As the situation grows more desperate each day any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 6d

Only sharing this because it has never happened me before! 😱🤣

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 6d

I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Doaa and her three children have just been displaced to Deir al Balah. As the situation grows more desperate each day any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏

Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 6d

a woman in a pink afro wig is saying i feel very attacked

ALT: a woman in a pink afro wig is saying i feel very attacked

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 7d

Flat white aaaactually.... 😝

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 7d

My hipster homing beacon never fails: it led me straight to the most pretentious coffee on the south side of Dublin 🙈

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Julie Beck @julieebeck.bsky.social · 7d

Nicole put so much work, thought, care, generosity and deep empathy into this piece and it shows! a must-read

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 8d

I spoke w/ over 2 dozen birth mothers for this story. Though I could only include a fraction of their stories here, all they shared about their experiences since placement, their love & their grief, & their hopes for their children helped inform this piece & deepen my understanding of open adoption.

At first, she had no reason to doubt that her wishes would be honored. The adoptive couple attended her prenatal appointments and birthing classes, and they were present for the delivery of her baby girl, she said. After the birth, planning visits was easy, because the two families lived close to each other. Lindsay was invited to birthday parties; the families exchanged emails, texts, and photos. When her biological daughter turned 7, however, something shifted. She said that her daughter had apparently started asking the adoptive parents questions about her adoption, and that they asked that Lindsay not discuss the subject with their daughter unless they were present. She agreed but then was not invited to the next birthday party. And when she asked the adoptive parents for letters and updates, it began to feel “like pulling teeth.” Eventually, she said, the adoptive mother told her that the father would no longer allow visits. Lindsay has never been given an explanation.

Her daughter is now 13. Lindsay told me that she occasionally reaches out to the adoptive parents, “just to kind of remind them that I’m still here; I still very much love my daughter and want to be part of her life.” It has been more than two years, she said, since she received any photos or updates. Her primary reason for choosing an open adoption was to be available to answer her daughter’s questions. Losing contact, she told me, “is like having one of my biggest fears come true.”

The PACA, Erin explained to me, stated clearly that she wanted to see her child twice a year. But shortly before her daughter’s first birthday, she said, the adoptive parents informed her that they were moving abroad—something they had long hoped to do yet had not mentioned before the adoption.

Erin told me that the family has made trips back to the U.S., but that she has seen her now-8-year-old only once in person since the family relocated. She said that she recently had a virtual call with her daughter, and that she hopes to establish a closer relationship with the adoptive parents, whom she considers to be excellent parents. She explained that she does not wish to involve a court; in the past, she was also advised that, because the adoptive parents now live outside the United States, holding them to their original, legally binding agreement would be challenging. Although Erin told me that she appreciates her agency’s efforts to help her reestablish regular communication with the adoptive family, she also wishes that she had added “tougher” language to their initial contact agreement, to more explicitly protect her rights. She had chosen open adoption “leaning on the fact that no matter what happened, I would get to see my daughter, and I’d get to be a part of her life,” she said. “That’s not what happened."

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 7d

I'm the receiver for Doaa's fundraiser, we chat almost every day. Doaa and her three children have just been displaced to Deir al Balah. As the situation grows more desperate each day any support you can provide helps, including sharing Doaa's posts! 🙏

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 7d

As a teenager I read his weekly travel column in the Irish Times religiously, sad to see him go so soon 😔

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 8d

The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed

Broadcaster and scríbhneoir Manchán Magan dies aged 55

The writer, broadcaster and documentary maker Manchán Magan has died at the age of 55, his family has confirmed.

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Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social · 9d

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade emergency out of hours number impossible to get through to this evening. This either means the lines are clogged with urgent calls or the DFA have disabled their emergency number... if the latter is true this further confirms the govs complicity with !s£ae¡ 😡

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macmuiris @macmuiris.bsky.social · 9d

Israeli pirates have just kidnapped Irish, Spanish, British, American, Turkish, and Dutch citizens, among others, sailing peacefully in international waters where the state of Israel has absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever. Demand a response from your politicians and governments to this outrage.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 9d

www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Flotilla activists say Israeli navy intercepting vessels

Activists on board a Gaza-bound aid flotilla say the Israeli navy has begun intercepting their vessels.

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