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Laura Kelly
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Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. Personal views. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · Nov 12
Hello new followers! For those of you who don’t know me, I work on the history of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. My most recent book ‘Contraception and Modern Ireland’ came out last year and is free to read via this link: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... (Cover image by Evelyn Hofer)
Contraception and Modern Ireland
Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Contraception and Modern Ireland
www.cambridge.org

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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 6d
We are delighted this afternoon to announced the CFP for the 36th annual WHAI conference 2026. The conference will be held at Mary I Limerick on 29 & 30 May 2026. Closing dates for submissions on the theme of 'Gain' is 31 Jan. 2026.
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WHAI2026
Welcome to the homepage for the next Women's History Association of Ireland conference. Our next annual conference will take place 29-30 May 2026 at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. The conferenc...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7d
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org

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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social · 8d
Required reading of the most welcome sort in IHS this morning.

'It is in the space between our divining and conjuring that the argument lies, the debate happens, history is written and the story gets its endless quality.'

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Encountering modern Irish history: historiography, archives and imagination in the twenty-first century
www.cambridge.org

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 17d
Grief created by Joan Wisdom, November 1967, in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey where she was compelled to live.
Her surviving works express distress & critique the psychiatric system which held power over her & the dehumanisation she experienced within it
Drawing of a human head in wax resist charcoal and paint, the head is greyish pink, bald with black and orange eye and an ambiguous expression floating amongst blue and purple lines the word grief is written abov, below the date 17367 and the initials JW

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 23d
Cassie Ramone and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart in Glasgow tonight. This would have been a dream gig for me in 2009 but I don’t think either played Ireland then. So good to see them both tonight ❤️
Cassie Ramone singing on stage with a guitar. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart band on stage.

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 28d
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Responsible Pleasure: The Brook Advisory Centres and Youth Sexuality in Postwar Britain
Abstract. This book is a sociocultural history of young people’s sexuality in Britain from the 1960s to the 1990s, using the Brook Advisory Centre (Brook)
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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 28d
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‘The Doctor Made Clear His Utter Contempt of Me, and I Can Remember It Still’1: Unmarried Women’s Experiences of Accessing the Pill in Scotland c. 1968–1980
Summary. In 1968, the barrier of marital status was removed from oral contraception. This meant that for the first time, unmarried women could legally acce
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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 28d
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8. ‘The Pill for an unmarried girl is hardly going to improve her character’: The impact of changing sexual behaviours on the construction of adulthood in Scotland, c.1968–80 | Adulthood in Britain an...
Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works.
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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 28d
We're discussing youth sexuality in my 'Sex, medicine and society' tutorial tomorrow so wanted to flag these brilliant publications by @kristinwh0.bsky.social on unmarried women & contraception in Scotland and @carorusterholz.bsky.social's fantastic book on the Brook Centres! Links below (all OA).

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 29d
Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Page from a 1960s primary school English textbook with a lovely cartoonish illustration of a red haired white girl in blue shirt looking at a cockatoo on a black perch. It is in the centre bottom and takes up about a third of the page, above is black serif text which reads Have you ever noticed? Every day we "see" things without really looking at them at all. On the way to and from school look at just one thing that you have often passed but never looked at very closely - it may be a street lamp, a small plant in a hedgerow, someone's front gate, the wall and windows of an ofice building, the balcony of a house, an object in a shop window. You are a secret service agent, and exact knowledge of this object is your password. Your life depends on it. Learn it by heart, and then describe it to the fellow agent who has to test you by your knowledge.

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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · Nov 3
This discussion on multiculturalism in Ireland and Britain is happening *tonight* in Europe House in Dublin

Hopefully see any Dubs I follow there

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Learning From The Neighbours: Multiculturalism in Ireland and the UK | Office in Dublin | European Parliament
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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · Oct 28
May McGee was such a courageous woman and had a huge impact. Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann. RIP.

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Oct 28
Death announced of Mary ‘May’ McGee who won historic Supreme Court contraception case
Death announced of Mary ‘May’ McGee who won historic Supreme Court contraception case
Landmark 1973 case found married couples had right to make private decisions on family planning
www.irishtimes.com

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Seána @grantsana.bsky.social · Oct 23
This is the evidence given by Joseph Mahon at the trial of Soldier F who wa found not guilty today. He was 16 when he was shot on Bloody Sunday, read it and digest the reality of British Justice when the victims aren’t classed as fully human
"Q. Now, as you were lying on the ground did you come to see any of the soldiers or any soldier? A. I seen one walking across the square from the entrance where they came in walking towards, diagonally across the square towards where we were lying. Q. .. could you tell whether it was the first soldier? A. It was the first soldier came in. The thing that suit out the must was his rect of em a emerent pattern, ... more like a smock, a smock combat jacket and it was ... Q. And what happened when he approached? A. He walked past me and Mr McKinney and before he did come across I heard a voice, a woman calling 'Lie still, pretend you're dead. I must have moved, I didn't know I was shot at the time, I still thought it was a rubber bullet for I was going to try and get up and run and I lay and let on I was dead. And he walked, he walked past us ... Mr Wray moved and as he approached Mr Wray he fired two shots into him ... (then) went under the walkway and I don't know where he went then ... he came back ... leaned against the wall and took the helmet off and rubbed the back of his, rubbed his forehead with his hand. (And said). 'I've got another one Dave.' ... (He had) blond hair ... there was a lot of shouting behind me 'We're pulling out Dave.'"

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · Oct 23
As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found

- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · Oct 20
A reminder that if you're in the area it is not too late to join us at the Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary and Trans Studies launch event tomorrow afternoon! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glints-lau...
'GLINTS: Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary & Trans Studies' printed in coral on a lavender background

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · Oct 20
Join us on Wednesday afternoon next week for the @cshhh.bsky.social 20th anniversary! We have two fantastic public lectures from Tracey Loughran & @joannabourke.bsky.social! Tell your friends, tell your students and come along! #HistSex #HistMed

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · Oct 9
Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now.

We do not deserve this.

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · Oct 8
Please consider emailing your government’s department of foreign affairs to demand the release of activists aboard the Freedom Flotilla Coalition ships.

🇮🇪 Irish friends: it takes two mins to email Tánaiste/Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Harris at [email protected]
freedomflotilla.bsky.social Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · Oct 8
Footage from the Israeli Occupation Forces assault on #Conscience, shortly before dawn. In international waters, close to Palestinian territorial waters. Another act of state piracy by the rogue, lawless Israeli occupation.
www.youtube.com/live/PSQcbIw...
Live from Conscience Boat to Gaza, FFC & TMTG (Live 3)
YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · Oct 8
Footage from the Israeli Occupation Forces assault on #Conscience, shortly before dawn. In international waters, close to Palestinian territorial waters. Another act of state piracy by the rogue, lawless Israeli occupation.
www.youtube.com/live/PSQcbIw...
Live from Conscience Boat to Gaza, FFC & TMTG (Live 3)
YouTube video by Freedom Flotilla Coalition
www.youtube.com

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · Oct 6
Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · Oct 4
I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · Sep 25
Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men.

There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · Aug 25
Great piece, Emer!

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dr emer mchugh @emer.bsky.social · Aug 25
me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!
The emblem of modern Ireland? Not fiddles and Guinness but a soulless shopping plaza | Emer McHugh
The singer CMAT dances around a retail centre in a video for her new album. It is the elegy those of us who grew up in the post-Celtic tiger recession have been craving, says Irish writer Emer McHugh
www.theguardian.com

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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · Aug 22
Such an important piece. Thank you, @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social.

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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · Aug 22
This week @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social argues that in a post Roe vs Wade world “Women who lose pregnancies, even before viability, are targeted in ways that strongly resemble early modern infanticide investigations.” nursingclio.org/2025/08/20/m...
Miscarriage is a Crime Again
In 1650, a young, single English servant named Anne Greene miscarried into the privy and did not tell anyone. We know her story because she was arrested for infanticide, convicted despite exonerati…
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Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social · Aug 20
I have a new article in Modern Italy on mothers, children in 1970s Italian feminist magazine Effe - a lot familiar in their discussions of emotions, expectations and experience of mothering although I especially like their ideas about the radical potential of maternal love

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Feminism and the family: mothers and children, between love, rights and duties, in Effe magazine 1973–82 | Modern Italy | Cambridge Core
Feminism and the family: mothers and children, between love, rights and duties, in Effe magazine 1973–82
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