Irish Sex Work Research Network (ISWRN)
@iswrn.bsky.social
We are a platform for those interested in sex work and sexual governance scholarship within the island of Ireland.
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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
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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 👉🏼 www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at... Guest editors @drellac.bsky.social & @joelquirk.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
New #CallforPapers! This issue will aim to highlight cases of intersectional, intermovement alliance and solidarity building between different marginalised and oppressed groups. See call 👉🏼 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
Read the full report by here: decrimnow.org.uk/2025/10/30/d...
#16DaysOfActivism #SexWorkIsWork
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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
Read the full report by here: decrimnow.org.uk/2025/10/30/d...
#16DaysOfActivism #SexWorkIsWork
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(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.
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
(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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What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights
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Placard Making for Reclaim the Night
27 November, 5:30 - 7:30pm PS2, Rosemary Street
Drop into PS2, Rosemary Street, to make a placard for Reclaim the Night, a badge to wear your feminist politics out and about, and have a chat over pizza!
Free, materials provided.
#16DaysNI #16Days
27 November, 5:30 - 7:30pm PS2, Rosemary Street
Drop into PS2, Rosemary Street, to make a placard for Reclaim the Night, a badge to wear your feminist politics out and about, and have a chat over pizza!
Free, materials provided.
#16DaysNI #16Days
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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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...
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...
Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions
Explore the complexities of trafficking and the importance of effective evaluation in anti-trafficking interventions and measures.
uclpress.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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...
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...
Fabulous to see Irish historians of 'fallen women' doing so well @badbridgetbook.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film
Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prison
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Fabulous to see Irish historians of 'fallen women' doing so well @badbridgetbook.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Best wishes to Linda who will be very sadly missed as will SWAI 😢
We are sad to say goodbye to our Communications and Advocacy manager, Linda Kavanagh, who has been with SWAI for 7 years.
November 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Best wishes to Linda who will be very sadly missed as will SWAI 😢
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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
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Daisy Edgar-Jones And Emilia Jones To Star In ‘Bad Bridgets’ From LuckyChap
Daisy Edgar Jones and Emilia Jones are set to star in 'Bad Bridgets', from 'Kneecap' director Rich Peppiatt.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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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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 💚irishbookawards.bsky.social You can vote online www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
October 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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 💚irishbookawards.bsky.social You can vote online www.irishbookawards.ie/vote/
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
Today is officially publication day of my book 🥰 Thank you to everyone who made this a reality and to those who pre-ordered a copy! She exists 😍 @ria.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social
Get yours here:
shop.ria.ie/products/pious
#HistSex #IrishHist #HistFam #NewBook #Family
Get yours here:
shop.ria.ie/products/pious
#HistSex #IrishHist #HistFam #NewBook #Family
October 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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
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...
European Sociological Association
europeansociology.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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...
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/
Membership – ISWRN
iswrn.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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/
Important reading for academics conducting research involving sex workers 👇
Yesterday, ESWA launched Gold Standard Guidelines for Safe and Ethical Sex Work Research in Europe ⭐
Watch the launch webinar:
www.youtube.com/@sexworkeuro...
Read and share the research here: www.eswalliance.org/gold_standard
Watch the launch webinar:
www.youtube.com/@sexworkeuro...
Read and share the research here: www.eswalliance.org/gold_standard
New Research: Gold Standard Guidelines for Safe and Ethical Sex Work Research in Europe
www.eswalliance.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Important reading for academics conducting research involving sex workers 👇
Deleted ISWRN Twitter/X today. It is no longer a place we want to be on.
May 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Deleted ISWRN Twitter/X today. It is no longer a place we want to be on.
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 👏 #sexwork #history #skystorians
🎉 This year's Sx Workers' Day will be nothing short of epic. With events all over Europe, we wish we could be everywhere at once - and we can! All the events will be live streamed on ESWA channels.
💌 RSVP to join, or on- or offline:
www.eswalliance.org/50years
💌 RSVP to join, or on- or offline:
www.eswalliance.org/50years
May 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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 👏 #sexwork #history #skystorians
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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...
Lecture available here: ucc.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
May 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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...
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 Dublin’s Monto at the turn of the nineteenth century. @iswrn.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Thanks to Caroline West for a great lecture on the lives of women selling sex in Dublin’s Monto at the turn of the nineteenth century. @iswrn.bsky.social
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Highly recommend this. Laura herself would have loved it.
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
Webcast link for online viewing: ucc.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
May 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Highly recommend this. Laura herself would have loved it.
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
Webcast link for online viewing: ucc.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...
Laura Lee Lecture 2025 - Dr. Caroline West
ucc.cloud.panopto.eu
May 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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
We are very much looking forward to welcoming attendees to the Laura Lee Annual Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture with Dr Caroline West today at 5pm. Webcast link is now on the event page and will also reply to this post with it. www.eventbrite.ie/e/laura-lee-...
Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture
Presented by Dr. Caroline West, bestselling author of Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin’s Forgotten Red Light District
www.eventbrite.ie
May 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We are very much looking forward to welcoming attendees to the Laura Lee Annual Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture with Dr Caroline West today at 5pm. Webcast link is now on the event page and will also reply to this post with it. www.eventbrite.ie/e/laura-lee-...
Our Board Member ☺️
Lovely to see my friend, @drpaulryan.bsky.social being honoured with a well-deserved @sociologyireland.bsky.social Lifetime Achievement Award at #sai2025 this evening.
May 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Our Board Member ☺️
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Join Here NI and the Body Politic for this upcoming 'The Housewife and the Heteropatriarchy - Far Right Versions of Control' event taking place on 15th May 3pm-5pm. To register email [email protected]. @hereni.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Join Here NI and the Body Politic for this upcoming 'The Housewife and the Heteropatriarchy - Far Right Versions of Control' event taking place on 15th May 3pm-5pm. To register email [email protected]. @hereni.bsky.social
Reminder that the brilliant bestselling author Dr Caroline West is talking tomorrow evening (Friday 9 May 5pm) about the history of sex work in Ireland at the Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture. Cork and online. Register at EventBrite www.eventbrite.ie/e/laura-lee-... #skystorians #spéirgorm
Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture
Presented by Dr. Caroline West, bestselling author of Wrong Women: Selling Sex in Monto, Dublin’s Forgotten Red Light District
www.eventbrite.ie
May 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Reminder that the brilliant bestselling author Dr Caroline West is talking tomorrow evening (Friday 9 May 5pm) about the history of sex work in Ireland at the Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights Lecture. Cork and online. Register at EventBrite www.eventbrite.ie/e/laura-lee-... #skystorians #spéirgorm