Jack Conneely
@jackconneely.bsky.social
UCL PhD Candidate in Gender Studies, exploring how legacies of colonialism, nationalism, and religion continue to impact the personal and political lives of Queer men in post-conflict Ireland.
Brilliant piece by Sophie Lennox in @glamour.com about the importance of paying attention to the language we deploy when speaking about sexual violene.
We have a responsibility to face uncomfortable truths rather than to hide behind comfortable narratives.
We have a responsibility to face uncomfortable truths rather than to hide behind comfortable narratives.
Violent men aren't 'monsters'. They're terrifyingly ordinary
Framing rapists like David Carrick as otherworldly creatures reinforces the comforting illusion that they are exceptional, nothing like the men we know and love. But the reality is that perpetrators a...
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Brilliant piece by Sophie Lennox in @glamour.com about the importance of paying attention to the language we deploy when speaking about sexual violene.
We have a responsibility to face uncomfortable truths rather than to hide behind comfortable narratives.
We have a responsibility to face uncomfortable truths rather than to hide behind comfortable narratives.
Thank you @niharikaan.bsky.social and @niloofarrasooli.bsky.social for organising such an inspiring, energising workshop on the idea of Azadi.
Coming together collectively allows us to imagine new possibilities of transnational solidarity and liberation.
A lovely day with new and familiar faces.
Coming together collectively allows us to imagine new possibilities of transnational solidarity and liberation.
A lovely day with new and familiar faces.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Thank you @niharikaan.bsky.social and @niloofarrasooli.bsky.social for organising such an inspiring, energising workshop on the idea of Azadi.
Coming together collectively allows us to imagine new possibilities of transnational solidarity and liberation.
A lovely day with new and familiar faces.
Coming together collectively allows us to imagine new possibilities of transnational solidarity and liberation.
A lovely day with new and familiar faces.
"Affective solidarity might thus be the refusal to relinquish that struggle, an insistence on the recognition and displacement—always failed—of privilege, as the motor of transformation."
Rich interview with @lsegender.bsky.social's Clare Hemmings on the evolution and importance of affect theory.
Rich interview with @lsegender.bsky.social's Clare Hemmings on the evolution and importance of affect theory.
After Affects, Future Feelings – Clare Hemmings in Conversation
A lot has happened since notions of affect first emerged as a theoretical concept and took hold across the humanities and social sciences. The contours of what was then still confidently called Theory...
affective-societies.de
November 12, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"Affective solidarity might thus be the refusal to relinquish that struggle, an insistence on the recognition and displacement—always failed—of privilege, as the motor of transformation."
Rich interview with @lsegender.bsky.social's Clare Hemmings on the evolution and importance of affect theory.
Rich interview with @lsegender.bsky.social's Clare Hemmings on the evolution and importance of affect theory.
We must move beyond conversations about masculinity that hyperfixate on a so-called crisis or endemic toxicity
Drawing on bell hooks’ The Will to Change, it’s time to reimagine masculinity with empathy - urging men and boys to see how patriarchy harms us all and join efforts to counter rape culture
Drawing on bell hooks’ The Will to Change, it’s time to reimagine masculinity with empathy - urging men and boys to see how patriarchy harms us all and join efforts to counter rape culture
Not a crisis, but a choice: Masculinity with compassion
By Jack Conneely – April 2025
everyonesinvited.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
We must move beyond conversations about masculinity that hyperfixate on a so-called crisis or endemic toxicity
Drawing on bell hooks’ The Will to Change, it’s time to reimagine masculinity with empathy - urging men and boys to see how patriarchy harms us all and join efforts to counter rape culture
Drawing on bell hooks’ The Will to Change, it’s time to reimagine masculinity with empathy - urging men and boys to see how patriarchy harms us all and join efforts to counter rape culture
Without incorporating the lived experiences of women and girls leaving Boko Haram, DDR programmes fall short in providing the security, support, and opportunities needed for genuine, lasting (re)integration.
Read below a commentary I co-authored with Francesca Batault during my time at @unidir.org.
Read below a commentary I co-authored with Francesca Batault during my time at @unidir.org.
Women and girls’ struggle to (re)integrate after Boko Haram → UNIDIR
Assesses the nuances of women and girls reintegrating in communities after exiting Boko Haram, highlighting barriers and long-term challenges.
unidir.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Without incorporating the lived experiences of women and girls leaving Boko Haram, DDR programmes fall short in providing the security, support, and opportunities needed for genuine, lasting (re)integration.
Read below a commentary I co-authored with Francesca Batault during my time at @unidir.org.
Read below a commentary I co-authored with Francesca Batault during my time at @unidir.org.