Caroline
@carolinejs.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @tcddublin | Disability Rights in Humanitarian Action | Communication Disability | Ac. lead Trinity-WFP partnership (2020-2024) | Human Rights | just finished an LL.M
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Caroline
@carolinejs.bsky.social
· May 29
Healthcare professional associations silence / inaction on genocide. Who spoke early, who remains silent? What actions are possible for our associations in Ireland?
Some receipts from Ireland.
criticalstudycommunicationdisability.org/index.php/jc...
Some receipts from Ireland.
criticalstudycommunicationdisability.org/index.php/jc...
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READ: "A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what our survival has cost us." mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-h...
‘I’m happy and sad to see you’: The paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide
A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing…
mondoweiss.net
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
READ: "A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what our survival has cost us." mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-h...
“A different world is possible”
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No stopping, keep telling. Together we can birth a different world.
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No stopping, keep telling. Together we can birth a different world.
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
“A different world is possible”
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No stopping, keep telling. Together we can birth a different world.
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No stopping, keep telling. Together we can birth a different world.
Ireland’s road deaths are not inevitable, but a result of policy decisions (or a lack thereof). The data is stark!
Ireland is one of the few European countries where road deaths have risen since 2019.
That’s not a coincident, but rather the result of a transport system that prioritises cars and speed over people and safety, with weak enforcement and timid road-safety policy.
Data from the European Commission.
That’s not a coincident, but rather the result of a transport system that prioritises cars and speed over people and safety, with weak enforcement and timid road-safety policy.
Data from the European Commission.
November 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Ireland’s road deaths are not inevitable, but a result of policy decisions (or a lack thereof). The data is stark!
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October 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Landlords with more 100+ tenancies now own 26% of rental properties in Dublin. The narrative is that they are more 'professional' and have the capital to invest in improving & retrofitting their properties. The evidence suggests otherwise: mu.ie/justhousing
October 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Landlords with more 100+ tenancies now own 26% of rental properties in Dublin. The narrative is that they are more 'professional' and have the capital to invest in improving & retrofitting their properties. The evidence suggests otherwise: mu.ie/justhousing
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Every believer and nonbeliever, every sane and mad soul, every noble and vile person living on this same planet must ask themselves one question:
How will this filthy world pay for all this blood, for all these crimes?
Where and when will the reckoning come?
How will this filthy world pay for all this blood, for all these crimes?
Where and when will the reckoning come?
October 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Every believer and nonbeliever, every sane and mad soul, every noble and vile person living on this same planet must ask themselves one question:
How will this filthy world pay for all this blood, for all these crimes?
Where and when will the reckoning come?
How will this filthy world pay for all this blood, for all these crimes?
Where and when will the reckoning come?
This resonates deeply. How we remake the work is in true community, investing in those around us. Ubuntu at work
I've watched a lot of people find their courage. They usually believed in something, but they also believed in each other. As co-strugglers, they depended on each other. They comforted and encouraged each other. They helped each other. That investment made them stronger, bolder, and more capable.
September 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This resonates deeply. How we remake the work is in true community, investing in those around us. Ubuntu at work
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I've watched a lot of people find their courage. They usually believed in something, but they also believed in each other. As co-strugglers, they depended on each other. They comforted and encouraged each other. They helped each other. That investment made them stronger, bolder, and more capable.
September 12, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I've watched a lot of people find their courage. They usually believed in something, but they also believed in each other. As co-strugglers, they depended on each other. They comforted and encouraged each other. They helped each other. That investment made them stronger, bolder, and more capable.
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In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.
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MSF urges countries to receive patients trapped in Gaza so they can access the specialized treatment they need.
We also call on the Israeli authorities to lift the siege on Gaza, allow life-saving aid in, and facilitate medical evacuations with guarantees of a voluntary return.
We also call on the Israeli authorities to lift the siege on Gaza, allow life-saving aid in, and facilitate medical evacuations with guarantees of a voluntary return.
September 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
MSF urges countries to receive patients trapped in Gaza so they can access the specialized treatment they need.
We also call on the Israeli authorities to lift the siege on Gaza, allow life-saving aid in, and facilitate medical evacuations with guarantees of a voluntary return.
We also call on the Israeli authorities to lift the siege on Gaza, allow life-saving aid in, and facilitate medical evacuations with guarantees of a voluntary return.
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I have an op-ed out today in @resprofnews.bsky.social introducing my new book on the commercialisation of open access publishing.
Make academic publishing a commons, not a market - Research Professional News
Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I have an op-ed out today in @resprofnews.bsky.social introducing my new book on the commercialisation of open access publishing.
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The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Leading genocide scholars organization says Israeli action in Gaza is genocide
The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide says that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
apnews.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
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#Speirgorm There is a call to action for Irish folks as well. I will post that next www.irishlegal.com/articles/leg...
Legal academics call on Central Bank to block sale of Israeli bonds
A group of legal academics from across Ireland have called on the Governor of the Central Bank to immediately prohibit the marketing and sale of Israeli state bonds in or from Ireland, and to refuse t...
www.irishlegal.com
August 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
#Speirgorm There is a call to action for Irish folks as well. I will post that next www.irishlegal.com/articles/leg...
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A group of legal experts have written to the Central Bank confirming there are ample powers under existing EU law to refuse to authorise the Israel Bonds programme and that authorisation is incompatible with Ireland’s obligations under international law.
academicsforpalestine.org/2025/08/28/l...
academicsforpalestine.org/2025/08/28/l...
Legal academics call on the Central Bank of Ireland to block sale of Israel Bonds
A group of legal academics from across Ireland, including members of AfP, have called on the Governor of the Central Bank to immediately prohibit the marketing and sale of Israeli state bonds in or…
academicsforpalestine.org
August 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A group of legal experts have written to the Central Bank confirming there are ample powers under existing EU law to refuse to authorise the Israel Bonds programme and that authorisation is incompatible with Ireland’s obligations under international law.
academicsforpalestine.org/2025/08/28/l...
academicsforpalestine.org/2025/08/28/l...
Such an important piece as we return to classrooms:
“We are treading new grounds where ethical educational leadership is not about the mastery of knowing what to do. Rather, it is about the ethical commitment to try without fully knowing”
“We are treading new grounds where ethical educational leadership is not about the mastery of knowing what to do. Rather, it is about the ethical commitment to try without fully knowing”
Do you work in #education? This post is for you. It centres #Gaza at the heart of everything we do and say in education.
Living with Wounds in Education
www.repair-ed.uk/reparative-p...
Read it. Share it. Act on it
#GazaMatters
Living with Wounds in Education
www.repair-ed.uk/reparative-p...
Read it. Share it. Act on it
#GazaMatters
Reparative Praxis with Gaza
This guest post by Dr. Khawla Badwan asks: What does it mean to repair with Gaza?
www.repair-ed.uk
August 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Such an important piece as we return to classrooms:
“We are treading new grounds where ethical educational leadership is not about the mastery of knowing what to do. Rather, it is about the ethical commitment to try without fully knowing”
“We are treading new grounds where ethical educational leadership is not about the mastery of knowing what to do. Rather, it is about the ethical commitment to try without fully knowing”
“The Gaza Famine is the world's famine. It is a famine that asks 'but what did you do?' A famine that will and must haunt us all. […] It is a famine that therefore also asks'.... and what now will you do?'
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August 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
“The Gaza Famine is the world's famine. It is a famine that asks 'but what did you do?' A famine that will and must haunt us all. […] It is a famine that therefore also asks'.... and what now will you do?'
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“The loneliness of awaiting death”
Another poem from @khawlabadwan.bsky.social
that excavates words to put to this unfathomable collective grief.
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Another poem from @khawlabadwan.bsky.social
that excavates words to put to this unfathomable collective grief.
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August 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
“The loneliness of awaiting death”
Another poem from @khawlabadwan.bsky.social
that excavates words to put to this unfathomable collective grief.
Reposted with alt-text
Another poem from @khawlabadwan.bsky.social
that excavates words to put to this unfathomable collective grief.
Reposted with alt-text
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Tomorrow,God willing,for the sake of doing something, for the sake of a faint whisper through which we reclaim hope that we are still alive & want to influence our destiny, for the sake of pressuring to stop the systematic extermination against a people who are the last bastion of truth among us...
August 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Tomorrow,God willing,for the sake of doing something, for the sake of a faint whisper through which we reclaim hope that we are still alive & want to influence our destiny, for the sake of pressuring to stop the systematic extermination against a people who are the last bastion of truth among us...
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"To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain. To teach students who have not eaten and still tell them their voices matter. To insist, against all odds, that Gaza still thinks, still questions, still creates."
"That, in itself, is an act of resistance."
"That, in itself, is an act of resistance."
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focussed as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"To generate knowledge in the context of hunger is to think through pain. To teach students who have not eaten and still tell them their voices matter. To insist, against all odds, that Gaza still thinks, still questions, still creates."
"That, in itself, is an act of resistance."
"That, in itself, is an act of resistance."
Let Ruaa’s words compel us to speak louder, do more, act faster
“How many times must a city be stolen before you call it theft?”
“How many times must a city be stolen before you call it theft?”
The re-occupation of Gaza has begun.
The boots of soldiers are pressing once more on the soil of a wounded land.
The checkpoints return, the shadows of tanks creep into the alleys, and the sound of iron drowns out the breath of life.
The boots of soldiers are pressing once more on the soil of a wounded land.
The checkpoints return, the shadows of tanks creep into the alleys, and the sound of iron drowns out the breath of life.
August 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Let Ruaa’s words compel us to speak louder, do more, act faster
“How many times must a city be stolen before you call it theft?”
“How many times must a city be stolen before you call it theft?”
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Life expectancy over time in Gaza, along with four other countries that experienced wars in recent decades.
For those who "it can't be genocide as the Palestinian population is growing".
Gaza has had the largest drop in life expectancy of any places on earth in modern history:
For those who "it can't be genocide as the Palestinian population is growing".
Gaza has had the largest drop in life expectancy of any places on earth in modern history:
August 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Life expectancy over time in Gaza, along with four other countries that experienced wars in recent decades.
For those who "it can't be genocide as the Palestinian population is growing".
Gaza has had the largest drop in life expectancy of any places on earth in modern history:
For those who "it can't be genocide as the Palestinian population is growing".
Gaza has had the largest drop in life expectancy of any places on earth in modern history:
“Be a bridge with a voice”
Beautiful and sobering poem from @khawlabadwan.bsky.social, reposted with alt-text
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Beautiful and sobering poem from @khawlabadwan.bsky.social, reposted with alt-text
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August 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
“Be a bridge with a voice”
Beautiful and sobering poem from @khawlabadwan.bsky.social, reposted with alt-text
💔
Beautiful and sobering poem from @khawlabadwan.bsky.social, reposted with alt-text
💔
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Sham pleaded with the world months ago to stop the war, saying, "I'm afraid for my dad because of the bombing"...
Today, her fears turned into a tragic reality as she lost her father, journalist Anas Al-Sharif, in a cowardly airstrike.
Today, her fears turned into a tragic reality as she lost her father, journalist Anas Al-Sharif, in a cowardly airstrike.
August 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Sham pleaded with the world months ago to stop the war, saying, "I'm afraid for my dad because of the bombing"...
Today, her fears turned into a tragic reality as she lost her father, journalist Anas Al-Sharif, in a cowardly airstrike.
Today, her fears turned into a tragic reality as she lost her father, journalist Anas Al-Sharif, in a cowardly airstrike.