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'A heartfelt celebration of all kinds of queer love' ― Alice
Linehan, Gay Community News A ground-breaking Irish
lesbian love story, set across the decades from the 1980s AIDS
crisis to the 2015 marriage referendum. Ro McCarthy, single in her
fifties and working a quiet job, is sustained by her love of books
and her deep friendships. Although she still doesn’t approve of
marriage – not even for the straights – she is canvassing for
yes in the 2015 marriage equality referendum. But, as the ghosts of
her activist past join her on the campaign trail and her eagerness
to confront a familiar discrimination turns to obsession and fury,
Ro must finally face the long-buried trauma and loss of her youth.
Thirty years earlier, Ro is a young Cork woman living her best life
in Boston, undocumented and working multiple jobs, making life-long
friends, and falling in love with Jenny. Soon, however, the young
gay men who have become Ro’s new family – from Ireland and
elsewhere – begin to die. Shocked and grieving, she finds purpose
in AIDS activism and a community that is loving and living against
all odds. In the wake of this macabre heyday which Ro just about
survives, her charged entanglement with Jenny will bear witness to
the resistance and survival of an invisible generation of warriors.
Slant is a headbutt to the heart, told from within a protective
community, that will reveal and celebrate all the kinds of love
needed to sustain a life.
Towards the end of the 20th century, the decades of abuse and
neglect perpetrated in Ireland's comprehensive carceral network
began finally to be exposed. The mistreatment endured by children
and others on the margins of Irish society, notably women, in these
orphanages, reformatory schools, industrial schools, psychiatric
hospitals, County Homes, Mother and Baby Homes, adoption agencies
and Magdalene Laundries now attracts increasing investigation and
scholarship. Bringing together contributions from leading experts
across a broad range of disciplines, including history, philosophy,
law, archaeology, criminology, accounting and architecture, this
book offers a comprehensive exploration of the Magdalene system
through a close study of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry in Dublin. To
date, the Justice for Magdalenes Research group has recorded the
names of 315 women and girls who died at Donnybrook Magdalene
Laundry. By focusing on this one institution-on its ethos,
development, operation and built environment, and the lives of the
girls and women held there-this book reveals the underlying
framework of Ireland's wider system of institutionalisation. The
analysis includes a focus on the privatisation and commodification
of public welfare, reproductive injustice, institutionalised
misogyny, class prejudice, the visibility of supposedly 'hidden'
institutions and the role of oral testimony in reconstructing
history. In undertaking such a close study, the authors uncover
truths missing from the state's own investigations; shed new light
on how these brutal institutions came to have such a powerful
presence in Irish society, and highlight the significance of their
continuing impact on modern Ireland.
An enlightening, entertaining look at what the term lesbian really
meansand what it means to be a lesbian Twenty-First Century Lesbian
Studies focuses on the field's institutionalization into the
humanities and social sciences, examining how the term lesbian is
used in activist, community, and cultural contexts, and how its use
impacts the lives of women who have chosen it as an identity. The
book's contributors include many of the world's foremost experts in
lesbian studies, as well as scholars whose primary research is in
bisexuality, transsexuality and transgender, intersex, and queer
theory. The innovative essays touch on five individual
themesGenealogies, Readings, Theories, Identities, and Locationsas
they explore the past, present, and future of lesbian studies.
Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies places the term lesbian at the
center of analysis, whether as a concept, a category, an identity,
a political position, or an object choice. The book's cutting-edge
essays examine the various meanings of lesbian; the risks taken by
women who live and/or act, write, and speak as lesbians; current
genealogical myths; and the lives, studies, and activism of
lesbians who represent a range of geographical and historical
contexts. The book presents research produced outside the United
States/United Kingdom, two places which tend to dominate the field,
and essays that focus on areas, such as medieval studies, that are
often ignored in theoretical discussions. Twenty-First Century
Lesbian Studies considers these questions: does the term lesbian
still have relevance as an identity descriptor or political
position? who does lesbian include and/or exclude? how does
intersectional thinking impact the way we formulate lesbian
identities? are we now post-lesbian? what, if anything, defines the
field of lesbian studies? what is the current state of the field?
what is the possible future of the field? what current topics
should be most important to practitioners? how is work that falls
under the lesbian studies umbrella connected to efforts in the
areas of feminism, LGBT, intersex, and queer straight studies? and
many more Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies is an enlightening,
entertaining, and essential read for academics and students working
in all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, and for
the lesbian/queer population, in general.
How will Ireland redress its legacy of institutional abuse? What
constitutes justice? What is Transitional Justice? How might
democracy evolve if survivors' experiences and expertise were
allowed to lead the response to a century of gender- and family
separation-based abuses? REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and
Transitional Justice seeks the answers. This collection explores
the ways in which Ireland - North and South - treats those who
suffered in Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, County
Homes, industrial and reformatory schools, and in a closed and
secretive adoption system, over the last 100 years. The essays
focus on the structures which perpetuated widespread and systematic
abuses in the past and consider how political arrangements continue
to exert power over survivors, adopted people and generations of
relatives, as well as controlling the remains and memorialisation
of the dead. As we mark the centenary of both jurisdictions on the
island of Ireland, REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional
Justice forensically examines the two states' so-called 'redress'
schemes and investigations, and the statements of apology that
accompanied them. With diverse and interdisciplinary perspectives,
this collection considers how a Transitional Justice-based,
survivor-centred, approach might assist those personally affected,
policy makers, the public, and academics to evaluate the complex
ways in which both the Republic and Northern Ireland (and other
states in a comparative context) have responded to their histories
of institutionalisation and family separation. Importantly, the
essays collected in REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and
Transitional Justice seek to offer avenues by which to redress this
legacy of continuing harms.
Towards the end of the 20th century, the decades of abuse and
neglect perpetrated in Ireland's comprehensive carceral network
began finally to be exposed. The mistreatment endured by children
and others on the margins of Irish society, notably women, in these
orphanages, reformatory schools, industrial schools, psychiatric
hospitals, County Homes, Mother and Baby Homes, adoption agencies
and Magdalene Laundries now attracts increasing investigation and
scholarship. Bringing together contributions from leading experts
across a broad range of disciplines, including history, philosophy,
law, archaeology, criminology, accounting and architecture, this
book offers a comprehensive exploration of the Magdalene system
through a close study of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry in Dublin. To
date, the Justice for Magdalenes Research group has recorded the
names of 315 women and girls who died at Donnybrook Magdalene
Laundry. By focusing on this one institution-on its ethos,
development, operation and built environment, and the lives of the
girls and women held there-this book reveals the underlying
framework of Ireland's wider system of institutionalisation. The
analysis includes a focus on the privatisation and commodification
of public welfare, reproductive injustice, institutionalised
misogyny, class prejudice, the visibility of supposedly 'hidden'
institutions and the role of oral testimony in reconstructing
history. In undertaking such a close study, the authors uncover
truths missing from the state's own investigations; shed new light
on how these brutal institutions came to have such a powerful
presence in Irish society, and highlight the significance of their
continuing impact on modern Ireland.
Weaving Transnational Solidarity from the Catskills to Chiapas and
Beyond analyzes the grassroots, economic justice work of three
groups-two Mexican organizations, Jolom Mayaetik, Mayan women's
weaving cooperative, and K'inal Antzetik, NGO in the highlands of
Chiapas, and an informal, international solidarity network. The
book provides scholar-activist, ethnographic case study data which
contributes to understanding collective organization, and
indigenous rights.
Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned
in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered 'promiscuous', a
burden to their families or the state, those who had been sexually
abused or raised in the care of the Church and State, and unmarried
mothers. These girls and women were subjected to forced labour as
well as psychological and physical maltreatment. Using the Irish
State's own report into the Magdalene institutions, as well as
testimonies from survivors and independent witnesses, this book
gives a detailed account of life behind the high walls of Ireland's
Magdalene institutions. The book offers an overview of the social,
cultural and political contexts of institutional survivor activism,
the Irish State's response culminating in the McAleese Report, and
the formation of the Justice for Magdalenes campaign, a
volunteer-run survivor advocacy group. Ireland and the Magdalene
Laundries documents the ongoing work carried out by the Justice for
Magdalenes group in advancing public knowledge and research into
Magdalene Laundries, and how the Irish State continues to evade its
responsibilities not just to survivors of the Magdalenes but also
in providing a truthful account of what happened. Drawing from a
variety of primary sources, this book reveals the fundamental flaws
in the state's investigation and how the treatment of the burials,
exhumation and cremation of former Magdalene women remains a deeply
troubling issue today, emblematic of the system of torture and
studious official neglect in which the Magdalene women lived their
lives. The Authors are donating all royalties in the name of the
women who were held in the Magdalenes to EPIC (Empowering People in
Care).
The collaborations, cooperatives, and conundrums described in this
collection reaffirm ancient traditions even as artisan production
and the preservation of cultural identity interact to create a
sustainable future that entails new kinds of producer-consumer
relations and partnerships. Contributors to this book explore how
crafts-pottery, weaving, basketmaking, storytelling-in Middle
America and beyond are a means of making an intangible cultural
heritage visible, material, and enduring. Each contribution shows
how social science research can evolve into advocacy,
collaboration, and friendship-activist work that exemplifies the
continuing concerns of applied and practicing social scientists in
an anthropology increasingly cognizant of both its past and its
potential impact on power and equity.
An enlightening, entertaining look at what the term lesbian really
meansand what it means to be a lesbian Twenty-First Century Lesbian
Studies focuses on the field's institutionalization into the
humanities and social sciences, examining how the term lesbian is
used in activist, community, and cultural contexts, and how its use
impacts the lives of women who have chosen it as an identity. The
book's contributors include many of the world's foremost experts in
lesbian studies, as well as scholars whose primary research is in
bisexuality, transsexuality and transgender, intersex, and queer
theory. The innovative essays touch on five individual
themesGenealogies, Readings, Theories, Identities, and Locationsas
they explore the past, present, and future of lesbian studies.
Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies places the term lesbian at the
center of analysis, whether as a concept, a category, an identity,
a political position, or an object choice. The book's cutting-edge
essays examine the various meanings of lesbian; the risks taken by
women who live and/or act, write, and speak as lesbians; current
genealogical myths; and the lives, studies, and activism of
lesbians who represent a range of geographical and historical
contexts. The book presents research produced outside the United
States/United Kingdom, two places which tend to dominate the field,
and essays that focus on areas, such as medieval studies, that are
often ignored in theoretical discussions. Twenty-First Century
Lesbian Studies considers these questions: does the term lesbian
still have relevance as an identity descriptor or political
position? who does lesbian include and/or exclude? how does
intersectional thinking impact the way we formulate lesbian
identities? are we now post-lesbian? what, if anything, defines the
field of lesbian studies? what is the current state of the field?
what is the possible future of the field? what current topics
should be most important to practitioners? how is work that falls
under the lesbian studies umbrella connected to efforts in the
areas of feminism, LGBT, intersex, and queer straight studies? and
many more Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies is an enlightening,
entertaining, and essential read for academics and students working
in all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, and for
the lesbian/queer population, in general.
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