Things like this are why the arbitrary delineations of “unskilled jobs” don’t hold.
All labour takes effort and skill - so there are no unskilled jobs, just jobs that aren’t appreciated so don’t get training or resourcing in society.
Cillian Murphy might be the star of a massive movie atm but to me he will always be the man from Cork who moved his family back to Ireland cos his children were starting to sound too posh and English
She was ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶r̶u̶n̶.
She was.
Whatever she was "just" doing should never be as important, as scary, as galling, as the fact that she "was", and is no longer.
I love how Celtic Films, by blocking me, have given me the greatest acknowledgement that I am yes, a Brown migrant, but also irrevocably a member of Irish Twitter — and therefore, Irish
Debated making this point but
Telling in this column, that we say the name of two women who were killed by make violence in the UK, but Urantsetseg Tserendorj, killed *in Dublin*, remains left out...
does having a "harder name to say" make us less worth remembering as victims?
normalise neurodivergent people being able to politely say “I’m sorry, I’m not really interested in X” and “I don’t have headspace for this right now” when we’re being overwhelmed
Remove fascists.
Remove bit by bit every piece of data encoding their hatemongering calls to segregation, calls to extremism and calls to violence.
Remove the digital soapbox that’s allowed white supremacists to call for our deaths for long enough.
meanwhile me, same citizenship as him but 💁🏾 not 💁🏻, having spent all my adult life in Ireland, still waiting on e-vetting approval for citizenship,
even though my whole life is here, I trained here, I work here continuously, and get regularly vetted here, as a HSE doctor: 🤦
peak gender euphoria this week when I chatted to a cab driver about my identities and pride, and he couldn’t decide on ‘sweetheart’ or ‘yungfleh’ when I was getting out so went with ‘sweetfleh’
@MarxAfterDark
I gave my ex books for our anniversary. They we're really good books I put my heart into picking. Imho if I'd known it was the last time, I'd have kept the books, I can't get them any more.
“Do not ask the blacksmith
The taste of the metal,
Ask the horse
Whose mouth is silenced by the bit”
An excellent analogy of the colonial struggle - resonating still with systematic oppression of disenfranchised groups, as their oppressors whitewash their deeds given an audience
Group of lads in trackies between James’ and the Coombe (Dolphin’s Barn)
One of them shouted a slur and fully bashed his shoulder into my right jaw/ear, shoving me into the friend I was walking with
Wisdom tooth bleeding, can’t fully open or close it, ear ringing
So that’s fun
my dude, i'm an immigrant who couldn't access PUP for *any* of the pandemic,
while volunteering in my community making food and delivering meds all 1st lockdown, and having any income towards covering my final training as a doctor massively slashed.
i wouldn't pick this fight.
Peter 👏 Casey 👏 is 👏 not 👏 even 👏 a dogwhistler 👏 he 👏 is 👏 an 👏 overt 👏 racist
People in private DP holdings aren’t freeloaders, they’re treated as cash cows.
Come to it, no immigrants are freeloaders. All immigrants are human. Show solidarity with all immigrants.
for every person who thinks COVID-19 is "seasonal", "overblown", or to be solved with "herd immunity", there's one healthcare worker spending their day in overheating Irish hospitals looking after multiple ?COVID people in full PPE for the most simple procedures...just a thought
immigrant (noun)
im•mi•grant | \ ˈi-mə-grənt \
a: mythical creature first described by politicians in 1789 with the preternatural ability to steal all the nation’s jobs while also stealing all its welfare resources
b: any person of colour (for white persons, see ‘expat’)
Best surprise to start my new job, I’m a Magazine Covergirl?!
Thank you Rachel Ann Dugan and
@Independent_ie
for the feature! I really didn’t know, this is very exciting
More papers should also go hire Tessy Ehiguese she’s the best!
Next time someone tells me to report racial assault to the Gardai
I’ll tell them the Gardaí investigated a Black Lives Matter protest rather than Gemma O’Doherty
So if you want me to report, you can pay my actual legal fees.
Truly amazing that newspapers are all running the easy white columnist "this is not us" pieces today, when they should be running the people of colour and migrants' "this *has been* our experience, for a long time, and you weren't listening then and you're not now" pieces.
The Brits: “without us you’d be speaking German.”
Me: “Without ye I’d be speaking Bengali fluently
You know, the language of my people you killed by famine so catastrophic they sooner allied with the Germans than be under you.
Besides, ich sprech eben auch Deutsch, Vollidiot.”
It has been a sad fortnight for Irish activism.
It is with sorrow that we bid farewell to Laura Brennan, one of the most compassionate and generous voices in Ireland, who has left in her short while with us a legacy of commitment to improving access to safe healthcare for all.
"I wish the vaccine had been available to me, of course I do. Don’t get swayed by rumours about the vaccine’s safety – get the vaccine" Watch Laura Brennan's story.
#ProtectOurFuture
My granddad's last rites and rituals are finally being performed this morning, weeks after his death, and his then-unceremonious and lonely COVID cremation in Kolkata.
If you have a quiet moment for the next hour, please think of him. He deserves a fitting send-off.
That BBC Lucy Letby 'doesn't look like a baby killer' is still replaying in my head.
Several UK + IE outlets have perpetuated conservative parties' lines aggressively framing religious, gender + sexual minorities and migrants, as threats to (White) women and children.
1/3
I haven't created art in anger in the last 11 months.
But these old white men in black balaclavas who'd rather be paid to punch down the vulnerable, than stand up to ill gained wealth sure will do it.
Never forget: we're coming for you.
#TakeBacktheCity
Lads I’m not able.
Going to placement and keep breaking out in wee tears thinking of every
#voteyes
today,
and the 1000s of campaigner hours, and 1000s of canvassers’ sore feet, and 1000s of expat miles flown
#hometovote
too, that have enabled
#repealthe8th
.
Love you all.
White Irish ppl JUST STOP asking if G O’D ‘is mentally unwell’.
It’s almost endearing you can’t imagine any other reason she’d be so racist, vile. But migrants, people of affected by her vitriol have seen many like her do much like this deliberately, exploitatively, repeatedly.
(1/4)
I wish Ireland had more community for the South Asian diaspora
I’m really sick of having to look at my life through a white lens
with my Indian identity and culture in the retrospective -
a small sad part of me I’m encouraged to disavow
Seeing a lot of "Irish Guards are better than American police", by God some of y'all need to be reminded that in a survey *100% of Gardaí* admitted to anti-Traveller sentiment, let alone other racism.
Even if 'they'd defend kids', I promise you they would have picked and chosen.
Happy
#NonbinaryAwarenessDay
.
Nonbinary isn’t an ‘alternative’ 3rd gender. Nonbinary doesn’t mean presenting the opposite’ of assigned binary gender. Nonbinary doesn’t mean presenting normatively to white able androgyny. Non-binary doesn’t need ‘validation’ by binary LGBTQ+ folk.
things that DON’T make you ugly
- acne
- being over/under weight
- scars
- stretch marks
- crooked/yellow teeth
- body hair
- thinning hair/loss
- eczema/rashes
- fat rolls
- amputations
- physical abnormalities
things that DO make you ugly
- being in Saoradh
all your responses to this tweet give me hope that we can be better, kinder and more respectful to each other, whatever our walks of life.
I hope you can carry that into your everyday.
It was challenging to relive my experience of racialised assault with
@langham_bethany
for
@JOEdotie
but given the deterioration in quality of short-sighted discourse with
#GE2020
,
#PaddyHolohan
,
#VeronaMurphy
amongst others
I hope you listen to this for some hope and kindness.
‘There were slurs said that I couldn’t hear very well because I was being bodied.’
Shubhangi Karmakar talks to JOE about the racist attack she suffered in Dublin and why incidents like it are on the rise in Ireland.
Hey
@jameelajamil
- I think it’s time to start a
#HelloArmHair
thread, for people on and off magazine covers to raise arms and share experiences
I’ve been called a ‘monkey man’ since I was wee , too dark and hairy (more now cos of health).
Tried to shave when younger.
No more.
Racial harassment to end my day, because "if we had Irish doctors here, they'd know the way things stand". Course this was how this day would end, and there's still 2 hours left. You can't help feel for all the hardworking international HCWs.
this is the face of a VERY HAPPY DOCTOR who found out they're approved for ALL OF THEIR REQUESTED FUNDING for their research AND medical law diploma!!
...now to actually do all of the things 😅
‘millenial’ (n.):
“so M ebody once told me the world
w I
L
L try to roll
m E , I
ai N ‘t the sharpest tool
I n the shed; She
w A s looking kinda dumb with her
finger and thumb, in the shape of
an L on her forehead”
No caps. No exclamations.
Just a genuine plea honestly
I’m exhausted learning how to heal people in this country,
when I could never build my life after cos of the hatred here; just for my skin, a friend’s religion or a partner’s community.
Stop sharing Gemma O’Doherty.
"Political correctness" just means having civility in your language. Not being kind, or charitable. Referring to people as who they objectively are, not how you see them.
Not being hurtful shouldn't need a pat on the back, it's a basic neutral status of social contract.
Read something about Indian and particularly Bengali history
that isn't just about how colonisers destroyed infrastructure and lives, but also how they destroyed beauty in a way that's irreplaceable and irredeemable.
1 - Welcome to
#ThreadTalk
, muslin edition. Muslin has been all over my feed, so let me cut to the chase:
The finest fabric in human history was perfected by the Bengali people but tragically lost in the wake of imperialism & economic ruin at the hands of the English.
🤬🤬
They couldn't find one
#POC
to remember for
#RepealedThe8th
.
Make no mistake, this is how we are stamped out of history created off our backs.
Because this is 'Remembering the Women Whose Campaigning Led to This Historic Voting Turnout' for posterity.
It’s official!
After 6 years of dedicated hard work in medicine, and a million academic, creative and activist pursuits besides,
I’m a disabled, QTIPOC, migrant Academic Intern Doctor in
@stjamesdublin
🏳️🌈👩🏾⚕️🏳️⚧️👩🏾💻🍾
Thank you all for supporting me.
Lmao I leave my twitter for one hour for wholesome in person company and it seems it’s flooded with racists.
Well
#HappyPride
and
#BLM
losers, I’m not going anywhere.
(1/4)
I wish Ireland had more community for the South Asian diaspora
I’m really sick of having to look at my life through a white lens
with my Indian identity and culture in the retrospective -
a small sad part of me I’m encouraged to disavow
My dude, if you think a lot of us haven’t been body-affirmed by the absolute chill fondness of this meme,
and more importantly if you think we don’t believe quare ridey Mattie Bán can absolutely Get It, anyday, maybe you’re using a different Twitter to all of Ireland...
Can’t believe people still call them
‘double-blind randomised controlled trials’
when they could be calling them
‘trick or treatment’
😂
#scicomm
#spooktober
#gradschool
Stunning, the racism I've been subjected to here today, the amount of "go solve child marriages and illiteracy" bullshit,
while observing a bereavement for a keen educator and mentor to women, who fought for women's right to equality in all of life in India.
G'way and shite.
The death has occurred of the Late Shri Suryya Ray,
Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court, Public Administrator, father and grandfather, man with a big heart.
He taught me to read, to fight tirelessly for justice, and "walk with my head high among the free people of the world".
PUP payments started the 26th April 2020.
I was unemployed (but still volunteering in the community, and providing essential services during subinternship in the hospital) until 28th May 2021.
That's 56*350 = €19,600 I didn't get while serving Ireland.
You live in Portugal.
Not to alarm ye, but the way teams and trainers in hospitals who have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic, are having to talk about preparing of a delta-majority fourth wave, would and should alarm all of ye.
Don't do it for personal responsibility, do it to help us out?❤️
You know how I’m learning Irish lately?
If I want to look up a generic non-work related fact or person or tv show etc, just out of my own curiosity?
I’ll search it as Gaeilge and then read the Vicipéid or article that comes up
Need to listen to more, but getting better.
hey
@dublinbusnews
. I am disabled, physically. even if none of these images represent me. I'm tired of dirty looks for using accessible seats, whenever I am too in pain to make it up the stairs. it's not a big change, but I'd love some 'not all disabilities are visible' signage!
I used to be so scared Béarla agus Gaeilge a mheascadh nuair a labhraím, because I used to feel...like ní raibh an ceart agam ar an teanga, or that it made my ‘fluency’ inferior.
But instead, is nuacainteoir bródúil mé anois, now both languages are part of how I think and feel!
gemma and her bots have descended. rip my mentions lads it was nice knowing ye 🙃 nice to know twitter has a handy ‘mute people who don’t follow you’ notification but not a ‘remove racist anti-science antivaxx conspiracy theorists who violate rules’ function in these trying times