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KPFA - Womens MagazineIrish socialist feminists Camilla Fitzsimons and Isidora Duran, and DRUM Beats organizer Simran Thind
There have been two major socialist and socialist feminist victories in the last month. First was the election of socialist feminist Catherine Connolly to be president of Ireland and the other was the election of Zohran Mamdami to Mayor of NYC. But Mamdami’s election would not have been possible without the groundswell of activism by grassroots groups like Indivisible, Jews for Economic Justice and DRUM Beat, a progressive grassroots south asian group that really turned out the vote for Zohran in the south asian community. And similarly the election of a leftist feminist to President of Ireland wouldn’t not...
2025-11-1005 min
Live from the Buffett Reading RoomGlobal Trajectories of Abortion AccessOur 2024 fall Buffett Symposium, Abortion Access Today: Global Insights and Comparisons, convened leading strategists, researchers, medical practitioners, and human rights advocates from Colombia, Ireland, Kenya, Poland, and the U.S. to discuss abortion access around the world. The third and final panel of this daylong program focused on global trajectories of abortion access. Panelists discussed the political, geopolitical, cultural, and legal factors shaping divergent paths in abortion access and what they reveal about the underlying forces at play and future trajectories worldwide. Panelists included:Caitlin Bernard, Assistant Professor o...
2025-08-131h 20
Live from the Buffett Reading RoomGlobal Expansions in Abortion AccessOur 2024 fall Buffett Symposium, Abortion Access Today: Global Insights and Comparisons, convened leading strategists, researchers, medical practitioners, and human rights advocates from Colombia, Ireland, Kenya, Poland, and the U.S. to discuss abortion access around the world. The second panel of this daylong program focused on global expansions in abortion access. Five dozen countries have liberalized their abortion laws in recent decades, representing notable victories of activists in nearly every continent. The panelists who joined us to discuss their strategies and the variations in access that remain were: Catalina Martinez, Vice President of t...
2025-08-131h 27
New Books in Irish StudiesCamilla Fitzsimons, "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" (Bloomsbury, 2025)Camilla Fitzsimons teaches at Maynooth University and is the author of Community Education and Neoliberalism in 2017 as well as Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights in 2021 which won the American Conference for Irish Studies James S Donnelly Sr book award for History and Social Science – she talked to us in January 2022 about that book. In this interview, she discusses her new book Rethinking Feminism in Ireland
Rethinking Feminism in Ireland offers a radical approach that sees feminism as a practical philosophy that seeks to combat all forms of oppression. Exploring a number of topics including political activism...
2025-08-0233 min
New Books in British StudiesCamilla Fitzsimons, "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" (Bloomsbury, 2025)Camilla Fitzsimons teaches at Maynooth University and is the author of Community Education and Neoliberalism in 2017 as well as Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights in 2021 which won the American Conference for Irish Studies James S Donnelly Sr book award for History and Social Science – she talked to us in January 2022 about that book. In this interview, she discusses her new book Rethinking Feminism in Ireland
Rethinking Feminism in Ireland offers a radical approach that sees feminism as a practical philosophy that seeks to combat all forms of oppression. Exploring a number of topics including political activism...
2025-08-0233 min
New Books in Politics and PolemicsCamilla Fitzsimons, "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" (Bloomsbury, 2025)Camilla Fitzsimons teaches at Maynooth University and is the author of Community Education and Neoliberalism in 2017 as well as Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights in 2021 which won the American Conference for Irish Studies James S Donnelly Sr book award for History and Social Science – she talked to us in January 2022 about that book. In this interview, she discusses her new book Rethinking Feminism in Ireland
Rethinking Feminism in Ireland offers a radical approach that sees feminism as a practical philosophy that seeks to combat all forms of oppression. Exploring a number of topics including political activism...
2025-08-0233 min
New Books in Women's HistoryCamilla Fitzsimons, "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" (Bloomsbury, 2025)Camilla Fitzsimons teaches at Maynooth University and is the author of Community Education and Neoliberalism in 2017 as well as Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights in 2021 which won the American Conference for Irish Studies James S Donnelly Sr book award for History and Social Science – she talked to us in January 2022 about that book. In this interview, she discusses her new book Rethinking Feminism in Ireland
Rethinking Feminism in Ireland offers a radical approach that sees feminism as a practical philosophy that seeks to combat all forms of oppression. Exploring a number of topics including political activism...
2025-08-0233 min
New Books in GenderCamilla Fitzsimons, "Rethinking Feminism in Ireland" (Bloomsbury, 2025)Camilla Fitzsimons teaches at Maynooth University and is the author of Community Education and Neoliberalism in 2017 as well as Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights in 2021 which won the American Conference for Irish Studies James S Donnelly Sr book award for History and Social Science – she talked to us in January 2022 about that book. In this interview, she discusses her new book Rethinking Feminism in Ireland
Rethinking Feminism in Ireland offers a radical approach that sees feminism as a practical philosophy that seeks to combat all forms of oppression. Exploring a number of topics including political activism...
2025-08-0233 min
Irish Left Archive PodcastCamilla Fitzsimons: Spectacle of Defiance & Hope, Repeal, and Academics for PalestineIn this episode we speak to activist and academic Camilla Fitzsimons. Camilla’s academic work focuses in particular on education and social movements, and she is an Associate Professor in Maynooth University School of Education. Her publications include two books – Community education and neoliberalism: Philosophies, practices and policies in Ireland (2017) and Repealed: Ireland’s Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights (2021).
We discuss Camilla’s early political experience; her involvement in forming the Spectacle of Defiance and Hope in response to service cuts and austerity, which organised marches and workshops with a central focus on political education; her work on abort...
2024-03-261h 19
The Sex, Research & Resistance PodcastEpisode 6: Reproductive Justice - Creating a new reality through feminist knowledge buildingIn this episode, speakers Edem Ntumy (Reproductive Justice Initiative), Professor Emeritus Patricia Maguire (Feminist Trailblazers & Good Troublemakers Podcast), Dr Camilla Fitzsimons (Maynooth University) and host Elise Denis-Ramirez (Open University) meet to discuss reproductive justice in the context of participation and feminist knowledge creation.
Listen in on a thought-provoking intergenerational podcast about autonomy, reproductive resistance, and the importance of centring community knowledge. Our panellists draw from their experiences linking feminist research and activism while
advocating for social change.
Recorded on Wednesday 21 June 2023 as a live podcast hosted by the Open University’s Reproduction, Sexualities and Sexual He...
2023-07-181h 00
Politics and LettersSinéad Kennedy: Repeal the EighthA conversation with Sinéad Kennedy about the history of Irish feminism, the campaign to repeal the eighth amendment from the Irish constitution, and the distinct ways in which the politics of liberation in Ireland have been inflected by Ireland's unique position within the world system.
This episode was inspired to a large extent by Dr Camilla FitzSimons' book Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights, which is available here from Pluto Press.
An episode of Pluto Press' Radicals in Conversation consisting of a conversation between Camilla, Sinéad and Ruth Coppinger about the campaign is...
2023-05-221h 25
Novara FM – Novara Media PodcastsNovara FM: The Unfinished Fight w/ Camilla FitzsimonsIn 2018, Ireland voted to repeal the 8th Amendment of its constitution, which stated that a person and the foetus living inside their body had an equal right to life. Yet the struggle around abortion is not over in Ireland, or indeed anywhere else – a fact underscored by the dramatic overturning of Roe v. […]
2022-10-261h 01
New Books in LawCamilla Fitzsimons et al., "Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Justice" (Pluto Press, 2021)Camilla Fitzsimons is an activist and a member of the Dublin West Pro Choice group. She works at Maynooth University and is the author of Community Education and Neoliberalism. Sinéad Kennedy is the co-founder of The Coalition to Repeal the Eighth and an executive member of Together for Yes. She works at Maynooth University and is the co-editor of The Abortion Papers, Ireland.In this interview Fitzsimons and Kennedy discuss their new book Repealed: Ireland’s Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights (Pluto Press, 2021), a celebration and analysis of a 35-year long grassroots movement that successfully overturned the ban on abortio...
2022-01-271h 01New Books in Irish StudiesCamilla Fitzsimons et al., "Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Justice" (Pluto Press, 2021)Camilla Fitzsimons is an activist and a member of the Dublin West Pro Choice group. She works at Maynooth University and is the author of Community Education and Neoliberalism. Sinéad Kennedy is the co-founder of The Coalition to Repeal the Eighth and an executive member of Together for Yes. She works at Maynooth University and is the co-editor of The Abortion Papers, Ireland.In this interview Fitzsimons and Kennedy discuss their new book Repealed: Ireland’s Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights (Pluto Press, 2021), a celebration and analysis of a 35-year long grassroots movement that successfully overturned the ban...
2022-01-2759 min
New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex WorkCamilla Fitzsimons et al., "Repealed: Ireland's Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Justice" (Pluto Press, 2021)Camilla Fitzsimons is an activist and a member of the Dublin West Pro Choice group. She works at Maynooth University and is the author of Community Education and Neoliberalism. Sinéad Kennedy is the co-founder of The Coalition to Repeal the Eighth and an executive member of Together for Yes. She works at Maynooth University and is the co-editor of The Abortion Papers, Ireland.In this interview Fitzsimons and Kennedy discuss their new book Repealed: Ireland’s Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights (Pluto Press, 2021), a celebration and analysis of a 35-year long grassroots movement that successfully overturned the ban...
2022-01-2759 min
Radicals in ConversationRepealed: Ireland‘s Unfinished Fight for Reproductive RightsContent warning: rape, suicide
On 25 May 2018, the Irish people voted to remove the Eighth Amendment from the constitution. This amendment, which had been introduced in 1983, not only made abortion illegal in Ireland, but equated the life of a pregnant woman to the life of a fertilised embryo. Despite this criminalisation, the ban on abortion was always resisted and circumvented. In the years leading up to the 2018 referendum, a grassroots movement pushing for repeal emerged on an unprecedented scale, sending tens of thousands of people out canvassing in villages, towns and cities around the country.
This v...
2021-11-261h 08