Next month I’ll be speaking at Bread & Roses 2026, a two-day socialist feminist festival taking place in Project Arts Centre, Dublin on 22 and 23 May. Organised by ROSA Socialist Feminist Movement, the festival brings together activists, trade unionists, artists, writers, campaigners, and communities organising against misogyny, fascism, racism, capitalism, and queer oppression.
I’m really looking forward to being part of it again this year as a speaker in:
Beyond the Binary: Intersex Liberation and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy
The workshop will explore intersex liberation through a feminist and socialist lens, looking at bodily autonomy, medical violence, the policing of sex and gender, and the growing attacks on trans and intersex people internationally. Drawing on my work with Intersex Ireland, ILGA Europe, and wider activist organising, I want the session to open discussion about how healthcare systems, state institutions, and reactionary politics continue to regulate bodies that do not fit narrow gender norms.
For those unfamiliar with my work, I’m an intersex activist, cyclist, feminist, writer, and organiser involved in queer and feminist organising across Ireland and Europe. Much of my work focuses on bodily autonomy, healthcare justice, trans and intersex rights, and resisting the far right’s growing obsession with controlling bodies, gender, and identity.
ROSA has consistently organised around socialist feminism rooted in solidarity, collective liberation, workers’ struggles, reproductive justice, anti-racism, and LGBTQIA+ liberation. At a time when reactionary politics is expanding across Ireland and internationally, spaces like Bread & Roses matter enormously.
The festival itself looks incredible.
Friday’s programme includes discussions on:
- the legacy of the feminist wave in Ireland from Repeal to I Believe Her
- bell hooks and Black feminist traditions
- ecofeminism and climate justice
- art and resistance
- why fascists are obsessed with controlling bodies and why resistance to the far right must be socialist feminist
Saturday includes panels and workshops on:
- AI, fascism, and misogyny
- Palestinian liberation
- trad wives and fascist aesthetics
- trans healthcare and medical misogyny
- revolutionary feminist history
- gender violence
- mental health under capitalism
- the manosphere and misogynistic radicalisation
- the church-state nexus behind Ireland’s history of institutional misogyny
There will also be poetry, music, photography, crafts, bookstalls, and space to meet organisers and communities involved in struggles across Ireland and beyond.
More than anything, Bread & Roses creates a space for political discussion, solidarity, creativity, and collective resistance at a moment when all of those things are urgently needed.
I’d genuinely love if some of you came along and joined us.
Tickets are low-cost and help directly fund the festival. Once tickets are gone, entry will not be possible without one.
Full Festival Ticket:
https://projectartscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873685537
Friday Ticket:
https://projectartscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873685540
Saturday Ticket:
https://projectartscentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873685541
Hope to see some of you there .
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