Aisling Walsh

@aislingwalsh

Writer & Researcher Sociology post-doc at University of Galway Fiction Reader at Anomaly Litmag I write about movies and neurodivergence at: Proud #NeuroQueer (She/Her)

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Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· 9d

This is what an actual *hero* of Irish music looks like:

Sinead o'connor tearing up a photo of the pope on Saturday Night Live

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· 24d

The only real problem with having pink hair is that, in the summer, bees often mistake me for a source of pollen 😆

White woman with short pink hair, kind of curly, and green acetate glasses staring into the middle distance

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Jul 6

We have one of these in Ireland too... Another "victim" of "cancel culture" who keeps getting bylimes in major newspapers about being "cancelled" 🤔

Headline from The Telegraph "John Boyne: Stop calling me ‘queer’ – it’s derogatory and traumatising
If you’re gay or lesbian and choose to embrace the term, then good luck to you – but don’t force it on the rest of us"

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Jul 2

An evening walk and some low-key sabotage 😎

An antiimmigration sticker on a black pole in a park, with a map of the world with Ireland in green and Africa and India marked as yellow and orange with black arrows drawn on leading from Ireland to Africa, India, Australia, North and South Amercia saying "it's not immigration it's settler colonisation"

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Jul 2

Fixed it!

Antiimmigration map written over to show many of the places where Irish people participated in settler colonialism

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Jul 2

Found a whole trail of fresh stickers on our regular lunchtime walk with the dog and I cannot stress how sick I am of this BS... #irelandforall #noborders #speirgorm

Half peeled off anti-immigrant stickers on a public sign

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Mar 5

Bridgerton is my medicine... I can't stress how much I need this right now

Photo of a Bridgerton ball with Mr. & Mrs. Mondrich

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Feb 21

Autistic people everywhere 👀

Screenshot of sponsored add from the guardian with a caption "I was fed up with discussing the weather, so I started to ask unexpected questions. The conversations that resulted were revelatory" followed by a photo of a white woman with medium length brown hair in a grey blazer and white "stone roses" t-shirt, followed by the article headline "A moment that changed me: I gave up small talk for a month and the world came alive."

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Jan 21

It took almost two years for the cat to voluntarily perch on the top of the cat tree that was bought specially for her 😹

Tabby cat sitting on top of a beige cat tree with a hanging plant in.the front of the photo

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Jan 20

Imagine surviving since 2023 only to then get COVID? Please support Doaa if you can. Thank you 🙏 www.gofundme.com/f/f8njhg-gaz...

My little boy, whom I waited so long for, has now been diagnosed with the advanced stage of the coronavirus. His symptoms are excruciating; it's ravaging his fragile body. He can't bear the pain, he vomits everything he eats, his fever won't break, he's lost 5 kilos, and he's unable to breathe or move. His condition is very critical. Please donate to help him with treatment and hospital costs; everything here is expensive.

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Jan 20

My Spelling Bee game is on 🔥

Screenshot of spelling bee app daily game with first two words found: "dildo" and "dildos"

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Jan 5

A quote Jonathan Harker's diary, or my own ruminations over morning coffee? 🤔

Book cover with a quote from Jonathan Harker in Dracula: 'I doubt; I fear; I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul'

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Dec 29

After years of muddling through the worlds of journalism and creative writing, it felt like things finally began to come together in 2025. I'm so grateful to have found many wonderful homes for my words and opportunities to collaborate with a growing literary community! See links below 🧵

A photo collage of screenshots from articles from 2025 including pieces for disability_visibility, electric literature, frazzledlitmag science for the people channel_mag, healing is my special interest with d_l_mayfield, little white lies, the irish independent, newislandbooks, literary hub and freedomtowrite2025 !

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Dec 11

My lesbian humour proves too niche...

Screenshot of instagram post with christmas crackers with bottle openers, screwdriver and carabiners with the word luxury blocked out by lesbian

Screenshot of instagram post with a book festival anouncement for Sarah waters followed by starstruck, wave, fingering and fire emojis

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Dec 10

You will be visited by three spirits

Still from Priscilla Queen of the Desert with Bernadette, Felicia and Tic in a hotel room raiding the mini cabinet, Felicia and Tic are in full drag

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Nov 29

Send help... 😹

I'm lying on a blue bed spread with a Tabby cat wrapped around my neck!

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Nov 10

Half way there!

Picture of me in a black sweater with a tabby cat stretched across my torso and a copy of Philip Pullman's the book of dust open on the bed lying face down

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Nov 3

Accounting kitty 😻 I can forgive her for messing up the receipts I spent the last hour organising ( 😭 ) because she's just so cute 😻😻😻

Tabby cat sitting on meal receipts laid out on a couch with a woven red cover

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Nov 2

All current or former colonial powers/settler colonial states 🧐

Languishing below Britain are the Netherlands, English-speaking Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain, which is the least nature-connected of the 61 nations surveyed.

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Oct 9

A message from Gaza this morning 🥹

Screenshot of whatsapp message from Doaa in Gaza: the war is over with two crying emojis and a tearful smiley face

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Sep 26

In this house we feed our minds along with our bodies (or we just stick our books wherever we find space) 🤓

Photo of a book (Neither Settler Nor Native by Mahmood Mamdani) stuck into a box of food from our pantry

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Sep 20

Doaa and I chat almost every day, she sent me this video earlier in the week when we were swapping pet pics, because even in the midst of this horror we can find commonalities & ways to connect💜 They have been displaced yet again & need help www.gofundme.com/f/f8njhg-gaz...

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Aug 30

This is beyond anything...

[30/08/2025, 21:52:20] Doaa: I'm tired of thinking and being afraid
[30/08/2025, 21:52:40] Doaa: I expect I will die
[30/08/2025, 21:52:58] Doaa: If I die you can send money to my children don't forget them

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Aug 30

A tent in G@z@ now costs $2000... $2000 for basic shelter, just try and imagine that...

WhatsApp conversation with Doaa this evening:

[30/08/2025, 20:41:36] Doaa: Hello, how are you now? We are displaced. I want to buy a tent urgently.
[30/08/2025, 20:43:34] Aisling: Hi Doaa, that's fine, just let me know what you prefer
[30/08/2025, 21:08:34] Doaa: The cost of the tent is $2,000. 😞
[30/08/2025, 21:08:55] Doaa: I will buy one for me and one for my husband's family

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Aug 24

Abolitionist kitty 😻

My tabby cat on the windowsill in the sunshine lying half-way out of her iglo and reading the cover of an Angela Davis edited volume "ABOLITION. FEMINISM. NOW."

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Aug 24

Pyschiatrists are literally out there making up whole new personality categories because they can't accept that autistic people can be creative, empathetic and sustain loving and healthy relationships 🤦‍♀️

Screenshot from Rami Kaminski's website where he explains the concept of otrovert and otherness: Otherness is not a cognitive or emotional disorder.
Otherness is a personality trait. As opposed to relational disorders such as Asperger's syndrome or personality disorders, otroverts are empathic and friendly, with no problem creating loving relationships. In fact, there is no obvious distinction from any well-adjusted individual. The distinction lies in the inability to belong.

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Aug 21

Meet my stalker:

Screenshot of email from duolingo with subject line: "Nobody ignores me... for long. Do your lessons."

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Aug 19

Lost count of how many times John's been "cancelled" at this stage! And yet, somehow, he still publishes books and writes regular opinion pieces for major newspapers 🤔

Screenshot of Skeet from John Boyne saying he wrote a piece for the Telegraph about the polari prize with preview of the article featuring the obligatory photo of JB himself and the title "here's what happened when they tried to cancel me... my nomination for the polari prize led to this year's award being abandoned entirely

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Aug 17

RIP Queen

Terence stamp in priscilla queen of the desert, dressed in ostrich drag

Aisling Walsh@aislingwalsh· Aug 15

John Boyne's "ballad" still available here for context