“It shouldn’t be so easy to nudge people toward what might be their own destruction.” Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Talents” is a harrowing reminder of what happens when politics promises to return a nation to its former “greatness” but does so by consigning its people to exploitation and death.

This time next week we will be welcoming an incredible line-up of researchers to Monash's Caulfield campus in Naarm/Melbourne and via Zoom, for our tenth (!!) Digital Intimacies conference! Draft program here: drive.google.com/file/d/1o3A5...

We're launching this report, led by Prof Kerry Robinson, on Tuesday Dec 3 at Western Sydney Uni (and online), 11am AEDT. "Speaking Out at Work: Sexual harassment of LGBTQ young people in the workplace & workplace training" DM me if you'd like the link to register. www.anrows.org.au/project/sexu...

NZ STS conference with separate panels On gender and hormones! www.ichst2025.org/approved-sym...

New open-access journal launched: Public Humanities. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Highered