@brocklesnitch.bsky.social wrote this and i thoroughly enjoyed reading it and yes it was very funny www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What’s this? Yet more research concluding that robust public investment in the arts yields economic benefits? A great outcome for Ireland, and a rebuke to all those tired cliches about freeloading artists sapping the resources of the state. But also, art enriches us all, economic benefits or no.

It’s been amazing sweetie 🫶🏼

I’ve been collecting jade for over 30 years, so to see this collection in the Shanghai History Museum is a culmination of many long-held dreams.

Such a joy to read poetry to students at the Shanghai Community International School today 🌟

This city—this magic city—✨

“the nobel can’t possibly award an Asian lady after it awarded an Asian lady last year” and ofc they’re kind of right? it just tells you what kind of prize it is

Pay attention to the language that will be used by much of the media. The Global Sumud Flotilla never entered Israeli waters. They are in international waters attempting to reach Palestinian waters. Israel is once again breaking international law

Just me, the poet Eileen Chong, writing poems in a cafe in the building where the novelist Eileen Chang lived 😱😱😱

I hate it when people compare the amount of heat the ocean has absorbed to the power of atomic bombs dropped on Japan. It’s gruesome and not relatable. As my Japanese PhD student said when he heard the comparison, “It’s not a good memory for us.”

New research considers the true value of Meanjin, using publicly available data. The journal has trained generations of Australian writers and editors.

Beautiful Huangyan in Taizhou, Zhejiang

‘Muslim women in particular face “the rap” of these incidents. It is well-documented that Muslim women are overwhelmingly targeted in Islamophobic attacks.’ www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

Shanghai has my heart because the people have my heart. 💗 with the esteemed writers Ms. Yin Huifen and Mr. Lou Yaofu, aka my new mum and dad, in Jiading

Stylish men of Shanghai 😍😍😍

@yilinwriter.bsky.social and I have been friends online for 5 years. We finally got to meet in person this week in the magical city of Shanghai. Here we are in the garden of the Lu Xun museum reading poetry together. 💕

A few pictures from the rally against @mupublishing.bsky.social for their disgraceful axing of Meanjin - permanent shame on those involved in the decision. Melbourne Uni once again committing cultural arson. Thanks to @beneltham.bsky.social for bringing everyone together

Shanghai, city of cats 😍😍😍

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN Thursday 11 Sep 9am Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton. A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

Eating my paternal grandmother’s favourite fruit in the land of her birth. 🫶🏼

My grandfather used to say: “Wasps get mean in autumn because they know their time is nearly done.” Certain people are like that, too…

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

“It reminds me of a piece I once wrote”… cool, Sharon, no one cares

Not one, but three people asked me for directions today. That’s how much I fit in on these streets. I actually love it.

Shanghai Writing Program 2025 officially opened yesterday. So happy to be here in the land of my ancestors sharing my poetry and meeting other writers. 💕

I am in Shanghai, China as a representative for Australia in the prestigious international Shanghai Writers’ Program. At the poetry reading on the Bund on 12 Oct, I will be reading the first poem I ever had published. It was published in Meanjin in 2010. This news is shocking & a huge blow to AusLit

It’s really strange but Shanghai feels so familiar to me because it really reminds me of Singapore in terms of landscape, architecture, urban layouts, etc. I thought it would feel much more foreign to me. But it feels like my very cells know I’m in the land of my ancestors. It’s hard to explain this

Shanghai is trying to tell me something something

Israel murders journalists www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Please come. This will be amazing

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum. IG tatterbluelibrary

I don’t understand why it isn’t socially acceptable to choose to be nocturnal. The angry hot sky ball is gone, my internet is fast, everyone finally shut up, what’s not to like

Racism affects us on ALL levels.

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

Vale sis 💔 You are greatly missed. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

A round up of some interesting menopause content including hormone levels, articles on misinformation, and a great interview on testosterone with a true world expert vajenda.substack.com/p/gyn-potpou...

Since it's a topic many people are talking about today, just want to share some resources I have found helpful when responding to someone who is actively experiencing suicidal thoughts, bc most of us are only ever told to post a hotline number and not how to actually *respond*

ChatGPT assisting a kid's suicide is surely beyond dystopian. The company should be liable and prosecuted and the entire gen-AI industry shut down. This is dark, dark timeline stuff.

Read up on the openAI chatbot and the teenager who committed suicide and what the eff Abject failure of safeguarding. Also: because that chatbot says the right words some people will inevitably think it's a person. That's how humans are wired. So that risk is baked in and should be part of use cases

The moment an Israeli airstrike shook a daycare in southern Lebanon. May none of you ever know what it’s like to have Israel as your neighbour. www.instagram.com/reel/DN1Ce2t...

My hairdresser: Do you have any inspiration photos for your haircut? Me: Yes!!!

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Yeah I’ll be right

‘Petals on a wet, black bough.’

Wendy Trevino

I love teaching poetry 💕 thank you to schools who have me! It’s wonderful to touch young minds with the magic of words.

I don’t often read novels, having little time & a lot of poetry books to get through, but I’ve just finished reading @minon.bsky.social ‘s novel ‘First Name Second Name’—such an original, complex, & moving book! I highly recommend it. Join me for the book club at ACE next Friday if you are in Sydney

Official statement by Vernon Ah Kee regarding the 2025 National Portrait Prize. www.instagram.com/p/DNkAp9WTXe...

How I keep track of my books

‘The cultural boycott of Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning of the tide. People of conscience know that if silence is demanded over a livestreamed genocide, then silence will eventually be demanded over everything else.’ www.deepcutnews.com/p/pro-israel...