Fuck the British Museum and their pandering to Israeli bullshit over the history of Palestine. Free Palestine!

I've a suite a poems in the latest Cordite Poetry Review. I'm still very new to poetry (and untrained) so please excuse any typos/format glitches. I'm keen to write more (and really need the money). cordite.org.au/content/poet...

^ artwork by Ngarrindjeri artist Tiarnie Edwards. Please don't pinch her work without consent. I asked her to recreate lino cut ink protest posters that were common in 1960/70s. With references to writers & poets who take a stand, and the two rivers (Jordan, and Torrens in SA). And she delivered ❤️

Proud to announce bookings (free) are open for Rivers of Reason: Blak & Arab Writers in Conversation. Monday 2 March 2026, 2.30 - 7.30 in town hall, Tarntanya (Adelaide). As part of Constellations writers festival. Info about program & speakers on booking page > events.humanitix.com/rivers-of-re...

Throwback to younger better looking me, circa 2008, trying to get the Tino Rangatiratanga flag flying on the Harbour Bridge for Waitangi day. We ended up getting it sorted. See u at Waitangi

When attacks have occurred against other communities, the government has spoken out strongly and acted quickly. First Peoples are asking why this attack against us is being treated so differently. Here's what they should do: nit.com.au/30-01-2026/2...

The only thing the Coalition have had to about Indigenous people this week is objections to the ABC showing a protest song during a show hosted a prominent blackfulla, and whinging that some people burned the colonial flag. A bomb was thrown at 2,500 Indigenous people and friends on Monday.

Anybody who snitches on refugees and migrants deserves a kicking.

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Not today, or any day

Good thing I don't currently have work, and have a background in events management. And there's a staunch advisory group of SA mob. Because frankly it wouldn't happen

Organising an exciting afternoon of Blak/Palestinian writers, to be held in SA some time in the vacant AWW timeslot (inc interstate speakers). In less than 6 weeks! Can SA mob make this happen? We can! 🔎 looks around for kind sponsors and in-kind 🔎

There didn’t used to be “white people.” There used to be English and French, Spaniards and Italians, Germans and Portuguese, Dutch and Irish. So on and so forth. “White” is a sociopolitical consolidation of power under a broadly European umbrella for the express purpose of harming others.

The autobiography concludes its section on this conversation interestingly: "I [Harry Belafonte] felt as if our moorings were unhinging. "Damn, Martin! If that's what you think, what would you have us do?" I asked. He gave me a look. "I guess we're just going to have to become firemen.""

The sentence right before the "burning house" quote: We fought hard and long, and I have never doubted that we would prevail in this struggle. Already our rewards have begun to reveal themselves. Desegregation ... the Voting Rights Act..."

the famous quote is from the end of his reply to Young. from the middle: "...we live in a failed system. Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level."

Young replies: ""Well, I don't know, Martin. It's not the entire system. It's only part of it, and I think we can fix that." King's reply begins: "I don't need to hear from you, Andy," he said. "I've heard enough from you. You're a capitalist, and I'm not."

King elaborated: I feel their rage. I feel their pain. I feel their frustration. It's the system that's the problem, and it's choking the breath out of our lives." this is what starts the conflict.

King had just arrived from Newark, where he'd had a contentious meeting with Amiri Baraka and comrades - he had tried to talk them out of pursuing a more militant, uprising based strategy there. King was frustrated: "...I wholly embrace everything they feel! It's just the tactics we can't agree on."

the last member of the group: Andrew Young, eventual mayor of Atlanta. According to Harry Belafonte (who gives this account of the conversation in his autobiography), the quote about the burning house was the outcome of a conflictual back and forth between Young and King.

Dr. King was speaking to an inner circle of activists at Harry Belafonte's NYC apartment, right after a party that had served as an informal communications strategy around the Poor People's Campaign. also in attendance: Julie Robinson Belafonte, Bernard Lee, Stan Levison, and one more in particular

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

Today's quick update [Jan 19]: - SAF drone strikes on Kulbus, North Darfur, reportedly targeting RSF positions in the area. - ICC: The Office assessed that war crimes & crimes against humanity were committed in El Fasher, including last October. #KeepEyesOnSudan

It's a problem that actual elected officials post on social media as if they are powerless observers and commentators.

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

Love this.

“Music make you lose control”

The Creative Workplaces Survey is now open. Artists and arts workers are invited to share their experiences of working in the creative industries. 🗓 Open until 23 February 2026 🔗 buff.ly/iwI87Hz

Adelaide Festival Board & Premier Peter Malinauskas made a race-based consience choice by erasuring the 10,000+ First Nations people who were massacred by British soliders, Aust police & settlers during 1788 to 1930. Some single massacres resulted in 100s of deaths. australian.museum/learn/first-...

totally the wrong platform for this but i do not care northandsouth.co.nz/2021/01/21/m...

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

i'm not being mean to you... truth is a love too valuable to miss

Reading Black and Native histories will rip the scales from your eyes, about the lies White Americans tell themselves about themselves, and their country. Which is why this administration is so insistent on re-whitening media, academia and public history (museums, etc) But. Yeah. This thread.

I wish I could believe this would make them change but I'm already seeing "If she had just complied" so...

Almost like despite proclamations to the contrary, they are getting the message that they can use “vehicle as a deadly weapon“ as an excuse to fire on people

Wake up, babe. They are censoring Palestinians at literary festivals.

Evergreen: The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

Make it viral.

My reply to the Adelaide Festival Board's email. I'll add the text in a thread. In no way do I believe this ill-conceived decision has come from the Adelaide Writers Week team. Always was always will be / From the river to the sea ✊🏾

Tara Roberts is a Black Woman Scuba Diver who works for National Geographic that goes deep into the ocean in search of lost slave ships.

Third ink block design. Still can't draw, don't have the right grade paper/board, and need to purchase a baren (pressing tool). This time, I used a rolling pin to push the paper into the inked block. This design started when the words "They came down from the hills" randomly popped into my thoughts

Make Joe Daymond an ambassador. 😤

Has anyone in the press asked how many people were killed?

The statement a leader should make after an ally has committed war crimes