Sometimes I have a whinge in academic form.

"The creative adult is the child who has survived." -- Ursula K. Le Guin

The care, commitment, solidarity from artists/arts workers was palpable last night here in the belly of the beast. Free, Free Palestine, stop artwashing genocide. #GazaBiennale Me with my research colleague, Dr Han Reardon-Smith - @cyberbanshee.bsky.social‬ who writes about it below.

Activists gathered outside London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) to show support for the Gaza Biennale and protest the ICA’s sponsorship ties.

beautiful eve w Prof @sandyosullivan.bsky.social at the Gaza Biennale event n protest outside the Institute of Contemporary Art (more info in the thread below). what an honour to join the Palestinian and solidarity community in london, along w artists n arts workers, to affirm the power and…

We are currently running a survey that focuses on queer Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander gaming practices. Particularly, asking about character creation, representation, playing and watching practices. Here is the link to the survey: limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/75...

A spread from The Nightmare Sequence. This book is meant to be our way of honouring the living as well as the dead, but I’m desperately afraid that by the time it is out in April, the portraits of living Palestinians will instead be memorials of martyrs. Allah yerhamon.

I'm still surprised at queer studies scholars who seem incapable or uninterested in writing about gender - or queerness in general - without automatically connecting it to sexuality. It's as though they can't parse queerness without discussing sexuality.

Vaccination/Immunization is at a tipping point. We have to call our Senators.

The track is 'Cracks Everywhere' by my dear friend and brilliant artist and @radioreversal.bsky.social co-producer Han Reardon-Smith, in collab with Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra, feat. words from Nick Montgomery & carla bergman's Joyful Militancy - track released next week!! You can cry too!

I'm so excited for @radioreversal.bsky.social tmw - our theme is 'Cracks Everywhere', & I've got contributions from dear friends-comrades-scholars-activists-artists reflecting on the moments, events, practices, relationships, etc. that have sustained them in communities of struggle & care this year

so lovely ! forever an honour to work with Prof 💗