solidarity with my colleagues at Macquarie, what senseless and endless destruction

In "Sex Isn't Real," @beansvelocci.bsky.social traces the history of attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life, demonstrating that it is not the cis people who fit the categories but the categories that flex to make them fit. Read the intro for free now! buff.ly/TinoJLg

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

back on my bullshit (writing about Gertrude Stein)

Next week, Toronto friends, w/ @routhier.bsky.social @sorenmau.bsky.social

some little detached reflections from fred jameson on the situation of the university after reagan

Sarah Brouillette (@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's (@lalouverouge.bsky.social) Solidarity With Children, from @haymarketbooks.org—a deft Marxist-feminist, abolitionist call to liberate children from the status of parental property. proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/h...

Sharing a practice of reading with children is also a practice of listening to children: “What are you thinking about? What are your questions?“ @lalouverouge.bsky.social

In doing some research for a talk on the influence of 1980s radical Sydney (esp corporeal feminism) and AIDS activism on the work in STS of @cwaldby.bsky.social, learned about her 1st academic talk (1983) at the annual Marxist summer school - see poster #STS @aussts.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social

this is so craven lol. and for woody allen? for a MOOC?

is a sandwich a speech act

bless my British comrades for pronouncing the g in banger, I adore it

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

A so-called precept in the practice of news coverage is that “if it bleeds, it leads.” Well, apparently, if a Palestinian is bleeding, this isn’t true.

New one from James Parker and me - wading into the fights between artists and AI companies. We suggest artists need a vocabulary beyond copyright to articulate their grievances: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

School of Humanities & Languages #unsw is hiring TWO postdoctoral fellows in history! 2 years fixed term, open to different specialisations. Deadline is Nov 2 external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Forty-five jobs are set to be cut at the Art Gallery of NSW (around 11% of the 385 full-time equivalent roles) including the curator of Australian art, the curator of Asian art, the music and community curator, the curator of film in international art, a new librarian, and a paper conservator.

NEW from Drop Site: Israel Illegally Boards Humanitarian Flotilla Heading to Gaza Participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla are being detained by the Israeli military and taken into custody. Our full report ⬇️ www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-ill...

happy fortieth @andrew-brooks.bsky.social

"The ABC let down the Australian public badly when it abjectly surrendered the rights of its employee Ms Lattouf to appease a lobby group." Justice Rangiah said. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

It should not be possible to be this wrong

A more apt headline for this would be: Collective pressure by staff forces ANU management to abandon its plans for forced redundancies. Well done to ANU staff.

hell of a week to be reading @alfatau.bsky.social on Late Fascism

first day of teaching and I’m in my emotional support bespoke JClo last para of Roadrunner tshirt

Melbourne’s hospital cancelled their seminar on “children and war” because they were worried it might offend the people who support war

Read this book!

"There are not only two genders" is a legitimate expression of a fairly uncontroversial, centuries-old viewpoint held by cultural traditions found around the globe. It is in fact the statement "there are only two genders" that is the imposition of a partisan view. TA&M''s pres's decision is horrific

It’s in 😬😱

Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.

This is such a devastating decision by University of Melbourne. I am once again wondering what the fuck the point of universities is when they act like this.

I have a book cover!

loved this ep and found it very moving; also nothing could have prepared me for how Abby says “Australia”

Institutions manipulate the language of diversity, cohesion, safety and respect to categorise pro-Palestinian speech as dangerous. Silence over the killing and starvation of Palestinians becomes necessary for the smooth running of a writers’ festival. www.deepcutnews.com/p/pro-israel...

Preorder this book now! Rosa author, Rosa fave, Rosa icon, Madeline. Can't wait to read, hype, cite, and love this book.

Rosa Press has collated a folio of tributes in memory of our friend Joshua Clover. Please read pieces by @lalouverouge.bsky.social @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social @charmainechua.bsky.social Oki Sogumi, Mark Steven, @andrew-brooks.bsky.social + @alorange.bsky.social here: rosapress.net/joshua-clove...

Blowing up your small-town writers festival because your local university needs to crack down on free speech because there’s a genocide we can’t talk about is so utterly on-brand for Australian culture. Cowards and fools 3-deep at the canapés tray

The blood of Anas al-Sharif and other slain journalists is on the hands of Western media figures who have justified Israel’s crimes while ignoring, or excusing, the killing and intimidation of Palestinian journalists.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Congrats to Dr Thao Phan, winner of the Australian Academy of the Humanities 2025 Max Crawford Medal for her exemplary scholarship investigating dynamics of race and gender in algorithmic culture @thaophan.bsky.social #AlgorithmicCulture #MaxCrawfordMedal #GenderStudies admscentre.org/47nJF1g

NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide. #MarchForHumanity (🎥 Ema Franklin)

Absolutely huge scenes on the Harbour Bridge today

Israel is still shooting the civilians it is starving after enticing them to come for aid. The air drops and pauses don’t change the pitiless calculus of genocide.

Open letter against the adoption of the Australian Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism’s Plan: "These proposed measures have nothing to do with combating antisemitism, and everything to do with limiting and censoring criticism of Israel and stifling freedom of speech on Palestine."

The government of Israel is exterminating every man, woman and child in Gaza. And our governments, and most leaders of liberal institutions in "the West" - parties both left and right, the press, universities - are doing all they can to support this. This is the central political fact of our time.

“Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed.” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

The propensity of human beings to ascribe consciousness to anything that has googly eyes slapped on it is absolutely going to be our downfall