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

The new issue of @parapraxismag.bsky.social is dedicated to Joshua Clover.

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

In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.

My book now has a cover! Out from @haymarketbooks.org in November

Trust no one. Also... submit an abstract to our ACLA panel on "Conspiracism" when the portal opens on August 1! (with @lalouverouge.bsky.social and @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) www.acla.org/seminar/a770...

paradox, you say

This should be more than ample grounds for Segal to step down from the Envoy position

influenza b confinement portrait

Our universities are on the line. Join NTEU members today fighting for a better future for higher education: nteu.au/join Read the full media release here: nteu.info/mr-mqcuts

Comrades! Friends! Nemeses! The CfP for the annual meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies is open until next Friday, 11th of July. Send us your abstracts on all things law, political economy and modern authoritarianism. The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.

It’s such dark times at ANU

I will be presenting at this rad symposium on Mitchell's Psychoanalysis & Feminism 50 years on with my dream-babe co-writer @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social - it's in-person at U Melb or online via Zoom: register at link below <3

Khalil is walking through the gates, lined with razor wire overhead. Leaving the LaSalle ICE processing center where he has been detained for over 3 months.

“As Merchant makes so startlingly clear, there will be a tipping point, a reckoning, a break, an ultimate end, and it may not be that far off." @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social reviews “Endgame.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/conspiracism-nationalism-decline/

An event in Berlin tonight with the illustrious Virgil Taylor at AGIT www.pinko.online/pinko-in-ber...

A remembrance/tribute to Joshua Clover, written by some of the @ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social faculty: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/j...

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

As Gaza faces mass starvation, I wrote about Israel’s new militarised aid plan (to be run by a ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ headed by a former US sniper) and the call for a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy to break the siege. www.abc.net.au/religion/as-...

working with the rain app jacked up high in my ears to block out the sound of apocalyptic rain outside, i.e. having a normal one

"It would be easy to give up the ghost, to let psychoanalysis go. But why should psychoanalysis retreat from collective symptoms back into the consulting room for individual treatment?" -The Editors introduce Issue 06 www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...