Who on earth is eating two cups of beans a day?! www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Very happy that @dustpoetry.bsky.social believes in this poem! You can read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/so-many...

Thank goodness for advocates like @gemkillen.bsky.social speaking truth to those in positions of power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Literally can’t believe sometimes good things happen

Hey friends, it's a great time to subscribe to Overland! Subscriberthon is on until November 7. Loads of major and daily prizes. Plus you get to support publishing local writers in an increasingly anaemic literary environment: overland.org.au/2025/10/over...

Quandongs need to be the next big food thing I can’t believe they’re not already

Obsessed with the brilliance of Lily Allen’s new album www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

“AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy” defector.com/higher-eds-r...

My poem in the Poetry of Flight Liquid Amber anthology 🪶

The capitalism of Taylor Swift

I am presenting a summary of my upcoming book, based on my DECRA research, at the Care Lab UNSW next month. Come along if you can, in person or online: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-care-l...

I don't know how many times I have to say this, but if you are in masculinity studies and you want to write about femininity, then 👏 cite 👏 femininity 👏 studies 👏 scholars 👏

Can’t believe they didn’t note that a risk of practicing lucid dreaming is sleep paralysis!! www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

For anyone currently revising (or doubling down on) their view of Taylor Swift, may I direct you to Holly Randall Moon’s excellent analysis in our edited collection from earlier this year, well before TLOASG landed…

Setting the “days since an Australian university admitted to wage theft” back to 0 www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908934...

It’s over for us. Sex tech always yields revolutionary developments

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Second edition landing in April 2026 📚 @whitmon.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-the...

LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.

E. E. Cummings speaking from the past to our AI soaked future: "nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time-and whenever we do it, we’re not poets." redtreetimes.com/2016/05/05/a...

Who said social movements were dead

I support several trans charities with my work, including donating all royalties from my book. One of those organisations is Transgender Victoria. If you donate to them through GiveOutDay between now and 16 October, funds will be matched. Donate here: giveoutday.org.au/o/transgende...

Read yourself a poem

“I remember the human parts. And the human error is the point.” therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Delighted to read my poem at the Verge launch at Monash today, with a bonus appearance on a panel about the future of Australian lit mags

“I was wearing the knit sweater with the purple whales and I was warm. A woman screamed: Your hair! Your sweater! A texture paradise! // Someone told me they’re calling the other Sasha at work White Sasha.” —Sasha Debevec-McKenney @triquarterlymag.bsky.social www.triquarterly.org/issue-160/i-...

Consider the humble but powerful owl, silently turning your possums inside out www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Aesthetically, spiritually, and practically I want whatever the exact opposite of these AI tradwife times is. Analogue queer goth? DIY polyamorous fisherman? I need to figure this out

This

This is such a good read from @nicksturm.bsky.social on the end of The Best of The Best American Poetry, reflecting on elitism, poetry publishing, and the rottenness of the belief poetry can exist outside of the political defector.com/good-riddanc...

Love this reflection from Emi Yagi on writing (full interview here: www.booknerdtokyo.com/post/convers...)

This story in Jung’s “Synchronicity” 🙇🏻‍♂️

Why do our universities cave to the AI push when it represents such fundamental wrongs — labour exploitation, environmental catastrophe, access issues, bias, censorship, plagiarism, the list goes on 😭😭😭

Just delighted that Geraldine Fela won in the history category. Her postdoc ends next year. Hire this historian people!!! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

the first thing they teach you in advanced stats class is “numbers lie”

There will be business school case studies written about this period of ‘reform’ across our university sector.

Happy bi visibility day, from above the clouds 🩷💜💙

Rigid control of gender and sexuality: always an effective little back door into fascism and reactionary paranoia

More top #highered reporting ⁦‪from Julie Hare AFR. www.afr.com/policy/healt...

Absolutely horrific concepts for the university sector from Bill Shorten, now VC of the University of Canberra. A vision for the utter decimation of higher education

The fatal problem facing America and the West is that most people still seem to think they can op-ed their way out of this white supremacist fascist hell. You cannot commentate your way out of structural oppression. For the billionth time: organise, strike, and take action. Now

I grew up in a single parent family, but back then we had access to public housing and the single parent payment (that Julia Gillard later slashed). It was very hard then, but it must be so hard, impossible, now www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The march. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Statement of support for the Save Meanjin campaign, from colleagues in the Screen and Cultural Studies program at the University of Melbourne savemeanjin.org

I feel like — of all the art forms — poetry is totally safe from an AI takeover, simply because it makes no money ☺️

"Under the genocide convention, states must not only punish genocide but prevent it. That threshold has now been crossed. To continue with symbolic sanctions is not just morally indefensible - it is complicity." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"I’m in the dentist’s chair, he’s telling me he never much got into poetry himself, & I say that’s okay, I never got into dentistry either." theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

New: A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

Bell's departure is overdue, but this crisis is not all her fault. ‘Regulators have failed to hold universities or university councils accountable.’ - Jack Thrower australiainstitute.org.au/post/bells-d...