Join us tomorrow for this hybrid event. In-person 10am in Sydney, and 6pm CST via Zoom. Details below!

In a hybrid event on Oct 23, historical and speculative fiction writers Mykaela Saunders, Sara Haddad and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social reflect on histories of dispossession and imagining alternative futures of liberation. Join in-person or via Zoom. Registration link in next post.

Tomorrow!

Join us on Weds Oct 8, 2 - 4pm at USyd for a panel on the political economy of colonialism in South Asia, Palestine, and Australia with Ihab Shalbak, Suvendrini Perera and myself. Read more and register here: events.humanitix.com/colonialism-...

Join us on Weds Oct 8, 2 - 4pm at USyd for a panel on the political economy of colonialism in South Asia, Palestine, and Australia with Ihab Shalbak, Suvendrini Perera and myself. Read more and register here: events.humanitix.com/colonialism-...

Tomorrow!

Join us for "Pacific Island Migrations: From Plantations to PALM Workers" at Bankstown Arts Centre next Saturday August 23, 2 - 4pm with speakers Rosaline Parker, Moni Taumoepeau and Winnie Dunn

Join us for a timely series of events on ‘Land Justice and Climate Futures’ at Bankstown Arts Centre and the University of Sydney. Bringing together Palestinian, Aboriginal, and Pacific Islander speakers and others to discuss land justice at a time of genocide and dispossession.

Join us for a timely series of events on ‘Land Justice and Climate Futures’ at Bankstown Arts Centre and the University of Sydney. Bringing together Palestinian, Aboriginal, and Pacific Islander speakers and others to discuss land justice at a time of genocide and dispossession.

R.I.P. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ICYMI here's Ngũgĩ's appearance on the show where we explored the many ways he has fought against the "normalized abnormality" of the colonial world, in language & writing, and in the world at large tinhouse.com/podcast/ngug...

Our Sydney University Staff for Palestine group has put out a statement in support of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah We stand in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and we reject any and all attacks on academic freedom. docs.google.com/file/d/1MY0o...

I haven't been this excited to read a comms book in a long time 😊 "Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling" by @sujathaf.bsky.social

Check out the incredible doco Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat if you can. At a time when western powers are again banding together to crush anti-colonial resistance the film feels so urgent. And the music is 🔥🔥 filmforum.org/film/soundtr...

🚨BREAKING🚨 Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.

One of the last major interviews the tabla master Zakir Hussain gave was with my sister Deepa, last year. You can listen here: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Read every word of this address by the brilliant susan abulhawa massreview.org/node/12193

Our Spring 2025 catalog is here, featuring work by @atiyahusain.bsky.social, @maiagiladi.bsky.social, @jeelyachar.bsky.social, @soccerpolitics.bsky.social, @emmaamador.bsky.social, @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, and many more. Download it today! issuu.com/dukeuniver...

Hi everyone! I've really been liking this new place, so thought I'd do an intro. My name is Mike and I do ecology and epidemiology stuff. Our fieldwork season is about to go into high gear, so I'll post some photos from the glorious wetlands and bushlands around Sydney as we go.

With the xitter exodus, Palestinians in Gaza are having a harder time raising funds. Please donate, share, boost, and email your family & friends. Every little amount helps. The Gaza funds website has a spotlight campaign to help you choose gazafunds.com

Please follow this account, and support by signing up for workshops and sharing!

I'm grateful to tell the story of my great-grandfather, a lascar who drowned on the job, and my family migration to Mumbai, Sydney & NYC, alongside stories of today's migrant workers in those cities struggling to stay afloat amid precarity & climate disasters.

Full video of the historic event, "But We Must Speak: On Palestine," with Mohammed El-Kurd, Rashid Khalidi, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Michelle Alexander, Noura Erakat, and Natalie Diaz. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoCE...

Must read essay by the brilliant Palestinian novelist Hala Alyan: ‘We exist, and our existence presents an existential affront. As long as we exist, we challenge several falsehoods, not the least of which is that, for some, we never existed at all.’ www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/o...

A group of Palestinians from Gaza have circulated these demands, calling people everywhere to take action. Please share if you can 🇵🇸

Huge Palestine solidarity rally in Sydney today. More than five thousand people came out to stand for a Free Palestine on this beautiful day. End the siege on Gaza.

they did what they were told and were killed anyway.

“And yet, despite everything, there is a small, bustling world where publishers have resisted some of the constraints limiting the conglomerates, where they can exercise judgment with a little more freedom from—and about—markets.” Thank you for the shout-out @thenation.com. Vive literary fiction!

This is why we need decent public transport now www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just finished reading Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare, a story collection by Japanese and Kanaka Maoli writer @megankkakimoto.bsky.social Such a thrilling, funny, masterful debut with incisive and beautiful prose. Check it out!

"How do we build solidarity within a culture of individualism, punishment, and accumulation? Drawing connections and showing up is where we should start and return to again and again." Issue 2 of Hammer and Hope looks 🔥 Such a great selection of articles and writers hammerandhope.org

No agent? No published book? Our editors can’t wait to hear from you! Our next 📚book submissions period for nonfiction nature writing will take place Sept 2–3!🍃 Learn more about what we are looking for and how to submit your work: tinhouse.com/book-submiss...

James McBride: ‘I wrote this book like I wrote all my other books. I went out and talked to people…the gold nuggets are everywhere.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/books/james-mcbride-doesnt-read-reviews-heres-why.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

For those creating syllabi on environmental/climate justice, we have a database centering Black, Indigenous, Asian, and/or Latinx authors! Also, if you have new articles to add to the database let me know! The lab is updating the syllabus this week. https://www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus

‘You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.’ So many gems in this Paris Review interview with James Baldwin, now unlocked from the archives. https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2994/the-art-of-fiction-no-78-james-baldwin

If Bluesky seems dead or low activity on your end it might be that you haven't yet made the most of its design. It's different from Twitter in some key ways so you have to interact differently. I'm writing these tips below from my non-techy perspective, techies please weigh in if I get things wrong:

Don't miss today's Tin House Live, a craft talk given at the 2022 Tin House Summer Writers Workshop by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah about the effects of surrealist and speculative elements in his work Audio: https://tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-house-live-nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah-on-surrealism/