Alex Dane

This book rules. It is the smartest analysis of platformised self publishing, written by one of the coolest people in the discipline.

my girlfriend is struggling with bisexual visibility and representation because all her bisexual friends have boyfriends and husbands. who is representing the bisexual women with girlfriends? it’s tough out there.

Yeah make it as annoying as you can. Bring Foucault to the table. Cite Barthes.

I respond by asking if they want to know who I think is the best author or who I like the most and then they typically just walk away and regret ever talking to me.

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Shout out to the boyfriends who have taken their bisexual girlfriends to the Brunswick Picture House screening of Carol

The image has a bright yellow and orange background, with dark green bold text. In the bottom left corner there is an illustrated image of a microphone. The text says: Registration now open! Reading, Writing and Publishing in Regional Australia Online Symposium Monday 24 November 2025

Registrations are now open for our (free!) upcoming symposium! 🥳 It will be held on 24th November, running approximately between 10am and 4pm AEDT (Syd/Melb Time). It is shaping up to be a great event full of SUCH interesting research on Reading, Writing, and Publishing in Regional Australia.

I don’t feel great about Helen Garner writing about another Australian woman who has been convicted of a crime.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund sells its shares in 11 Israeli companies Managers of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund say it has sold its shares in 11 Israeli companies, a move that they say reduces its holdings in the country against the backdrop of the “serious humanitaria...

"Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has sold its shares in 11 Israeli companies, its managers said Monday, a move they said reduces its holdings in the country against the backdrop of the “serious humanitarian crisis” in Gaza."

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would love dua to wade into the first stone discourse

the only good tasmanian

I would literally rather die than use Microsoft Copilot

Gender and Prestige in Literature This book explores the relationship between gender, power, reputation and book publishing’s consecratory institutions in the Australian literary field from 1965-2015, analysing the ways in which these...

anyway, here’s a link to said book. happy to email you a pdf if you don’t have institutional access: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

feels weird to not mention that i wrote a book about gender and literary fiction that draws on an original data set detailing 50 years of prizes, reviews and festivals. i also should say that the book explores the fact that we’ve been having this debate every decade or so since the 1970s.

it’s very male loneliness epidemic coded

ok i’m prepared to say it: romulus and remus breastfed for too long.

what was going on with puppetry of the penis. that was a weird time, hey.

Shoutout to the little pad at the bottom of the raspberry container for when they get their period

Sorry for being the dumbest bitch alive but all the AI execs saying that their products will have taken over the planet by 2027 sound exactly like I did when I told prospective employers that I have the ability to attract significant public grants for queer book studies.

Chaser: “It’s boring unless you’re really engaged in it. It’s free and open to everyone, but it does self-select. But that’s the scene – that’s why literature is so good for scene making.”

Shot: “In reality, these events are unassuming and attract a diverse and expanding crowd. There’s no immovable barrier, secret password or even a ticket to enter – anyone can walk in.”

I’m deeply affected by this review of Murnane’s Border Districts on Goodreads

I understand that slogans have a purpose and are not inclusive of all ideas, but the call to "read books" as some sort of inherent defense against fascism nags at me. Which books! Reading is not in and of itself a virtue!

The Palestinian flag is now raised in the middle of Gaza City. ❤️🇵🇸

Photo of crowd at invasion day rally in Naam.

the colony will fall

i love my gf so much. yesterday, she was sitting in the backseat while i was driving and i adjusted the rear-view mirror so i could see her whole face. it was dangerous but worth it.

There Is No Safe Word How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

‘Tired of writing about dead kids’: why a US state department worker resigned over Israel-Gaza policy Mike Casey, one of only two people explicitly focused on Gaza, left over inaction and doing ‘what the Israelis want’

"We don’t have a policy on Palestine. We just do what the Israelis want us to do.” - Mike Casey, the US diplomat working on Gaza who just quit his job.

Still image of John Grant from the film Wake in Fright