Matthew Klugman (they/them)

The Encampments A documentary on the student protests in the US exposing universities’ ties to the war on Gaza, which sparked hundreds of university protests globally.

See The Encampments at @cinemanova on 8 August, 6.30pm, charting the rise of US student protests over university ties to war on Gaza. Staff and students from #universities in Melbourne are hosting a screening and Q&A with proceeds going to Palestine aid projects: events.humanitix.com/the-encampme...

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

We’re back.

Sportsbet advertises multi-bets on AFL website after pulling TV ads due to ‘community sentiment’ Ads encouraging sport fans to ‘bet now’ do not breach any rules but gambling reform advocates say it shows industry attempts to self-regulate have failed

Sportsbet regulating itself is a joke.

The Govt must respond to the Murphy Inquiry and ban gambling ads.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

Kudos to the Wapo for producing this horrifying account: every death in Gaza since 7 Oct 2023.

wapo.st/3IRLZn6

Listen to We Used To Be Journos: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...

Unpacking the sudden, strangely synchronised media concern for starving Palestinian children. Why now? What’s changed & what still hasn’t? 

A look at the caveats & spin still dominating the conversation.

+ imagine if journos weren’t chilled into looking away when I was sacked

"The social breakdown that we are witnessing, the degrading of human beings, is not a byproduct of the harm that Israel is inflicting. That’s the central element of the crime: destroying Palestinian society. The government of Israel shows no indication that it cares in the slightest whether Palestinians live or die. It wants to avoid the stigma of being accused of starvation and genocide, and the GHF is its current alibi. Let’s not be fooled." Alex de Waal is executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University in Massachusetts. He has been a humanitarian worker and written on famine and related issues for 40 years

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My book, Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport. A pinkish cover, four animated Black women playing different sports. white and black letters.

I'm holding tightly to this last week of July. I'm not ready to transition my brain back to teaching mode 😫 but, I am looking forward to the coming academic season. My book baby is on the world, and we're definitely covering aspects of it in my undergrad course on the Sociology of Sport 🤗🤗

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

Black and white image of Emmett Till in hat, white shirt, and tie.

Emmett Till would be 84 today.

Not 114. Not 104.

84.

He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.

The reason this isn't going away is because the US is home to far more survivors of childhood sexual trauma than anyone wants to admit or who have been steeping in silence, shame, anger and quiet isolation.

They identify with those victims in ways they sometimes barely realize and they are PISSED.

I’m listening, enjoy quite a few of the songs, but the performance of the nation.

Ooof and ugh…

listening to the latest episode of we used to be journos as i make a new batch of plates and when @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social said “i wish i could be a dumb bitch who talked about spray tans” i felt that in my soul 🥲

Australian media are writing nonsense about me again. Don't believe the ridiculous, privileged cancel-culture badfaith-lobbyists who get in medias ears. I have never "glorified terrorism" nor been a threat to anyone. I'm just a wee broke novelist with no power or influence... that abhors genocide

At times it almost seemed like there were two sides out there...

aflm games go for soooooo long

#woof

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

Great to see “Feminist Judgments: Reimagining the International Criminal Court” finally published! In my contribution to the volume, I re-write the ICC's decision on Bangladesh/ Myanmar in a way that foregrounds the experience of Hijra & other gender diverse people: www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Clancestry – The Visitors | Playhouse, QPAC Set in 1788, The Visitors sees a fleet arriving in the harbour as clan leaders must decide whether to send these strangers on their way or welcome them? Arriving this July at QPAC’s Playhouse Theatre.

Saw THE VISITORS last night at QPAC.

The script, cast, direction, set, everything was phenominal. Congratulations to all involved.

GO SEE IT!! And then reflect and discuss.

Countries can be sued by neighbours over climate inaction, top court finds

📢 The International Court of Justice’s historic advisory ruling paves the way for massive compensation claims from countries facing the brunt of the climate crisis.

👉 Latest bot: NZ Transport Agency - Auckland & Northland

Should never have taken this for the world's media to respond

*Checks to see how centrism is working out in the UK* oh

'DJANDJAY': Baker Boy's highly anticipated second album set for release Baker Boy has announced his second studio album 'DJANDJAY', set for release on Friday 10 October through Island Records and Universal Music. The proud Yolŋu artist rose to prominence with his debut album 'Gela,' which won five ARIA Awards including Album of the Year.

Baker Boy has announced his second studio album 'DJANDJAY', set for release on Friday 10 October through Island Records and Universal Music. The proud Yolŋu artist rose to prominence with his debut album 'Gela,' which won five ARIA Awards including Album of the Year.

*taps sign*

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza

For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

New piece written with my most precious and treasured thinking partner, @samanthapinto.bsky.social. Thinking together about exhaustion, fatigue, and being feminist and bone tired.

Why do we care about some people who go missing in the bush, but ignore others? The miraculous survival of German backpacker Carolina Wilga in the West Australian outback was met with joy and relief across the country. But for families of missing Aboriginal men who are still sear...

Why do we care about some people who go missing in the bush, but ignore others? 🤔 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

“Gender critical” by ensuring gender presentation and gender roles are policed. Slow hand clap to all involved

When tobacco ads were banned, sports in Australia didn't collapse. Neither did free-to-air TV.

So why shouldn't gambling ads be banned?

Senior Economist @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social unpacks proposed limits on gambling ads on Dollars & Sense!

#auspol