Kylie M. Smith

Yay my 65 boxes onboard the Marianne Schulte are safely though the Panama Canal and en route to French Polynesia.

Just took myself to see Wuthering Heights. Emily Brontë would like a word.

NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.

Sitting here in a cafe in Newtown where I lived a long time ago under very different circumstances, after 10 years in the US and returning home as an associate professor, is making me realise how far I’ve come and how grateful I am. Maybe it is time to write that memoir 😬

Well that was fun, have a guest lecture in @hanspols.bsky.social class today and tonight talking at the @anzshm.bsky.social NSW branch AGM! Hanging around my old stomping ground Newtown in between.

Leisurely walk through ye olde colonial Sydney Uni today to talk to people at the Sydney Health Ethics Center about our book “Do Less Harm”

Well I just received an invite to be a keynote at this years Australian College of Mental Health nurses conference, because of my work in the history of mental health. It's nice to be valued for your historical work instead of maligned for it, for a change.

I feel like I can actually read for pleasure again!

Went shopping in Sydney today and bought some books at my favourite store. Catching up on all the great Aussie writers I couldn’t get in the US.

Headed to Sydney for a week of talks and teaching and seeing old friends

lawd, there is an older white man here at the archives LOUDLY complaining about his inability to access certain records even though there are laws that apply DUDE GET IN LINE

i'd love to see that

Today’s NAIDOC poster from the Queensland state archives and my two shelves of material from the 1975 Commission of inquiry into Youth.

For someone who doesn’t have a paying academic job at the moment I’m sure doing a lot of unpaid academic service 🤬

Waves in Australian who left a tenured job at an American university

Yes I did sign up and wait in line for Tame Impala pre sale tickets thank you very much

still, that's less than 7 degrees of seperation lol

Tuesday at the State Library of Queensland

German soccer team cancels Minnesota visit due to ICE crackdown Bundesliga side Werder Bremen were planning to visit in May, though no matches were scheduled.

This is what needs to happen.

Cancel the World Cup.

Cancel the Olympics.

Cancel your US vacations.

Refuse to support this regime and refuse to endanger lives.

Especially when we got a job 😂

The Gen X urge to be happy in the haze of a drunken hour but heaven knows we’re miserable now

💯 bragging lol

Stars over the South Pacific

Oh yeah. People reveal their true natures at surprising moments…

lol I’m sorry if my choosing to leave the US and live somewhere better is offensive to you (not sorry). I know it’s wild that there are better or even other places outside America where people might want to be. If you want to be snarky to me about it maybe check your jealousy #subskeet

Current situation

Feel free people from New Jersey to tell me again how great your beaches are 😂

I pretty much came home for this

White Australia has a Black History. These NAIDOC posters are in the lobby of the Queensland State Archives. Accessing records about that history though is a whole other story….

If you're wondering how far away Australia is, I had my 65 boxes picked up from Atlanta on January 5. They finally set sail yesterday and will arrive in the port of Sydney on March 26. I may be lucky and get them mid April....