Katherine Hills

The decision to close Meanjin misunderstands its wider importance. Australian culture deserves better The decision to close Meanjin is the latest in a string of recent decisions that suggest universities are not safe harbours for priceless cultural institutions.

If Melbourne University Publishing doesn’t want to keep publishing Meanjin, they should hand over the journal to someone worthy of the responsibility. Me in The Conversation theconversation.com/the-decision...

A Pioneering Photographer Revives Her Slide Show of Lesbian Life Between 1979 and 1984, Joan E. Biren’s travelling images served as a vehicle for transformation and community building.

Between 1979 and 1984, Joan E. Biren travelled around, displaying photographs of queer women across history. JEB’s story, which is the subject of a new documentary, shows how radical it is to establish and share images of a marginalized community.

Mary Read spent much of her life disguised as a man, and became a pirate in the late 1710s. During a battle with pirate-hunters, she's said to have screamed at her male crew members, “If there’s a man among ye, ye’ll come up and fight like the man ye are to be!” #LegendaryWednesday

Thanks so much, Bleu! That means a lot! 💙🙏

Restlessness, Hobart, 1999 by Katherine Hills Katherine Hills is an emerging writer with a Masters in Creative Writing.

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Happy to share that my short memoir, Restlessness, was published in an online anthology through Writers Vic.

I wrote this piece while taking part in Writeability Goes Online.

Content warning: My piece covers themes of violence, abuse, and self-harm.

Kelly Gardiner and Sharmini Kumar in conversation Join us to hear from Kelly Garniner and Sharmini Kumar for a Sisters in crime event, discussing Caroline Bingley, Private Detective: Two years...

Hobart friends! Come hear Sharmini and me talk about Miss Bingley, Regency crime, Jane Austen, and Georgian life - in gorgeous Georgian Hobart.
6pm, 11 June, Dymock's Books, 70 Murray Street. www.trybooking.com/events/landi...

A collection of biscuits made to look like stained glass window fragments. There are six larger biscuits featuring different faces: a woman looking downwards; a griffin-like creature with wings and a long neck; an old man with long facial hair; a woman with golden hair and a simple tiara; a bald man painted in monochrome; a man with curled hair and striking eyes. The larger biscuits are surrounded by a scattering of smaller fragments. There is a jewel-red fragment in a triangular shape, a small green rectangle, and a bright blue semi-circular shard painted with a leaf pattern. Other small biscuits have bold black-and-white patterns made up of lines, circles, and floral shapes. Many of the biscuits are made to look dirty and scratched.

From Arts & Crafts patterns to medieval archaeology.

These biscuits recreate stained glass fragments found a few years ago in the triforium of Westminster Abbey.

A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵

First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

Why the World’s First Celebrity Sex Therapist Had to Flee the Nazis In 1896, penning his first gay-rights pamphlet, German-Jewish physician Magnus Hirschfeld staked a provocative claim: sexual orientation is a continuum. Between extremes of heterosexuality and homo…

@brookfiles.bsky.social on why Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a queer pioneer of the study of human sexuality, had to flee the Nazis.

Drafting Mrs. Dalloway: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece Virginia Woolf was a messy writer. Her surviving drafts are often stained by cigarette ash or a dog’s pawprints. The large wooden tables she preferred in her writing rooms were covered with manuscr…

@markhussey.bsky.social chronicles how Virginia Woolf began drafting Mrs. Dalloway.

Image of cover of book Miles Franklin Undercover by Kerrie Davies, reviewed by Ann Skea in the Newtown Review of Books.

"a fine example of a mixture of fiction and fact that brings history and people to life in an absorbing and authentic way."
Ann Skea reviews Kerrie Davies' creative nonfiction Miles Franklin Undercover:
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#MIlesFranklin
#AustralianWriters
#BookSky 💙 📚

YouTube video by QBDBooks QBD Crime Club: "Barren Cape" by Michelle Prak

It was a joy to be part of QBD's Crime Club once again. Host Victoria Carthew is a true professional, exuding the joy of books, and au fait with all the intricacies of Barren Cape. Listen via the QBD Books podcast or see the YouTube clip below💙

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Sea pigs, icefish and trilobites: Antarctica’s mysterious marine life – in pictures Characterised by darkness and cold temperatures, the extreme environment of Antarctica’s deep sea is largely unexplored. Now, after a special marine science voyage, a team aboard Australia’s national ...

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After braving the wilderness for 500 days, Valerie is heavier than ever. Has someone been feeding the mini dachshund? Kangaroo Island mayor also notes a silky coat on the dog, while Kangala Wildlife Rescue says ‘possums or cats out there were grooming her’

After braving the wilderness for 500 days, Valerie is heavier than ever. Has someone been feeding the mini dachshund?

Authors & Artists for Palestine watermelon logo

Screenshot from the auction site showing the cover of Salvage

I’ve donated one of my precious author copies of Salvage to this auction for Palestine. Pre-release and signed!

Lots of good things on offer, please bid if you can afford it & share around.

Grateful for all the solidarity in a time of devastating news.

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This is dreadful! 😠

Pacific Music Co. 437-439 So, Broadway Los Angeles, Cal. Piano Prices Murdered It is a shame, But they must go. NOW

Piano Prices Murdered--It is a shame, but they must go

The San Bernardino County Sun
Jun 6, 1906

Instead of obsessing about Climate 200's crowdfunding to support candidates committed to saving our planet, maybe the media could focus more on Atlas Network's funding of individuals and organisations to promote climate denialism and undermine democracy to benefit the (very) privileged few?

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | How To Vote 2025

Every election, we've made a video to help voters understand how our preferential voting system works. This is for the 2025 election. If you find it helpful, pls share with your family, friends and pets. Good luck Australia! 💛🗳️

📌 ICYMI: this is satire, NOT official electoral advice!

Runaway kangaroo on the loose named Sheila shuts down Alabama interstate Marsupial spotted hopping along side of interstate before police surrounded area and owner used dart to tranquilize it A runaway kangaroo named Sheila shut down a stretch of interstate in Alabama on Tuesday before state troopers and the animal’s owner wrangled the wayward marsupial. The Alabama law enforcement agency said the kangaroo was spotted on Tuesday hopping along the side of Interstate 85 in Macon county, which is between Montgomery and Auburn. Continue reading...

Runaway kangaroo on the loose named Sheila shuts down Alabama interstate

It begins!

This is how it works. Your vote is counted and if after they are all counted your first preference cannot win they are eliminated and your vote goes to your second preference. If your second preference can’t win your vote goes to your third preference and so on until someone wins in your electorate

As the Australian election approaches I would like to once again remind Australians we have preferential voting. If you vote for a minor party or independent as first preference it is NOT a “wasted vote” because you preference the major you support later. …

Remember you don’t have to follow the preferences in a how to vote card, if the party you support have made a shit preferences deal ignore their toilet paper and vote the preferences the way YOU want.

Gender Queer graphic novel reapproved for sale in Australia after federal court fight to ban book Complaints about the book focus on cartoon sex scenes, one of which has been described by critics as ‘pornographic’ and ‘paedophilic’

Bernard Gaynor loses his bid to have Gender Queer banned for a second time. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A woman with long hair holds up a book with a coastal image; the cover title is BARREN CAPE.

OUT NOW 💙
BARREN CAPE is a thriller set against Australia's homelessness crisis. Thank you to everyone who played a part in this book.

Can't wait for you to meet Mac, Erika and Brex - and behold the choices they make!

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#BarrenCape

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025! Children's Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown - to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a girl, not a boy, like everyone thought at first. But when Atara reads the story of Queen Esther, on the Jewish holiday of Purim - she realises that you don't need a costume to express who you really are...

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025!

Children's Just Like Queen Esther by Ari Moffic and Kerry Olitzky (text) and Rena Yehuda Newman (illustration) Atara loves to wear her crown - to the library, to the dentist, even to her swim lessons. It gives her confidence, and shows the world that she is a…

Why Walking Helps Us Think Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

A close-up of the wall painting

A picture taken in the banquet hall, showing columns and wall paintings

Exceptional new discovery in
#Pompeii: large frescoed banquet hall with stunning wall paintings emerged

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