Luggs

Crazy how as soon as the weather is a lil warm in naarm life seems beautiful again

But it can’t be taught !

Wish I could teach a class on my excellent taste in music

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program Statement on Meanjin Closure 11 September 2025 The creative writing program at the University of Melbourne is distressed by the recently announced closure of Meanjin, one of Australia's oldest and most revered literary journals. Its international reputation carries Australian stories and voices to the world. For 85 years, Meanjin has supported, elevated and launched the careers of a staggering number of writers, including many of our own staff and students; it's also an important resource for all teachers and students of Australian literature. The Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature, Professor Tony Birch, says, 'Meanjin has been a major supporter of Blak writers and artists in Australia. Without the support of such a significant literary and cultural journal, many of us would not have been able to publish as emerging writers and may not have gone on to have a publishing life at all. We must ensure that such support continues. If Australian society is genuinely committed to truth-telling, these truths will be told by Blak artists.' As writers and creative writing academics, we know how precious journals like Meanjin are to the continuing development of Australian literature, although of course its scope goes far beyond that. While we hope new literary journals continue to emerge, Meanjin is irreplaceable. It has survived for almost a century, through the Second World War, the Cold War and numerous budget crises, and has retained its undeniable significance as part of the University of Melbourne and Melbourne University Press. It continues to publish vital, timely work that, to paraphrase Sylvia Martin, keeps the intellectual and aesthetic fires of this continent alight.

We continue to hear from our students and will be sharing more of their responses. From two: "Meanjin has and will always be the one literary magazine I look up to when I think of literary perfection." "Meanjin was my dream publication. I feel that yet another opportunity has been taken from me before I can even get my foot in the door." These students are completing their degrees while our industry is in crisis. Now is the moment that we, the University of Melbourne, must step up. The cost of maintaining Meanjin to the University is minimal, but the value is enormous. As the University of Melbourne Public Humanities initiative puts it 'culture is something that we care for, just as it cares for us.' We call on the University of Melbourne to embrace its responsibilities to students, staff and the public good by acting promptly and housing this important journal within its Community and Cultural Partnerships portfolio and resourcing it appropriately for the long term. Meanjin is vital to each and every member of the creative writing program and we can't imagine our future without it. Dr Romy Ash, Dr Clem Bastow, Dr Quinn Eades, Dr Rachel Hennessy, Dr Andy Jackson, Dr Odette Kelada, Bec Kavanagh, Dr Emma Marie Jones, Dr Liz MacFarlane, Dr Helen Milte, Dr Cath Moore, Dr Nadia Niaz, Dr Radha O'Meara, Associate Professor Eddie Paterson, Dr Hayley Singer, Dr Soren Tae Smith, Associate Professor Maria Tumarkin, Associate Professor Julienne van Loon, Dr Jessica Zhan Mei Yu.

A collective statement from my University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program colleagues and I about the closure of Meanjin - and thank you to Julienne and Bec for representing us at the rally!

The cost cutting decisions of Uni melb are certainly interesting/ stupid

A good time to remind people that Bob Katter is a cousin-once-removed of articulate pacifist Khalil Gibran:

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Sorry I can’t hear you I’m in the bath

Anyone else addicted to the news

Up late looking at my beautiful boyfriends fashion tumblr

Nothing more beautiful than seeing a grown man frolicking with a dog. Just two friends enjoying each other’s company.

Don’t want to know about cuties coming to the event only want to know about esteemed colleagues in attendance

Just saw an older woman do a sign of the cross before eating a slice of pizza

Left a party to go stare at the moon and sigh for 3 hours

Driving life’s highway in a lowered commodore

Obsessed with her

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

This beautiful chode of a candle

As a tutor when a give a 79 I give it with so much love and that’s what makes me so annoying as a tutor

Like Kumanjayi Walker who was shot by Zachery Rolfe, this young person is from Yuendumu too. Imagine the sadness, anger and fatigue this community is experiencing in the face of ongoing police brutality and violence. #stopBlakdeathsincustody

Every single young Australian would need to order 4,888 t-shirts from Temu each year (13 per day) to match Woodside's current emissions.

And to reach Woodside's maximum emissions estimates for the North West Shelf Extension? They would each need to order 214,571 t-shirts. #woodsideenergy

Art exists only in relation to the inevitability of death. There is no “AI art.”

Daily

A woman in bed next to her dog, curled up with her head on a pillow

The situation

Shoutout to this yogurt for keeping my house high in protein

My house goes through an average of one 900g tub of yoguri (high protein yogurt from aldi) approx daily

James Baker dies aged 71: the big beat behind some of Australia’s most influential garage-rock With his lifelong bowl cut, the musician was a totem of punk style and sound, drumming in Hoodoo Gurus, Beasts of Bourbon, the Scientists and others

James Baker dies aged 71: the big beat behind some of Australia’s most influential garage-rock www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

Mazzy Star’s Fade into you playing at the Uni pharmacy while I buy more pseudoephedrine

Gian ‘I felt compelled to publish our potentially worrying, arguably unseemly texts, in which we discussed buying, selling, trading and using a broad assortment of illegal drugs’

Deeply moved by Tao Lin’s essay on friendship, drugs, creativity, loss granta.com/gian/

The collective state of being on one