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I was just thinking of Rebecca Solnit’s hilarious essay in Men Explain Things to Me…and reflecting on how when I first joined staff how two old male professors approached me to congratulate themselves on my success in bring appointed.

See Clara Journal Issue 14 CFP
On Uncertainty, edited by Clara and guest editors Eliyahu Keller and Uri Wegman

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Reviews by @liskachan.bsky.social, Aaron Cayer, @timothyaschuler.bsky.social, Hugh Campbell, Sandy Isenstadt, @hjfrichot.bsky.social, @drbrandi.bsky.social, @fallonphd.bsky.social, @gavinvh.bsky.social & Alexander Bala.

Ethel, you’ve made my day! I need to read myself to cheer up maybe! Hugs

Join us! Launch on Gadigal land, 8 April The work of desire, the work of identity, the work of standing still. The work of giving life, the work of telling truth, the work of making a home. This season, Meanjin’s writers are calling us to…

Sydney! Join me Tuesday evening at Gleebooks for the launch of @meanjin.bsky.social 84.1 Autumn 2025 with feature interviewee Winnie Dunn, poet Vanessa Proctor, and Dutton falsehood cataloguer Daniel Hurst:
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….forthcoming…

Save the date for an intersectional Architects4Future exhibition and city walk in Berlin.

If you're in Torino or thereabouts, come see me speaking and in conversation with the excellent Camillo Boano. "Planetarity: New Worlds and Hybrid Worlds" 16 January, 14:00, Sala Mollino, Castello del Valentino.

Street Library Lancelin Western Australia

A quintessential Aussie Christmas in the burbs…

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Whenever there is organisational misbehaviour, there is someone who excused it. It’s banter. Or they grew up in a different era. Or people are just too sensitive. Or they really didn’t mean it like that. Or that’s just how they are and you should just ignore it. 1/

When people feel that they won’t be supported if they challenge misbehaviour, when there is a belief that complaints won’t be taken seriously and nothing will be done, that’s more than a problem with individuals; that’s a problem with organisational culture.

One in 10 southern right whales alive in 1893 could have still been swimming today, study finds Researchers say species is second-longest living mammal on Earth after bowhead whales

Whale stories: “The age of bowheads…supported by archaeological evidence. This included one individual, taken in the modern Indigenous hunt in 2007, which still had an explosive Yankee Whaler harpoon tip, last manufactured in 1885, embedded in its blubber.”

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“What if birds aren’t singing they’re screaming…”
Aldous Harding

“Flap, flap, flap, flap, flap…”
Vinciane Despret

I have watched so many women full professors leave - depressing to see that reflected in these stats 👇👇👇

I’ve been sworn off social media for a while, so bad for my brain. In any case, where I’m at thecityofsoundtakesupalltheairspaceinthelocalbromance…I’m talking mansplaining like you wouldn’t believe (ps I know the difference betw archaic and anachronistic man!)

I'm not gormless. I've studied media manipulation and propaganda my entire adult life. I've run long campaigns against Murdoch media. My expectations *are* low. But seeing *literally everyone* lie and cover up the genocide and colonisation of Palestine is unforgivable. I'll never see things the same

Lessons from the Black Indigenous Atlantic In the eighteenth century, an African-Indigenous population in the Caribbean effectively prevented large-scale European enclosure on their island. Termed the “Black Caribs” within British primary d...

From @thejaeonline.bsky.social vault: Dr. Thabisile Griffin's (a historian teaching at SCI-Arc) "Lessons from the Black Indigenous Atlantic," from the JAE's Reparations! issue - theme edited by Cruz Garcia, Nathalie Frankowski (+Ema Yuizarix) + V. Mitch McEwen. Check it out here:

That means a great deal to me! Thank you!

A sketch I composed in response to one of the many leadership committee meetings I’ve enjoyed…

Having barely survived 5 years of leadership service, I know what you mean! Thinking on a planetary transversal ecological scale my brain feels like it has suffered mass coral bleaching events like the imperiled Barrier reef…

👀 lots of folks QT'ing to say: women — submit your manuscripts! I think what has to come first is: universities, fix your gendered service and teaching inequities, and society, balance out your care work, so women *have time* to write the damn manuscripts. So many women colleagues are BURNT OUT.

…what about quiet quitting?

I’ve been working on the Plantationocene in the specific context of the Seychelles islands going in search of the magic of the kreol garden. I have precious little right to this foray for my family comes from a colonial history dependent on enslaved labour…

Coming to the end of a 5 year long hard thankless slog in leadership in the market driven neoliberal user pays university system…and sadly reflecting that this is what’s called privilege today…yeah, I guess I’m a petal, easily bruised

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Please join us Tuesday 16th April 7pm at the MSD University of Melbourne for a special lecture on Collective Repair by Professor Ana Miljački, MIT Critical Broadcasting Lab.