Rosanna Stevens

Last year icon @ashtafelix.bsky.social asked if I’d join the journey of making @melbqueerttrpgs.bsky.social eligible for support to make more opportunities happen for the Queer TTRPG community in Naarm & surrounds. I said yes! And we’re INCORPORATED NOW BABY! Cool shit ahoy! #ttrpg #queergaming

Don't forget!!!!! tomorrow is for whimsy and joy

Makunschan, Meeanjan, Miganchan, Meanjan, Magandjin Every tribe … has its own dialect, if not language … stamps their locality much, know every acre of land belonging to their ‘home’… each plant, flower, tree, shrub, grass, bird, beast, insect … eve…

For those interested in where the name Meanjin belongs, here’s a piece by Gaja Kerry Charlton, ed. by Melissa Lucashenko. Great time to remember how meaning is made through an inescapable braid of Indigenous self-determination, colonial violence, and Country. #Meanjin

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QUT - Meanjin QUT will be the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane for the first time in 80 years.

Rad news that Meanjin is returning to Yagara Country. What a great transit for this journal. Keen to see First Peoples at the helm, moving the body of the journal as is needed! Can’t wait to subscribe to this next chapter.

www.qut.edu.au/about/meanjin

QUT - Meanjin QUT will be the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane for the first time in 80 years.

I'm as glad as the next person that Meanjin will get a new home, but can we please stop with the knee-jerk cancellations and just have some continuity please?

Thinking reinstatement of Sabsabi, re-issuing of the invite for Abdel-Fattah and now this.

www.qut.edu.au/about/meanjin

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

‘Man calls neo-nazi a racist’ is quite possibly the loosest excuse to platform a nazi and pass it off as news that I have ever seen.

This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.

“There were roughly 500 police deployed at Town Hall and an estimated 3,000 across the CBD. This scale was not accidental. It was a show of force. Police created the disorder they later claimed to suppress. This tactic is known. It is taught. It is deliberate.”

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To be clear: if protests didn't work, governments wouldn't try to ban them Today we will find out the ruling from the NSW Supreme Court on whether the planned protest in Sydney’s CBD against Israeli President Isaac Herzog can go ahead legally.

If protests didn't work, then governments wouldn't try to ban them.

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Australia in danger of becoming an ‘artless country’ as enrolments in creative courses collapse Research suggests surging costs under Morrison government’s job-ready graduate scheme and axing of dozens of subjects largely to blame

What does an "artless country" look like? Attacks on unis and artists have immediate impact—and a long tail. Disturbing new research by the excellent Profs Sandra Gattenhof and John Nicholas Saunders, my former National Advocates for Arts Education colleagues: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It’s so not fun but it is useful information, and much like a game of social deduction - all information is useful information.

Labor sending out a fundraising email today to stop one nation when the two major parties have created the condition for ON’s rise

Fun Thursday reminder: book in to get your moles checked. We need you here with us. When there are so many ways to die, I’d hate for you to leave this mortal plane because of a freaky mole.

a man and a woman are sitting in a kitchen and the man is holding a can of beer . Alt: Husband and wife, and son are in a kitchen. Father says to his son tell 'em their dreaming

Anyone got a spare free/cheap mid to large venue in Adelaide that's not totally booked out during Festival/Fringe season? Just need it for one day, for an Aboriginal-led writers event. Promise to take good care of it

Feel like a man throwing a homemade IED into a large crowd at an invasion day rally should be bigger news

A good week to remember our country has also detained children as young as two for being refugees

Hanson has had this literally 2D song stewing on her heart since Pauline Pantsdown produced an actual banger in the 90’s. Also, let’s all imagine Holly Valance in a booth, seriously counting in and singing these syllabically horrific lyrics with the producer being like “That’s the take!!”

On 26 Jan 1788 the British invaded lands of a couple of First Nations. There's over 300 Nations on this continent, so 100s of invasions occurred over many decades. There were Martu people in 1964 who'd never heard of white people. Invasion was not a single day. Colonisation is not a single event

If you are smart and talented enough to work in IT support for Amazon, or AI for Deloitte, to apply for a job in training LLMs, or speech writing and spinning for politicians - you’re smart and talented enough to be doing something else.

Gun-law loopholes to take months to close in national firearm crackdown Coalition leaders are sceptical about the proposed reforms, calling for further detail before offering their support.

It's nearly a year since @australiainstitute.org.au report on the state of firearm ownership in Australia came out. Horrified at the reason it's getting attention, but perhaps there will be some movement to make our community safer in the coming weeks and months

I duno guys, Cyber Monday still just sounds like everyone’s going to the teenchat.com forums all day and a/s/ling their way into cybersex with a grown man thinly veiled by the claim they’re 15/m/AZ. Stay safe out there, and don’t put your cam on this Cyber Monday.

Recently MUP quietly released First Nations Writing: Meanjin 1977 to today. Co-editors Jeanine Leane & Dan Bourchier selected First Nations pieces published in Meanjin that represented "Writing about us, by us". Meanjin is gone but we're still writing/storytelling

www.mup.com.au/books/meanji...

Meanjin was closed – but new Australian literary journals are springing up around the country Literary journals are breeding grounds of talent – including the new Splinter, rebooted Southerly, and First Nations journal Sovereign Texts, launching next year.

The abrupt and indefensible closure of Meanjin makes me ask, what can be done to shore up the future of literary journals in this country? How about funding the arts to the OECD average. That would mean an extra $5b per year.

With thanks to @jocaseau.bsky.social for her ever-excellent edits on this

finding out recently that almost all the words in the dictionary are not IP and are in fact open source/public domain was an absolute game changer for me as a writer

If you're feeling despondent about the world right now, this is the antidote.

New from Australia Institute Press, a book on what it looks like when Australians are brave with contributions from @amythunig.bsky.social, @amyremeikis.bsky.social, Amy Coopes, and lots of people who aren't called Amy.

Big news for me: many of you don’t know that my sisters and I are blessed with the “I love a little bowl to put stones, broken mosaic tiles and marbles in” gene - and the #IFCCONF25 have DELIVERED on the merch!

Blak makers like chaboo.com.au know where it’s at!!! LITTLE BOWLS FOR LIFE, PEOPLE.

Happy Halloween: the carpets in our new rental are long-infested with moths & fleas, so we are living in the back room of our townhouse with all our worldly belongings! What’s scarier than landlords “taking a few extra days to pick the new carpet colour” when they could have gone with floorboards?!

The man in this repost’s name is Quinn Haberl and you can donate to his GoFundMe here: www.gofundme.com/f/justice-fo...

Focus on the actors of violence, focus on following the victim’s story, focus on keeping protestors safe and financing recovery.

It’s the very last day of the Sabby Garage Sale 😭 🌧️

This is your last chance to snag some deals (and help us out). And your very last chance to check out the old building before we move. 🏠📦

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