Read the companion essay to our latest Queer Critics podcast. @samhellkin.bsky.social discusses Danielle Laidley’s uneasy path from football legend to trans icon.
Read more: bit.ly/4nVJsr8
02.10.2025 07:12 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague.
#MEAAmedia
17.09.2025 03:02 — 👍 407 🔁 148 💬 13 📌 15
Rally: Save Meanjin!
Thursday 11 September, 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton @withmeaa.bsky.social
@meanjin.bsky.social #ozlit #auslit #meanjin
08.09.2025 05:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
After the recent attack on Camp Sovereignty in Naarm/ Melbourne, this is an important moment to show solidarity.
03.09.2025 07:45 — 👍 38 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1
What stage of social cohesion is “neo-Nazis fighting in the streets”
31.08.2025 08:48 — 👍 275 🔁 68 💬 15 📌 4
Looking forward to having a chat with Professor Paula Gerber at @readingsbooks.bsky.social Carlton to discuss her essay, Sex, Gender & Identity: Trans Rights in Australia next month.
16.08.2025 19:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In relation to the Gaza atrocities, the ALP has taken real action - sanctions - against only two people: Fatima Payman and Mehreen Faruqi.
Speaks volumes.
27.07.2025 03:52 — 👍 493 🔁 188 💬 16 📌 3
Issue 15 of Lumpen, everyone's favourite magazine for poor and working-class writers, is here!
Get your copy:
Digital: www.theclassworkproject.com/.../lumpen-1...
Paper from our awesome distributors @seditionist.bsky.social seditionist.uk/distro/reada...
21.07.2025 08:37 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
Why are we so exhausted?
Because we're constantly pointing out and debunking the bullshit that we're neck deep in.
#Autism is often characterized by:
– an inability to bullshit
– a pathological need for fairness
– a compulsion to help others
– an inexplicable need to expose hypocrisy
19.07.2025 18:07 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
When I see people complain about male loneliness, it is so painfully OBVIOUS to me that most of these lonely men are men who feel entitled to a woman who does that labor for them, who acts as their agent enmeshing them into community through unpaid pro-social labor on their behalf.
15.07.2025 17:03 — 👍 1079 🔁 158 💬 14 📌 24
Huge congrats to the rank and file ticket that just won the CPSU VIC election!
08.07.2025 10:28 — 👍 78 🔁 18 💬 4 📌 7
A Voice for Members winning the Victorian CPSU election is an incredible achievement, defeating a thirty year incumbent.
Genuine contested union elections get members engaged and drive better union outcomes.
08.07.2025 11:08 — 👍 57 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 1
Fun new interview with Torrey Peters in the new edition of The Big Issue Australia #transrights
29.06.2025 07:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A graphic with " Cities of Literature Bookclub" It lists the following Cities - Angouleme, Barcelona, Dublin, Dunedin, Edinburgh, Lviv and Quebec City
A graphic with "Cities of Literature Bookclub" It shoes the cover of the book Querelle of Roberval with the sub title Quebec City
A graphic with "Cities of Literature Bookclub" It shows the cover of the book "Looking at Woman, Looking at War"lwith the sub title Lviv.
A graphic with "Cities of Literature Bookclub" It shows the cover of the book "Midnight and Blue" with the sub title Edinburgh
Have you seen what the #citiesoflit picked for Bookclub of the Cities of Literature for the Bendigo Writers Festival
www.bendigowritersfestival.com.au
09.06.2025 04:15 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
State Library of Queensland fellowship decision - Australian Society of Authors
The ASA is disturbed by the decision of the State Library of Queensland to rescind author KA Ren Wyld’s 2025 black&write! Fellowship.
Statement from @asauthors.bsky.social on the SLQ decision to rescind @wyld.bsky.social's Black and Write fellowship:
"This represents yet another alarming instance of the undermining of freedom of expression and arms-length arts funding from a major institution."
www.asauthors.org.au/news/state-l...
22.05.2025 00:59 — 👍 16 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded
Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded
Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded, including an email from a journo at The Australian sent 20 minutes before she was told.
Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded
The day author Ren Wyld was due to receive the Black & Write $15k Indigenous fellowship she was told it had been rescinded. A journo from the Oz seemed to know before she did. Appalling to see QLD govt cave to Murdoch press to punish a First Nations writer for speaking out in support of Palestine.
20.05.2025 21:50 — 👍 341 🔁 174 💬 13 📌 15
Great to be part of the Readers and Writers Against Genocide contingent at the State Library of Victoria to acknowledge the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza taking place during Melbourne Writers Festival
09.05.2025 21:52 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Scholar activist & writer | Human rights & social justice | Higher ed | Advisor for Rainbow Futures WA | LGBTIQA+ law reform 🏳️🌈 | Living on stolen Whadjuk Noongar land 🖤💛❤️ Free Palestine 🇵🇸
The closure of Meanjin has triggered outrage across Australia’s literary and academic communities.
The solution is straightforward — transfer the journal to new custodians who can ensure its future.
More at https://savemeanjin.org
Historian of global feminism & 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College
PhD from Cambridge
✍ 📖 about Shere Hite & The Hite Report for Melville House.
Organising: https://londonrentersunion.org/.
www.rosa-campbell.com
Arguably the best book festival in the west!
#DingleLit will take place again on November 21st, 22nd & 23rd 2025
Conservationist on the edge - the North West edge. Living on Wudjuk Noongar Country
The CWP is a workers’ cooperative developing theory, analysis, and practice around issues relating to class, oppression, and stigma in Britain and beyond.
Publishers of Lumpen: Journal of Poor and Working Class Writers
https://linktr.ee/lumpen_journal
The story of film in Melbourne could not be told without the Melbourne International Film Festival. MIFF returns in 2026.
Union representing people working for the Victorian government & related agencies
cpsuvic.org
Bradfordian actor, filmmaker, and author of 📚 My Ego Screwed My Acting Career, Based on a True Story, and 📚 Bradford, Eh? — a nostalgic snapshot of '70s, '80s, ’90s Bradford.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068791128
Scholarship and reviews on Australian culture, society, politics, history, and literature. Published on behalf of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA).
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjau20
Progressive analysis on politics, foreign policy, the economy, media, and culture, with a focus on peace and justice. John Menadue, Publisher & Editor in Chief
Read: johnmenadue.com
Subscribe for free: https://tinyurl.com/vr2vz4av
Trying to write good.
My work obliges some discretion.
#EarlyLiteracy Coordinator @ Brooklyn Public Library | #KidLit Writer @ RISE X Penguin Workshop | Librarian (Class of 2027) | LJ Mover and Shaker 2020 |
The Peter Blazey Fellowship is awarded annually to further a work in progress for those writers in the non-fiction fields of biography, autobiography and life writing. https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/scholarships/prizes-and-scholarships/peter-blazey-fellowship
Campaigning on and off the water to end the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza and for freedom of movement for all Palestinians.
https://linktr.ee/freedomflotillacoalition
Victorian Trades Hall Council - the voice of working Victorians. Authorised by L Hilakari, 54 Victoria Street Carlton VIC 3053.
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon is the national government agency for funding, developing and promoting the arts in Ireland.
Magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Winter 2024-25 Issue #51 available now https://stingingfly.org/product/winter-2024-25/
Leading support and development organisation for writers in Ireland. Programmes | Resources | Courses | Events | #InternationalDebutNovelCompetition 📚
Supported by Arts Council of Ireland.
Premier book festival showcasing and celebrating Ireland’s writers, illustrators and publishers. 5 - 9 November 2025 with year-round pop-up events. Supported by the Arts Council.
Dublinbookfestival.com
