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This week, advocates gathered in Parliament House to demand the government make women’s safety a priority in the lead up to International Women’s Day and fully fund frontline services.

The Greens proudly and loudly back those demands.

New #Australian racial hatred inquiry established. There will be submissions.

Joy.

The reform to boost organ donation Australia’s human tissue acts are set for their first overhaul in 50 years, in a move that is hoped to remove hurdles to donation and medical and research innovation.

Australia's organ donation and human tissue laws have remained unchanged since 1977. With donation rates at record lows, the Australian Law Reform Commission is hoping a new definition of "medical death" will save lives. satpa.pe/bYXU7Rf

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Call for Papers: Transnational Black Feminist Thought - AAIHS Call for Papers: Transnational Black Feminist Thought Guest Editor: Rachel Afi Quinn, University of Houston Deadline: January 1, 2027 Global Black Thought, the official journal of the African American...

Special issue of Global Black Thought on Black feminist theory around the world!

Guest edited by Rachel Afi Quinn

Submit papers by January 1, 2027

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

"Thanks to our growing insight into Epstein’s world, we have gained a clearer picture of the psychic and economic logic of the contemporary far right". Must read from Melinda Cooper www.equator.org/articles/eps...

We The Heartbroken - Pluto Press In this blog, Gargi Bhattacharyya writes on the state of being for a revolutionary in 2020. Inspired by a younger comrade admitting to heartbreak arising from the business of trying to make something ...

"Heartbreak is at the heart of all revolutionary consciousness. How can it not be? Who can imagine another world unless they already have been broken apart by the world we are in?" - Gargi Bhattacharyya

www.plutobooks.com/blog/we-the-...

Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums. Edited by Sela Adjei & Yann LeGall. 320 pages. Published August 20, 2024 by Pluto Press. Non-fiction. If many museums today pretend to have embarked on a decolonial turn in their practice and in the ways they consider their collectio…

"If many museums today pretend to have embarked on a decolonial turn in their practice and in the ways they consider their collections, it is essential to remember that ethnographic museums per se are colonial institutions."

Colonial looting’s been in…

https://hararereview.wordpress.com/2024/11/2…

Meanjin has been saved from the Melbourne University capitalist death pit. Actual good things can still happen. Occasionally.

““the major choice faced by the intellectual is whether to be allied with the stability of the victors and rulers or—the more difficult path—to consider that stability as a state of emergency threatening the less fortunate with the danger of complete extinction.”

Girl's Hat https://collections.artsmia.org/art/79952/

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social

www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

We’re looking for a researcher with a background in queer history to support an upcoming documentary exploring London’s Queer Global Majority & migrant histories (60-now).
💷 £350/day
🏳️‍🌈 Community-led, oral history–focused
Interested?
Get in touch: Blaise@elevatecommunityproductions.org

Spot-on, Kon.

‘Remarkable’ Mithaka cultural landscape featuring Australia’s oldest houses placed on national heritage list Aboriginal site featuring ancient quarry sits on transcontinental trading route connecting Gulf of Carpentaria to Flinders Ranges

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Government dumps plans for Kimberley short stay accommodation Leaders in Kununurra say the Cook Government's decision to dump plans for Aboriginal short stay accommodation in town could be putting more people at risk.

Leaders in Kununurra say the Cook Government's decision to dump plans for Aboriginal short stay accommodation in town could be putting more people at risk.

For those of you looking to follow some more queer scholar-activists in 2026, check out this starter pack with many fabulous folks.

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Adelaide Writers Week in disarray as more than 40 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah Helen Garner, Melissa Lucashenko and Zadie Smith are among the more than 40 writers to have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers Week in the last 24 hours.

News for bibliophiles outside Australia:

The Adelaide Writers Week board just removed Palestinian-Australian author & scholar, Randa Abdel-Fattah, from the program.

Many dozens of authors & institutions have now (rightly) left the festival in protest.

Story: www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...

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Fascinating project underway by @neilselwyn.bsky.social and colleagues - please share with your academic networks!

#AcademicSky

The Nightmare Sequence is out now in Australia, the UK, North America and is coming soon to Italy through Wojtek Edizioni, translated into Italian by Enrico Terrinoni 🙏🏽💜

Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful | Leigh Boucher Researchers now describe it as both historical phenomenon and public health model. Its success was remarkable * Past/Present is a column which places current events in historical context Aids has always been laden with political and emotional volatilities. The possibility of blood or sex based transmission combined with its first emergence among marginalised and criminalised populations created a potent mix of primal terror and terrifying prejudice. It can sometimes be difficult to remember just how potently misinformation, fear and outright hostility framed the knowledge and experience of Aids in the first decade or so of the pandemic. In this period, a positive result on an HIV test was a terminal diagnosis and medical knowledge about transmission and treatment was still cloudy. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful | Leigh Boucher

“The majority of women do not want to see the trans community scapegoated” Over 60,000 women have signed an open letter in support of the trans community

“The majority of women do not want to see the trans community scapegoated” 

Over 60,000 women have signed an open letter in support of the trans community 🌈

Very special to be part of the upcoming Laura Mulvey Symposium with many esteemed friends! Join us on Saturday 22nd Nov at the BFI for a day of talks — @erikaaaa.bsky.social, @cinemiasma.bsky.social and I will be rounding off the afternoon with a panel on curation and criticism💡

Vale Alice.

Very excited to announce that I’ve been shortlisted as a finalist for the 2026 Australian of the Year for WA!

Winners will be announced on November 13.

The platform this gives to critical issues is why it’s such an honour. So many worthy finalists. Thrilled to be included amongst them.