Registrations are now open for our (free!) upcoming symposium! 🥳 It will be held on 24th November, running approximately between 10am and 4pm AEDT (Syd/Melb Time). It is shaping up to be a great event full of SUCH interesting research on Reading, Writing, and Publishing in Regional Australia.

I don’t feel great about Helen Garner writing about another Australian woman who has been convicted of a crime.

"Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has sold its shares in 11 Israeli companies, its managers said Monday, a move they said reduces its holdings in the country against the backdrop of the “serious humanitarian crisis” in Gaza."

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would love dua to wade into the first stone discourse

the only good tasmanian

I would literally rather die than use Microsoft Copilot

feels weird to not mention that i wrote a book about gender and literary fiction that draws on an original data set detailing 50 years of prizes, reviews and festivals. i also should say that the book explores the fact that we’ve been having this debate every decade or so since the 1970s.

ok i’m prepared to say it: romulus and remus breastfed for too long.

what was going on with puppetry of the penis. that was a weird time, hey.

Shoutout to the little pad at the bottom of the raspberry container for when they get their period

Sorry for being the dumbest bitch alive but all the AI execs saying that their products will have taken over the planet by 2027 sound exactly like I did when I told prospective employers that I have the ability to attract significant public grants for queer book studies.

I’m deeply affected by this review of Murnane’s Border Districts on Goodreads

I understand that slogans have a purpose and are not inclusive of all ideas, but the call to "read books" as some sort of inherent defense against fascism nags at me. Which books! Reading is not in and of itself a virtue!

The Palestinian flag is now raised in the middle of Gaza City. ❤️🇵🇸

the colony will fall

i love my gf so much. yesterday, she was sitting in the backseat while i was driving and i adjusted the rear-view mirror so i could see her whole face. it was dangerous but worth it.

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

"We don’t have a policy on Palestine. We just do what the Israelis want us to do.” - Mike Casey, the US diplomat working on Gaza who just quit his job.

block Brianna Wu if you want but i actually think it’s important for the ecosystem that we get more morons on here