Claire G. Coleman
@clairegcoleman.bsky.social
Noongar writer - Novels: Terra Nullius, The Old Lie, Enclave [Hachette Australia]. Non-fiction: Lies, Damned Lies [Ultimo Press]. Writer also of essays, verse, opinion, and criticism.
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And just look at their punchable faces!
They really look like they want to headbutt some fists.
They really look like they want to headbutt some fists.
November 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
And just look at their punchable faces!
They really look like they want to headbutt some fists.
They really look like they want to headbutt some fists.
Why aren't we collectively punching these Nazis?
It's always OK to punch Nazis because, you know, they are Nazis
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
It's always OK to punch Nazis because, you know, they are Nazis
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Civil engineer identified among those who attended Neo-Nazi protest
Around 60 men attended a protest at NSW parliament organised by the Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network on Saturday. Without masks, it gave the ABC the opportunity to identify some of them.
www.abc.net.au
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Why aren't we collectively punching these Nazis?
It's always OK to punch Nazis because, you know, they are Nazis
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
It's always OK to punch Nazis because, you know, they are Nazis
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
This
If the Epstein files cleared Trump he would have already released them
November 12, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This
If you are in Tarntanya (Adelaide) next Tuesday, the 18th, I will be doing a floor talk at AGSA, speaking about the important works Thunder Raining Poison by @yhonniescarce.bsky.social and Kulata Tjuta by artists from the APY lands for Tarnanthi.
www.agsa.sa.gov.au/whats-on/eve...
www.agsa.sa.gov.au/whats-on/eve...
Tuesday Talk - Claire Coleman speaks on key works in Too Deadly: Ten Years of Tarnanthi
www.agsa.sa.gov.au
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
If you are in Tarntanya (Adelaide) next Tuesday, the 18th, I will be doing a floor talk at AGSA, speaking about the important works Thunder Raining Poison by @yhonniescarce.bsky.social and Kulata Tjuta by artists from the APY lands for Tarnanthi.
www.agsa.sa.gov.au/whats-on/eve...
www.agsa.sa.gov.au/whats-on/eve...
Can we all just agree Elon is simply THAT stupid
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Can we all just agree Elon is simply THAT stupid
Authors read this and beware.
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Authors read this and beware.
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Elon bought a social media platform for 44 billion dollars to chuck a childish tantrum when insulted (spectacularly) by an 87 year old author.
omfg
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Elon bought a social media platform for 44 billion dollars to chuck a childish tantrum when insulted (spectacularly) by an 87 year old author.
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I mean he is thirty years her junior (derogatory)
Elon bought a social media platform for 44 billion dollars to chuck a childish tantrum when insulted (spectacularly) by an 87 year old author.
omfg
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I mean he is thirty years her junior (derogatory)
Elon bought a social media platform for 44 billion dollars to chuck a childish tantrum when insulted (spectacularly) by an 87 year old author.
omfg
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Elon bought a social media platform for 44 billion dollars to chuck a childish tantrum when insulted (spectacularly) by an 87 year old author.
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Yep.
Transphobia is a pipeline to the far right. An example:
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian.
Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left.
Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.
Suzanne Moore, who would rather be locked up than pay her BBC licence fee because the BBC is too nice to trans people for her liking.
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Yep.
I'm quoted in this: "It was condescending and insulting and ridiculous to ask us to stick to respectful language as if we're a bunch of little children, or first-year university students,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
FOI documents reveal lead-up to failed Bendigo Writers Festival
A founding director of the widely boycotted Bendigo Writers Festival says major sponsor La Trobe University pressured organisers into sending a controversial code of conduct.
www.abc.net.au
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I'm quoted in this: "It was condescending and insulting and ridiculous to ask us to stick to respectful language as if we're a bunch of little children, or first-year university students,"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
This article, and the case it reports, is disturbing but what really bothers me is that a woman in her 60s broke the law and committed fraud to have her 14th and 15th child using donor embryos and surrogacy and the article doesn't ask if she might be mentally unwell.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/m...
She Was Ready to Have Her 15th Child. Then Came the Felony Charges.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This article, and the case it reports, is disturbing but what really bothers me is that a woman in her 60s broke the law and committed fraud to have her 14th and 15th child using donor embryos and surrogacy and the article doesn't ask if she might be mentally unwell.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/m...
Everything I could consider doing to procrastinate has become more boring than working. I guess I may as well just do the work.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Everything I could consider doing to procrastinate has become more boring than working. I guess I may as well just do the work.
"The court heard friends took her home and left her on the nature strip about 10:50pm."
Obviously rape is indisputably bad and the victim, and her friends, are not to blame but who the fuck leaves someone blackout drunk on the nature strip outside their house?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Obviously rape is indisputably bad and the victim, and her friends, are not to blame but who the fuck leaves someone blackout drunk on the nature strip outside their house?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Man found guilty of raping woman he found unconscious on nature strip
A jury has found a 29-year-old Vanuatu national guilty of the rape and abduction of a woman in Shepparton in August last year.
www.abc.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"The court heard friends took her home and left her on the nature strip about 10:50pm."
Obviously rape is indisputably bad and the victim, and her friends, are not to blame but who the fuck leaves someone blackout drunk on the nature strip outside their house?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Obviously rape is indisputably bad and the victim, and her friends, are not to blame but who the fuck leaves someone blackout drunk on the nature strip outside their house?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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sign sign sign and stand up for trans Kids in Queensland
October 31, 2025 at 6:53 AM
sign sign sign and stand up for trans Kids in Queensland
Go now and sign this, don't let politicians in Qld override medical advice.
equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/qld...
equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/qld...
QLD: REINSTATE CARE FOR TRANS YOUNG PEOPLE
Sign the petition to end Queensland's ban on gender affirming care. Let's leave health care to the medical professionals.
equalityaustralia.org.au
October 31, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Go now and sign this, don't let politicians in Qld override medical advice.
equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/qld...
equalityaustralia.org.au/our-work/qld...
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Brilliant piece here highlighting the abject fear (especially of their own inadequacy) of conservative men.
This is a good piece but god almighty is it sad, sad, sad
One app, 60 men, 26 dates: my adventures in alt-right dating
There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool. Or have they?
www.cosmopolitan.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Brilliant piece here highlighting the abject fear (especially of their own inadequacy) of conservative men.
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I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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I have broken through a wall of despair regarding the novel I am working on and found a deep pool of hope on the other side.
October 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I have broken through a wall of despair regarding the novel I am working on and found a deep pool of hope on the other side.
This is good news. A carve-out allowing AI companies to steal copyrighted content to train their models without compensation to artists has been rejected by the Australian government.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Artists rejoice as Labor rules out copyright carve-out for AI
Labor has ruled out changing copyright laws to give tech giants free rein to train artificial intelligence models on creative works, after the proposition was met with widespread backlash from artists...
www.abc.net.au
October 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is good news. A carve-out allowing AI companies to steal copyrighted content to train their models without compensation to artists has been rejected by the Australian government.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Thread.
Monster: Ed Gein, a thread
Ed Gein was schizophrenic and had mummy issues, he was extremely unwell but he was NOT trans by any acceptable definition of the word and would not have been considered trans by any medical professional. He was not a trans woman he was trying to be/become his mother. 1/
Ed Gein was schizophrenic and had mummy issues, he was extremely unwell but he was NOT trans by any acceptable definition of the word and would not have been considered trans by any medical professional. He was not a trans woman he was trying to be/become his mother. 1/
October 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Thread.
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As soon as I saw this series advertised, I KNEW the angle they were gonna take and I'm certain they did so intentionally.
Monster: Ed Gein, a thread
Ed Gein was schizophrenic and had mummy issues, he was extremely unwell but he was NOT trans by any acceptable definition of the word and would not have been considered trans by any medical professional. He was not a trans woman he was trying to be/become his mother. 1/
Ed Gein was schizophrenic and had mummy issues, he was extremely unwell but he was NOT trans by any acceptable definition of the word and would not have been considered trans by any medical professional. He was not a trans woman he was trying to be/become his mother. 1/
October 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
As soon as I saw this series advertised, I KNEW the angle they were gonna take and I'm certain they did so intentionally.
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Monster: Ed Gein, a thread
Ed Gein was schizophrenic and had mummy issues, he was extremely unwell but he was NOT trans by any acceptable definition of the word and would not have been considered trans by any medical professional. He was not a trans woman he was trying to be/become his mother. 1/
Ed Gein was schizophrenic and had mummy issues, he was extremely unwell but he was NOT trans by any acceptable definition of the word and would not have been considered trans by any medical professional. He was not a trans woman he was trying to be/become his mother. 1/
October 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Monster: Ed Gein, a thread
Ed Gein was schizophrenic and had mummy issues, he was extremely unwell but he was NOT trans by any acceptable definition of the word and would not have been considered trans by any medical professional. He was not a trans woman he was trying to be/become his mother. 1/
Ed Gein was schizophrenic and had mummy issues, he was extremely unwell but he was NOT trans by any acceptable definition of the word and would not have been considered trans by any medical professional. He was not a trans woman he was trying to be/become his mother. 1/
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Important thread.
Monster: Ed Gein, a thread
Ed Gein was schizophrenic and had mummy issues, he was extremely unwell but he was NOT trans by any acceptable definition of the word and would not have been considered trans by any medical professional. He was not a trans woman he was trying to be/become his mother. 1/
Ed Gein was schizophrenic and had mummy issues, he was extremely unwell but he was NOT trans by any acceptable definition of the word and would not have been considered trans by any medical professional. He was not a trans woman he was trying to be/become his mother. 1/
October 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Important thread.
"Rather than put out the fire of transphobia, [Ryan Murphy] has thrown more kindling on the pile."
'Ryan Murphy's Monster: The Ed Gein Story only fuels damaging anti-trans narratives'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/08/amelia-hansford-op-ed-ryan-murphy/?utm_content=1760232000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/08/amelia-hansford-op-ed-ryan-murphy/?utm_content=1760232000&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
'Monster: The Ed Gein Story only fuels damaging anti-trans narratives'
Amelia Hansford expresses her criticisms of Ryan Murphy's Ed Gein drama, which she says is anti-trans whether he likes it or not.
www.thepinknews.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:15 AM
"Rather than put out the fire of transphobia, [Ryan Murphy] has thrown more kindling on the pile."