Ruth De Souza
@desouzarn.bsky.social
She/her. Critical RN. PhD, FACN. Editorial Board JAN. Cultural Safety in health and in the arts. Diasporic Goan via East Africa and Aotearoa on Bunurong country. Gardening, reading, surfing and cooking. Free Palestine.
Podcaster http://www.ruthdesouza.com
Podcaster http://www.ruthdesouza.com
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Ruth De Souza
@desouzarn.bsky.social
· Apr 10
Birthing and Justice with Dr Ruth De Souza
Childbirth is supposed to be empowering, but for many birthing people it is not. For Indigenous women, immigrant women and women of colour, birthing within the western healthcare system can be anythin...
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Latest news from the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN)! Ping @djbtak.bsky.social www.researchcatalogue.net/portal/annou...
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February 2, 2026 at 4:49 AM
Latest news from the Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network (APARN)! Ping @djbtak.bsky.social www.researchcatalogue.net/portal/annou...
Today I was on hold for what seemed a long time. But I was prepared. I played with a compass for the first time since I was at school and then did some painting. Islamist forgot why I’d rung when they picked up! (Data sharing in case you are wondering).
January 22, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Today I was on hold for what seemed a long time. But I was prepared. I played with a compass for the first time since I was at school and then did some painting. Islamist forgot why I’d rung when they picked up! (Data sharing in case you are wondering).
Better late than never right? Got some $2 seedlings a few weeks ago and last night’s rain gave them a huge boost. Im enjoying nibbling on the tomatoes whenever I go outside.
January 22, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Better late than never right? Got some $2 seedlings a few weeks ago and last night’s rain gave them a huge boost. Im enjoying nibbling on the tomatoes whenever I go outside.
My favorite local street tree. A Fairy Floss’ Flowering Gum, (cultivar of Corymbia ficifolia).
January 22, 2026 at 2:20 AM
My favorite local street tree. A Fairy Floss’ Flowering Gum, (cultivar of Corymbia ficifolia).
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Congratulations everyone, Big Brother wasn’t imposed on you, you bought Big Brother on Prime Day and installed him yourselves.
January 19, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Congratulations everyone, Big Brother wasn’t imposed on you, you bought Big Brother on Prime Day and installed him yourselves.
Please go if you can.
Stand against Destiny Church's movement of hate against the Sikh community, migrants, refugees, Muslims, the LGBTI community and Palestinians. Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland 31st January
January 16, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Please go if you can.
Gosh they are gorgeous!
A royal spoonbill doing a bit of preening to spruce himself up to hopefully attract the ladies 😄
January 15, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Gosh they are gorgeous!
This is heartbreaking.
“Dire threat of collapse”: southern Australia’s most important river system
"Australia’s longest waterway is under such dire threat of collapse that the entire lower Murray River ecosystem, which stretches nearly 1000 kilometres from western NSW, through Victoria and to the sea in South Australia has been classified as critically endangered."
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
January 15, 2026 at 3:48 AM
This is heartbreaking.
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A whole bunch of artists and cultural workers have lost work because of the implosion of Adelaide Writers week — writers, producers, stage crew, front of house. None of this was their fault. Something for the Labor premier to think about
January 13, 2026 at 5:48 AM
A whole bunch of artists and cultural workers have lost work because of the implosion of Adelaide Writers week — writers, producers, stage crew, front of house. None of this was their fault. Something for the Labor premier to think about
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"If we normalize the kidnapping of a head of state, no country is safe."
“The treatment that the U.S. gives to Venezuelan immigrants is the same notion of how they treat the country itself.”
The Trump admin’s abduction of Nicolás Maduro faces condemnation by anti-war protesters from the streets from Caracas to New York, report @meghnadbose.bsky.social & Jerry Elengical.
The Trump admin’s abduction of Nicolás Maduro faces condemnation by anti-war protesters from the streets from Caracas to New York, report @meghnadbose.bsky.social & Jerry Elengical.
Anti-war protesters and scholars condemn U.S. coup in Venezuela
The Trump administration’s abduction of Nicolás Maduro faces widespread condemnation by legal scholars and rights groups
prismreports.org
January 11, 2026 at 7:37 AM
"If we normalize the kidnapping of a head of state, no country is safe."
What a world.
ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬
January 12, 2026 at 10:41 PM
What a world.
Reposted by Ruth De Souza
"ICE has inked at least $25 million in contracts with Big Tech for the latest in spy technology, including social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, and remote hacking ... For years [under both major US parties] ICE has been accused of violating human rights."
US immigration agents have now shot 11 civilians in cars in four months.
ICE’s Murder of Renee Nicole Good Was Not an Aberration — It Is the New Normal
US immigration agents have now shot 11 civilians in cars in four months.
buff.ly
January 11, 2026 at 6:38 AM
"ICE has inked at least $25 million in contracts with Big Tech for the latest in spy technology, including social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, and remote hacking ... For years [under both major US parties] ICE has been accused of violating human rights."
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The board’s statement cites community cohesion, an oft-referenced anxiety which should be treated with scepticism. This is a managerialist term intended to stop thinking. Who, after all, would argue in favour of social division? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:36 PM
The board’s statement cites community cohesion, an oft-referenced anxiety which should be treated with scepticism. This is a managerialist term intended to stop thinking. Who, after all, would argue in favour of social division? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This.
"The raison d’être of art and literature is to disrupt the status quo: and one doesn’t have to be a student of history to know that art in the service of “social cohesion” is propaganda."
January 12, 2026 at 10:38 PM
This.
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What is the end game here? No publicly funded cultural events that aren’t approved by Israel? No arts boards that aren’t pro-Israel? The sections of our political class and media who are active in this attempted gutting of our cultural landscape need to ask wtf they are doing here.
Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide
After ruining the Adelaide and Bendigo writers festivals, pro-Israel supporters are now targeting WOMADelaide’s inclusion of Sama’ Abdulhadi
www.deepcutnews.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:18 PM
What is the end game here? No publicly funded cultural events that aren’t approved by Israel? No arts boards that aren’t pro-Israel? The sections of our political class and media who are active in this attempted gutting of our cultural landscape need to ask wtf they are doing here.
“AWW is the canary in the coalmine. Friends and colleagues in the arts, beware of the future.
They are coming for you”
They are coming for you”
“art in the service of social cohesion is propaganda”: Louise Adler standing tall as always. What a legend✊🏼❤️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:21 PM
“AWW is the canary in the coalmine. Friends and colleagues in the arts, beware of the future.
They are coming for you”
They are coming for you”
Reposted by Ruth De Souza
“art in the service of social cohesion is propaganda”: Louise Adler standing tall as always. What a legend✊🏼❤️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:49 PM
“art in the service of social cohesion is propaganda”: Louise Adler standing tall as always. What a legend✊🏼❤️
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Ruth De Souza
Australian Adelaide Writers Week cancelling a writer for the crime of being anti-genocide and anti-land theft, site opens with a statement acknowledging the festival taking place on stolen land for bonus irony.
www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...
www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...
Adelaide Festival Board Statement
www.adelaidefestival.com.au
January 8, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Australian Adelaide Writers Week cancelling a writer for the crime of being anti-genocide and anti-land theft, site opens with a statement acknowledging the festival taking place on stolen land for bonus irony.
www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...
www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...
Reposted by Ruth De Souza
As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
January 8, 2026 at 4:50 AM
As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.
Reposted by Ruth De Souza
Absolutely disgraceful from the Adelaide Festival.
I hope other participants reconsider their part in it.
I hope other participants reconsider their part in it.
January 8, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Absolutely disgraceful from the Adelaide Festival.
I hope other participants reconsider their part in it.
I hope other participants reconsider their part in it.
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Following the decision from the Board of the Adelaide Festival, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support from this year’s literary festival. Here is our statement, and a personal one from me.
January 8, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Following the decision from the Board of the Adelaide Festival, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support from this year’s literary festival. Here is our statement, and a personal one from me.
This just makes me so sad.
January 8, 2026 at 8:15 AM
This just makes me so sad.
This is familiar!
I've never received a university communication about AI that was like, "here's our vision for how these tools will transform higher ed!" It's always, "well, we bought this thing, mostly because everybody else was doing it, and now we'd like you to integrate it into every facet of your work lives."
January 8, 2026 at 1:12 AM
This is familiar!
The precarity and perils of temporary migration and the need for protection.
Think modern slavery couldn’t happen here…think again. Even our regulators have identified the risk of exploitation under the ‘PALM visa’ which sees Pacific workers bonded and indebted to a single employer…great article and podcast by @mhharrington
bsky.social thepoint.com.au/news/260106-...
bsky.social thepoint.com.au/news/260106-...
Undocumented, underpaid, and over here
A new Australia Institute podcast shows why an amnesty is needed to address the estimated 7000 cases of people who have “disengaged” from the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme.
thepoint.com.au
January 7, 2026 at 6:59 AM
The precarity and perils of temporary migration and the need for protection.