Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle)
@littleread.bsky.social
Naarm-Melbourne. Settler-Coloniser on Stolen Woi Wurrung
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Research: transmedial life-writing, literature & law, music & memoir, book & reading histories. Lecturer in Publishing Studies at Melbourne Uni. Views my own, not my employer's, etc.
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Research: transmedial life-writing, literature & law, music & memoir, book & reading histories. Lecturer in Publishing Studies at Melbourne Uni. Views my own, not my employer's, etc.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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“That ‘Fast Car’ can be passed down through generations without requiring explanation is both a songwriting triumph and a grim indictment of America.”
Want a change of pace? Two years ago, I published this piece on Tracy Chapman and the generational longing of “Fast Car”:
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Driving in Circles
The generational longing of "Fast Car"
sarahkendzior.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:50 PM
“That ‘Fast Car’ can be passed down through generations without requiring explanation is both a songwriting triumph and a grim indictment of America.”
What is it like to be an Elder Millennial who remembers life before computers/the internet? You know that TV show Hoarders? That but it's my desktop and/or external hard drives. Also insomnia, back ache and perimenopause.
February 4, 2026 at 5:48 AM
What is it like to be an Elder Millennial who remembers life before computers/the internet? You know that TV show Hoarders? That but it's my desktop and/or external hard drives. Also insomnia, back ache and perimenopause.
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I'd like to remind everyone who thinks that policing has always existed that modern policing is less than 200 years old, having begun in London in 1829
February 2, 2026 at 6:49 AM
I'd like to remind everyone who thinks that policing has always existed that modern policing is less than 200 years old, having begun in London in 1829
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How do university presses #TeamUP to advance knowledge? A baker’s dozen inspiring examples in the #UPWeek Gallery include work by @ucpress.bsky.social, @dukepress.bsky.social, @mitpress.bsky.social, @uofupress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social & @ualbertapress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/43CrodY
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How do university presses #TeamUP to advance knowledge? A baker’s dozen inspiring examples in the #UPWeek Gallery include work by @ucpress.bsky.social, @dukepress.bsky.social, @mitpress.bsky.social, @uofupress.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social & @ualbertapress.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/43CrodY
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📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building.
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Differential social media affordances: an actor type-centric, intermediate-level approach using the case of social movements
Abstract. Social media have profoundly changed social communication practices across a vast range of contexts. To theorize these changes, numerous authors
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November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building.
doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...
doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...
Student thesis: I will fill [x] gap in the literature.
Me: is that a gap in the literature or have you only read and cited white men?
#MarkingCaveOfDoom #DiversifyYourBookshelves #DiversifyCriticalTheory #DiversifyPhilosophy
Me: is that a gap in the literature or have you only read and cited white men?
#MarkingCaveOfDoom #DiversifyYourBookshelves #DiversifyCriticalTheory #DiversifyPhilosophy
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Student thesis: I will fill [x] gap in the literature.
Me: is that a gap in the literature or have you only read and cited white men?
#MarkingCaveOfDoom #DiversifyYourBookshelves #DiversifyCriticalTheory #DiversifyPhilosophy
Me: is that a gap in the literature or have you only read and cited white men?
#MarkingCaveOfDoom #DiversifyYourBookshelves #DiversifyCriticalTheory #DiversifyPhilosophy
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I was wondering how long Teen Vogue’s remarkably tough-minded progressive journalism would last. The masthead has been doing some fantastic work. It looks like that time has come to an end.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I was wondering how long Teen Vogue’s remarkably tough-minded progressive journalism would last. The masthead has been doing some fantastic work. It looks like that time has come to an end.
Today I have no classes, the 🐉 (now 1) is in childcare, and my research assistants, Cwtch and Cariad, are helping me mark (which I am doing from bed because insomnia was real last night). There is sun. I have creamy soda and a Bakers' Delight pizza. I am being productive. Small mercies, big loves.
October 27, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Today I have no classes, the 🐉 (now 1) is in childcare, and my research assistants, Cwtch and Cariad, are helping me mark (which I am doing from bed because insomnia was real last night). There is sun. I have creamy soda and a Bakers' Delight pizza. I am being productive. Small mercies, big loves.
I hate marking assessments so goddamn much. I've always hated it. Having to also keep an eye out for AISlop in assessments has exacerbated that.
I think this is because I genuinely love reading essays, thinking about innovative arguments, and experimenting with the genre's forms and conventions.
I think this is because I genuinely love reading essays, thinking about innovative arguments, and experimenting with the genre's forms and conventions.
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I hate marking assessments so goddamn much. I've always hated it. Having to also keep an eye out for AISlop in assessments has exacerbated that.
I think this is because I genuinely love reading essays, thinking about innovative arguments, and experimenting with the genre's forms and conventions.
I think this is because I genuinely love reading essays, thinking about innovative arguments, and experimenting with the genre's forms and conventions.
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As a used bookseller, this is maddening because every damn day I see appetite for strange books, old books, indie books, forgotten books. Readers are there. They love to explore the store & buy things they've never heard of.
Publishing's biggest problem is that they've forgotten how to sell books.
Publishing's biggest problem is that they've forgotten how to sell books.
I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
thewalrus.ca
September 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
As a used bookseller, this is maddening because every damn day I see appetite for strange books, old books, indie books, forgotten books. Readers are there. They love to explore the store & buy things they've never heard of.
Publishing's biggest problem is that they've forgotten how to sell books.
Publishing's biggest problem is that they've forgotten how to sell books.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Dear NSW Legal Services Commissioner, question re the Solicitors' Conduct Rules & the practitioner mentioned in the attached article:
1. Do the social media posts that the ABC has identified in this article breach the following provisions of the SCR?
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#AusLaw
Dear NSW Legal Services Commissioner, question re the Solicitors' Conduct Rules & the practitioner mentioned in the attached article:
1. Do the social media posts that the ABC has identified in this article breach the following provisions of the SCR?
1/
#AusLaw
Lawyer for Neo-Nazi praised Hitler's Mein Kampf as 'brilliant book'
Matthew Hopkins shared racist and antisemitic material from the Neo-Nazi group on social media and described Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf as a "brilliant book" to his followers.
www.abc.net.au
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Dear NSW Legal Services Commissioner, question re the Solicitors' Conduct Rules & the practitioner mentioned in the attached article:
1. Do the social media posts that the ABC has identified in this article breach the following provisions of the SCR?
1/
#AusLaw
Dear NSW Legal Services Commissioner, question re the Solicitors' Conduct Rules & the practitioner mentioned in the attached article:
1. Do the social media posts that the ABC has identified in this article breach the following provisions of the SCR?
1/
#AusLaw
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Heritage Open Days 2025 are from 12 - 21 Sept.
The Anna Sewell House where Black Beauty's author was born is open to the public.
Jarrolds, the novel's publisher, is also offering a History Tour.
The book changed attitudes to horse welfare.
The Anna Sewell House where Black Beauty's author was born is open to the public.
Jarrolds, the novel's publisher, is also offering a History Tour.
The book changed attitudes to horse welfare.
Black Beauty, broken and rescued: 150 years of equine welfare
The legacy of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty reminds us: cruelty to any creature is everyone’s concern
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Heritage Open Days 2025 are from 12 - 21 Sept.
The Anna Sewell House where Black Beauty's author was born is open to the public.
Jarrolds, the novel's publisher, is also offering a History Tour.
The book changed attitudes to horse welfare.
The Anna Sewell House where Black Beauty's author was born is open to the public.
Jarrolds, the novel's publisher, is also offering a History Tour.
The book changed attitudes to horse welfare.
Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb
How did my class on identifying audiences for digital content become a history lesson on Melbourne's Queer clubbing scene between 2000-2012?
August 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
How did my class on identifying audiences for digital content become a history lesson on Melbourne's Queer clubbing scene between 2000-2012?
I am reading Replace Me by Amber Husain (2021, Peninsula Press) and 1) it is more prescient now than it was when it was published, good golly. 2) I love the term "fantasies of self-reconstruction" that she coins to describe Bulgakov's book The Heart of a Dog. Can y'all recommend similar reads?
August 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I am reading Replace Me by Amber Husain (2021, Peninsula Press) and 1) it is more prescient now than it was when it was published, good golly. 2) I love the term "fantasies of self-reconstruction" that she coins to describe Bulgakov's book The Heart of a Dog. Can y'all recommend similar reads?
I am back in front of a lecture hall! I have no sleep, no caffeine and all the vyvanse. Buckle up for Legal Issues in Arts and Media #PUBL90014 #HowToPourTheTeaNotSpillIt #AcademicSelfie
July 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I am back in front of a lecture hall! I have no sleep, no caffeine and all the vyvanse. Buckle up for Legal Issues in Arts and Media #PUBL90014 #HowToPourTheTeaNotSpillIt #AcademicSelfie
It's been a while so here's the #AcademicSelfie. I am back at work & loving it. My classes for s2 are prepped. Dragon is in childcare, I got a lil nap, the midwinter sun is shining, there's a new @benaaronflynn.bsky.social book, I am off to meet a friend for lunch & do some work in a beer garden.
July 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It's been a while so here's the #AcademicSelfie. I am back at work & loving it. My classes for s2 are prepped. Dragon is in childcare, I got a lil nap, the midwinter sun is shining, there's a new @benaaronflynn.bsky.social book, I am off to meet a friend for lunch & do some work in a beer garden.
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We have a crawler. #Dragon #MotherOfDragon
April 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
We have a crawler. #Dragon #MotherOfDragon
I am cleaning, looking after Dragon and listening to Triple J's Hottest 100 from 1998 and I hated it at the time but the Sunscreen Song has stood the test of time.
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#music #90s #nostalgia
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#music #90s #nostalgia
Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen
YouTube video by steffyweffy777
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April 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I am cleaning, looking after Dragon and listening to Triple J's Hottest 100 from 1998 and I hated it at the time but the Sunscreen Song has stood the test of time.
youtu.be/sTJ7AzBIJoI?...
#music #90s #nostalgia
youtu.be/sTJ7AzBIJoI?...
#music #90s #nostalgia
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I'm just a queer theory scholar begging sports journalists to consider what they have written before hitting publish
March 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I'm just a queer theory scholar begging sports journalists to consider what they have written before hitting publish
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This new book by @uolpress.bsky.social is nothing short but a monumental achievement on Latin American #liberationtheology! Among the most interesting (English) surveys in recent years!
The chapter on Fals Borda by Díaz-Arévalo @sheffielduni.bsky.social is a gem.
Foreword by M. Zechmeister at UCA.
The chapter on Fals Borda by Díaz-Arévalo @sheffielduni.bsky.social is a gem.
Foreword by M. Zechmeister at UCA.
February 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This new book by @uolpress.bsky.social is nothing short but a monumental achievement on Latin American #liberationtheology! Among the most interesting (English) surveys in recent years!
The chapter on Fals Borda by Díaz-Arévalo @sheffielduni.bsky.social is a gem.
Foreword by M. Zechmeister at UCA.
The chapter on Fals Borda by Díaz-Arévalo @sheffielduni.bsky.social is a gem.
Foreword by M. Zechmeister at UCA.
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The Lost Medieval Library Found in a Romanian Church
www.medievalists.net/2024/11/lost...
HT @michaelrnelson.bsky.social
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HT @michaelrnelson.bsky.social
The Lost Medieval Library Found in a Romanian Church - Medievalists.net
Hidden away for centuries in a Transylvanian church tower, a forgotten medieval library has come to light, revealing treasures as old as the 9th century. This extraordinary discovery of manuscripts, b...
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February 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The Lost Medieval Library Found in a Romanian Church
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HT @michaelrnelson.bsky.social
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HT @michaelrnelson.bsky.social