Stephen Wright
@mycommunistcat.bsky.social
Writer, idler, anarchist on unceded Anaiwan country. He/Him
Can be found at Overland literary journal
overland.org.au
Novel ‘A Second Life’ still available around the place
Currently asleep on a verandah
Can be found at Overland literary journal
overland.org.au
Novel ‘A Second Life’ still available around the place
Currently asleep on a verandah
Pinned
A Second Life (2017), by Stephen Wright (2017 co-winner of Seizure Viva La Novella Prize)
A Second Life is a pleasurably baffling book. Winner of the 2017 Viva La Novella Prize, it seems to be many things: a meditation on death and memory; a cry of anguish about misogyny and male viole…
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Little thread on things I've published and can still live with. First a novel, 'A Second Life'. Kathy Acker is resurrected in northern NSW. A bit of a vigilante, her real job is taking murdered children through the bardo. Good review & summary here
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We lock children up because they don't fit a white, heteronormative template of what a child should be. This is baked into transphobia, racism and a dozen other fascisms.
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We lock children up because they don't fit a white, heteronormative template of what a child should be. This is baked into transphobia, racism and a dozen other fascisms.
Put this straight into my veins. An object lesson in how to take children seriously. Clash bassist Paul Simonon, 70 next month, singing Guns of Brixton with some busking kids.
The Clash’s Paul Simonon, running into some young street musicians, will make your day. 💕 🎸
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November 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Put this straight into my veins. An object lesson in how to take children seriously. Clash bassist Paul Simonon, 70 next month, singing Guns of Brixton with some busking kids.
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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It’s Richard Burton’s birthday Ian McShane on making Villain with Burton:
He said to me: ‘You know I’m very glad you’re playing this part, Ian.’
‘Why?’
‘Because you remind me of Elizabeth.’
He said to me: ‘You know I’m very glad you’re playing this part, Ian.’
‘Why?’
‘Because you remind me of Elizabeth.’
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
It’s Richard Burton’s birthday Ian McShane on making Villain with Burton:
He said to me: ‘You know I’m very glad you’re playing this part, Ian.’
‘Why?’
‘Because you remind me of Elizabeth.’
He said to me: ‘You know I’m very glad you’re playing this part, Ian.’
‘Why?’
‘Because you remind me of Elizabeth.’
This is a copy of Whitlam's 1972 policy speech I found in my local 2nd hand bookshop. Its obvs meant to be read by ordinary Australians & compared to today's Labor govt Whitlam is a raging Marxist (& to left of Mamdani). Here's a short thread of policies (Non-Australians look up The Dismissal)
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is a copy of Whitlam's 1972 policy speech I found in my local 2nd hand bookshop. Its obvs meant to be read by ordinary Australians & compared to today's Labor govt Whitlam is a raging Marxist (& to left of Mamdani). Here's a short thread of policies (Non-Australians look up The Dismissal)
She is right.
Talking to the 5-year-old about the election tomorrow has backfired spectacularly because she asked if she gets to vote, and I explained to her that she needed to be 18, and she is now crying and vigorously arguing that you should be allowed to vote “whatever age you are”
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
She is right.
It's been a week of some achievements. Zohran elected, Cheney died, Bolsonaro still going to jail, Watson died, I cut down a large dead acacia & chainsawed it up, I planted out potatoes, I found a missing sock. All weeks should be like this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
It's been a week of some achievements. Zohran elected, Cheney died, Bolsonaro still going to jail, Watson died, I cut down a large dead acacia & chainsawed it up, I planted out potatoes, I found a missing sock. All weeks should be like this.
Man, this whole project is so ghoulish. I'd walk barefoot over hot coals before I'd read this.
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Man, this whole project is so ghoulish. I'd walk barefoot over hot coals before I'd read this.
Me, 2 minutes ago: I would like to watch something, but everything is inane garbage.
Mosfilm: Hey! Over here!
Mosfilm: Hey! Over here!
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Me, 2 minutes ago: I would like to watch something, but everything is inane garbage.
Mosfilm: Hey! Over here!
Mosfilm: Hey! Over here!
Grant on Insta in sunnies: Someone just pantsed me in the water at Cannes! 😡 Brigitte Auber nowhere to be seen! Grace Kelly says she saw nothing. 🙄
Acker: Orgasms are great sisters, the more the better! But remember patriarchy will fucking kill us all!
Acker: Orgasms are great sisters, the more the better! But remember patriarchy will fucking kill us all!
Cary Grant talking about how his dad told him his mom died when really she was institutionalized! Cary Grant, on a yacht with that sun reflector, talking about how great LSD is. Gifs of Bringing up Baby, “I just went gay all of a sudden”?
Bisexual King
Bisexual King
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Grant on Insta in sunnies: Someone just pantsed me in the water at Cannes! 😡 Brigitte Auber nowhere to be seen! Grace Kelly says she saw nothing. 🙄
Acker: Orgasms are great sisters, the more the better! But remember patriarchy will fucking kill us all!
Acker: Orgasms are great sisters, the more the better! But remember patriarchy will fucking kill us all!
The world would be a better place if we had access to Cary Grant's Instagram & Kathy Acker's Twitter. No question.
Obviously social media is awful in many ways but imagine if I could access Robert Aldrich’s Instagram or like or Abraham Polonsky’s Twitter. Agnes Moorehead’s Pinterest board. Zelda Fitzgerald’s MySpace. Tennessee Williams’s DMs…..
On second thought that last one might be *too* fascinating.
On second thought that last one might be *too* fascinating.
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The world would be a better place if we had access to Cary Grant's Instagram & Kathy Acker's Twitter. No question.
Classical music is a good comparison. Until quite recently orchestras were 100% white men. So for generations we've been listening to music that was not only interpreted through perspectives of dominant masculinities, but wasn't even being played by the best players.
She's absolutely right. As a producer with several films in development with female directors, I can say it is an absolute uphill battle to get execs to fund their projects. Great scripts are sitting on shelves while a generation of our most talented women sit idle.
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Kristen Stewart declares "state of emergency" over gender inequality in film
Kristen Stewart declares "state of emergency" over gender inequality in film
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November 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Classical music is a good comparison. Until quite recently orchestras were 100% white men. So for generations we've been listening to music that was not only interpreted through perspectives of dominant masculinities, but wasn't even being played by the best players.
Seen a few 'this isn't really systemic change' takes popping up from various well-intentioned comrades. But I've long had an idea that everyone on the right is paranoid & the left chronically depressed. So, this is what the depression can look like.
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Seen a few 'this isn't really systemic change' takes popping up from various well-intentioned comrades. But I've long had an idea that everyone on the right is paranoid & the left chronically depressed. So, this is what the depression can look like.
Just wanna say that I stand in unconditional allyship with aloof wives.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Just wanna say that I stand in unconditional allyship with aloof wives.
Lol, Mamdani certainly has the juice.
"Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up'.
"Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up'.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Lol, Mamdani certainly has the juice.
"Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up'.
"Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up'.
Seriously, the entire media class who treat politics as a delightful soap opera are going to have the daddy of all meltdowns about socialism becoming cool & popular. Smoke coming out of their ears, eyes spinning, gibbering 'This does not compute' until they collapse.
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Seriously, the entire media class who treat politics as a delightful soap opera are going to have the daddy of all meltdowns about socialism becoming cool & popular. Smoke coming out of their ears, eyes spinning, gibbering 'This does not compute' until they collapse.
Albo already working up his talking points for distribution to the faithful on why socialism 'won't work' in Australia.
can't wait to see Albanese dismiss this as irrelevant to Australia.
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Albo already working up his talking points for distribution to the faithful on why socialism 'won't work' in Australia.
Cheney dying & NY electing a socialist Muslim mayor 21 yrs after 9/11, is (a) awesome (b) will drive the right insane with fear, and (c) will start a meaningless & very stupid op-ed campaign from the liberal press about 'unworkable' socialism, while (d) everyone else discovers socialism is cool.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Cheney dying & NY electing a socialist Muslim mayor 21 yrs after 9/11, is (a) awesome (b) will drive the right insane with fear, and (c) will start a meaningless & very stupid op-ed campaign from the liberal press about 'unworkable' socialism, while (d) everyone else discovers socialism is cool.
I have a lot of thoughts about Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN, too many for BSky except to say that the lives of women, the way we split off parts of ourselves, how we haunt others and how men wall off their lives, predominate. And the word 'forgiveness' at the end of the film is carrying a LOT of weight.
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I have a lot of thoughts about Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN, too many for BSky except to say that the lives of women, the way we split off parts of ourselves, how we haunt others and how men wall off their lives, predominate. And the word 'forgiveness' at the end of the film is carrying a LOT of weight.
Sure, you could stay at the Lunatic Hotel in a silent, decaying, one-mule Australian town in the middle of nowhere. What could go wrong?
November 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Sure, you could stay at the Lunatic Hotel in a silent, decaying, one-mule Australian town in the middle of nowhere. What could go wrong?
The ALP are such imbeciles that it's entirely possible that they didn't even know this proposal is a staggering breach of due process that sets unfathomable precedents, but was just another fun way to punish anyone on benefits & are now having to double down.
A "serious power" is not an acceptable euphemism for breaching the right to due process.
The list of groups opposing this move is growing, with NATSILS, the Australian Council of Social Services and Economic Justice Australia speaking out today.
Thank you @joshbutler.bsky.social for reporting.
The list of groups opposing this move is growing, with NATSILS, the Australian Council of Social Services and Economic Justice Australia speaking out today.
Thank you @joshbutler.bsky.social for reporting.
November 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The ALP are such imbeciles that it's entirely possible that they didn't even know this proposal is a staggering breach of due process that sets unfathomable precedents, but was just another fun way to punish anyone on benefits & are now having to double down.
You can only want to help other living things grow, if you have something alive & growing in yourself. I wouldn't say that gardening is inherently anti-capitalist - think gardening as colonisation - but it can facilitate anti-capitalist growth in someone & soften them up for the coming revolution.
November 4, 2025 at 12:00 AM
You can only want to help other living things grow, if you have something alive & growing in yourself. I wouldn't say that gardening is inherently anti-capitalist - think gardening as colonisation - but it can facilitate anti-capitalist growth in someone & soften them up for the coming revolution.
It's an inherent good to grow living things. Can you imagine Trump gardening? Netanyahu? Or Albanese or Marles? Mass graves, marble dunnies, environmental vandalism are their niche interests, consonant with the nature of capitalism as a death drive.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It's an inherent good to grow living things. Can you imagine Trump gardening? Netanyahu? Or Albanese or Marles? Mass graves, marble dunnies, environmental vandalism are their niche interests, consonant with the nature of capitalism as a death drive.
Here in Anaiwan country it can get down to minus 5 in winter & the changes of season are really something to see. In subtropical Bundjalung country, where I gardened for years, there are basically two seasons: Extremely Wet, and Somewhat Wet. Anything will grow there & usually does.
November 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Here in Anaiwan country it can get down to minus 5 in winter & the changes of season are really something to see. In subtropical Bundjalung country, where I gardened for years, there are basically two seasons: Extremely Wet, and Somewhat Wet. Anything will grow there & usually does.
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Bro is out here just casually dropping bombs like
November 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Bro is out here just casually dropping bombs like