Today is World AIDS Day and we continue to grieve, in rage.

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On the troubles at UTS: www.reddit.com/r/UTS/s/2aDq...

Six years ago as part of Precarious Birds with @zoesadokierski.bsky.social I wrote about the Slender-billed Curlew, now declared extinct by the IUCN: precariousbirds.net/portfolio/nu... To be fair it was likely extinct even 20 years ago. But the ‘official’ declaration always stings.

Just putting this out into the world. Come March next year I’ll be looking for #PostDoc research assistant work in Sydney (or remote). Please keep me in mind and send any ideas my way. Looking for projects in one or any of #EnergyTransitions #Decarbonisation #EnvironmentalPlanning #HumanGeography

Some thoughts on fast fashion. Like I say in the post, I’d rather be on a dance floor with other queers than continue to talk and write about fast fashion, but here we are (again). timorissanen.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/o...

Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.

Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!

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That in the real world we’re getting buried in plastic slop and in the virtual world in AI slop seems a fitting end to the capitalist paradigm.

More AI slop from academia.edu: I got two of these emails regarding conference papers I wrote 20 years ago. Definitely deleting the account this week.

I’ve been dealing with severe insomnia for five months thanks to the uncertainty of the nebulous UTS ‘operational sustainability initiative’ and the 400 redundancies, and still I turn up to work every day and deliver. This headline from AFR is tone deaf.
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Spent the morning with my colleague Dr Lisa Lake volunteering at Thread Together, a not-for-profit that distributes brand new clothes to people in need. The clothes are unsold inventory donated by brands. Packing a box of 40 items for a person in rural NSW, the impact of the work hit home.

Today I received the scans I made three weeks ago at the @leatherarchives.bsky.social in Chicago. In this research I’m interested in leather title sashes and how they came to be used, which has led me to also ask, when did leather title comps begin? The four hours in the archive were enlightening.

Tempted to finally delete my academia.edu account after receiving an unsolicited email about an AI having written a review of a chapter I wrote two years ago.

This humble little paper, pending minor revisions, was this week accepted into the journal APRIA. I’m nonetheless chuffed as it’s my first about leather, an intentional act to bridge my ‘professional’ and ‘private’ lives, and a small gesture of giving back to the leather community.

First day back at work and it is a big year ahead. Two co-authors and I signed a contract for our book just before the break and that work starts now. It’s a book on business models for sustainability in fashion. Very excited for it. Publication will be mid- to late 2026.

In the past couple of years I’ve begun to put my body explicitly in my work. Questions of labour have been there for a long time at least implicitly, and the body is inseparable from labour. But this is different: my body has become material for my work, or I use it to respond to my work.

Just read the news that the Slender-billed curlew is now considered extinct with ’96% probability’. It’s one of the species @zoesadokierski.bsky.social assigned to me as part of Precarious Birde. Here’s a brief bit of writing I did about the species in 2019: precariousbirds.net/portfolio/nu...