Clare Strahan
@9fragments.bsky.social
Novelist A&U Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge & Cracked. RMIT PWE teacher. Editor-IPED member. MSS assessor @ KYD. La Trobe PhD candidate. Wants green peaceful life for all. Saddened. I donate to UNHCR & ASRC & not individuals sorry.
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Clare Strahan
@9fragments.bsky.social
· Sep 25
Statement in support of Meanjin’s future - Overland literary journal
We write in support of the University of Melbourne Creative Writing program and call on the University of Melbourne to protect Meanjin and the incalculable cultural wealth that it offers us all. The u...
overland.org.au
WTF is wrong with people? We know what works and it's spending money on the right things to allow lives to be lived not trauma to be repeated endlessly - not locking kids up forever
A former chair of the Law Institute of Victoria’s criminal law section, Mel Walker, described the proposal as “extraordinary, bad policy and counterintuitive”.
Children could face life sentences for serious offences under Victorian government ‘adult time’ plan
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
WTF is wrong with people? We know what works and it's spending money on the right things to allow lives to be lived not trauma to be repeated endlessly - not locking kids up forever
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Shahd Shamali was given 20 minutes warning before the I.D.F. struck her building. She describes her home and the life she made there, before it was erased, and the choices she and her family made in the brief evacuation window. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/s_uZDZ
In Gaza, Home Is Just a Memory
After the ceasefire, many Palestinians who were displaced during the war are still grieving the homes they can’t return to—and which they often had to evacuate in minutes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Shahd Shamali was given 20 minutes warning before the I.D.F. struck her building. She describes her home and the life she made there, before it was erased, and the choices she and her family made in the brief evacuation window. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/s_uZDZ
Can recommend!
Hello! I'm running a six-week writing workshop in Melbourne over summer designed to help you deepen your craft, receive generous feedback and build momentum in your work.
💫 Small group (max 12 writers)
💫 Fortnightly meet-ups
Places are limited. Apps close on Nov 7. App w info in bio.
💫 Small group (max 12 writers)
💫 Fortnightly meet-ups
Places are limited. Apps close on Nov 7. App w info in bio.
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Can recommend!
horror
Despite the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Israeli attacks continue to kill Palestinians.
Gaza residents fear more Israeli attacks, unable to rebuild their lives
Despite the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Israeli attacks continue to kill Palestinians.
bit.ly
October 30, 2025 at 9:59 AM
horror
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Gillian Wearing’s statue of Suffragist Millicent Fawcett, 2018, Parliament Square, London. The words are a quote from Fawcett on the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, killed when walking in front of the King’s horse at the Derby,1913, to highlight the women's cause.
October 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Gillian Wearing’s statue of Suffragist Millicent Fawcett, 2018, Parliament Square, London. The words are a quote from Fawcett on the death of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, killed when walking in front of the King’s horse at the Derby,1913, to highlight the women's cause.
brave person
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
brave person
cool bananas
I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings
October 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
cool bananas
This poop thing is ... I mean wtf? Is there any better advertisement for 'no kings' in Ame rica? Cripes. So weird. Great organising from the sane people.
youtu.be/547Sn-C0qmM?...
youtu.be/547Sn-C0qmM?...
Trump Reacts To ‘No Kings’ Protest With WILD AI Video: Drops POOP Bombs From The Sky In VIRAL Clip
YouTube video by ETimes
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
This poop thing is ... I mean wtf? Is there any better advertisement for 'no kings' in Ame rica? Cripes. So weird. Great organising from the sane people.
youtu.be/547Sn-C0qmM?...
youtu.be/547Sn-C0qmM?...
October 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
pretty glorious (and disturbing)
October 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
pretty glorious (and disturbing)
Reposted by Clare Strahan
Reposted by Clare Strahan
Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
October 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Wrote a thing. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Like short fiction? Come play with the form at this @writersvictoria.bsky.social workshop with me!
writersvictoria.org.au/calendars/ev...
writersvictoria.org.au/calendars/ev...
writersvictoria.org.au
October 15, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Like short fiction? Come play with the form at this @writersvictoria.bsky.social workshop with me!
writersvictoria.org.au/calendars/ev...
writersvictoria.org.au/calendars/ev...
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Important thread on how Abbott thinks the racist vibes straight from his own raw onion are more reliable than the First Nations oral histories extensively backed up by white science
poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.
October 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Important thread on how Abbott thinks the racist vibes straight from his own raw onion are more reliable than the First Nations oral histories extensively backed up by white science
Reposted by Clare Strahan
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October 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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terrifying - seems like civil war
These guys are absolutely going to shoot more people.
They’ve already killed one man, shot a woman, and we’ve seen a pattern of pulling firearms on unarmed people doing nothing violent or illegal over the past few weeks.
Clearly they do not care at all about the temporary restraining orders.
They’ve already killed one man, shot a woman, and we’ve seen a pattern of pulling firearms on unarmed people doing nothing violent or illegal over the past few weeks.
Clearly they do not care at all about the temporary restraining orders.
ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today
October 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
terrifying - seems like civil war
I sat down to begin researching/writing a paper I am set to deliver (low stakes) at the end of the month. Came to in the laundry de cobwebbing and sorting out storage for Who Gives a Crap. I do not remember the transition. Now I'm on Bluesky telling the void. Things are going well. #PhD
October 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I sat down to begin researching/writing a paper I am set to deliver (low stakes) at the end of the month. Came to in the laundry de cobwebbing and sorting out storage for Who Gives a Crap. I do not remember the transition. Now I'm on Bluesky telling the void. Things are going well. #PhD
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Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."
( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )
( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )
October 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."
( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )
( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )
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When the perpetrator of genocide decides to not genocide as much, and shakes hands with their arms dealer, it's not a peace plan. Factor in the plans for developers, and you have end-stage capitalism; eradication for profit, then stealing the land to make more money off of. WTF
October 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
When the perpetrator of genocide decides to not genocide as much, and shakes hands with their arms dealer, it's not a peace plan. Factor in the plans for developers, and you have end-stage capitalism; eradication for profit, then stealing the land to make more money off of. WTF
my god
"The UN’s child protection agency, Unicef, cited Gaza health ministry statistics from early September, recording 2,596 children who had lost both parents, and a further 53,724 who had lost either their father (47,804) or mother (5,920)."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans
As the number of WCNSFs – wounded child no surviving family – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after them
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
my god
archetype of the American hero
I just watched the video of the Portland Cop threatening to arrest an ICE agent if they drive their truck through a crowd. Now I see this where the General of the Oregon National Guard says if they get called up they will protect the protesters. People are fed up.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online
Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.
www.oregonlive.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
archetype of the American hero
wtf are these people who can lie like this so boldly and so dangerously?
Protesters in Portland are giving these clowns the level of respect they deserve
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
wtf are these people who can lie like this so boldly and so dangerously?
o Portland xxx
This evening: frogs lay siege to the ICE fortress in Portland. Kristi Noem doesn't think this is funny. Every one else thinks it's hysterical. bsky.app/profile/oreg...
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
o Portland xxx
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📢 Applications now open – Final Year of the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Applications are open now from 1 October to 16 November 2025. To apply visit:
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October 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM
📢 Applications now open – Final Year of the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Applications are open now from 1 October to 16 November 2025. To apply visit:
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