Boston Married
@bostonmarried.bsky.social
No fixed address feminist.
Made account for housing, renter, homeless auspol posting, now general democracy anti fa stuff to
Thinking things through, applied #feminist, #abolitionist #PWD.
Interested in politics of networks and physical space
Made account for housing, renter, homeless auspol posting, now general democracy anti fa stuff to
Thinking things through, applied #feminist, #abolitionist #PWD.
Interested in politics of networks and physical space
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It’s still happening.
Intersex infants being surgically ‘corrected’ to ‘fit in’ rather than a need.
Trans kids are not the ones getting surgery, it’s intersex babies.
equalityaustralia.org.au/take-action/...
Intersex infants being surgically ‘corrected’ to ‘fit in’ rather than a need.
Trans kids are not the ones getting surgery, it’s intersex babies.
equalityaustralia.org.au/take-action/...
Intersex Human Rights
Everyone should be able to make their own choices about what happens to their body .
equalityaustralia.org.au
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It’s still happening.
Intersex infants being surgically ‘corrected’ to ‘fit in’ rather than a need.
Trans kids are not the ones getting surgery, it’s intersex babies.
equalityaustralia.org.au/take-action/...
Intersex infants being surgically ‘corrected’ to ‘fit in’ rather than a need.
Trans kids are not the ones getting surgery, it’s intersex babies.
equalityaustralia.org.au/take-action/...
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Making a guy who owns 16 houses the shadow housing minister is truly inspiring stuff from the Libs - like the time Labor made the guy with 7 houses the regulator for landlords.
Amazing things happening with the Victorian ruling class 🤩
Amazing things happening with the Victorian ruling class 🤩
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Making a guy who owns 16 houses the shadow housing minister is truly inspiring stuff from the Libs - like the time Labor made the guy with 7 houses the regulator for landlords.
Amazing things happening with the Victorian ruling class 🤩
Amazing things happening with the Victorian ruling class 🤩
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We could be doing such wonders
November 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We could be doing such wonders
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International students relying on education agents to study in Australia might be misled about the country's housing situation.
'Unjust': International students trading their rights for a bed
International students relying on education agents to study in Australia might be misled about the country's housing situation.
www.abc.net.au
November 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
International students relying on education agents to study in Australia might be misled about the country's housing situation.
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Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful | Leigh Boucher
Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful | Leigh Boucher
Researchers now describe it as both historical phenomenon and public health model. Its success was remarkable
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Past/Present is a column which places current events in historical context
Aids has always been laden with political and emotional volatilities. The possibility of blood or sex based transmission combined with its first emergence among marginalised and criminalised populations created a potent mix of primal terror and terrifying prejudice.
It can sometimes be difficult to remember just how potently misinformation, fear and outright hostility framed the knowledge and experience of Aids in the first decade or so of the pandemic. In this period, a positive result on an HIV test was a terminal diagnosis and medical knowledge about transmission and treatment was still cloudy.
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www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful | Leigh Boucher
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Amazing! We love to see it. Props to @risingtideaus.bsky.social for the massive effort in organising the entire People’s Blockade weekend, bringing activists from all over the country to fight climate change and the profiteering fossil fuel industry!
The NSW Socialists' forum on 'climate change and class war' ft. @purplepingers.bsky.social in conversation with Lily Campbell at Rising Tide in Newcastle yesterday drew quite a crowd. Wonderful to see so much interest in hearing a socialist perspective on the climate crisis. ❤️
November 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Amazing! We love to see it. Props to @risingtideaus.bsky.social for the massive effort in organising the entire People’s Blockade weekend, bringing activists from all over the country to fight climate change and the profiteering fossil fuel industry!
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Police arrest more than 30 people in Newcastle Harbour for alleged marine-related offences during an anti-fossil fuel protest.
Protesters arrested for blocking world's largest coal port
Police arrest more than 30 people in Newcastle Harbour for alleged marine-related offences during an anti-fossil fuel protest.
www.abc.net.au
November 30, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Police arrest more than 30 people in Newcastle Harbour for alleged marine-related offences during an anti-fossil fuel protest.
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the only reason it doesn’t seem like an issue to most people is because most people don’t see what accommodations for the elderly look like these days. even the very expensive old folks’ homes are disgusting and understaffed. this problem is bad now and will only continue to get worse
The part that fucks me up the most is every part of this looks set to get worse over time, not better. Forcing higher numbers of an aging population into smaller and less safe accommodation in more obscure and less resourced places over time. If it doesn't seem like such an issue now, just wait.
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
the only reason it doesn’t seem like an issue to most people is because most people don’t see what accommodations for the elderly look like these days. even the very expensive old folks’ homes are disgusting and understaffed. this problem is bad now and will only continue to get worse
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Amazon workers go on strike world-wide. “From Germany to Bangladesh, thousands of workers walked off the job on Friday and marched against Amazon’s labor practices to push for better wages, working conditions, and union protections." www.commondreams.org/news/make-am...
Global Black Friday Strikes Against Amazon Target 'Techno-Authoritarian' Assault on Workers | Common Dreams
"We are joining Make Amazon Pay to demand the most basic rights: safety, dignity, and the chance to go home alive," said one Amazon worker from India.
www.commondreams.org
November 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Amazon workers go on strike world-wide. “From Germany to Bangladesh, thousands of workers walked off the job on Friday and marched against Amazon’s labor practices to push for better wages, working conditions, and union protections." www.commondreams.org/news/make-am...
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"The number of unused and underused properties combined could theoretically house everyone on the Victorian social housing waiting list twice over."
#springst #vicpol #housingcrisis
#springst #vicpol #housingcrisis
Number of empty homes surging in three key areas of Melbourne
The increase in empty properties last year was enough to effectively wipe out one in every nine newly built homes, one expert says.
www.theage.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 PM
"The number of unused and underused properties combined could theoretically house everyone on the Victorian social housing waiting list twice over."
#springst #vicpol #housingcrisis
#springst #vicpol #housingcrisis
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Professor David Hood AM, a former president of Engineers Australia.
“If the government keeps approving coal and gas mines that will harm my grandkids for generations, then yes — I will break the law to stop it and that will be perfectly justified in doing so,” www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
“If the government keeps approving coal and gas mines that will harm my grandkids for generations, then yes — I will break the law to stop it and that will be perfectly justified in doing so,” www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
www.news.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Professor David Hood AM, a former president of Engineers Australia.
“If the government keeps approving coal and gas mines that will harm my grandkids for generations, then yes — I will break the law to stop it and that will be perfectly justified in doing so,” www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
“If the government keeps approving coal and gas mines that will harm my grandkids for generations, then yes — I will break the law to stop it and that will be perfectly justified in doing so,” www.news.com.au/national/nsw...
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Oops‼️ This coal ship TURNED AWAY due to the #RisingTide disruption of the world’s biggest coal port ✊🏽💚✊🏼
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Oops‼️ This coal ship TURNED AWAY due to the #RisingTide disruption of the world’s biggest coal port ✊🏽💚✊🏼
2 days until it's officially summer.
First day of the season I was sick from the heat by nightfall
I continue to feel mystified/alienated that more people don't feel more strongly about climate change
First day of the season I was sick from the heat by nightfall
I continue to feel mystified/alienated that more people don't feel more strongly about climate change
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
2 days until it's officially summer.
First day of the season I was sick from the heat by nightfall
I continue to feel mystified/alienated that more people don't feel more strongly about climate change
First day of the season I was sick from the heat by nightfall
I continue to feel mystified/alienated that more people don't feel more strongly about climate change
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New from my phd student @joshgoddard98.bsky.social: he shows, using many election and panel studies across the advanced democracies, that housing status has replaced occupational class as a key predictor of voting. Class voting is now about assets, not income www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Housing and electoral behaviour: The changing face of class voting in advanced democracies
Scholarship on the relationship between social structure and electoral behaviour has traditionally operationalised voters’ economic or class situation…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
New from my phd student @joshgoddard98.bsky.social: he shows, using many election and panel studies across the advanced democracies, that housing status has replaced occupational class as a key predictor of voting. Class voting is now about assets, not income www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Lincoln, Nebraska has a very cool program where landlords get money to upgrade decrepit apartment buildings — including by installing climate-friendly heat pumps! — and they have to keep rents low. Everybody wins. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c... via @carabuckley.bsky.social
In Nebraska, Makeovers for Buildings That Don’t Price Out the Locals
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Lincoln, Nebraska has a very cool program where landlords get money to upgrade decrepit apartment buildings — including by installing climate-friendly heat pumps! — and they have to keep rents low. Everybody wins. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c... via @carabuckley.bsky.social
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Nannas standing with First Nations, Tiwi, & Timor Leste in their battle to protect country (land & sea) to stop gas expansion disaster. Building communities of hope @ the People’s Blockade.
@risingtideAus.bluesky.social
@risingtideAus.bluesky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Nannas standing with First Nations, Tiwi, & Timor Leste in their battle to protect country (land & sea) to stop gas expansion disaster. Building communities of hope @ the People’s Blockade.
@risingtideAus.bluesky.social
@risingtideAus.bluesky.social
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Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
Anthony Albanese promised to end the ‘culture of secrecy’. With freedom of speech under attack globally, it’s past time he delivered
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First things first. It would be remiss of me not to refer specifically to the appalling and outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and other media workers in Israel’s war on Gaza since the brutal attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens two years ago.
Having excluded independent global media access inside Gaza, leaving us all to rely on local journalists to bear witness to the devastating effect of Israel’s bombardment on the civilian population of Gaza and the famine that has accompanied it, Israel has failed dismally to explain with any credibility why so many journalists have been killed. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien
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“People don’t understand what it does to you,” she tells me over the phone, her voice careful, measured. “It’s not just the money. It’s knowing that at any moment, the thing keeping you alive can just… stop. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
The Invisible Casualties: How Australia's Debt Machine Targets Its Most Vulnerable
Over 2.6 million welfare payment suspensions in 13 months—more than five every minute. This feature investigation reveals the psychological toll on people with disabilities and Indigenous Australians ...
www.kingaroy.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“People don’t understand what it does to you,” she tells me over the phone, her voice careful, measured. “It’s not just the money. It’s knowing that at any moment, the thing keeping you alive can just… stop. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
www.kingaroy.org/invisible-ca...
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Natalie had to inspect and apply for a minimum of one to four private rental properties every day while staying in temporary accommodation with her kids.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'Constant threat': DV victim-survivors recount temp accommodation ordeals
Two women who fled their violent partners say their efforts to stay in emergency accommodation via state government housing offices left them "deeply traumatised".
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Natalie had to inspect and apply for a minimum of one to four private rental properties every day while staying in temporary accommodation with her kids.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Thank you everyone who contacted MPs and Senator offices in the campaign to make the new nature laws stronger. We now have a new national environment law which has some important improvements but still fails the climate test. Incredulously climate pollution won't be taken into account in decisions.
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Thank you everyone who contacted MPs and Senator offices in the campaign to make the new nature laws stronger. We now have a new national environment law which has some important improvements but still fails the climate test. Incredulously climate pollution won't be taken into account in decisions.
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The @greens.org.au have secured a restriction on #PayToDestroy on “protected matters” that'll be "determined by the Minister at a future date, with the advice of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee"
But make no mistake #PayToDestroy has failed in NSW & QLD & will worsen biodiversity loss
But make no mistake #PayToDestroy has failed in NSW & QLD & will worsen biodiversity loss
Introducing ‘payments to destroy’ under national nature laws – lessons ignored from the NSW scheme
Everyone agrees the current laws are failing, but that doesn’t mean any change is an improvement. When it comes to offsets, it’s clear things are going to get worse not better.
thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The @greens.org.au have secured a restriction on #PayToDestroy on “protected matters” that'll be "determined by the Minister at a future date, with the advice of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee"
But make no mistake #PayToDestroy has failed in NSW & QLD & will worsen biodiversity loss
But make no mistake #PayToDestroy has failed in NSW & QLD & will worsen biodiversity loss
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#OtD 27 Nov 1981 300 mostly migrant women at Kortex textile factory in Brunswick, Australia, went on strike after union officials missed a meeting about their pay claim. They organised a mass picket, spread the strike, fought police, and won a pay rise stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9952...
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
#OtD 27 Nov 1981 300 mostly migrant women at Kortex textile factory in Brunswick, Australia, went on strike after union officials missed a meeting about their pay claim. They organised a mass picket, spread the strike, fought police, and won a pay rise stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9952...
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"Noah Jones argued the government's policy was "lazy". "We are the true digital natives and we want to remain educated, robust, and savvy in our digital world... They should protect kids with safeguards, not silence.""
Kid's right on the money and I hope they win.
Kid's right on the money and I hope they win.
Social median ban: teens challenge law before High Court www.bbc.com/news/article...
Australia social media ban: Teens challenge law before High Court
They argue the law - which will block users under 16 from having social media accounts - is unconstitutional.
www.bbc.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"Noah Jones argued the government's policy was "lazy". "We are the true digital natives and we want to remain educated, robust, and savvy in our digital world... They should protect kids with safeguards, not silence.""
Kid's right on the money and I hope they win.
Kid's right on the money and I hope they win.