Raewyn Martyn
@fallingwalker.bsky.social
Artist and teacher. Lecturer of
Painting at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury, Te Waipounamu. Aotearoa New Zealand.
Painting at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury, Te Waipounamu. Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Farewell to the great Maurice Gee. His novels go on looking clearly at the world and introducing us to ourselves.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Writer Maurice Gee has died
The prolific and unassuming writer died in Nelson.
www.stuff.co.nz
June 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Farewell to the great Maurice Gee. His novels go on looking clearly at the world and introducing us to ourselves.
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
The Ōtautahi launch for Mark Forman's biography of painter Tony Fomison. Wonderful speeches by Tony's friend Murray Horton along with Sally Blundell and from Mark.
June 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The Ōtautahi launch for Mark Forman's biography of painter Tony Fomison. Wonderful speeches by Tony's friend Murray Horton along with Sally Blundell and from Mark.
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Hot off the presses this morning…Hospice NZ & Barnados warn gutting pay equity law risks higher hospital costs & staffing exits; Ministers making fast-track calls, despite conflicts; Mitchell capitulates on 500 more Police target. thekaka.substack.com/p/pay-equity...
Pay equity shock to have unintended consequences
Hospice NZ & Barnados warn gutting pay equity law risks higher hospital costs & staffing exits; Ministers making fast-track calls, despite conflicts; Mitchell capitulates on 500 more Police target
thekaka.substack.com
May 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hot off the presses this morning…Hospice NZ & Barnados warn gutting pay equity law risks higher hospital costs & staffing exits; Ministers making fast-track calls, despite conflicts; Mitchell capitulates on 500 more Police target. thekaka.substack.com/p/pay-equity...
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Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland closed last week with over 400 job losses, ending a century of refining. @riyokoshibe.bsky.social and I have published research in Antipode using interviews we recorded with Grangemouth workers to understand why they view the closure and redundancies as unjust.
Workers’ Perspectives on an Unjust Transition: Place, History, and Workplace Closure at Grangemouth Oil Refinery, Scotland
Fossil fuel workers are central protagonists in achieving a “just transition” to a greener and fairer economy. This article examines workforce attitudes towards transition, redundancy, and restructur....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland closed last week with over 400 job losses, ending a century of refining. @riyokoshibe.bsky.social and I have published research in Antipode using interviews we recorded with Grangemouth workers to understand why they view the closure and redundancies as unjust.
"I challenge you to give it a go sister" Careworkers who are paid near minimum wage encourage Workplace Relations Minister BvV to try her hand at care work for a few days. It's a careless bill. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
May 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"I challenge you to give it a go sister" Careworkers who are paid near minimum wage encourage Workplace Relations Minister BvV to try her hand at care work for a few days. It's a careless bill. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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We've launched a petition calling on MPs to reverse all pay equity claim cancellations, undo the Equal Pay Act changes, and deliver pay equity settlements to every worker waiting for their claim. Sign today and fight back against these attacks on women. www.together.org.nz/fbt_for_pay_...
Protect Pay Equity – stop scrapping equal pay claims and law
Join us in building a better world
www.together.org.nz
May 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
We've launched a petition calling on MPs to reverse all pay equity claim cancellations, undo the Equal Pay Act changes, and deliver pay equity settlements to every worker waiting for their claim. Sign today and fight back against these attacks on women. www.together.org.nz/fbt_for_pay_...
The soft power of wombat love...
May 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The soft power of wombat love...
In 1972 some unidentified space balls landed Canterbury and North Otago farmland in Te Waipounamu Aotearoa NZ. The 500kg Soviet mother craft of these balls is expected to hurtle to Earth within the next week ashburtonmuseum.wordpress.com/2022/04/09/t...
The Space Balls: When Cosmic Junk Landed in Mid Canterbury
I am sure that many of you who are familiar with some of the Ashburton District’s weirder occurrences have rolled your eyes by now. It has been a while since a full-blown story has been published o…
ashburtonmuseum.wordpress.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
In 1972 some unidentified space balls landed Canterbury and North Otago farmland in Te Waipounamu Aotearoa NZ. The 500kg Soviet mother craft of these balls is expected to hurtle to Earth within the next week ashburtonmuseum.wordpress.com/2022/04/09/t...
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Registration details for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference 2025 have now been added to our website: asle.org.uk/events/galwa...
March 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Registration details for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference 2025 have now been added to our website: asle.org.uk/events/galwa...
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Intended or not, The Met's retrospective of Caspar David Friedrich coincides with our own neo-Romantic moment: nostalgic to the core, pining to return to nature while scheming to destroy it, eager to spurn reality in favor of our imagination, suffering from an overactive spleen.
We Are the New Romantics
Just like Caspar David Friedrich and the Romanticists, we live in anxious times and hunger for a touch of the sublime.
hyperallergic.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Intended or not, The Met's retrospective of Caspar David Friedrich coincides with our own neo-Romantic moment: nostalgic to the core, pining to return to nature while scheming to destroy it, eager to spurn reality in favor of our imagination, suffering from an overactive spleen.
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Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
March 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
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So this is pretty great
★ Heather Christle delves into her relationship with her mother and the work of Virginia Woolf in this dazzling account. Readers will be rapt.
In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf by Heather Christle
Poet and memoirist Christle (The Crying Book) delves into her relationship with her mother and the work of Virginia Woolf in thi...
buff.ly
February 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
So this is pretty great
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We're currently advertising for our second UC Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence for 2025, co-funded by Creative NZ. 6 months, late July 25 - late Jan 26, $82Kpa pro-rated, a nice office up with me with some of the best views in the city. Happy to answer qs. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
February 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
We're currently advertising for our second UC Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence for 2025, co-funded by Creative NZ. 6 months, late July 25 - late Jan 26, $82Kpa pro-rated, a nice office up with me with some of the best views in the city. Happy to answer qs. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...
Valentines 💗 @creativeelc.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Valentines 💗 @creativeelc.bsky.social
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Very pleased to be joining this lineup to talk on Wed. 4/23 with
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social earth & environmental sciences professor Peter Groffman about the scientific and environmental implications of Van Gogh's work www.gc.cuny.edu/events/city-...
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social earth & environmental sciences professor Peter Groffman about the scientific and environmental implications of Van Gogh's work www.gc.cuny.edu/events/city-...
February 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Very pleased to be joining this lineup to talk on Wed. 4/23 with
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social earth & environmental sciences professor Peter Groffman about the scientific and environmental implications of Van Gogh's work www.gc.cuny.edu/events/city-...
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social earth & environmental sciences professor Peter Groffman about the scientific and environmental implications of Van Gogh's work www.gc.cuny.edu/events/city-...
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Sánchez’s sensuous stretched canvases provided a feminist counterpoint to the male-dominated Minimalist movement artreview.com/zilia-sanche...
Zilia Sánchez, Cuban minimalist, 1926-2024
Her sensuous stretched canvases provided a feminist counterpoint to the male-dominated Minimalist movement
artreview.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Sánchez’s sensuous stretched canvases provided a feminist counterpoint to the male-dominated Minimalist movement artreview.com/zilia-sanche...
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I spoke to Jesse Mulligan about some reading I've found useful to educate myself about the Treaty Principles Bill www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Critic: Books and the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill
Pip Adams makes some personal recommendations around books and writing that she found useful when formulating her thoughts around the debate around the bill.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 19, 2024 at 3:14 AM
I spoke to Jesse Mulligan about some reading I've found useful to educate myself about the Treaty Principles Bill www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...