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Judy Kuo
@judykuo.bsky.social
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Artist based in Naarm. 🧑‍🎨
Member of the Workers Art Collective. ✊🇵🇸
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“One in five adults who die by suicide in this country are on the #JobSeeker payment, and 14% of people who die by suicide are on DSP.
…To not increase payments accepts thousands of needless deaths. And we call that social murder.” @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org
www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/20/c...
‘We call that social murder’: Five years on from COVID supplement payments, more of us live in poverty
Five years ago Scott Morrison doubled JobSeeker payments, temporarily shielding millions from poverty. As costs rise and poverty rates worsen, why can't the government do that again?
www.crikey.com.au
March 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Bail saves lives, but the Allan Government is introducing dangerous and discriminatory bail laws.

We stand with VALS and 93 Aboriginal, human rights, community and legal organisations in calling on the Allan Government to instead implement #PoccumsLaw.

www.vals.org.au/granting-bai...
March 17, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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antipovertycentre.org
We're very excited that our beautiful posters featuring art by
@judykuo.bsky.social are ready for printing!

If you can comfortably afford to do so, we'd be so grateful if you can chip in to help cover costs. Contributions of $25+ get a free poster.

Donate here: donate.stripe.com/bIY4gFbx09V9...
Pale green poster with illustrations representing what people could afford to do when some Centrelink payments were increased to the poverty line in 2020. Pale pink poster with the same illustrations as the green version. This one includes large text saying "Centrelink payments above the poverty line. Abolish mutual obligations." A blue version of the previous poster with text. A peach version of the poster without text.
March 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Hi folks, the @antipovertycentre.org is organising welfare recipients to travel to Canberra next week to commemorate the 5 year anniversary of Morrison lifting JobSeeker to the poverty line.

If you can comfortably it, pls help us cover costs by contributing here: donate.stripe.com/4gw28xfNg7N1...
Stripe Checkout
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March 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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🏳️‍⚧️ ANNOUNCING 🏳️‍⚧️
TRANS DAY OF ACTION NAARM 2025 No right to discriminate. No Pride in detention. No Pride in stolen land. Expand trans healthcare. Community not cops. 5:30 PM Monday March 31 Vic State Library
March 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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I have a solo exhibition on the books for late April so here’s a sneak peek into some of the brand new work I’m making for it. MORE DETAILS SOON. 👀👀👀👀
A black and white marker illustration of a glorious rooster among bundles of fallen branches/sticks, with a cloudy night sky behind him.
February 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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My February newsletter is out now! I have so many workshops coming up so please sign up and come hang out with me! 🫶

open.substack.com/pub/judykuo/...
February :)
THREE workshops and a market stall
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February 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Had the best time ever at Sticky Institute Festival of the Photocopier today! I always feel so at home in Melbourne’s zine community - full of queer and lefty and disabled and neurodivergent folk of all ages. Shoutout to all the volunteers and artists and community that make it what it is. 😘
A photo of me wearing a mask making peace signs at my Festival of the Photocopier table, which has a kuffiyeh laid on it and covered in zines and prints.
February 9, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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The Allan Government is considering reviving dangerous and punitive bail laws, despite them leading to Veronica Nelson's death in custody.

The Allan Government should make Victoria’s bail laws safer and fairer for everyone, not give into the Liberal Opposition's fearmongering.
February 4, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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✏️ I have two reflective drawing workshops coming up at Black Spark for the Year of the Snake.

Come bring a friend and meet some new people while we chat about our intentions for the year ahead and draw some fun snakes! 🐍

Link to tix in my bio.
January 31, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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This Lunar New Year, donate your Red Pocket for Palestine. Let’s take the opportunity to share the prosperity with Gazans who continue to survive ongoing genocide and are beginning the difficult process of rebuilding. (1/3)
January 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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I’m planning on running some drawing workshops at Black Spark around the Year of the Snake, so if you’re keen to come along let me know so I can gauge interest!

Here’s me with my latest print and a sneak peek of my studio space!
January 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Oi you! 🫵 I’ve got a new Lunar New Year print for sale, and I will also be tabling at Festival of the Photocopier, and I also have a workshop with Darebin 4 Palestine coming up!

Details in my first/latest monthly newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/judykuo/... 🤪
January :)
New Year of the Snake print and Festival of the Photocopier!
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January 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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antipovertycentre.org
Surprise surprise, "debt" raising is up & robodebt recommendations are ignored.

“Extracting billions from people in poverty is the policy outcome they wanted & they have been wildly successful, even though hundreds of thousands of these debts are not legitimate.” – @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org
Services Australia is chasing billions of dollars in decades-old debt, it has been revealed, some of which may have been incorrectly calculated. Data released under questions on notice shows that, as at the end of October last year, Services Australia was pursuing $4.9bn in unpaid debts from 829,266 customers. The oldest debt dates back to 1979, with thousands from the 1990s. Across the two last years, Services Australia undertook two investigations, finding 147,773 debts that may have been unlawfully calculated with income apportionment. Income apportionment was the complex system used by Services Australia when it could not determine whether payslips that were relied on to calculate welfare debts aligned with the fortnightly income reporting periods, such as when a payslip did not show hours or days worked.
January 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Year of the Wood Snake 🐍🪴 This year we liberate ourselves from our old skins and embody new ways of being ourselves and being in community.

This year I want to see myself embracing the spirit of the Wood Snake, representing wisdom, groundedness, intuition, ruthlessness, and transformation.
Black and white marker illustration of a striped snake shedding its skin among logs, leaves, ferns, and branches. Text beside the snake read: “In 2025, we shed our skins and come into being into the world once again. In the year of the Wood Snake we dismantle that which does not serve us. We dismantle ableism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, eugenics, capitalism. We shed the cops in our hands and resist the cops in our streets. We will build a new world in the name of abolition. We protect us.”
January 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM