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Lenni (she/ her)
@lennimk.bsky.social
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Uninvited guest living on unceded lands,Bpangerang country. 🖤💛❤️ practical reconciliation ally + 🐝 guardian + 👩‍🎨
I design,make +grow things - creativity & design +relational approaches + unlearning + co-creating 4 decolonised, sustainable, equitable futures.
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Interesting lots of recorded commentary responding to Bondi attack and antisemitism directed at the Jewish community … stating must condemn antisemitism but then in relation to how blame being turned to other communities people mention hatred and anger but not the r word … yes racism… 🧐
December 17, 2025 at 4:46 AM
lennimk.bsky.social
Re March for Australia - White supremacist values are harmful re perpetuating racism … so is white saviourism - been a lot of that 🐂💩 around today too
August 31, 2025 at 6:46 AM
lennimk.bsky.social
La Trobe University Council - using anti racism policy and hastily delivered codes of conduct to censor racialised writers and creatives ? … that is some serious settler colonial institutional good intention bullshit 🐂 💩
August 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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clairegcoleman.bsky.social
Here is the text of the email I sent to Bendigo Writers Festival early this afternoon cancelling my appearance at the festival this weekend.
I regret to inform you that I cannot agree to your Speaker Code of Conduct for the Bendigo Writers Festival and therefore I must cancel my appearance at the festival. My reasons for this are many. 1) This Code of Conduct was sent out only yesterday, only 4 days before my appearance which, when you consider how long ago I was invited to the festival was an unacceptably short time to consider such a change. 2) Your Code of Conduct is, as you said, only one page long but it requests authors follow the Latrobe University Anti-Racism Plan, a 19 page legal document. I do not have the time to consider all the ramifications of all that document. 3) I am not an employee of La Trobe University and I will not be compelled to censor my speech to follow the University’s policy, particularly when, as was pointed out in point 1), I received that code only 4 days before the festival. I would not even agree to such a policy at a workplace where I worked so if I worked for La Trobe university I would be looking for another job. 4) I do not work for anyone who censors my speech. To do so would be culturally unsafe. I recently refused to sign a publishing contract that censored my freedom of speech. That should inform you how important my own freedom to speak freely is to me. 5) The La Trobe University Anti Racism Plan that you are attempting to compel me to follow conflates Anti-Zionism with antisemitism. It also conflates support for Palestinian freedom with antisemitism. I am an anti-racist activist of some standing and I therefore support decolonization of Palestine so I cannot agree to having my speech compelled in that way. I wish you all the best with your festival this weekend, I have supported you for years and have always loved appearing there, but I cannot appear at a festival that is attempting to compel or censor my speech. The way you have handled this is disturbing, you are working with writers, authors and artists, many of whom are people of colour and/or Indigenous. I respectfully ask you to do better in future, to consider that to many writers our freedom of speech is more important than any festival. Please remove me from your program. Regards Claire
August 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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ingridm.bsky.social
respect to Maddison Griffiths, Jacinta Le Plastrier, Jess Hill, Claire G Coleman, Kate Mildenhall, Thomas Mayo, Cher Tan, and Kate Larsen for standing in solidarity in this moment👏🏼❤️👊🏼
screen shot from link up thread listing names of writers who are refusing to comply with zionist demands via Bendigo Writers Festival 👊🏼
August 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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beneltham.bsky.social
By the way if you're looking for someone to complain to about Bendigo Writers Festival, my suggestion is complain to these guys, the Council of La Trobe Uni. Just don't hold your breath for a reply www.latrobe.edu.au/council/memb...
Membership
Council mebers details
www.latrobe.edu.au
August 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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clairegcoleman.bsky.social
If you are at Bendigo Writers Festival and can't see me there because I pulled out due to censorship concerns AND you want to buy my books, please visit Bookish in Bendigo. Bookshops are good people.
clembastow.bsky.social Dr Ronni Googe, of the Mid Rim Network 🍉 @clembastow.bsky.social · Aug 15
Bookish in Bendigo have pulled out as Bendigo Writers Festival's bookseller - this principled move comes at great cost to them as an independent store. If you've been thinking of purchasing a book (esp. one by someone who's also pulled labour from BWF), consider going to them! +61 3 5406 0596
August 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
lennimk.bsky.social
More art censorship in Australia back of Creative Australia reversing selection decision for Venice biennale after political pressure … now this the NGA covering up a Palestinian flag on an artwork www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia
Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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December 17, 2023 at 10:53 PM
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clairegcoleman.bsky.social
Australia is the only colonial nation to celebrate it's national day on the anniversary of the invasion by colonisers.
kirstimiller30.bsky.social Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · Jan 25
Reminding the planet on Australia Day 2025, Australia is the only Commonwealth Country not to sign a First Nation Treaty.

Colonial fantasy lies in the belief that colonialism is already over!

youtu.be/Jf-jHCdafZY?...
January 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
lennimk.bsky.social
Invasion…
Mourning…
Survival…

I respect & acknowledge Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ survival, resilience +over 65,000 years of continuous culture.

I will not celebrate a day that marks the beginning of colonisation & represents deep hurt & suffering to First Peoples of this country
January 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Happy New Year! We can now say that THE AI CON comes out this year :)

Pre-order info below ⬇️

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emilymbender.bsky.social Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Dec 10
THE AI CON: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want (by yours truly & @alexhanna.bsky.social) is now available for pre-order!

All the details here: thecon.ai
THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
thecon.ai
January 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM