Madeleine O'Dea
@madeleineodea.bsky.social
Writer at large. Author of The Phoenix Years, Allen & Unwin, 2016; Pegasus Books, 2017. Contributor to The Beijing Bureau, Hardie Grant, 2021. Deep in a new book ✍️ AKA: 欧美琳 madeleineodea.com
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Post you from a different era ... what being a foreign correspondent can do for you 🤣 China 86; PNG 92
#journalism #China 🀄️
#journalism #China 🀄️
This morning at #BlackWattleBay #Sydney 🌞
August 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This morning at #BlackWattleBay #Sydney 🌞
Throw your arms around me! Yes! But wish it had cracked the top ten #Hottest100 #HuntersandCollectors
July 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Throw your arms around me! Yes! But wish it had cracked the top ten #Hottest100 #HuntersandCollectors
Reposted by Madeleine O'Dea
Global Voices – Hundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasies
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Hundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasies
BL is a subversive genre for women to explore their sexuality beyond gender stereotypes, as its relationships eschew expressions of dominance and reproductive function.
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July 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Global Voices – Hundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasies
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How it started, how it's going 😃
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
June 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
How it started, how it's going 😃
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard
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Fascinating insights in the latest from Peter Hessler in @newyorker.com 🀄️
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Fascinating insights in the latest from Peter Hessler in @newyorker.com 🀄️
The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard
Amid escalating threats from the Trump Administration, a student assesses whom he can turn to.
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June 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Fascinating insights in the latest from Peter Hessler in @newyorker.com 🀄️
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Fascinating insights in the latest from Peter Hessler in @newyorker.com 🀄️
June 2, 2025 at 5:38 AM
@christietime.bsky.social Loved your India episode! Really fun and enlightening to see Christie through a different lens. Look forward to your next outing @christietime.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
@christietime.bsky.social Loved your India episode! Really fun and enlightening to see Christie through a different lens. Look forward to your next outing @christietime.bsky.social
3 China correspondents, over 3 decades, with 3 views of the Chinese artist, Aniwar Mamat. Image 1, the late, path-finding, Yvonne Preston, illustrating her piece for "The Age" on the opening of the pioneering Red Gate Gallery with work by Aniwar.
May 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
3 China correspondents, over 3 decades, with 3 views of the Chinese artist, Aniwar Mamat. Image 1, the late, path-finding, Yvonne Preston, illustrating her piece for "The Age" on the opening of the pioneering Red Gate Gallery with work by Aniwar.
Good morning Skysters 🌞
March 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Good morning Skysters 🌞
Interesting new angle on #Gaugin by #SuePrideaux in @theGuardian.com ‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light #BookSky
March 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Interesting new angle on #Gaugin by #SuePrideaux in @theGuardian.com ‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light #BookSky
A travesty of justice and a profound embarrassment to the United States
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife, Noor, files an upsetting but powerful statement with the court: "The past week has been the worst of my life, and I find myself without my single greatest source of support, in my time of greatest need." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 15, 2025 at 5:25 AM
A travesty of justice and a profound embarrassment to the United States
March 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Reposted by Madeleine O'Dea
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Always nice to see your book in the wild, but especially in such interesting company (at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney) 😃📚 #ThePhoenixYears #ContemporaryArt #China #ArtGalleryofNSW #BookSky 🀄️
February 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Always nice to see your book in the wild, but especially in such interesting company (at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney) 😃📚 #ThePhoenixYears #ContemporaryArt #China #ArtGalleryofNSW #BookSky 🀄️
February 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Save #USAid
Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t.
Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID!
Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…
Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID!
Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…
February 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Save #USAid
The Liberal Party of Australia has made an ad about its Nuclear Plan, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqV...
Honest Government Ad | Nuclear (Australia)
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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February 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The last weekend of Magritte at the Art Gallery of NSW. Why did I wait so long? #artsky #Magritte #ArtGalleryofNSW #Sydney
February 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
The last weekend of Magritte at the Art Gallery of NSW. Why did I wait so long? #artsky #Magritte #ArtGalleryofNSW #Sydney
February 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Marina Hyde @theGuardian.com aces it 👏👏 #DeepSeek #AI #TechBros #MarinaHyde #China 🀄️ Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress
February 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Marina Hyde @theGuardian.com aces it 👏👏 #DeepSeek #AI #TechBros #MarinaHyde #China 🀄️ Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress
I met Marianne Faithfull in 1996, when I produced an interview she did for ABC TV. We’d been given strict instructions by her “people” on no account to get personal, and in particular to NEVER MENTION MICK JAGGER. She was touring Australia with a new show based on her interpretation of Kurt Weill
January 31, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I met Marianne Faithfull in 1996, when I produced an interview she did for ABC TV. We’d been given strict instructions by her “people” on no account to get personal, and in particular to NEVER MENTION MICK JAGGER. She was touring Australia with a new show based on her interpretation of Kurt Weill
This 👇 #auspol
Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.
January 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This 👇 #auspol
Reposted by Madeleine O'Dea
Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.
January 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.