Natalie Thompson
@natalieathompson.bsky.social
Education researcher, teacher, writer, and reader. Interested in critical pedagogy, public education, inclusive education, literacy, and post-structuralist philosophies.
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Pull the thread…
February 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Pull the thread…
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
February 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 9/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
February 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 8/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
I'm currently reading The God of Small Things.
I just read this beautiful sentence about Estha, who doesn't speak.
Gradually the reason for his silence was hidden away, entombed somewhere deep in the soothing folds of the fact of it.
And I feel those words sum up most of what we do in schools.
I just read this beautiful sentence about Estha, who doesn't speak.
Gradually the reason for his silence was hidden away, entombed somewhere deep in the soothing folds of the fact of it.
And I feel those words sum up most of what we do in schools.
February 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I'm currently reading The God of Small Things.
I just read this beautiful sentence about Estha, who doesn't speak.
Gradually the reason for his silence was hidden away, entombed somewhere deep in the soothing folds of the fact of it.
And I feel those words sum up most of what we do in schools.
I just read this beautiful sentence about Estha, who doesn't speak.
Gradually the reason for his silence was hidden away, entombed somewhere deep in the soothing folds of the fact of it.
And I feel those words sum up most of what we do in schools.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
February 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 7/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
January 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
January 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 5/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
Honestly.
One part of me thinks .. who on Earth could vote for these archaic, racist, idiots..and for a moment, I am calmed.
But then I remember what happened with the voice to parliament.
Without hope, there's no resistance... got to maintain some hope
One part of me thinks .. who on Earth could vote for these archaic, racist, idiots..and for a moment, I am calmed.
But then I remember what happened with the voice to parliament.
Without hope, there's no resistance... got to maintain some hope
Sussan Ley said the First Fleet arrival in Australia was just like Elon Musk going to Mars. Is she still a believer in terra nullius? There were people in Australia when the British arrived. As far as we know, there's no life on Mars. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘There aren’t people on Mars’: Anthony Albanese criticises Sussan Ley’s first fleet analogy
Prime minister says deputy Liberal leader’s Australia Day speech was ‘disrespectful’ and Katy Gallagher calls it ‘nuts’
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Honestly.
One part of me thinks .. who on Earth could vote for these archaic, racist, idiots..and for a moment, I am calmed.
But then I remember what happened with the voice to parliament.
Without hope, there's no resistance... got to maintain some hope
One part of me thinks .. who on Earth could vote for these archaic, racist, idiots..and for a moment, I am calmed.
But then I remember what happened with the voice to parliament.
Without hope, there's no resistance... got to maintain some hope
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
January 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 4/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
It was a few days ago, but the message is perfectly timed today.
Virginia Woolf was born on this day in 1882 so I’m again sharing this…
January 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
It was a few days ago, but the message is perfectly timed today.
Reposted by Natalie Thompson
I'd like Peter Dutton to know I AM fed up. Fed up with men promoting #sexism & #misogyny & denigrating women, in order to win the votes of disengaged men. It's dumb, destructive & dangerous. I hope Labor's @alifrance.bsky.social wins #Dickson in a landslide. #auspol #DicksonVotes #AusVotes2025
January 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I'd like Peter Dutton to know I AM fed up. Fed up with men promoting #sexism & #misogyny & denigrating women, in order to win the votes of disengaged men. It's dumb, destructive & dangerous. I hope Labor's @alifrance.bsky.social wins #Dickson in a landslide. #auspol #DicksonVotes #AusVotes2025
Election year.
Time to organise.
...to volunteer, to write, to have conversations that matter, to read, to think.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Time to organise.
...to volunteer, to write, to have conversations that matter, to read, to think.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
From Doge to Smoge, Peter Dutton’s Coalition is an eerie echo of Trump (and Musk’s) America
Dutton’s cabinet reshuffle added the shadow minister of government efficiency role to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s position – but it sounds a bit familiar
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Election year.
Time to organise.
...to volunteer, to write, to have conversations that matter, to read, to think.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Time to organise.
...to volunteer, to write, to have conversations that matter, to read, to think.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
January 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 3/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
It's election year people.
Seriously.
Now is the time to act.
If the slogan "get Australia back on track" doesn't ring any alarm bells, then let me spell it out...
This is far-right fascist politics. We can be so much better.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Seriously.
Now is the time to act.
If the slogan "get Australia back on track" doesn't ring any alarm bells, then let me spell it out...
This is far-right fascist politics. We can be so much better.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘They did not come to destroy’: Sussan Ley praises First Fleet and likens it to Elon Musk’s Mars mission
It’s the latest example of the Coalition appearing to echo or praise US president Donald Trump’s new administration
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
It's election year people.
Seriously.
Now is the time to act.
If the slogan "get Australia back on track" doesn't ring any alarm bells, then let me spell it out...
This is far-right fascist politics. We can be so much better.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Seriously.
Now is the time to act.
If the slogan "get Australia back on track" doesn't ring any alarm bells, then let me spell it out...
This is far-right fascist politics. We can be so much better.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Captivating and ominous.
This week my wonderful son told a stranger (who asked him what he is going to with life after school) that he was going to study wildlife ecology and she said "it's such a shame that you have been taught a lie about the climate at school. What a waste of a young mind" 😵🤯
This week my wonderful son told a stranger (who asked him what he is going to with life after school) that he was going to study wildlife ecology and she said "it's such a shame that you have been taught a lie about the climate at school. What a waste of a young mind" 😵🤯
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Captivating and ominous.
This week my wonderful son told a stranger (who asked him what he is going to with life after school) that he was going to study wildlife ecology and she said "it's such a shame that you have been taught a lie about the climate at school. What a waste of a young mind" 😵🤯
This week my wonderful son told a stranger (who asked him what he is going to with life after school) that he was going to study wildlife ecology and she said "it's such a shame that you have been taught a lie about the climate at school. What a waste of a young mind" 😵🤯
So great to see invasion day rallies up in numbers this year.
Always was, always will be.
It's election year. It's time to organise.
Always was, always will be.
It's election year. It's time to organise.
The scale of this afternoon's Invasion Day rally is staggering. People standing in solidarity against colonialism and genocide as far as the eye can see. Always was, always will be. Free Palestine. Melbourne, 26 Jan 2025.
January 26, 2025 at 5:03 AM
So great to see invasion day rallies up in numbers this year.
Always was, always will be.
It's election year. It's time to organise.
Always was, always will be.
It's election year. It's time to organise.
Henry Giroux might be one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.
Speaking of the conservative right, he says
"They fear an educational system capable of producing critically literate citizens – individuals who question power, expose injustice, and demand accountability."
Speaking of the conservative right, he says
"They fear an educational system capable of producing critically literate citizens – individuals who question power, expose injustice, and demand accountability."
My article on neoliberalism's Plague--the erosion of conscience in education
socialistproject.ca/2024/12/neol...
socialistproject.ca/2024/12/neol...
Neoliberalism’s Plague: The Erosion of Conscience in Education
For decades, neoliberalism – a predatory form of capitalism – has waged a relentless war on the welfare state, dismantled the public sphere, and eroded the common good. Disguised in the rhetoric of fr...
socialistproject.ca
January 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Henry Giroux might be one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.
Speaking of the conservative right, he says
"They fear an educational system capable of producing critically literate citizens – individuals who question power, expose injustice, and demand accountability."
Speaking of the conservative right, he says
"They fear an educational system capable of producing critically literate citizens – individuals who question power, expose injustice, and demand accountability."
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
January 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
It's a fascist agenda... there are so many things to comment on in the world, so much growing fascism... this is just the tiny bit that tipped me over the edge today.
Will we tolerate this? It's time to organise
In the words of Donna Haraway (via Virgina Wolf), think we must!
Act we must
Will we tolerate this? It's time to organise
In the words of Donna Haraway (via Virgina Wolf), think we must!
Act we must
January 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
It's a fascist agenda... there are so many things to comment on in the world, so much growing fascism... this is just the tiny bit that tipped me over the edge today.
Will we tolerate this? It's time to organise
In the words of Donna Haraway (via Virgina Wolf), think we must!
Act we must
Will we tolerate this? It's time to organise
In the words of Donna Haraway (via Virgina Wolf), think we must!
Act we must
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
January 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 1/20 #booksky #20bookchallenge 💙📚
Is anyone on here also on Storygraph? I'm switching to that since Goodreads is owned by Amazon and so far I love it. The graphs bring joy to my nerdy heart. #booksky
January 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Reading is political.
Reading has always been political.
Your favorite characters wouldn’t just sit by and watch. They’d get up and burn some shit to the ground.
#booksky
Reading has always been political.
Your favorite characters wouldn’t just sit by and watch. They’d get up and burn some shit to the ground.
#booksky
January 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Reading is political.
Reading has always been political.
Your favorite characters wouldn’t just sit by and watch. They’d get up and burn some shit to the ground.
#booksky
Reading has always been political.
Your favorite characters wouldn’t just sit by and watch. They’d get up and burn some shit to the ground.
#booksky
Step 1 of working this year with more clarity and focus (amid stress and despair) is to bring some more mindfulness into my day.
I thought I might start with this list.
Write. Resist. Meditate.
Got it.
I thought I might start with this list.
Write. Resist. Meditate.
Got it.
Hi friends! During this challenging week, I’d like to share some mindfulness practices with you to help stay grounded, present, and committed to the good.
Today’s practice is Three Mindful Breaths.
Link below (I’m Yoga Prof on Substack, a nickname my students gave me).
Cheers!
#bluecrew
Today’s practice is Three Mindful Breaths.
Link below (I’m Yoga Prof on Substack, a nickname my students gave me).
Cheers!
#bluecrew
A Mindfulness Survival Kit
For Caring People, Concerned Citizens, and Democratic Resisters
yogaprof.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Step 1 of working this year with more clarity and focus (amid stress and despair) is to bring some more mindfulness into my day.
I thought I might start with this list.
Write. Resist. Meditate.
Got it.
I thought I might start with this list.
Write. Resist. Meditate.
Got it.