Ro (Phoenix) Bersten
@phoenix-ember.bsky.social
mad poet spinning sky-fire; cranky autistic parent (get off my lawn); social justice firebrand & educator; queer & disabled & jewish. founder of intertwine. living on stolen woi wurrung lands. no one is free until we’re all free. xe/xyr.
Pinned
If in doubt, return to bell hooks, audre lorde and adrienne maree brown. Experts at threading the line between fierce determination, practical hope and revolutionary love. ❤️✊🏾
Alllllll of this
Along with
- a deep, epigenetic trauma
- unconditional love, and
- a passion for mashed potato
my beloved holocaust-survivor grandparents passed on to me the clear understanding that #antisemitism flourishes in times of distress.
This means that none of us will ever be safe until all are safe.
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- a deep, epigenetic trauma
- unconditional love, and
- a passion for mashed potato
my beloved holocaust-survivor grandparents passed on to me the clear understanding that #antisemitism flourishes in times of distress.
This means that none of us will ever be safe until all are safe.
1/
July 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Alllllll of this
Asked Siri to play me some “hopeful music about revolution”.
First up was This is America (Childish Gambino), then Get Up, Stand Up, and then NWA’s Fuck the Police. Incredible. Also Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On but that was more expected. #UnderstoodTheAssignment #JoinTheResistance
First up was This is America (Childish Gambino), then Get Up, Stand Up, and then NWA’s Fuck the Police. Incredible. Also Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On but that was more expected. #UnderstoodTheAssignment #JoinTheResistance
June 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Asked Siri to play me some “hopeful music about revolution”.
First up was This is America (Childish Gambino), then Get Up, Stand Up, and then NWA’s Fuck the Police. Incredible. Also Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On but that was more expected. #UnderstoodTheAssignment #JoinTheResistance
First up was This is America (Childish Gambino), then Get Up, Stand Up, and then NWA’s Fuck the Police. Incredible. Also Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On but that was more expected. #UnderstoodTheAssignment #JoinTheResistance
Commemorating the Naksa #FreePalestine
June 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Commemorating the Naksa #FreePalestine
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stay strong, patriots. mommy and daddy’s divorce is a deep state psyop. they still love each other very much. there WILL be christmas presents this year.
June 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
stay strong, patriots. mommy and daddy’s divorce is a deep state psyop. they still love each other very much. there WILL be christmas presents this year.
I’m an abolitionist except for billionaires. Like, I hope there’s an investigation when this is all over and they both rot in prison. #Musk #Trump #TheDivorceFiles
June 5, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’m an abolitionist except for billionaires. Like, I hope there’s an investigation when this is all over and they both rot in prison. #Musk #Trump #TheDivorceFiles
I have the latest Pfizer Covid vaccine in my left arm & the last flu vaccine in my right.
I vaguely understand how mRNA vaccines work so I’m imagining the vaccines shedding their ’shell’ & revealing the spike protein & whatever & my immune system going, “we’re under attack from both sides!”
I vaguely understand how mRNA vaccines work so I’m imagining the vaccines shedding their ’shell’ & revealing the spike protein & whatever & my immune system going, “we’re under attack from both sides!”
June 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I have the latest Pfizer Covid vaccine in my left arm & the last flu vaccine in my right.
I vaguely understand how mRNA vaccines work so I’m imagining the vaccines shedding their ’shell’ & revealing the spike protein & whatever & my immune system going, “we’re under attack from both sides!”
I vaguely understand how mRNA vaccines work so I’m imagining the vaccines shedding their ’shell’ & revealing the spike protein & whatever & my immune system going, “we’re under attack from both sides!”
Does anyone else randomly jot down titles for their (theoretical, future) PhD or their (theoretical, non-existent) autobiography?
My latest are, respectively: From inchoate resistance to Imbricated agency (PhD) and Loose Threads: unravelling a layered life (autobiography).
Just me then?
My latest are, respectively: From inchoate resistance to Imbricated agency (PhD) and Loose Threads: unravelling a layered life (autobiography).
Just me then?
May 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Does anyone else randomly jot down titles for their (theoretical, future) PhD or their (theoretical, non-existent) autobiography?
My latest are, respectively: From inchoate resistance to Imbricated agency (PhD) and Loose Threads: unravelling a layered life (autobiography).
Just me then?
My latest are, respectively: From inchoate resistance to Imbricated agency (PhD) and Loose Threads: unravelling a layered life (autobiography).
Just me then?
Oh no.
BREAKING: A massive explosion from a bomb has destroyed American Reproductive Centers, an IVF and fertility center in Palm Springs, CA. At least one person is dead. Authorities are investigating whether terrorism played a role.
May 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Oh no.
💚👏🏽🎉👏🏽💚
It’s a great honour and privilege to be elected as the fifth leader of the Australian Greens.
In the face of the escalating climate and environment crisis, the housing crisis and the worst inequality crisis in history, our movement has never been more important.
In the face of the escalating climate and environment crisis, the housing crisis and the worst inequality crisis in history, our movement has never been more important.
May 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
💚👏🏽🎉👏🏽💚
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Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, was removed from the Senate after confronting lawmakers over US support for Israel's military campaign in Gaza.
May 15, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, was removed from the Senate after confronting lawmakers over US support for Israel's military campaign in Gaza.
Enjoying the graffiti wall at T-Gen Gyms today, especially the exhortation to have a cute day resisting empire and savouring joy. So here for that.
May 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Enjoying the graffiti wall at T-Gen Gyms today, especially the exhortation to have a cute day resisting empire and savouring joy. So here for that.
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Go on, tell me again how the Greens were wrong to block Labor on their housing plan? FFS www.afr.com/policy/econo...
Labor’s housing fund may need bailout after stock slump
Taxpayers could be forced to top up the $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund if financial markets do not recover in the next three months.
www.afr.com
May 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Go on, tell me again how the Greens were wrong to block Labor on their housing plan? FFS www.afr.com/policy/econo...
My pronouns are I/you/xe but I really prefer being part of we/they because collective resistance is the only way to create justice in this world. #jedi #JoinTheResistance
May 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM
My pronouns are I/you/xe but I really prefer being part of we/they because collective resistance is the only way to create justice in this world. #jedi #JoinTheResistance
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The Jewish Council calls on the re-elected Albanese government to immediately sanction Israel and comply with our obligations under the Genocide Convention and international law. This includes cutting all economic, military and diplomatic ties with Israel.
Media release here: tinyurl.com/5ydypam7
Media release here: tinyurl.com/5ydypam7
May 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The Jewish Council calls on the re-elected Albanese government to immediately sanction Israel and comply with our obligations under the Genocide Convention and international law. This includes cutting all economic, military and diplomatic ties with Israel.
Media release here: tinyurl.com/5ydypam7
Media release here: tinyurl.com/5ydypam7
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the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
May 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done
Israel ramps up their genocide in Gaza but the Greens are being unkind by pointing it out. Uh huh.
Remember, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Remember, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Gaza will be entirely destroyed, Israeli minister says
Bezalel Smotrich says Palestinians will ‘leave in great numbers to third countries’, raising fears of ethnic cleansing
www.theguardian.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Israel ramps up their genocide in Gaza but the Greens are being unkind by pointing it out. Uh huh.
Remember, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Remember, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare
May 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Drive it like you stole it, stop fucking around, deal with climate change, poverty, and deal with inequality to pay for it. Deal with industry transition, deal with education costs, accept that large investments in ourselves today pay for more than themselves in the future. And dental in Medicare
May 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
Anth is going to be most pissed if he misses the election… hopefully that’ll be impetus enough for him to drag himself out of limbo and back to the land of the sweary, just so he can celebrate Dutton losing his seat or at least shake his fist at the TV given it’s Anthony Green’s last election too. 🤞🏽
I know my brother @swearyanthony.bsky.social has a lot of people he cares about on here. While not everyone knows about the connection, a lot of people who follow me also follow him. This seemed like a way to get the word out:
Anthony is currently in ICU in a critical condition after a head injury.
Anthony is currently in ICU in a critical condition after a head injury.
April 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Anth is going to be most pissed if he misses the election… hopefully that’ll be impetus enough for him to drag himself out of limbo and back to the land of the sweary, just so he can celebrate Dutton losing his seat or at least shake his fist at the TV given it’s Anthony Green’s last election too. 🤞🏽
Came back from National Folk Fest with dreaded nonspecific lurgy. Good news: not covid or flu. Bad news: ow, my throat.
Extra bad news: supposed to be running a full-day workshop tomorrow. Fingers crossed this is 24-hours and I still have a voice tomorrow.
Extra bad news: supposed to be running a full-day workshop tomorrow. Fingers crossed this is 24-hours and I still have a voice tomorrow.
April 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Came back from National Folk Fest with dreaded nonspecific lurgy. Good news: not covid or flu. Bad news: ow, my throat.
Extra bad news: supposed to be running a full-day workshop tomorrow. Fingers crossed this is 24-hours and I still have a voice tomorrow.
Extra bad news: supposed to be running a full-day workshop tomorrow. Fingers crossed this is 24-hours and I still have a voice tomorrow.
Anyone remember BUGA UP? We need your spray cans now!
Just alter all the Trumpets of Patriots billboards so they say “Trump’s Parrots”. Truth in advertising for the win!
#auspol
Just alter all the Trumpets of Patriots billboards so they say “Trump’s Parrots”. Truth in advertising for the win!
#auspol
April 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Anyone remember BUGA UP? We need your spray cans now!
Just alter all the Trumpets of Patriots billboards so they say “Trump’s Parrots”. Truth in advertising for the win!
#auspol
Just alter all the Trumpets of Patriots billboards so they say “Trump’s Parrots”. Truth in advertising for the win!
#auspol
Needed BDS-compliant gluten-free matzah. Decided to make my own! Chag sameach, everyone. Next year in a free Palestine!
April 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Needed BDS-compliant gluten-free matzah. Decided to make my own! Chag sameach, everyone. Next year in a free Palestine!