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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.
Commemorating the Naksa #FreePalestine
June 8, 2025 at 10:11 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.
May 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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
I haven’t played pool in 10 years but thanks to Basem Kerbage being an aggressive wingman, I just played against an incredibly stylish opponent and managed not to embarrass myself.
March 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I’m zooming in to Rabbi Richard Lampert’s minyan (one of my early mentors in social justice). I was thinking I didn’t have a book to follow along and then remembered I do indeed have my childhood siddur from NSTE. During the amidah, I randomly opened it and encountered this. Feels appropriate.
March 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Guess I had a busy Sunday! Stop 1: Loud Jew Collective at the Naarm Palestine rally Stop 2: Jewish Greens door knock Balaclava in support of Sonya Semmens for Macnamara 💚 #FreePalestine #YourVoteIsPowerful #OutfitChange
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Defending the right to dissent!
March 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Congratulations Basel Adra & Yuval Abraham on this incredible film, No Other Land, & this brave speech.

No one is free until we’re all free #FreePalestine #Oscars2025

[reposting because I slightly misquoted Yuval the first time. Apologies for my poor Canva skills. I still want this on a T-shirt!
March 3, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I want this on a T-shirt. (Apologies for my terrible Canva skills).

Congratulations Basel Adra & Yuval Abraham on this incredible film and brave speech. No one is free until we’re all free. #FreePalestine
March 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Proud to be one of more than 500+ Jewish Australians standing up against ethnic cleansing in the SMH and The Age today. #OzJewsSayNO #No2ethniccleansing #NO2TrumpsGazaPlan

(I’m fourth from the bottom in column one.)
February 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
February 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Seriously, the weirdest timeline. #EndTimes #Gaza #wtf
February 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I live on stolen Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung lands. Sovereignty was never ceded. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #AboriginalLand #InvasionDay2025
January 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Dear @australianopen.bsky.social, please get a human captioner again. This is supposed to say “game, Sonega”. No idea what “noodles” is supposed to be. #a11y #disability #LiveCaptioning #AIFail
January 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
This is 54.

Happy birthday to me!

#AusOpen #AO25
January 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Happy Midsumma! No one is free until we’re all free. #QueerLiberation not rainbow capitalism. #FreePalestine #EndTheOccupation
January 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Gee, thanks, poetry app. Have you been listening in to my thoughts?

(This was the result of my first random spin for 2025, I swear… happy new year, I guess?)

#poetry #random #boredom #aging
January 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
November 11, 2024 at 11:52 AM