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If you’re a surfer or surf-curious, @djbtak has co-written a book chapter “Sonic Waves and Acid Screens: Surf Culture and the Long 1970s” with Sean Lowry & Jason Beech. Revisiting the history of surf film via Stuart Hall and Birmingham modes of subcultural analysis link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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"The fact that there is no word in te reo Māori for “cede” is not a linguistic shortcoming but an indication that to even contemplate ceding or giving away mana would have been legally impossible, politically untenable, and culturally incomprehensible."

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“In this season of cruel fantasy come to life, a TV show, of all things, has made the most powerful public argument I’ve seen reality in all its often-desperate beauty.”

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The simplest things make the biggest difference theconversation.com/better-clean...

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Global North Academics repeat after me: Since I did not raise objections to genocide, I shall not teach courses on decolonisation or post-genocide literatures from Palestine or other ‘radical’ courses that advance my career & help me procure grants. PS: the grants are already excised in the US, see!

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An NZ study found South Asian women have a 67% higher risk of stillbirth and 51% higher risk of neonatal death than NZ European women. Internationally, India accounts for 33% of all global stillbirths, despite only 17% of the world’s births www.joiningnarratives.co.nz/post/southas...

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Hey new followers, thanks for joining me. Check out my podcast which might give you an idea of my intellectual interests and commitments www.buzzsprout.com/1798765

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Unfortunately for a large number of americans their ideal existence is being a plantation owner in 1820s mississippi and they feel a deep personal void that they were born in a time that denied them the opportunity bsky.app/profile/mari...

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“We often praise healthcare workers for their commitment and compassion. But rarely do we acknowledge how the system exploits those very qualities” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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“A New Zealand entomologist called George Hudson is widely credited with coming up with the idea in 1895 – he wanted more time in the evenings to look for bugs.“

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In the twelve years we’ve lived in Australia I’ve only ever heard this bird. I’ve not seen it once! Today was our lucky day!

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I love my beloved’s new hobby of making bread

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This @etangata.bsky.social piece by Ara is a must-read for all South Asians living in Aotearoa, Australia, and other settler colonies e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

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In its place organisations have backed the definition of dehumanisation, which has been used since the Christchurch massacre in 2019 to push back against hate speech and harmful stereotypes among any group based on race, religion or ethnicity. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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“Economic inequality shouldn’t be exploited by rhetoric that blames migration for what are usually far more complex and deeply trenched problems,” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Probably some of the best analysis I’ve seen so far, and a new phrase “Cultural Putinism” referring to "pervasive social cynicism under a kind of senile imperialism. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...

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Moving and powerful vigil outside the ABC in Naarm where Hossam Shabat ’s final statement was read in full. "“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”

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This AEI op-ed from December is basically the blueprint for everything that has happened to higher ed so far. I don't really want to link to it but you can read here. archive.is/QaU04

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Hardest thing for non-residents of this country to get their head around is American patriotism is not primarily about a strong central state but an idealized vision of a patchwork of decentralized contractual communities.

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“When young men today turn toward influencers like Tate and political leaders like Trump, they’re indulging a time-tested fusion of authoritarian politics with a certain gendered and domestic malice “https://www.liberalcurrents.com/guys-win-andrew-tate-rape-politics-and-the-authoritarian-right/

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Time to make consent dynamic.

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The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

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I am thinking with sadness of dear friends in Aotearoa and Muslims around the world on the anniversary of the massacres in Ōtautahi Christchurch. It hurts my heart that despite the outpouring of grief then, xenophobia and Islamophobia remain, and are being expressed more overtly.

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My cynicism fails me. I can’t quite believe that they MEAN to inflict this kind of catastrophic loss, these decisions that will reverberate out so far beyond “elites” or whatever. Whole economic ecosystems depend on universities and research communities.

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I am doing a lot of workshop facilitation these days, and this afternoon, I am having fun with a great group. How do you prepare for working in groups? My lead-up usually looks like this:

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Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time.

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Equity is an evidence based feature of the health sector. Free baby vax & health checks, breast screening for women, flu vax for oldies, enhanced surveillance for cancer survivors. All equity initiatives! But only equity based on deprivation & race/ethnicity is a problem? There's a name for that 🤔

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“Too few companies pay their workers a living wage, despite mounting evidence that a living wage lifts people out of poverty and strengthens businesses. Consequently, in an age of abundance, inequality is growing for more than 70% of the global population, even in advanced economies.” #LivingWage

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The NZ government has no conception of the difference between treating people equally and treating people equitably. e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

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Quite possibly the best Portuguese tart in Melbourne. There I said it @breadclubofficial

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“No artists worth their soul will touch that pavilion now. They can’t. It’s totally tainted. And it’s so tragic.”https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/feb/18/australia-venice-biennale-sabsabi-dumped-former-museum-contemporary-art-head-says-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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"Moral clarity demands that we reject all forms of dehumanisation, including institutional silence, but it also requires that we recognise when condemnation becomes a tool for reinforcing existing hierarchies" www.abc.net.au/religion/sup...

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