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elese.bsky.social

writer & recovering philosopher in naarm 🐐 history of ideas lecturer 🔎 literature / colonialism in aotearoa & australia 🕸 elesedowden.com

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fomo needs to be replaced by love of missing out if we are to regain our cool

submitted 4 hours ago • 45 comments

This is a politics job (continuing, teaching focused) in my Dept which may be a good fit for philosophers from a political philosophy/theory background and there are good connections between the politics and phil programs. #philsky jobs.latrobe.edu.au/en/job/56811...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

is it uncontroversial to call a fascism a fascism yet

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

“… my movements and participation in the settler-scapes of Australia have left me increasingly discomforted with the echoes of my own and other settler acknowledgements, as rituals in rooms structurally devoid of Indigenous presence.” Heba A on acknowledgements without land.

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fridge poem for the Very Tired

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"inexperienced in every form of poverty except poverty of brains" - george eliot was Fed Up with victorian novelists (1856) georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/101

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts. Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent

submitted 21 days ago • 406 comments

my most probbo take is that nobody should seek a full-time career as a creative writer. writing is work, yes, but u must write bc u live in the working world w the rest of us & ur heart is overflowing & u simply cannot not - it should not be for subsistence... the writer must have a vocation too 👵

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

“Today Taranaki is freed” Taranaki Maunga becomes a legal person www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Hello! If you or anyone you know wants to pursue a PhD in world literature and/or Australian literature, esp. on islands and incarceration do get in touch! My DECRA project supports a scholarship in this area at the University of Sydney. For more info or to apply: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

For many trans young people, gender affirming care is life-changing, and often life-saving, healthcare. But the Queensland government is blocking improvements and slashing funding from the Queensland Children's Gender Service (QCGS). Sign the petition to fight back: trans.au/campaigns/pr...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

excellent article by @latrobeuni.bsky.social's Averyl Gaylor on the 'clean girl' aesthetic, race, class and COVID-19 💅 theconversation.com/new-clean-gi...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Today is the 26 January, when the first fleet arrived in Botany Bay. Here is my attempt to understand what the idea of ‘uninhabited’ ment to a C18th British colonial person. An idea that, at face value, was a contradiction even then. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

massive invasion day turnout in naarm ❤️💛🖤

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"An expertly crafted and stunning piece of art...I guess all I needed to get Hegel was to have a much cooler transsexual explain it to me. This book will change your life." —Charlie Jones, A Room of One's Own (Madison, WI) 💜 for @vivianblaxell.bsky.social (P.S. U LIKE 2 PRE-ORDER YES?)