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NZ film academic, arts critic & frock enthusiast. Cultural omnivore, bad at sports. Feminist horror deep dive WOMEN, MONSTROSITY AND HORROR FILM @routledge. Ōtautahi arts writing at flatcityfieldnotes.com. She/her/Dr. My views.
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Let this woman direct everything known to man #severance

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

Te kupu tika tēnei

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Trump and Vance wait for their meeting with Zelenskyy

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

How great is it that TVNZ have live coverage of Te Matatini on all day as well as Whakaata Māori. Commentators: "There's no I in team, but there's eyes in pukana"

Neon just announced a 20% increase in their standard monthly cost to $23.99. Up 20% since last change to $19.99 in January 2024. Yeah. Nah.

I'm at the it's nearly 8pm and I'm eating pickled onions out of the jar for dinner part of the semester and yet somehow it's only the end of week 2.

Today's teaching - The Lure / monstrous mermaids / kitsch late communist fever dreams / electro pop / good and bad musicals / Polish cultural critique / shopping montages / spooky paintings / sea foam

brutal thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-...

tasty www.seymourslop.nz

NZ fishing industry mouthpiece (sorry, I meant govt) refused to give @greenpeace.org.nz the coords of where a bottom trawler dredged up corals (a sign it was fishing on seamounts) on the Lord Howe Rise in the Tasman. ... so the Australians gave it to them 😂 #nzpol www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

Department of Education launched a DEI snitch portal if you want to flood it with spam. enddei.ed.gov

If this sort of thing had ever come up from any rational White House in history, this would be already a major international diplomatic crisis. If we take them at their word, the United States is Canada's biggest national security threat.

Today's teaching: the greatest hits of horror theory

*frantically smashing answer buzzer* what is, the adult fiction section of your hometown public library when you're 12-14 years old

No accountability ofc for developers who've bought up cheap land & thrown up housing w bare minimum soundproofing in industrial areas directly next to pre-existing venues, promising new owners 'vibrant' living & big income opportunities, rather than lowering $ margins by building to the environment

Wild to see Jake McLellan, who should know better, calling the venues that have been in the central city since the quakes, and have made the place a creative and desirable destination for new residents and guests, just "shitty warehouse[s]". www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

Today's teaching: mermaids (not the Cher one) youtu.be/8ZiX_Bfly60?...

“White people - capitalists - have a slave fetish. That’s why they want AI. The only reason you want a robot to look like a human is if you want slaves.” - my dad

just like to get whoever put this up in London a beer 👍

Topline analysis of Brian Tamaki's 'sermons' last Sunday, & Monday. Already passed along to queer/rainbow networks. As with previous material please share freely, & use when writing to MPs, Police etc. Dangerous speech in sermons/comments continue to instigate hate, & harms. 1drv.ms/b/s!AraWbLoj...

"Universities need to decide if they will capitulate to demands for segregation"

Today's teaching / screening: the GOAT

It was cool to be included in a tribute to Scream Queens at the @sagawards.bsky.social with other legends and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Is the SAG awards red carpet the most sycophantic of the awards season y/y

Imagine!

A Polish acquaintance went to British Museum specifically to see this tablet only to be cheated by Ea-nasir from beyond the grave

hope Longlegs and the monkey team up in the next one

Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

Oh hey missed this FANTASTIC bit of news. Fired Up Stilettos totally vindicated by the Education and Workforce select committee. Amazing work by a group of total badasses.

This special issue explores the transformative potential of games, spanning analogue and digital forms and showcasing new perspectives on how games and play can be used for personal and existential development through transformative experiences. www.gamejournal.it/g-a-m-e-issu...

Oh, I'm "I used to play all of my video games off audio cassette, especially the ones I wrote or typed in myself" years old.

holy moly www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainmen...

Highly recommend this.

We're currently advertising for our second UC Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence for 2025, co-funded by Creative NZ. 6 months, late July 25 - late Jan 26, $82Kpa pro-rated, a nice office up with me with some of the best views in the city. Happy to answer qs. jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

Today's teaching - style as substance in Isle of Dogs www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSKK...

Had an OIA on the Marsden decisions land. This appears to be the ground zero and the level of thinking Collins put into gutting humanities funding. I have found no actual *advice* or analysis on the removal of humanities panels and literally zero engagement with Royal Society or Universities.

Want to live in New Zealand and work with me? ejye.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...