she/her. lecturer in media & communications. researcher of contemporary book culture.
Melbourne, Australia
Joined January 2009
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So true bestie! There is nothing else that this good.
Bridget Everett reflects on the life and death of her TV masterpiece Somebody Somewhere: “I can’t imagine anything else being this good.” trib.al/hCsBFI1
It’s cool when a beloved celebrity dies and we all get to play the ‘I admired their career for the longest and in the most important way’ game.
Tan on Rooney. We are so back.
Cher Tan (@mxcreant) on Sally Rooney's surprising fourth novel, 'Intermezzo'.
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ALT “Rooney’s characters all differ in disposition, what they have in common is an omnipresent interrogation of normality within desire.”
This is so fucked up.
🚨 BREAKING: Labour confirms that it will implement the Cass Review, and ban puberty blockers permanently.
Labour confirmed their plans in an email presented to today's hearing on whether to allow the temporary ban.
Thanks to journalist @JessOThomson for reporting this.
Alex Dane retweeted
After typing up my extensive notes from the State Library Victoria's Duty of Care review meeting with me and other authors a few days ago, I'm here to write a long thread on what was said. I've come off private so this thread can be shared, but I will go back on to private soon.
Trust me. You want to get your hands on this asap.
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I’m on holiday with my brother and every time we see a really old man (like really old) we point at him and say “there’s Joe Biden”. It kills every time.
Lit festivals platforming Palestinian authors = good.
Arts funders and wealthy board members working to silence artists for speaking out against genocide = bad.
This week in KYD, @AlexDane_ writes: As the death toll in Gaza continues to mount, the arts world has started to fracture along sectarian lines. Attempts to censor programming reveal how money, politics and power intervene in our national culture.
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This woman is a fucking ghoul
This is a children’s book that was written because the author was trying to explain what’s going on in Israel to his five-year-old daughter and he couldn’t find a resource with which to do it so he wrote one himself. Under the Rockets' Glow: Shira's Journey to Courage by Roman Sandler is beautiful and I recommended highly.
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Alex Dane retweeted
My article with @susannahmojo on diversity in the Australian publishing industry, arising from the survey and report supported by @AusPublish, is now published in @PubResQuarterly and available to read here: rdcu.be/ds9cg