Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. May you always live más.
'Kristen Lang’s collection begins with an arrival – perhaps a nod to settler consciousness – and follows with an awakening, then moves us to words.'
New on the SRB: Lucia Moon on Earth Dwellers by Kristen Lang: https://t.co/nvcgLNZQhz
Such a pleasure to have sat in on a #Gamilaraay#language course and spoken to John and Gamilaraay/Yuwaalaraay men and women about the process of language revival
One of the more gratifying pieces I have written (July)
Maarubaaban.gaan! Thanks very much !https://t.co/uFbZdqR7Ij
In capitalism "haves" rip off "have nots." When revolution threatens, "haves" fund a temp middle class, the "think they haves." Once rev threats pass, funding stops for "think they haves." They sink back into "have nots." To grasp this pattern is to bring capitalism's end nearer.
Paris is burning and the world is mourning. The colonised are rightfully speaking to the irony of this grief for a monument to pillaged wealth under the guise of holy mandate and the mourners grow louder to drown out the sound of the chooks coming home to roost.
The Australien Government has made an ad about wages and the economy, and it's surprisingly honest and informative!
👉VIDEO: https://t.co/7uXFDvxE9U
#Budget2019#auspol
Watching oz politicians now I am reminded of this Lebanese saying:
‘They killed the deceased and marched in his funeral procession’ #NewZealandMosqueAttack
I am hopping around the world presenting papers left and right. But I had to write this////////// The difficult love of Jacinda Ardern cannot be easily emulated – not by white Australian culture loving itself | Ghassan Hage https://t.co/TbKiB9AP0t
With #Christchurch, universities have been reminded of what the consequences of ideologically reinforcing Western supremacism actually are. My piece in @smh this morning arguing why universities have to abandon the Ramsay Centre immediately. https://t.co/ghR2c1oeiR
Environment Minister Melissa Price says the media is "cherry-picking" emissions data but she's focused on the good news of a 1 per cent decrease by Australia in the last quarter. #auspol@FinancialReview