Links, miscellaneous
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highlyeccentricI forgot to do any links on Thursday and now I’m traveling for ten days. This post is assembled on my phone so may be a bit weird, formatting wise.
Current Slightly Outdated Affairs and once-hot takes
* alQaws on Twitter:
Item 3 is ‘steer clear of pinkwashing’.
* Alice Drury, SMH: Whistleblower protections hang in the balance. “Espionage offences introduced last year impose a sentence of up to 20 years for publishing an opinion if it could negatively impact Australia's political or economic relationship with another country. The impact need not be serious or substantial, it just needs to do more than merely embarrass our government: for instance, by undermining the relationship between an Australian and foreign official.” Drury is focused on whistleblowers, but the espionage laws apply to *anyone* who doesn’t have parliamentary privilege, and affect published data as well as opinion. The risks for academics are huge.
*Luke Henriques-Gomez (Guardian AU): Welfare changes forced woman into volunteer work as husband was dying. Once someone goes into palliative care you’re no longer their carer and subject to work (or for over-60s, volunteer work) requirements.
*Nassim Khadem (ABC): Paying more than 10000 cash could make you a criminal.
Good News:
*ABC Eyre Shire: Beach wheelchairs finally roll out in Whyalla.
Longer, assorted, pieces
*Alison Flood (Guardian UK): >Rolled Over: why did married couples stop sleeping in twin beds? Or, rather, why was there a few-decade fashion for twin beds in the late 19th and early 20th century?
*Rax King (Electric Lit): What teen romance novels failed to teach me about sex.
*Sean Kelly (SMH): ”Harmless” political rhetoric is really destructive. On Alan Jones, Scott Morrison, transphobia and misogyny.
*Andrew Whitehead (History Workshop): How Indian is Kashmir
*Chingy L (The Bottom’s Line): I’m a much better bottom than you, here’s why. The performative persona around this is obnoxious as hell but the advice seems sound.
*Vicky Xiuzhong Xu (SMH): Chinese nationalists are trolling me, but I was once one of them. Xu has gone from launching a complaint against a tutor who reacted dismissively to a presentation arguing against Human Rights, to now working as a Human Rights journalist. (It’s not really germane to the article but, while she’s urging empathy for Chinese nationalist students in Australia, I’m wondering what happened to that tutor. With complaints cases like this, it’s not the student, nor the university, who has most to lose: it’s precariously employed academics.)
*Various (The Conversation): What should the parliamentary book club read? Our experts take their pick. Pretty weak if actually intended for parliament but an interesting selection of Auslit.
All of these are slightly old now, and I have Many More in my pinboard stack. Sorry folks, I have been legit busy and also having a Mental Elf.
Sent from my iPhone
* alQaws on Twitter:
Listen up! Five ways to support Palestinian queers.
— alQaws (@alQaws) August 19, 2019
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Item 3 is ‘steer clear of pinkwashing’.
* Alice Drury, SMH: Whistleblower protections hang in the balance. “Espionage offences introduced last year impose a sentence of up to 20 years for publishing an opinion if it could negatively impact Australia's political or economic relationship with another country. The impact need not be serious or substantial, it just needs to do more than merely embarrass our government: for instance, by undermining the relationship between an Australian and foreign official.” Drury is focused on whistleblowers, but the espionage laws apply to *anyone* who doesn’t have parliamentary privilege, and affect published data as well as opinion. The risks for academics are huge.
*Luke Henriques-Gomez (Guardian AU): Welfare changes forced woman into volunteer work as husband was dying. Once someone goes into palliative care you’re no longer their carer and subject to work (or for over-60s, volunteer work) requirements.
*Nassim Khadem (ABC): Paying more than 10000 cash could make you a criminal.
Good News:
*ABC Eyre Shire: Beach wheelchairs finally roll out in Whyalla.
Longer, assorted, pieces
*Alison Flood (Guardian UK): >Rolled Over: why did married couples stop sleeping in twin beds? Or, rather, why was there a few-decade fashion for twin beds in the late 19th and early 20th century?
*Rax King (Electric Lit): What teen romance novels failed to teach me about sex.
*Sean Kelly (SMH): ”Harmless” political rhetoric is really destructive. On Alan Jones, Scott Morrison, transphobia and misogyny.
*Andrew Whitehead (History Workshop): How Indian is Kashmir
*Chingy L (The Bottom’s Line): I’m a much better bottom than you, here’s why. The performative persona around this is obnoxious as hell but the advice seems sound.
*Vicky Xiuzhong Xu (SMH): Chinese nationalists are trolling me, but I was once one of them. Xu has gone from launching a complaint against a tutor who reacted dismissively to a presentation arguing against Human Rights, to now working as a Human Rights journalist. (It’s not really germane to the article but, while she’s urging empathy for Chinese nationalist students in Australia, I’m wondering what happened to that tutor. With complaints cases like this, it’s not the student, nor the university, who has most to lose: it’s precariously employed academics.)
*Various (The Conversation): What should the parliamentary book club read? Our experts take their pick. Pretty weak if actually intended for parliament but an interesting selection of Auslit.
All of these are slightly old now, and I have Many More in my pinboard stack. Sorry folks, I have been legit busy and also having a Mental Elf.
Sent from my iPhone