Not the Only One

A new report from the Antipoverty Centre and GetUp shows “mutual” obligations – the system of welfare compliance managed by privatised employment service providers at a cost of $4 billion a year – cause mental ill health, do not help welfare recipients find work and push people into further financial hardship.

Escalating violence in the country’s North Kivu province has now pushed the number of internally displaced people to a record 6.9 million. Many have had to flee their homes multiple times in a country where displacement and loss are part of a recurring pattern, as violence passes down the generations

Because I have been speaking out against the genocide in Palestine…I have lost friends, colleagues, career opportunities, job offers, and my consulting contracts too. I’m a genocide survivor & educator. & I cannot wrap my mind around the fact people think I should be quiet. / X

I hate that the best two pieces we’ve written about gender, queerness, museums for Indigenous people are trapped behind a paywall. Here’s the first one, if you can access it (or hit me up). Next in next link. https://t.co/p6LQ9XEAKb / X

We exist in a world where we pretend that the societal impact of the art that was Oppenheimer, is somehow greater than the societal impact of the art that was Barbie. That Margot Robbie didn't show out like Cillian Murphy did. But she wore great costumes! Dress up! Pretty girl!

Rohingya in Myanmar 'have nowhere to flee' as fighting escalates By Libby Hogan Rohingya activists fear civilians could be targeted and thousands forced to leave their homes after a rebel group announced plans to attack Maungdaw, a town in Myanmar's west populated mostly by the Muslim minority group. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-17/fresh-attacks-violence-against-rohingya-in-rakhine-myanmar/103988740

If folx still expect this particular Black woman to work for free...just imagine how the rest of us are being treated when it comes to compensation Don't ask me to do anything if you're not willing to pay for my service https://t.co/21cULkU7g2

Whenever I’m asked to do a guest lecture on something I know very little about, in an area I don’t do any work in, but am told I’m being invited to bring in “an Indigenous perspective,” I think…

Melanie Clark's case highlights the shameful reporting of domestic violence deaths. A new press code would save lives, says Janey Starling of feminist organisation Level Up