* Body Counts: the Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees - Yen Le Espiritu * Uncle of Cats - Corey Wakeling * Ibis: a novel - Justin Haynes * About the Author is Dead - Pascalle Burton * Exactly As I Am - Rae White * Year of the Ox - Andrew Brooks * *Pan - Michael Clune * Performing Site-Specific Theatre ed. Anna Birch & Joanne Tompkins * Queer Necropolitics ed. Jin Haritaworn, Adi Kunstman & Silvia Posocco * *The Victoria Principle - Michael Farrell * *The Rot - Evelyn Araluen * *Fablemaker - Mandy Moe Pwint Tu * *20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth - Xiaolu Guo * blue is how i know you - Samantha Lee Curran * *Parallels - Vũ Ðình Giang * Hot Yoga - Zack Lewin * *Diary of a Young Doctor: Notes from the genocide in Gaza - Ezzideen Shehab * Wave of Blood - Ariana Reines * coal - Remi Graves * *Worthy of the Event - Vivian Blaxell

November list >>

* Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa’ed Atshan * Whereas - Layli Long Soldier * Guapa - Saleem Haddad * An Army of Light - Bilal Hafda * Monument - Bonny Cassidy * Love Letters to Baba - N Mo’alla * Kontra - Eunice Andrada * *Fierceland - Omar Musa * Dream of the Divided Field - Yanyi * The Prodigal - Suneeta Peres Da Costa * Two Hundred Million Musketeers - Ender Başkan * *Terror Counter - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi * Poetics of Relation - Édouard Glissant * Dysphoria Mundi - Paul B. Preciado * Palestine +100: stories from a century after the Nakba ed. Basma Ghalayini * Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism - Patricia A. Ybarra * *Crossings: creative ecologies of cruising - João Florêncio & Liz Rosenfeld * Poetic Intention - Édouard Glissant * Treatise on the Whole-World - Édouard Glissant * rib/cage - Rosaly Puthucheary, ArunDitha, Zeha * Utopian Pulse: Flares in the Darkroom ed. Ines Doujak & Oliver Ressler * *Woman Running in the Mountains - Yuko Tsushima * Raw Salt - Izzy Roberts-Orr * What Kept You? - Raaza Jamshed * *It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over - Anne De Marcken * *Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry ed. George Abraham & Noor Hindi * Starve and Immolate: the Politics of Human Weapons - Banu Bargu * Homesick - nor * Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks - Chrystal Ho * Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright * Boh Beh Zhao - Cheng Him * What God Took Your Legs Away - Wahid Al Mamun * Midnight Timetable - Bora Chung * Gold Digger - Lisa Collyer * The Scent of Flowers at Night - Leïla Slimani * Flat Exit - Broede Carmody * She Woke & Rose - Autumn Royal

* Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa’ed Atshan * Whereas - Layli Long Soldier * Guapa - Saleem Haddad * An Army of Light - Bilal Hafda * Monument - Bonny Cassidy * Love Letters to Baba - N Mo’alla * Kontra - Eunice Andrada * *Fierceland - Omar Musa * Dream of the Divided Field - Yanyi * The Prodigal - Suneeta Peres Da Costa * Two Hundred Million Musketeers - Ender Başkan * *Terror Counter - Fargo Nissim Tbakhi * Poetics of Relation - Édouard Glissant * Dysphoria Mundi - Paul B. Preciado * Palestine +100: stories from a century after the Nakba ed. Basma Ghalayini * Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism - Patricia A. Ybarra * *Crossings: creative ecologies of cruising - João Florêncio & Liz Rosenfeld * Poetic Intention - Édouard Glissant * Treatise on the Whole-World - Édouard Glissant * rib/cage - Rosaly Puthucheary, ArunDitha, Zeha * Utopian Pulse: Flares in the Darkroom ed. Ines Doujak & Oliver Ressler * *Woman Running in the Mountains - Yuko Tsushima * Raw Salt - Izzy Roberts-Orr * What Kept You? - Raaza Jamshed * *It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over - Anne De Marcken * *Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry ed. George Abraham & Noor Hindi * Starve and Immolate: the Politics of Human Weapons - Banu Bargu * Homesick - nor * Elsewhere, the Cosmos Cracks - Chrystal Ho * Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright * Boh Beh Zhao - Cheng Him * What God Took Your Legs Away - Wahid Al Mamun * Midnight Timetable - Bora Chung * Gold Digger - Lisa Collyer * The Scent of Flowers at Night - Leïla Slimani * Flat Exit - Broede Carmody * She Woke & Rose - Autumn Royal

big book October, much poetry

* *Trust Exercise - Susan Choi * The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree - Shokoofeh Azar * The Farm - Jessica Mansour-Nahra * Yilkari: A desert suite - Nicholas Rothwell & Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson * Build Yourself a Boat - Camonghne Felix * *Israel/Palestine and the Queer International - Sarah Schulman * *Border Wisdom - Ahmad Almallah * Cyclonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials - Reza Negarestani * The Least of All Possible Evils: A Short History of Humanitarian Violence - Eyal Weizman * Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War - Ronak K. Kapadia * *Discipline - Randa Abdel-Fattah

September reads ~~

* Don’t Take Your Love To Town - Ruby Langford Ginibi * *Koolaids - Rabih Alameddine * Small Worlds - Caleb Azumah Nelson * *Music for Porn - Rob Halpern * *things in nature merely grow - Yiyun Li * Postcolonial Melancholia - Paul Gilroy * Mourning a Breast - Xi Xi * Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change - Eliza Steinbock * *A Lover’s Discourse - Xiaolu Guo * Questions of Travel - Michelle de Kretser * A Savage Turn - Luke Patterson * A Language of Limbs - Dylin Hardcastle * Locust Girl: a lovesong - Merlinda Bobis * An Archive of Feeling: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures - Ann Cvetkovich * Decay ed. Ghassan Hage * The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong * Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life - Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle

August reads ~~

* The House of Youssef - Yumna Kassab * Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form - Sianne Ngai * Responses to Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) ed. Richard Porter * Find Me at the Jaffa Gate - Micaela Sahhar * Ghosts of Myself - John Kinsella * Love Like This Isn’t Harmless - Bron Bateman * Pleasure Consuming Medicine: the Queer Politics of Drugs - Kane Race * Corpus - Jean-Luc Nancy * Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment - Rebecca Schneider * The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV - Kane Race * My Tender Matador - Pedro Lemebel * *Dengue Boy - Michel Nieva * Nock Loose - Patrick Marlborough * Time Remaining - James McCourt * *Held - Anne Michaels * On Touching Jean-Luc Nancy - Jacques Derrida * Our New Gods - Thomas Vowles * The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado: Queer Permeability - Elliot Evans * *The Palace on the Higher Hill - Karim Kattan * *I have brought you a severed hand - Ghayath Almadhoun * we are nowhere and it’s now. - Mikael Johani * The Stone of Laughter - Hoda Barakat * I Am A Human Being - Jackson Nieuwland * RAW: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking ed. Ricky Varghese

* The House of Youssef - Yumna Kassab * Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form - Sianne Ngai * Responses to Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) ed. Richard Porter * Find Me at the Jaffa Gate - Micaela Sahhar * Ghosts of Myself - John Kinsella * Love Like This Isn’t Harmless - Bron Bateman * Pleasure Consuming Medicine: the Queer Politics of Drugs - Kane Race * Corpus - Jean-Luc Nancy * Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment - Rebecca Schneider * The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV - Kane Race * My Tender Matador - Pedro Lemebel * *Dengue Boy - Michel Nieva * Nock Loose - Patrick Marlborough * Time Remaining - James McCourt * *Held - Anne Michaels * On Touching Jean-Luc Nancy - Jacques Derrida * Our New Gods - Thomas Vowles * The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado: Queer Permeability - Elliot Evans * *The Palace on the Higher Hill - Karim Kattan * *I have brought you a severed hand - Ghayath Almadhoun * we are nowhere and it’s now. - Mikael Johani * The Stone of Laughter - Hoda Barakat * I Am A Human Being - Jackson Nieuwland * RAW: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking ed. Ricky Varghese

never on here but anyway here’s July reads ~~

* I Want Everything - Dominic Amerena * *Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal - Mohammed El-Kurd * Dream of the Orchid Pavilion - Hongwei Bao * AIDS and the Distribution of Crises ed. Jih-Fei Cheng, Alexandra Juhasz, Nishant Shahani

June reads

Crisis Actor - Arts House Blending physical theatre and simulated reality, Crisis Actor is an interactive performance where suffering is a vibe and resilience is celebrity.

Tickets are now on sale for Crisis Actor the experimental, interactive, immersive theatre show I'm working on with @vidyarajan.bsky.social, @spandyandrei.bsky.social and many other wonderful people, you should come and see it in august! www.artshouse.com.au/events/crisi...

A few weeks have now passed since QLD took away my Fellowship, and what I am still sure of:
I did nothing wrong. I've nothing to be ashamed of. I've no regrets.
The shame is in staying silent, letting fear win, allowing bullies to silence us.

From the river to the sea,
Always was always will be.

When I update my pronouns to they/he this post will be the reason <3

HEY!!!!

Steph is one of my favourite people ever ✨

* Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories - Taeko Kono * *Sand-Catcher - Omar Khalifah * *Light Film - Sholto Buck * The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art Ed. TJ Bacon & Chelsea Coon * *Prisoner of Love - Jean Genet * *The Book of Disappearance - Ibtisam Azem * Little World - Josephine Rowe * Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy - Larissa Pham * The Last Syrian - Omar Youssef Souleimane * When the Sick Rule the World - Dodie Bellamy * Final Theory - Bonny Cassidy * Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilisation - Richard Seymour * Mettle - Anne-Marie Te Whiu * Joss: A History - Grace Yee * Red Sword - Bora Chung * Audition - Pip Adam

May reads ~<<~

600 days in the genocide I watch a little girl, named flower, named Ward, turn Into an inferno. l've seen so many people burn I can't recall if flame had another purpose. People keep saying, it's always been like this: Human fuel in empire's engine. Understand Then, if you are not the one fed to the fire, You are the engine. There must have been A time before the engine, I swear, Before we became parts in a machine And everything was reduced To action or inaction. This ballot, That purchase, any small intimacy Crackles and spits into: did you grease The gears today, or save your resistance For an hour when your life is on the line? What if life is always on the line? How long will you live in the crosshairs Of someone else's permission, how many daughters / Will you consign to the flame of your convenience?

600 days in the genocide The hour is late as l usher my sons to bed. My family is watching a game called State Of Origin where men from all over the world Claim tribal heritage to land not their own. I can't stop thinking of Ward, who survived And of Shaaban al-Dalou, who did not. My babies, strangers to hardship, whimper In the dark as if they, too, can feel the heat Licking at their hands and feet. When we Dream, scientists say we enter paralysis: A safety mechanism to keep us from rolling Into the campfire, or off a cliff. Some of us Are blessed with broken mechanisms, Some of us walk even in our sleep. I watch, God forgive me not, I keep watch When I should be running towards the blaze.

600 days in the genocide

"Approval of the North West Shelf extension would be easily one of the worst decisions ever made by an Environment Minister in Australia's history," said @grogsgamut.bsky.social.

Home | Decolonize Palestine Welcome to Decolonize Palestine, a collection of resources for anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine.

Welcome to Decolonise Palestine, a collection of resources for Pro Palestine organisers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine.

Also, the Myths and Rainbow-washing section is very helpful if you need quick pointers on debunking/refuting zionist talking points.

Again: Australian contributions to the F-35 jet program are valued at $5bn, and involve 75 Australian companies. Australia invests $1.7bn annually into the Israeli economy.

Words are not enough. We need sanctions and we need them now!

Israeli officials explain balancing act between overt genocide and maintaining Western support One of the talking points Israel apologists like to regurgitate is that Israel can’t possibly be acting with genocidal intent in Gaza, because if they had wanted to exterminate the Palestinians they c...

"So there you have it, spelled out in plain language. [Israel has] opted for their slow-motion strangulation approach because that’s what’s necessary to maintain essential Western support and avoid war crimes tribunals."
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Michelle de Kretser’s 2025 acceptance speech

"Unlike the women and girls of Gaza, I’m not brave. Fear is a formidable and insidious opponent. It convinces us to censor ourselves, to obey in advance, to down the Kool-Aid before it’s been offered. I’m still afraid. But I’ve just accepted a prize that is not about obedience."

Solidarity with you ❤️💚🖤

“They steal your bread, then give you a crumb of it…
Then they demand you to thank them for their generosity…”
— Ghassan Kanafani

My second collection of poetry, Act Cute, is out with Fremantle Press on July 1.

Is the Oz going to go after large swathes of the Australian writing community?Some of us were in Melbourne with the admirably principled Aviva Tuffield last week. To be absolutely clear, we are opposed to the actions of the Israeli govt in Gaza.

In yet another sign of the depraved times we’re living in, tomorrow, 15 May, is not only Nakba Day—when Palestinians commemorate 77 years of their ongoing ethnic cleansing—but it is also the day Yuval Raphael will be whitewashing genocide on the collaborator stage of @ebu.ch’s @eurovision.tv.

Great to be part of the Readers and Writers Against Genocide contingent at the State Library of Victoria to acknowledge the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza taking place during Melbourne Writers Festival

* * *Ward Toward - Cindy Juyoung Ok * Outline - Rachel Cusk * Israel’s Dead Soul - Steven Salaita * Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom - Steven Salaita * From the Wreck - Jane Rawson * First Name Second Name - Steve MinOn * The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins ed. Zoë Bossiere & Erica Trabold * *Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine - Steven Salaita * The nearness of others: searching for tact and contact in the age of HIV - David Caron * Ritual: A Collection of Muslim Australian Poetry ed. Sara M Saleh & Zainab Syed with Manal Younus * Inara: Light of Utopia ed. Mx. Yaffa AS * *The Drop Off - David Stavanger * *Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution - Yasmin El-Rifae * Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora - Gayatri Gopinath * *We Do Not Part - Han Kang * Fragile Creatures - Khin Myint * Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence - Judith Butler * *The Nightmare Sequence - Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed * Quarterlife - Devika Rege * *Argento Series - Kevin Killian * The White Cockatoo Flowers - Ouyang Yu * Theophanies - Sarah Ghazal Ali

* * *Ward Toward - Cindy Juyoung Ok * Outline - Rachel Cusk * Israel’s Dead Soul - Steven Salaita * Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom - Steven Salaita * From the Wreck - Jane Rawson * First Name Second Name - Steve MinOn * The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins ed. Zoë Bossiere & Erica Trabold * *Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine - Steven Salaita * The nearness of others: searching for tact and contact in the age of HIV - David Caron * Ritual: A Collection of Muslim Australian Poetry ed. Sara M Saleh & Zainab Syed with Manal Younus * Inara: Light of Utopia ed. Mx. Yaffa AS * *The Drop Off - David Stavanger * *Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution - Yasmin El-Rifae * Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora - Gayatri Gopinath * *We Do Not Part - Han Kang * Fragile Creatures - Khin Myint * Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence - Judith Butler * *The Nightmare Sequence - Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed * Quarterlife - Devika Rege * *Argento Series - Kevin Killian * The White Cockatoo Flowers - Ouyang Yu * Theophanies - Sarah Ghazal Ali

April reads

The Thorpe-Payman Genocide Bills Would Ensure No Complicity in Gaza Genocide The Thorpe-Payman Genocide Bills Would Ensure No Complicity in Gaza Genocide

www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/the-tho...

“The government’s story is that the Red-Lines package is divisive and unnecessary because they claim Australia is already following international rules on genocide,” explained Senator Thorpe. “But that is a lie."

Remember #StarTrek has always been for #TransRights. #TransVisibilityDay #TransRightsAreHumanRights

* Fog & Car - Eugene Lim * Washes, Prays - Noor Naga * Burden of Ashes - Justin Chin * *Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial - Saree Makdisi * Vague predictions and prophecies - Daisuke Shen * Performing Mourning: Laments in Contemporary Art - Guy Cools * The Waves - Virginia Woolf * Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile - Jane Blocker * In Inheritance of Drowning - Dorsia Smith Silva * The South - Tash Aw * Crybaby - Mabel Gibson * Romeo & Seahorse - Nikolaj Tange Lange * *One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad * At Your Own Risk - Derek Jarman * *Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? - Judith Butler * Smiling in Slow Motion - Derek Jarman * If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose - Refaat Alareer * In the Printed Version of Heaven - Sholto Buck * Vixen - Hoa Pham * *Toward Eternity - Anton Hur * Cast But One Shadow and Winter Love - Han Suyin * The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and the Archive of Disappearance - Azza El Hassan * *Past & Parallel Lives - Kaya Ortiz * Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems - James Baldwin * Love in the New Millennium - Can Xue

* Fog & Car - Eugene Lim * Washes, Prays - Noor Naga * Burden of Ashes - Justin Chin * *Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial - Saree Makdisi * Vague predictions and prophecies - Daisuke Shen * Performing Mourning: Laments in Contemporary Art - Guy Cools * The Waves - Virginia Woolf * Where Is Ana Mendieta?: Identity, Performativity, and Exile - Jane Blocker * In Inheritance of Drowning - Dorsia Smith Silva * The South - Tash Aw * Crybaby - Mabel Gibson * Romeo & Seahorse - Nikolaj Tange Lange * *One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Omar El Akkad * At Your Own Risk - Derek Jarman * *Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? - Judith Butler * Smiling in Slow Motion - Derek Jarman * If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose - Refaat Alareer * In the Printed Version of Heaven - Sholto Buck * Vixen - Hoa Pham * *Toward Eternity - Anton Hur * Cast But One Shadow and Winter Love - Han Suyin * The Afterlife of Palestinian Images: Visual Remains and the Archive of Disappearance - Azza El Hassan * *Past & Parallel Lives - Kaya Ortiz * Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems - James Baldwin * Love in the New Millennium - Can Xue

March reads

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