Poisoned Crumbs: human rights and the LGBTIQ+ community after Bondi — Lantana Although prominent LGBTIQ+ organisations have endorsed the government’s plan to combat antisemitism and hate, the proposed new laws actually pose grave risks to rights and freedoms within the queer co...

New article on #Lantana about LGBTIQ+ orgs concerning support of Labor's Omnibus Bill www.lantana.net.au/words/poison...

Table with different tees with print of writing of works by writers/authors

Table with different tees with print of writing of works by writers/authors

The team of volunteers of 'Readers and Writers Against Genocide' with tees and merch

Read the companion essay to our latest Queer Critics podcast. @samhellkin.bsky.social discusses Danielle Laidley’s uneasy path from football legend to trans icon.

Read more: bit.ly/4nVJsr8

Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague.
#MEAAmedia

Rally: Save Meanjin!
Thursday 11 September, 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton @withmeaa.bsky.social
@meanjin.bsky.social #ozlit #auslit #meanjin

Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga Biographers in Conversation interview with Sam Elkin

Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga
open.substack.com/pub/gabriell...
@samhellkin.bsky.social

After the recent attack on Camp Sovereignty in Naarm/ Melbourne, this is an important moment to show solidarity.

What stage of social cohesion is “neo-Nazis fighting in the streets”

Sam Elkin - Detachable Penis - Biographers in Conversation In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, lawyer and author Sam Elkin chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga.

I had a chat with Biographer Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies ahead of the National Biography Prize 2025 winners announcement, it was fun to reflect on my debut memoir after 12 months post release: www.biographersinconversation.com/s0306-sam-el... #ozlit #memoir #trans

Save Parentline Parentline is a critical first line of support for Victorian parents and carers. It offers confidential, anonymous and accessible counselling on everything from child behaviour and development to fami...

Fight cuts to Parentline, no to further public service cuts: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa... @cpsuvic.bsky.social #cpsuvic

Looking forward to having a chat with Professor Paula Gerber at @readingsbooks.bsky.social Carlton to discuss her essay, Sex, Gender & Identity: Trans Rights in Australia next month.

Sing a rainbow, too: Keio Yoshida’s queer legal dream - Overland literary journal It’s into this uncertain moment that the UK-based international human rights lawyer Keio Yoshida’s optimistic Pride and Prejudices: queer lives and the law saw its release. The book’s core argument is...

For our ongoing series of critical essays supported by @copyright.com.au, Sam Elkin reviews Keio Yoshida’s new book PRIDE AND PREJUDICES. overland.org.au/2025/08/sing...

Israeli Military Attacks Handala in International Waters - Freedom Flotilla FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 26, 2025 Contact: Hay Sha Wiya +1-210-834-8155 media@freedomflotilla.org Israeli Military Attacks Handala in International Waters, Abducts 21 Unarmed Civilians The Freedom F...

@albomp.bsky.social The Australian government must demand the release of those on the #Handala and take stronger action over Israel’s actions in Gaza freedomflotilla.org/2025/07/26/i...

In relation to the Gaza atrocities, the ALP has taken real action - sanctions - against only two people: Fatima Payman and Mehreen Faruqi.
Speaks volumes.

Food, Water & Hope for a Mum in Gaza Hi, I’m Jessica Walton. I’m a writer, teacher and mum from Naarm, Australia. My dear friend Nour is a writer, teacher and mum, living in Gaza.

Food, Water & Hope for a Mum in Gaza chuffed.org/project/1396...

Issue 15 of Lumpen, everyone's favourite magazine for poor and working-class writers, is here!

Get your copy:

Digital: www.theclassworkproject.com/.../lumpen-1...

Paper from our awesome distributors @seditionist.bsky.social seditionist.uk/distro/reada...

Why are we so exhausted?
Because we're constantly pointing out and debunking the bullshit that we're neck deep in.

#Autism is often characterized by:
– an inability to bullshit
– a pathological need for fairness
– a compulsion to help others
– an inexplicable need to expose hypocrisy

Documents contradict government's claims over $900m deal with Israeli weapons company The Albanese government claimed it had nothing to do with a $900 million contract with Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems. It in fact directly signed it and closely vetted all stages of its engag...

The federal government directly approved and signed off on the participation of Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems in a major Australian defence procurement — contrary to denials by defence ministers Richard Marles and Pat Conroy, documents obtained under FOI reveal
www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/18/a...

When I see people complain about male loneliness, it is so painfully OBVIOUS to me that most of these lonely men are men who feel entitled to a woman who does that labor for them, who acts as their agent enmeshing them into community through unpaid pro-social labor on their behalf.

Support Sam Elkin this Dry July and make a donation. I have signed up for Dry July to raise money for people affected by cancer. Please show your support and make a donation.

I'm doing #dryjuly to support ovarian cancer research. Please support my 20 day run home! (But who is counting right?) www.dryjuly.com/users/sam-el...

Huge congrats to the rank and file ticket that just won the CPSU VIC election!

A Voice for Members winning the Victorian CPSU election is an incredible achievement, defeating a thirty year incumbent.

Genuine contested union elections get members engaged and drive better union outcomes.

SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

Tim Nicholls, scrap your sham 'review' Demand Tim Nicholls scrap his sham 'review' and reinstate healthcare for trans youth.

Petition: Nicholls: scrap your sham ‘review’ and reinstate care! transjustice.org.au/review/

Fun new interview with Torrey Peters in the new edition of The Big Issue Australia #transrights

A graphic with " Cities of Literature Bookclub" It lists the following Cities - Angouleme, Barcelona, Dublin, Dunedin, Edinburgh, Lviv and Quebec City

A graphic with "Cities of Literature Bookclub" It shoes the cover of the book Querelle of Roberval with the sub title Quebec City

A graphic with "Cities of Literature Bookclub" It shows the cover of the book "Looking at Woman, Looking at War"lwith the sub title Lviv.

A graphic with "Cities of Literature Bookclub" It shows the cover of the book "Midnight and Blue" with the sub title Edinburgh

Have you seen what the #citiesoflit picked for Bookclub of the Cities of Literature for the Bendigo Writers Festival

www.bendigowritersfestival.com.au

Take one minute: go to bit.ly/IsraelOnNotice and send a letter to the Israeli government, UN officials, and diplomatic missions demanding that Israel abide by international law and refrain from attacking, sabotaging or otherwise interfering with the #Madleen and her mission.

Sanctions, Recognition & Peace for Palestine We call for an end to the occupation of Palestine and a just and sustainable peace in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions, including the removal of illegal settlements, the withdrawal of I...

Sanctions, Recognition & Peace for #Palestine Petition from Vic Trades Hall Council and APHEDA Union Aid Abroad- please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/re... @vicunions.bsky.social

State Library of Queensland fellowship decision - Australian Society of Authors The ASA is disturbed by the decision of the State Library of Queensland to rescind author KA Ren Wyld’s 2025 black&write! Fellowship.

Statement from @asauthors.bsky.social on the SLQ decision to rescind @wyld.bsky.social's Black and Write fellowship:
"This represents yet another alarming instance of the undermining of freedom of expression and arms-length arts funding from a major institution."
www.asauthors.org.au/news/state-l...

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded, including an email from a journo at The Australian sent 20 minutes before she was told.

Social post from Ren Wyld with details of being told her award was rescinded

The day author Ren Wyld was due to receive the Black & Write $15k Indigenous fellowship she was told it had been rescinded. A journo from the Oz seemed to know before she did. Appalling to see QLD govt cave to Murdoch press to punish a First Nations writer for speaking out in support of Palestine.