An aerial photo of a large transgender pride flag being held off a green grassy football field by 50 or so people! The flag has clearly been rained on

The world's largest trans flag in all of its glory, being held up by the gender diverse community of Meanjin!

#meanjin #brisbane #trans #transgender #transDayOfVisibility #TDOV

Promotional poster for Trans Justice Meanjin's Trans Day of Visibility event. Bright yellow background with bold black and pink text announcing "3PM 31 MARCH · DAVIES PARK" and "WORLD'S LARGEST TRANS FLAG · TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY · TRANSTRAVAGANZA". Musical performers Clover Love and Worm Girlz are listed. Group photo shows nine people holding large decorative flowers and stringed instruments including guitars and a violin. Website transjustice.org.au/flag at bottom.

See you there!

TDOV, Davies Park, Meanjin/Brisbane, 3pm

www.instagram.com/p/DWH0t_WiRvb/

#trans #transgender #tdov #meanjin #brisbane

Photograph of a Little Egret wading in shallow greenish water, its white plumage contrasting with dark legs and yellow feet. The bird's slender black bill is partially submerged as it forages, creating small ripples. Sunlight reflects off the water surface with visible bubbles and debris. Dense green foliage lines the blurred background. A faint reflection of the egret appears beneath it in the calm water.

Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)

Keith Boden Wetlands, Brisbane, Australia

Taken with an OM-1 Mk II / M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm F4.0 IS PRO

Post processing in Darktable

#LittleEgret #BirdPhotography #Wildlife #WadingBird #EgrettaGarzetta #Nature #Birds #WaterBird #Brisbane #Australia #meanjin

A full moon, tinted in orange and red, during the peak of the eclipse. Stars are visible in the background of the night sky

Blood moon

The lunar eclipse at its peak, as seen from Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia.

1 second handheld exposure on an OM-1 Mk II / M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm F4.0 IS PRO, so it's not quite as crisp as I would have liked.

Post processing done in Darktable […]

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A full moon, tinted in orange and red, during the peak of the eclipse. Starts are visible in the background of the night sky

A full moon, with the bottom right section slightly obscured by the Earth's shadow as the lunar eclipse begins

Some photos from the eclipse. They were both hand held, which got quite difficult when the eclipse was at its peak and there was less light to work with.

#eclipse #lunarEclipse #brisbane #meanjin

Louise Adler sets the record straight on Adelaide Writers' Week The Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) debacle might have served as a “life lesson” to politicians and lobbyists about the risks involved in interfering with the independence of arts organisations. But as w...

"… the unbearable truth of the destruction of Gaza and Gazan lives must be repressed at all costs."
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/03...
#censorship #Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #SydneyBiennale #NewcastleWritersFestival

Photograph of a Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia) wading in shallow greenish-brown water. The all-white bird with black legs and distinctive long black spoon-shaped bill is captured mid-feed, with its bill partially submerged and ripples spreading across the water surface. The bird's bright red eye with yellow ring is clearly visible.

Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)

Keith Boden Wetlands, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia

Taken with an OM-1 MkII / M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm F4.0 IS PRO

Image post processing completed in Darktable

#RoyalSpoonbill #BirdPhotography #Brisbane #Meanjin #Wildlife […]

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THE AUSTRALIAN [image: profile of Grace Tame] WRONG MESSAGE 57 minutes ago Jewish group urges organisers to cancel Grace Tame’s appearance at Bendigo event The Australian Jewish Association has written to the chamber of commerce for greater Bendigo, claiming her appearance would send a message that ‘incitement is tolerated’ By LILY MCCAFFREY

Will the International Women's Day event suffer the same fate?

I couldn't access the Australian's article, but here's Sky "News", frothing at the mouth:
www.skynews.com.au/australia-ne...
#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #SydneyBiennale #NewcastleWritersFestival

Meanjin has been resurrected by QUT, in a clever move Cancelled Australian literary journal Meanjin returns to its origins in Brisbane, where it was founded in 1940. It’s a good move for more than one reason.

Exciting news. #meanjin #QUT #AustralianLiterature #QUTjournals

theconversation.com/meanjin-has-...

Makunschan, Meeanjan, Miganchan, Meanjan, Magandjin Every tribe … has its own dialect, if not language … stamps their locality much, know every acre of land belonging to their ‘home’… each plant, flower, tree, shrub, grass, bird, beast, insect … eve…

For those interested in where the name Meanjin belongs, here’s a piece by Gaja Kerry Charlton, ed. by Melissa Lucashenko. Great time to remember how meaning is made through an inescapable braid of Indigenous self-determination, colonial violence, and Country. #Meanjin

meanjin.com.au/essays/makun...

Well, QUT suddenly seems a bit more worldly and admirable than University of Melbourne… #meanjin

#Meanjin lives again! 🦘

#QUT #LiteraryJournals

Finally, a piece of good news!

#auspol #Meanjin

“Under the terms of the transfer, #QUT will appoint an editorial board to ensure Meanjin’s independence, values and standards are maintained and recruit an editor through a national competitive search.” #auspol #Meanjin #writersky

Meanjin resurrection: QUT takes on Australia's iconic literary journal Queensland University of Technology is the new home of the literary journal Meanjin.

Meanjin heads back to Meanjin Brisbane housed at Queensland University of Technology.
#Meanjin #LiteraryJournals

Hell yes!
"Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will become the new custodian of Meanjin, Australia's most eminent literary journal, bringing the publication back to Brisbane 80 years after it relocated to Melbourne." #Meanjin

Petrichor!

#brisbane #meanjin

#Brisbane #Meanjin
#HerzogNotWelcome
#WarCriminal.

A drone photo, looking along the Shorncliffe foreshore area, showing the pier extending out in to the ocean

Shorncliffe Pier

Queensland, Australia

#darktable #seascape #drone #mavic #dji #mavic4pro #brisbane #meanjin

Peaceful #FuckHerzog protest march in #Meanjin #Brisbane

#Auspol

Writers festival 'crazy' to invite Randa Abdel-Fattah, NSW premier says The festival's director said Dr Abdel-Fattah was invited in August last year and denied the state government pressured her to remove the writer.

Minns seems to be a neurotic as Malinauskas. It looks like either he or the writers festival board have learned from history.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #SydneyBiennale #NewcastleWritersFestival

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#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #SydneyBiennale #NewcastleWritersFestival

Questions about Randa Abdel-Fattah inclusion in NSW writers festival The NSW government makes contact with the board of next month's Newcastle Writers Festival about the inclusion of Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah, the ABC understands.

#MossadMinns is at it again:
"… the ABC understands Dr Abdel-Fattah is due to speak at the festival, and that the Minns government has been in discussions with board members about that appearance."

#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #SydneyBiennale #NewcastleWritersFestival

I did not vote to be monitored by Zionists.
#Meanjin #Adelaide #Bendigo #AusPol #Zionism #censorship #Palestine #Israel

A crow, perched atop a green leafy branch

Torresian Crow

Brisbane, Australia

Taken with an OM-1 Mk II / Zuiko 300mm F4

#meanjin #brisbane #crow #corvid #om1mkii #bird #birds #australianBirds

15 January 2026 Adelaide Festival Corporation makes the following statement regarding Adelaide Writers’ Week 2026: On 8 January 2026 the Adelaide Festival Corporation published a statement announcing that it had decided to exclude Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from participating as a speaker at Adelaide Writers’ Week this year. We stated that this was because it would be culturally insensitive to allow her to participate. We retract that statement. We have reversed the decision and will reinstate Dr Abdel-Fattah’s invitation to speak at the next Adelaide Writers’ Week in 2027. We apologise to Dr Abdel-Fattah unreservedly for the harm the Adelaide Festival Corporation has caused her. Intellectual and artistic freedom is a powerful human right. Our goal is to uphold it, and in this instance Adelaide Festival Corporation fell well short.

A win for the resistance, but the empire will continue the war.
www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/st...

#Meanjin
#Adelaide
#Bendigo
#AusPol
#Zionism
#censorship
#Palestine
#Israel

SA Premier Peter Malinauskas responds to criticism over Adelaide Writers’ Week Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis...

A psychologist would have a field day analysing Malinauskas' performance. It's DOCTOR Abdel-Fattah, Peter.

Does associating with Zionists rot the brain?
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
#Meanjin
#Adelaide
#Bendigo
#AusPol
#Zionism
#censorship
#Palestine
#Israel

Adelaide Festival Board Statement - 13 January 2026

Writers Week is dead. Will the Festival survive?
"The focus is now on ensuring a successful Adelaide Festival …"

Make up your own mind about the weasel words. 😡
www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...

#Meanjin
#Adelaide
#Bendigo
#AusPol
#Zionism
#censorship
#Palestine
#Israel