Last time I was in Melbourne I walked through Carlton Gardens on my way back from the library one day & there was a group of people breakdancing most impressively, I stopped & watched for a while. So why weren’t they at the Olympics? *insert rant about class/race/white Australia*

One of the most aesthetically pleasing things I’ve seen all week. 10/10.

I was already mad at all of this for a range of reasons I could rant to you about (related to privilege/class/race) and wondered how the rest of the Australian breakdancing community felt about it, and I guess here’s the answer. Doesn’t exactly give a good name to academics… x.com/disabilitystor…

I realise this may make me an enemy within my own disciplinary group (and a nerd just for posting), but I recently have had to use APA in a book I'm co-editing, and I think I may prefer it now. It's not quite right for historical sources, I understand, but it's so much quicker.

Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia float against the war in Vietnam at a May Day procession on Queen Street, Brisbane. (May, 1965. Photo by Grahame Garner)

We have some of the highest-paid university vice-chancellors in the WORLD and yet they seem to have run the sector into the ground, producing a sector unloved by either side of politics and which has largely lost its social licence: afr.com/work-and-caree…

Writing a lecture on art for my UON course on Australian protest today (& planning an international protest music playlist to accompany). Confident the students think I am the nerdiest nerd on campus - & even more so when I impel them to listen to Public Enemy & Mikis Theodorakis

Just bought my first punnet of strawberries since getting back from the UK (where I ate approx 1 punnet of berries per day): most disappointing.

Note: this may push Chicago back up over APA as my preferred referencing system when I'm in a rush.

Australia has long failed dismally to provide Palestinians with access to asylum & safety 140+ scholars of migration, refugee & statelessness studies reject border racism & call on govt to implement urgent action, incl increasing visas to Palestinians overland.org.au/2024/08/reject…

Yesterday on campus 3 people on whom it would be impossible to perform an abortion were protesting abortion (till moved on) & as horrid as it was, it was amazing to see a row of academics standing around them to ensure that no students became distressed by their posters/presence.

ACNZSN is very excited to announce that Dr Effie Karageorgos has kindly agreed to become a public supporter of the network and a member of the editorial board of ACNZSN’s JACANZS! Effie’s expertise will especially add considerably to the latter :-) Dr. Jatinder Mann 🏳️‍🌈 acnzsn.org/about/

Triumphalist, sweeping & inaccurate conservative histories will be written in the future proudly declaring the introduction of same sex marriage by the Libs & refusal by the ALP to add sexuality & gender diversity in the census (which will not contain even 1/4 of the nuances).

My book “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” (Oxford University Press, 2024) brings together an edited selection of interviews published in the Psychiatric Times (Psychiatric Times) from 2019 to 2022, updated with new and previously unpublished material. These interviews explore

Today in my University of Newcastle history of protest course we're talking about LGBTQ+ protest, & spending some time reading this Gay Liberation Manifesto (by Sydney Gay Liberation, 1972) in tutorials - another brilliant item from the State Library of NSW collection collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPVp…