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program. Views my own. Book on HIV ‘post-crisis’ out in pbk in 2022. Wurundjeri land.

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Aug 16

On the conditions of a queer art and party scenes’ flourishing, as well as its contraction and decline. I belatedly reviewed Fiona Kelly McGregor’s brilliant essay collection ‘Buried Not Dead’ for the

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When Dr David Strain encountered a 64-year-old patient on his ward round, the British geriatrician had a bleak epiphany. Less than six months earlier he had treated the man for Covid-19. Now, the man's deterioration was painful to witness

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The growing evidence that Covid-19 is making us all sicker

The potential impact on heart and brain disease poses challenges to healthcare systems globally

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Tomorrow is International Overdose Awareness Day. On this day we pause to remember and acknowledge all lives lost, and reiterate the importance of reforms to help prevent overdose deaths. We stand in solidarity with all those grieving this #IOAD2022.

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International Overdose Awareness Day and drug policy reforms in Victoria

In the lead up to International Overdose Awareness Day, we highlight some of the policy reforms in the state of Victoria to tackle overdose

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The well-known commercial aired around the world—but not in Russia.

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Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial resurfaces after Soviet leader dies

The well-known commercial aired around the world—but not in Russia.

Having been in Facebook mums group culture now for six months I can tell you the divorce rate would double or triple if the govt gave single mums a liveable inflation matched income.

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@MacgibbonJames

Aug 24

We need your help! Please share this new survey on monkeypox for gay, bi & queer people who live in Australia. The survey assesses #monkeypox concern, behavioural change and willingness to be vaccinated. unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8q

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'Resilience is the liquid sealant of contemporary corporate thinking; the word is as plastic in its applications as it is fluid in the mouth.' 'A rubber cudgel of a word: The speciousness of resilience' by Anwen Crawford

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A rubber cudgel of a word: The speciousness of resilience

In his concession speech on election night, after a perfunctory Acknowledgment of Country and a fulsome acknowledgment of Australia’s defence personnel, past and present; after hymning our ‘functio...

Aug 24

'Arguably, this has made some VCs behave as value maximising agents, akin to the CEOs of big businesses, working to make profits for shareholders. However, universities are not commercial corporations'

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· Aug 24

All the ,999s in this table - like low-end retail! What VCs were paid, 2019-21 campusmorningmail.com.au/news/what-vcs-

Transit Books — Postcard from the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Aug 23

When it comes to an earthy, visceral, poetic, abstract retelling of patriarchy through witchy eyes I feel I am a very receptive audience member however I saw YOU WONT BE ALONE at #MIFF2022 closing night and I keep thinking it was a bit... gender essentialist. Am I alone?

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN 🖤 LONG LIVE LITERATURE Crybabies! Send us your outpourings, epilogues, epitaphs, obits, grief, rage against the dying of the light and more. Learn more 💀 ow.ly/F6OT50KjAlm

Australia is the 4th or 5th wealthiest nation in the world; the fact that we spend less than 1% of annual GDP on cultural funding is a choice that has been made by govts, many times, for a long time ⁦

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⁩, Postcard from Sydney Harbour Bridge

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Anwen Crawford "I’ve been thinking about disguises. The glam impulse to dress up can be rooted in the fact that in some other role you play, you must dress down."

Wolfgang Petersen has died. He directed the first film I ever saw in a cinema, 'The NeverEnding Story'. What an introduction to cinema: an incredibly visually rich film about storytelling and imagination, with a child hero who overcomes doubt and sadness. Vale, Wolfgang

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"Patient Zero" rhetoric is extremely common, lazy, and harmful language used to described the (usually incorrectly) imagined first person to become infected with a virus in a community. But as @RAMcKay has written, this term was based upon a mistake press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book

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The latest pub from my team looks at how legal processes complicate the linear trajectory of progress and transformation that the medical cure for hepatitis C promises. It's called 'Echoes and Antibodies: Legal Veridiction and the Emergence of the Perpetual Hepatitis C Subject'

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GLaDProgramLTU

· Aug 17

Our latest paper, published in @SLS_Journal, considers curative DAA treatments for hepatitis C and how legal and social forces work to complicate a neat, simplistic binary of ‘infected’ and ‘cured’ subjects. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09

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joshua "your mpx vaccine bleb" gutterman tranen

Aug 17

It's gossipy threads like this that will keep me pathetically cathected to academia until I die

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· Aug 16

art historians: can someone explain to me the reputation of OCTOBER the journal? my only interaction with it is the Winter 1987 issue on AIDS Cultural Activism, edited by Douglas Crimp. but in general my sense is that it's not...radical?

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31% of AU households are renters, yet there’s a public sentiment that renters don’t deserve the same comforts as owners. Renting is seen as either a temporary life stage before buying, or as underclass housing; ‘they’ should ‘just buy a home’ or be grateful to have any at all

I’m driving myself insane with all the posting & emailing, but it must be done! Friends, on Saturday 17 September I will be debuting my first solo exhibition ‘dream life’ at Analogue Academy in Geelong. If you are available, it would mean a lot to see you at the opening night.

Your sexuality isn't determined by a book you read in Kindergarten. It's determined the way God intended -- by watching Labyrinth, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.

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Human Rights Education about sexual orientation & gender identity in Australian schools, post-mar...

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Went to see OF AN AGE at the 9.30 session after a boozy dinner. Laughed and wept volubly the entire time. Lights came up and I was sitting next to a small party that included Thom Green and Elias Anton. Both leads, just sitting there right next to me the whole time. #MIFF2022

"well David, i'm giving the movie five stars because I think it's brilliant"

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· Aug 15

Earrings with your own face on? High camp

A payoff situation is created in which eagerness for the vaccine must be weighed against how much self-incriminating information one is prepared to disclose to a government website. Only the brave will qualify, it seems

MPX was first identified as a source of human disease in Zaire (DRC) in 1970, with a case fatality rate of 3-6%. small outbreaks have been identified in other countries and populations since 2003, they have generally been confined to very small case numbers

🧵1) it has become common to refer to the covid-19 pandemic as an ‘unprecedented’ event ’. I have heard colleagues, pundits and high distinction students describe covid-19 as ‘the first global pandemic of note since the Spanish flu’, or make statements to similar effect

In stark contrast to the shameful legacies of the Reagan and Thatcher administrations, the Australian response to HIV/AIDS is internationally acclaimed for pursuing a different, far more effective strategy.

It's not too late to register for Wednesday's seminar, from

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, exploring the impact of the marriage equality plebiscite's divisive campaigns on current human rights education on LGBTIQA+ issues in Australian schools.

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ARCSHS invites you to a research and practice seminar with Monash's Professor Paula Gerber, exploring the impact of the marriage equality plebiscite 'No' campaign on education, four years on.

Rally for International #Overdose Awareness Day Wednesday 31 August

Aug 11

With my colleagues at

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we marked #WorldHepatitisDay recently with a showcase of social research projects on hep C, including findings froour m project on post-cure life (which I work on). Listen or read the transcript here: soundcloud.com/arcshs/world-h

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GLaDProgramLTU

· Aug 11

We recently marked #WorldHepatitisDay by producing a showcase of recent social research findings from projects on lived experiences of #hepatitisC, treatment, telehealth & post-cure life. The conversation is available to stream or download here: soundcloud.com/arcshs/world-h

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Aug 10

Robert Dessaix❤️We listened to him on ABC when I was a teen, and he was the first author I heard talk about their work IRL - at

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, when he published Night Letters. I asked my Dad to take me, and afterward we lined up so I could meet Robert and he signed my copy.

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Australia Council

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· Aug 8

Congratulations to Robert Dessaix, recipient of the 2022 Australia Council Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature! Watch Robert's in-depth video: youtu.be/zxPOZdNyYGA 1/4

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‘McGregor’s approach is to tell the story of art experienced as practitioner, audience member and critic, which makes for critical writing that is intimate and embodied.’

Ephemeral Social Scene | Dion Kagan on Fiona Kelly McGregor

reviews Buried Not Dead, a collection by Fiona Kelly McGregor.

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This is a study in the forces that can both create the conditions for art and cultural flourishing, as well as for its inhibition and decline.

Aug 9

👍 to this development. And a very gentle up yours to my local 'discount' chemist that has been flogging N95s for an outrageous $6.95 each to people waiting at the tram stop out front

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Dan Andrews

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· Aug 9

Starting today you can pick some up when you get a PCR test or collect free rapid antigen tests. They'll also be available at PTV hubs if you forget one for the train, and authorised officers and some conductors will carry them to hand out too. premier.vic.gov.au/free-masks-kee

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Aug 9

For those not yet following along, celebrated cinema expert

@lousheedy

does a rare emergence at #MIFF2022 time w capsule reviews

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Louise Sheedy

@lousheedy

· Aug 7

NATURE: the most profound, most effective treatise on climate change so far committed. Our collective suicide done in perfect, horrible montage & slo-mo POV, just how we like it.Properly biblical. #MIFF2022

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Louise Sheedy

@lousheedy

· Aug 6

THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN: not even a whiff. A shallow scrape of a Wikipedia entry narrated by a Playschool dropout. Blech. #MIFF2022