I have a poem about being an asshole and reading mary oliver in the new issue of overland 🦢
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this week i have been variously described as a butch, a heterosexual twink, and someone who 'seems like they'd be a fan of frank o'hara'
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Thinking about this poster for MOTHRA (1961). Thinking about ravishing the universe for love
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Next Gay24 is tomorrow 👽100 boyfriends mixtape + tongues untied. always free, all welcome, longplay bar at 7.30, see you there 🖤
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It's fix your hearts or die time
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There is a point past which being patient is just enabling. A lot of cis people want to have constant roundabout conversations about "these issues" because they want to feel like they're good people, not because they want to change anything, and they will bleed you dry for it
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Man I’m sick of having gentle, coaxing conversations with cis people about transphobia. I’m sick of being so patient so consistently and then getting treated like The Reason People Have Understandable Reservations if I ever express an inch of feeling. I’m angry and exhausted
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If anyone's kept abreast of my situation, I'm about to lose roughly 80% of my income. April is cursed, yo.
So! To that end, if anyone wants a kickass narrative or QA mercenary, I'm your lady!
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not too worried about the vape ban. i don't think my close friend and long-time collaborator, big tobacco, is going to let the government do that (preserve my health) to me
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I cannot express the depth of how surreal it feels to experience breakout creative success as a trans woman at a time when it is considered acceptable to call for and perpetrate anti-trans genocide in federal forums.
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Telling everyone at the minimal wave gig about the time I got a noise complaint for gaming too loudly
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Works-In-Progress Night is back! Announcing our 2nd project showcasing in May - 'Cement' by Eva Otsing and Marni Green. Come watch and playtest evolving projects by makers working across the screen industries. Full details/Tickets (free, RSVP essential): acmi.net.au/whats-on/acmi-
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May's WIP night lineup is here!
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Watch, playtest and meet the makers behind exciting projects at the next @acmiXstudio Screen Industry Works-In-Progress Night on Wed 24 May. The showcase will include works by @EffortStarGames, @DuncanCorrigan, Eva Otsing, Marni Green & @PntherArt.
acmi.me/acmixwipmay23
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In order to promote inclusion and diversity in our arts community we’ve decided to ask the worst person you’ve even met to the roundtable
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If Albo's mum were alive today she wouldn't qualify for any support payment because she works more than 60 hours a week as a rhetorical shield for the prime minister of Australia.
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The only important thing a person can do is find the people who make the world feel less lonely and inscrutable and love them forever
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Had a birthday, danced for three days and got the cutest possible late night post-club snap from @lexgallagher for my troubles
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I think what I’m most impressed with is how many strands of creative practice Out of Bounds weaves together: multi screen film, interview, critical play, experimental game dev, social media. Such a good exemplar of how museums could interface w/ commercial screen culture.
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There’s that bit in Contact (1997) where Jodie Foster’s character is travelling into outer space and she says “they should have sent a poet”.
That’s basically what The Grannies is. A bunch of poets went to outer space.
Such an incredible thing to have happen and documented.
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ANDY BROPHY TRICENNIAL🔪
An retrospective, showing 12 games made between ages 12-30 including never-released projects A free event hosted by and
🗓Saturday, April 29 from 6pm
📍Sabbatical Gallery, 141 Victoria Parade Collingwood (not Fitzroy)
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Also if you're in a position of power, you have the ability to create "luck" by running mentorship programs, scholarships, activitly hiring diverse devs, having transparent hiring/award process, taking time to talk to students & emerging devs and much more
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I'm a bit disappointed seeing ppl say that so much of "luck" is privilege, but not giving any useful advice for those without it.
If you're lacking privilege it's even more important to increase the likelihood of good things, or "luck", happening to you
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Once again thinking about “the soft animal of my body needs to cop a filthy root”, thanks for the best line of poetry ever written
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I don't usually like to boast about these kinds of things (how much do they mean, really?) but I am quietly proud to see and its writers + contributors up for a total of 10 nominations at the 2023 Australian IT Journalism Awards.
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Don't forget to submit your work by 5pm, next Tues 18 April. Showcase at our Works-In-Progress night. Share your film, TV, video game or screen art project in the early stages of development to an audience of industry peers at :
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Lionel Fogarty should be a household name. His poetry and activism are thunder. And now his landlord has upped the rent, threatening him with homelessness in his own Country. Help Lionel secure housing:
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Googling “where is inner varnika” ten minutes before leaving for inner varnika
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yesss chad!! 💕
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Screen Australia is pleased to announce that Chad Toprak joined the agency last week in the role of Games Investment Manager! 
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anyway go buy The Exclusion Zone (and write something about it that engages seriously with the contours of the collection's approach to intertextuality)
it's totally brilliant and shastra is a genius
uqp.com.au/books/the-excl
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wish critics would probe knee-jerk reactions like this a bit more deeply -- why does this form of intertextuality bother you so much? have the reaction, fine, but think about why + tell me! feels critically insufficient to be like 'i just liked it less but no big deal i guess'
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SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN. Showcase at our Works-In-Progress night. Share your film, TV, video game or screen art project in the early stages of development to an audience of industry peers at - Applications for May close 5pm Tues 18 April:
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I wrote about ’s Frog Chorus, ’s Idyll, and the hungers we turn to the network to fill
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/games/
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