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round 2 launch —> here: facebook.com/events/s/sick-

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round 2 —> soon

we're excited to bring you an interview three years in the making—

@mlchaelsun

in conversation with

@clairexinwen

🍄 liminalmag.com/interviews/mic

Now we're talking

Download the browser plug-in that unplugs the fanfare and coverage surrounding the royal coronation. Pīkari Mai lets people put down the pōtae, by replacing royal gossip with indigenous news.

Logged toff: Māori artist’s web plugin replaces king’s coronation with Indigenous news

theguardian.com

Logged toff: Māori artist’s web plugin replaces king’s coronation with Indigenous news

Hāmiora Bailey says wall to wall Charles III coverage is unappealing to Indigenous people and has devised a solution

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May 4

A 2nd launch in the same week? Hard to believe. But we'll also be launching the new

@debris_mag

on 21/05 1PM at the Art Book Fair

, w/ readings from

. I'd make both launches if I were you. More here: artbookfair.melbourne/events/the-urg

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May 3

The new issue of @debris_mag (eds me & @PaperRadio) will be launching in exactly 2 weeks! 6PM at The Alderman, with readings by @wetdirt2008 @madisonpawle & Lucy Van *plus* a special appearance from @ayg_ayg_. See you there

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May 4

Wow was The Whale (2022) made by Tommy Wiseau with literary pretensions or wut

I am happy to share the recording of our first #RadicalAntiRacismToday seminar with

and

on 'Fractured'

(apologies for gallery view recording and other errors - we will do better next time!) vimeo.com/822599383/7013

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@alanalentin

Mar 1

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I am delighted to announce the 2023 @westernsydneyu Culture & Society online seminar series supported by @westsyduics ‘RADICAL ANTIRACISM TODAY: New Books in Abolitionist, Anticolonial, Internationalist Antiracism’. See the thread for more details and how to register

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Submit to the First Nations edition of

@Meanjin

that

@bridgetblou

and I are co-editing! We would love to hear from you and read your words <3 Details below.

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Bridget Caldwell-Bright

@bridgetblou

Submissions are now open for the First Nations edition of @Meanjin! Co-edited by @FlyinGenie1 and myself, we welcome submissions across fiction, essay, memoir and experimental genres. Please get in touch with any questions. More info here: meanjin.com.au/blog/contribut

AI translation is jeopardizing Afghan asylum claims

May 3

PS there will be another launch on the 21st if you can't make this one (although I will say: why not both?), with a different lineup of readers. More details soon 😀

The new issue of

(eds me &

) will be launching in exactly 2 weeks! 6PM at The Alderman, with readings by

@wetdirt2008

@madisonpawle

& Lucy Van *plus* a special appearance from

. See you there 🫡

Lmfao Paul Lafargue had no idea in 1883

For Afghan asylum seekers who speak Pashto and Dari shoddy machine translations are one more bureaucratic hurdle. Errors introduced by the technology have led to the rejected claim of at least one refugee in the U.S. My latest for

@restofworld

restofworld.org

Cost-cutting translations are introducing errors and putting refugees at risk.

'Dawn Fraser, golden girl swimmer, was once a larrikin. Now she tells Kyrgios to go back to where he came from.' Ender Başkan responds to Elese Dowden's review of Gareth Morgan.

overland.org.au

Poetry can already be free - Overland literary journal

There’s a regime of logic that we can call Australia, that we can say on many fronts is also a fiction. Any poem that meets Australia within its logic, taking it at face value, will be boring and it...

This is going to print in the next couple of days, then it launches in 2 weeks! May 17—put that in your calendar for now 🤗

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DEBRIS Magazine

@debris_mag

Debris Magazine 03: The Urge to Know Co-edited by @mxcreant and @PaperRadio Cover photo: Cherine Fahd Design: Zenobia Ahmed Launching May 17th / more soon Generously supported by @MerribekCouncil @YarraCouncil

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Debris Magazine 03: The Urge to Know Co-edited by

Asia’s May Day: Tradition and Renewal

and

@PaperRadio

Cover photo: Cherine Fahd Design: Zenobia Ahmed Launching May 17th / more soon Generously supported by

May Day has a long and tortured history in Asia dating back to the early 1900s. While honoring this history, May Day should also be a day of renewal. We present fragments of May Day history, and the aspirations of today’s labor movements across Asia.

labourreview.org

Editor’s Note: May Day has a long and tortured history in Asia dating back to the early 1900s that reflects the fortunes of the working class movements. It was born out of, mobilized against, and...

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Cleveland Review of Books

@clereviewbooks

Feb 28

Against this backdrop, it was only a matter of time before the gospel of flat design spread to the publishing industry. But what does “frictionless experience” look like in book form?

@prestondegarmo

on novels that resemble tweets

clereviewofbooks.com

It’s Not Delivery: Against Frictionless Fiction — Cleveland Review of Books

Everywhere we look, we see evidence of time’s scarcity.

Asian instant food > any other instant food. Don't @ me

Modernist (derogatory)

The five books our critics couldn't put down last month

April book pick reveal

@ABCArts

~~~~~~~ it's Percival Everett's DR NO, which I've been anticipating since I discovered his work & began going through his bibliography. I laughed a lot!

abc.net.au

Our favourite new reads include a playful anti-thriller, the latest from a Booker winner, and a book that questions if we can still enjoy the art of bad people.

Apr 30

Gen X cusp millennials are like “let me get home and look at my diary, ttyl”

Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk

Apr 29

“Sourceland” is so funny. Like people are products, part of the trade route. I’m sending the cargo to its sourceland

are putting together a summer fiction in translation issue--translators, agents, editors, pitch us! editors@thedial.world

It’s been exactly six months since Elon Musk took over Twitter, promising a new era of free speech. But Twitter’s self-reported data shows that, under Musk, the company has complied with hundreds more government orders for censorship or surveillance

restofworld.org

The company has not refused a single request since Musk took ownership, according to self-reported data.

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Bridget Caldwell-Bright

@bridgetblou

Submissions are now open for the First Nations edition of

@Meanjin

! Co-edited by

@FlyinGenie1

and myself, we welcome submissions across fiction, essay, memoir and experimental genres. Please get in touch with any questions. More info here:

SUBMISSIONS OPEN for Meanjin 82.3 Spring 2023: First Nations edition Meanjin welcomes submissions by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers Meanjin is proud to welcome Eugenia Flynn and Brid…

Writing for Meanjin

I got a chance to write about Jen Craig's Wall for Meanjin - please check it out! Huge thanks as always to

for commissioning and publishing me

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.@CallMeSipo on Jen Craig's WALL "[...] the book is full of clutter, arranged into a meticulously complex edifice demanding full attention from the reader." meanjin.com.au/review/slow-li

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Rosie Ofori Ward on Shirley Le's FUNNY ETHNICS "Much like an experience Sylvia undergoes, where a tutor claims a review she writes for a university journalism assignment lacks objectivity and ‘centred her biases’, my reading experience is also biased."

Reviewed: Funny Ethnics, Shirley Le, Affirm Shirley Le’s debut novel, Funny Ethnics, follows Sylvia Nguyen, the only child of Vietnamese refugee parents in an off-beat and comical coming-of-…

Growing Up in Yagoona

on Jen Craig's WALL "[...] the book is full of clutter, arranged into a meticulously complex edifice demanding full attention from the reader."

Reviewed: Wall, Jen Craig, Puncher & Wattmann Jen Craig’s new novel, Wall, is a powerful exploration of an artist’s need to explain herself and to be understood by herself and others. Wr…

Slow Literature

As we scratch off another month on ye olde calendar, here are two online book reviews for April. You know the drill!

We’re excited to launch a new series of online reviews, edited by Cher Tan. You’ll find the first offerings below—watch this space for more excellent content soon. Reviewed: Funn…

Online Reviews: April

Kinda funny when you find an article about your own website interestingengineering.com/culture/websit #buildinpublic

interestingengineering.com

This website offers you a random airport every time you visit

If you love all things aviation, and have a few spare minutes everyday, we bet you'll love to add this random airport generator website.

More transnational solidarity in art that interrogates colonial power, please! I reviewed the stunning Okkoota ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ group show that's just wrapped at

@artshousemelb

, for

@hyperallergic

hyperallergic.com

Working Toward a Politics of Borderlessness

Artists in Australia and South Asia highlight the atrocities of caste-based discrimination and make a statement against colonial power.

If you're outraged by Penny Wong allying herself with Israel, the best thing you can do is show up to the upcoming Nakba Day rallies - commemorating 75 years of Palestinian dispossession. Let's make these the biggest Palestine rallies ever. Check replies for your local rally.

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How pathetic is it to be at the mercy of the clock while in therapy

Do you live or work in the City of Melbourne? Care about harm prevention in the city? Participate in the following consult about establishing a Medically Supervised Injecting Service in our CBD. It takes about 10 minutes. engage.vic.gov.au/msishaveyoursay