Bianca Martin
@beeeeonka.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at @JCU ➡️ literary #MeToo representations, past @slqld research fellow, book nerd, zinemaker, cat lady, and animal welfare advocate 🐾🏳️‍🌈🍉
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beeeeonka.bsky.social
I am honestly so sick of seeing the wide embrace of generative AI as an "inevitability" without even a sniff of discussion about any of the horrible things about it.
beeeeonka.bsky.social
still hold onto the Other App for some reason, bashed AI on it yesterday (in a way that actually felt very subdued compared to other things I've said on that app), and now I can't log on
beeeeonka.bsky.social
go check this out! first issue of a great new lit mag!
strangedazemag.bsky.social
Issue 1 is now live! 🎉

Putting together this inaugural issue has been a huge labour of love & we're excited for you to read the amazing pieces by the contributors!

Download for free below. Plain text also available.

#strangedazemag #strangedaze #literarymag #litmag #onlinemag #poetry #writers
Strange Daze - Issue 1 by Strange Daze Magazine
inaugural issue of a lit mag inspired by daydreams and nostalgia
strangedazemag.itch.io
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strangedazemag.bsky.social
Issue 1 is now live! 🎉

Putting together this inaugural issue has been a huge labour of love & we're excited for you to read the amazing pieces by the contributors!

Download for free below. Plain text also available.

#strangedazemag #strangedaze #literarymag #litmag #onlinemag #poetry #writers
Strange Daze - Issue 1 by Strange Daze Magazine
inaugural issue of a lit mag inspired by daydreams and nostalgia
strangedazemag.itch.io
beeeeonka.bsky.social
I get sent SO MANY recommendations for books/tv/movies that contain sexual violence but nobody sent me this article?! Anyway go read this and check out all of these books.
aunz.theconversation.com
📚 Sad Tiger and Trauma Plot are two stunning memoirs by rape survivors who immerse themselves in art and literature. They both transcend ‘art as therapy’.
Friday essay: trauma memoirs can help us understand the unthinkable. They can also be art
theconversation.com
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womenshistnet.bsky.social
We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:
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jcucase.bsky.social
Have a listen to this Public Seminar by Dr Mykaela Saunders, University of Sydney, supported by JCU’s Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing.
youtu.be/2mJBfBGnD5g
Stories Accumulate Like Time: First Nations Speculative Fiction
YouTube video by JCU: James Cook University, Australia
youtu.be
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overlandjournal.bsky.social
“If we’ve learned anything from the recent slew of Zionist attacks on culture in Australia, it’s that institutions — mainly universities — are often a poisoned chalice for writers and editors.”

Deputy editor Eli McLean on the closure of MEANJIN.
“No Guernicas, no sacred places”: On the closure of Meanjin - Overland literary journal
Australia’s literary culture depends for its life on its journals. Literary journals are not just clearing houses for pithy snatches of commentary and readable middlebrow fiction — they’re incubators ...
overland.org.au
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beeeeonka.bsky.social
Trying hard not to let this top 100 books of the past 25 years voting take over my life but the pressure is real
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dranitaheiss.bsky.social
Voting is officially OPEN for Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century!

Select up to 10 of your favourite books published between 1 January 2000 and 31 August 2025

Vote now! top100books.abc.net.au

@austlit.bsky.social
Top 100 Books of the 21st Century | Vote now
Vote now in Radio National's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
top100books.abc.net.au
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nordacious.bsky.social
Unless you're First Nations, you're a descendant of immigrants. No gatekeeping on stolen land 🖤💛❤️
A bold, lino-cut style protest illustration on a bright yellow background. At the top, black hand-lettered text reads “UNLESS YOU’RE FIRST NATIONS,” above the head of an indignant black koala with yellow accents, staring directly forward and raising its middle finger. Below, more hand-lettered text reads “YOU’RE A DESCENDANT OF IMMIGRANTS. NO GATEKEEPING ON STOLEN LAND.” The word “STOLEN” is in red for emphasis.
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aunz.theconversation.com
Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.
Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer
theconversation.com
beeeeonka.bsky.social
I feel like I'm going to need to have a quiet lie down in a dark room with soothing music playing soon
beeeeonka.bsky.social
Woke up in an absolutely foul mood today and just remembered I spent too many hours last night down a j*ffrey e*stein rabbit hole