Bianca Martin
@beeeeonka.bsky.social
PhD candidate at @JCU ➡️ literary #MeToo representations, past
@slqld research fellow, book nerd, zinemaker, cat lady, and animal welfare advocate 🐾🏳️🌈🍉
@slqld research fellow, book nerd, zinemaker, cat lady, and animal welfare advocate 🐾🏳️🌈🍉
love to log onto zoom and my neighbour immediately pulls out the chainsaw
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
love to log onto zoom and my neighbour immediately pulls out the chainsaw
Things were all well and good until I realised it was 2 weeks until we go live. arrrrrrggghhhh!
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Things were all well and good until I realised it was 2 weeks until we go live. arrrrrrggghhhh!
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2 weeks until we go live! Eek! Recognise any book covers? 👀📚
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
2 weeks until we go live! Eek! Recognise any book covers? 👀📚
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A lil sneak peak for what's coming up 👀
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
A lil sneak peak for what's coming up 👀
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
Substack should just start sponsoring me for all the time I've spent going on about it this year
Are you new to Substack? It's a user-friendly and generally easy-to-navigate platform that offers several different ways of interacting with content:
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Substack should just start sponsoring me for all the time I've spent going on about it this year
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Registrations are now open for our (free!) upcoming symposium! 🥳 It will be held on 24th November, running approximately between 10am and 4pm AEDT (Syd/Melb Time). It is shaping up to be a great event full of SUCH interesting research on Reading, Writing, and Publishing in Regional Australia.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Registrations are now open for our (free!) upcoming symposium! 🥳 It will be held on 24th November, running approximately between 10am and 4pm AEDT (Syd/Melb Time). It is shaping up to be a great event full of SUCH interesting research on Reading, Writing, and Publishing in Regional Australia.
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The theme from issue 1 is... exhume! We wanted to contextualise why we chose this particular name. It's so much more than morbid associations!
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The theme from issue 1 is... exhume! We wanted to contextualise why we chose this particular name. It's so much more than morbid associations!
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Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
We made this for us to celebrate queer Indigenous scholarship lies, but it also counters the many non-Indigenous queer and gender studies scholars that tell us that they can’t find the work of any IndigiQueers. Here's a few hundred citations.
queer-as.org/blaqademics/
We made this for us to celebrate queer Indigenous scholarship lies, but it also counters the many non-Indigenous queer and gender studies scholars that tell us that they can’t find the work of any IndigiQueers. Here's a few hundred citations.
queer-as.org/blaqademics/
BlaQademics
A randomly ordered list of Indigiqueer scholars and thinkers that explore queerness, Indigineity, and creative artmaking Across our program we have learned from the powerful work of Indigenous scho…
queer-as.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
We made this for us to celebrate queer Indigenous scholarship lies, but it also counters the many non-Indigenous queer and gender studies scholars that tell us that they can’t find the work of any IndigiQueers. Here's a few hundred citations.
queer-as.org/blaqademics/
We made this for us to celebrate queer Indigenous scholarship lies, but it also counters the many non-Indigenous queer and gender studies scholars that tell us that they can’t find the work of any IndigiQueers. Here's a few hundred citations.
queer-as.org/blaqademics/
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Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info
queer-as.org
Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info
queer-as.org
Queer As...
Exploring Queer Indigenous Creativity
queer-as.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info
queer-as.org
Our new QUEER AS… website
Exploring queer Indigenous creativity.
With:
Blaqademics/Indigiqueers
Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up).
Indigenous Creatives
Queer Museums
Queer Tv - deep dive
Our pubs and info
queer-as.org
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Head to exhume.substack.com and subscribe so you don't miss issue one!
We will start posting 10 great pieces of Australian literary criticism by HDRs and ECRs starting 2 December.
@beeeeonka.bsky.social
and I are so excited to see this project come to life! ☺️
We will start posting 10 great pieces of Australian literary criticism by HDRs and ECRs starting 2 December.
@beeeeonka.bsky.social
and I are so excited to see this project come to life! ☺️
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Head to exhume.substack.com and subscribe so you don't miss issue one!
We will start posting 10 great pieces of Australian literary criticism by HDRs and ECRs starting 2 December.
@beeeeonka.bsky.social
and I are so excited to see this project come to life! ☺️
We will start posting 10 great pieces of Australian literary criticism by HDRs and ECRs starting 2 December.
@beeeeonka.bsky.social
and I are so excited to see this project come to life! ☺️
I've been working on this project with @johannawiggers.bsky.social for months and I'm bursting with excitement that it's all coming together!!!!
✏️🗓️ Mark it in your calendars! Issue 1 of Exhume is officially launching on December 2.
November 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I've been working on this project with @johannawiggers.bsky.social for months and I'm bursting with excitement that it's all coming together!!!!
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✏️🗓️ Mark it in your calendars! Issue 1 of Exhume is officially launching on December 2.
November 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
✏️🗓️ Mark it in your calendars! Issue 1 of Exhume is officially launching on December 2.
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PSA: Gambling is not a sport
November 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
PSA: Gambling is not a sport
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Submissions are now open until 30th November for a New Year's Eve release. We can't wait to see your work! 💖
#subsopen #submissionsopen #litmag #literarymag #litmag #poems #stories #art #strangedazemag #strangedaze #nye
#subsopen #submissionsopen #litmag #literarymag #litmag #poems #stories #art #strangedazemag #strangedaze #nye
November 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Submissions are now open until 30th November for a New Year's Eve release. We can't wait to see your work! 💖
#subsopen #submissionsopen #litmag #literarymag #litmag #poems #stories #art #strangedazemag #strangedaze #nye
#subsopen #submissionsopen #litmag #literarymag #litmag #poems #stories #art #strangedazemag #strangedaze #nye
Finally, I log on to see some Good News
Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and move out of Royal Lodge
Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and move out of Royal Lodge
King’s brother will surrender lease and become known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace says
Prince Andrew is to leave his home at Royal Lodge in Windsor after he was served with a formal notice to surrender the lease, Buckingham Palace has said.
King Charles has initiated a “formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours of Prince Andrew”, who will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the palace said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Finally, I log on to see some Good News
absolutely loving this podcast series
ICYMI: Nigel Featherstone discusses the raw and honest 1990s memoir that became a beloved local queer classic in our latest podcast episode. Queer Critics is hosted by @rebeccastarford.bsky.social. Listen now: apple.co/4qpc91O
October 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
absolutely loving this podcast series
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ICYMI: Nigel Featherstone discusses the raw and honest 1990s memoir that became a beloved local queer classic in our latest podcast episode. Queer Critics is hosted by @rebeccastarford.bsky.social. Listen now: apple.co/4qpc91O
October 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
ICYMI: Nigel Featherstone discusses the raw and honest 1990s memoir that became a beloved local queer classic in our latest podcast episode. Queer Critics is hosted by @rebeccastarford.bsky.social. Listen now: apple.co/4qpc91O
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Just three Aboriginal writers appeared in Radio National’s poll. There was little sense of the breadth and creativity of our First Nations writing scene.
The ABC’s Top 100 books poll lacks diversity. Here are my 10 First Nations ‘books of the 21st century’
theconversation.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Just three Aboriginal writers appeared in Radio National’s poll. There was little sense of the breadth and creativity of our First Nations writing scene.
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Israel has killed nearly 100 Palestinians and wounded at least 230 since the 'ceasefire' went into effect on October 10.
October 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Israel has killed nearly 100 Palestinians and wounded at least 230 since the 'ceasefire' went into effect on October 10.
anyone here good with (Australian) copyright law that I can pick your brains?
October 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
anyone here good with (Australian) copyright law that I can pick your brains?
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“On any given day we could be spooning in bed
archival as ammonite”
Our latest #fridaypoem is SPIRALS EXIST IN NATURE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE by Rae White. overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...
archival as ammonite”
Our latest #fridaypoem is SPIRALS EXIST IN NATURE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE by Rae White. overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...
Spirals exist in nature and have always been here - Overland literary journal
On any given day they could be trying to legislate / that you’re not a woman. / On any given day we could be spooning in bed / archival as ammonite / the cats mirrored as new fern’s Fibonacci beside us.
overland.org.au
October 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
“On any given day we could be spooning in bed
archival as ammonite”
Our latest #fridaypoem is SPIRALS EXIST IN NATURE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE by Rae White. overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...
archival as ammonite”
Our latest #fridaypoem is SPIRALS EXIST IN NATURE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE by Rae White. overland.org.au/2025/10/spir...
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What was it like to be an Australian gay man in the 1930s and 40s? This week @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social joins @rebeccastarford.bsky.social on the podcast to talk about a fictional insight into the Sydney queer scene and one man's lifelong journey to love.
bit.ly/47bJK6K
bit.ly/47bJK6K
It’s Never Too Late To Come Out: Sumner Locke Elliott’s Fairyland
Episode 4 of the Queer Critics Podcast with Sam Twyford-Moore
bit.ly
October 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
What was it like to be an Australian gay man in the 1930s and 40s? This week @samtwyfordmoore.bsky.social joins @rebeccastarford.bsky.social on the podcast to talk about a fictional insight into the Sydney queer scene and one man's lifelong journey to love.
bit.ly/47bJK6K
bit.ly/47bJK6K
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I’ll be hosting a zine workshop at the 2025 SEQ Queer Writers Festival this year on Saturday 15 November! 🥳🎉🌈
This workshop will give participants an understanding of zines and zine culture, as well as the tools they need to start working on a small zine on a topic of their choice.
This workshop will give participants an understanding of zines and zine culture, as well as the tools they need to start working on a small zine on a topic of their choice.
October 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I’ll be hosting a zine workshop at the 2025 SEQ Queer Writers Festival this year on Saturday 15 November! 🥳🎉🌈
This workshop will give participants an understanding of zines and zine culture, as well as the tools they need to start working on a small zine on a topic of their choice.
This workshop will give participants an understanding of zines and zine culture, as well as the tools they need to start working on a small zine on a topic of their choice.
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‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy and powerful men, and how everyone knew what was going on
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother