Dominic Wexler
@dominicwexler.bsky.social
🖋 || Reader at Aôthen Magazine || PEN Sydney || Thoughts my own || https://dominicwexler.substack.com/
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✒️ For all of you writers out there, PEN International's Day of the Imprisoned Writer began Nov 15. Support writers in need.
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#DayoftheImprisonedWriter #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
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#DayoftheImprisonedWriter #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
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News | Law change enabling restitution on moral grounds comes into force this month
But national museums to be excluded from new rules that simplify ‘ex-gratia’ payments
But national museums to be excluded from new rules that simplify ‘ex-gratia’ payments
Law change enabling restitution on moral grounds comes into force this month - Museums Association
But national museums to be excluded from new rules that simplify ‘ex-gratia’ payments
www.museumsassociation.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
News | Law change enabling restitution on moral grounds comes into force this month
But national museums to be excluded from new rules that simplify ‘ex-gratia’ payments
But national museums to be excluded from new rules that simplify ‘ex-gratia’ payments
Let’s gooooooooo!
✨ SUBMISSIONS OPEN TOMORROW ✨
Submissions for Issue 10 open tomorrow for two weeks only! We accept work on or about the Ancient Mediterranean. For more information and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). Get those subs ready! 🏛️🏺🤎
Submissions for Issue 10 open tomorrow for two weeks only! We accept work on or about the Ancient Mediterranean. For more information and to submit, please visit our website (link in bio). Get those subs ready! 🏛️🏺🤎
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Let’s gooooooooo!
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#Australia #Thailand #Malaysia: We join PEN Centres in condemning Malaysia’s attempt to silence writer Murray Hunter through transnational criminal defamation, and urge Foreign Minister Penny Wong to intervene.
Read our joint letter ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/austral...
Read our joint letter ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/austral...
Australia–Malaysia–Thailand: PEN Centres urge action as writer Murray Hunter faces transnational repression — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
27 November 2025: PEN International, PEN Melbourne, PEN Perth and PEN Sydney called on Australian Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong to urgently intervene in the case of writer Murray Hunter. In a jo...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
#Australia #Thailand #Malaysia: We join PEN Centres in condemning Malaysia’s attempt to silence writer Murray Hunter through transnational criminal defamation, and urge Foreign Minister Penny Wong to intervene.
Read our joint letter ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/austral...
Read our joint letter ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/austral...
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Black Friday may give you 50% off, but Give Back Friday lets you give 100% hope. Skip the extra gadget and help protect writers. Donate to PEN International — because free expression shouldn’t be a luxury item 👉 www.justgiving.com/charity/pen-...
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Black Friday may give you 50% off, but Give Back Friday lets you give 100% hope. Skip the extra gadget and help protect writers. Donate to PEN International — because free expression shouldn’t be a luxury item 👉 www.justgiving.com/charity/pen-...
✒️ PEN Sydney would like to thank all those who attended Sunday’s illuminating conversation between Benjamin Law and Cheng Lei, marking 2025’s #DayoftheImprisonedWriter.
We would also like to thank Gleebooks for hosting and making the event possible.
We would also like to thank Gleebooks for hosting and making the event possible.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
#Thailand: We join PEN #Malaysia in expressing our alarm over the Malaysian government's targeting of Murray Hunter in an act of transnational repression. We call for the complaints against him to be withdrawn immediately.
Read our joint statement 🔽 www.pen-international.org/news/malaysi...
Read our joint statement 🔽 www.pen-international.org/news/malaysi...
Malaysia-Thailand: Australian writer Murray Hunter targeted in act of transnational repression — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
‘ As the current ASEAN Chair, the Malaysian government has a responsibility to demonstrate its commitment to human rights, including the right to freedom of expression, across the region. Instead, it ...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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📢 #DayoftheImprisonedWriter is here!
From 15 Nov to 10 Dec, we’ll spotlight four writers jailed for their words and call for their release. Join us in defending freedom of expression everywhere.
#RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
From 15 Nov to 10 Dec, we’ll spotlight four writers jailed for their words and call for their release. Join us in defending freedom of expression everywhere.
#RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
📢 #DayoftheImprisonedWriter is here!
From 15 Nov to 10 Dec, we’ll spotlight four writers jailed for their words and call for their release. Join us in defending freedom of expression everywhere.
#RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
From 15 Nov to 10 Dec, we’ll spotlight four writers jailed for their words and call for their release. Join us in defending freedom of expression everywhere.
#RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
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✍️ Algerian poet #MohamedTadjadit — the voice of the Hirak movement — is in prison just for speaking truth to power.
Join PEN International in demanding his immediate
and unconditional release.
📋 TAKE ACTION: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
Join PEN International in demanding his immediate
and unconditional release.
📋 TAKE ACTION: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
✍️ Algerian poet #MohamedTadjadit — the voice of the Hirak movement — is in prison just for speaking truth to power.
Join PEN International in demanding his immediate
and unconditional release.
📋 TAKE ACTION: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
Join PEN International in demanding his immediate
and unconditional release.
📋 TAKE ACTION: www.pen-international.org/mohamed-tadj...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
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✍️ Journalist #MziaAmaglobeli is imprisoned in Georgia on politically motivated grounds.
We call for her immediate release, a fair trial, and full accountability for police
abuse.
📋 Take action with us. Click the link in our bio.
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
We call for her immediate release, a fair trial, and full accountability for police
abuse.
📋 Take action with us. Click the link in our bio.
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
✍️ Journalist #MziaAmaglobeli is imprisoned in Georgia on politically motivated grounds.
We call for her immediate release, a fair trial, and full accountability for police
abuse.
📋 Take action with us. Click the link in our bio.
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
We call for her immediate release, a fair trial, and full accountability for police
abuse.
📋 Take action with us. Click the link in our bio.
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
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" Add your voice. Speak up. Let us rewrite the story of the future together." Join British actor and activist Khalid Abdalla in showing solidarity with imprisoned writers and standing up for freedom of expression: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
November 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
" Add your voice. Speak up. Let us rewrite the story of the future together." Join British actor and activist Khalid Abdalla in showing solidarity with imprisoned writers and standing up for freedom of expression: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
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✍️ SIGN OUR PETITION: www.pen-international.org/yalqun-rozi-...
Uyghur writer #YalqunRozi has spent 9 years behind bars in China for expressing his cultural identity. Sentenced to 15 years, his only “crime” was helping preserve the Uyghur language.
You can set him free.
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
Uyghur writer #YalqunRozi has spent 9 years behind bars in China for expressing his cultural identity. Sentenced to 15 years, his only “crime” was helping preserve the Uyghur language.
You can set him free.
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
Yalqun Rozi — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
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November 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
✍️ SIGN OUR PETITION: www.pen-international.org/yalqun-rozi-...
Uyghur writer #YalqunRozi has spent 9 years behind bars in China for expressing his cultural identity. Sentenced to 15 years, his only “crime” was helping preserve the Uyghur language.
You can set him free.
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
Uyghur writer #YalqunRozi has spent 9 years behind bars in China for expressing his cultural identity. Sentenced to 15 years, his only “crime” was helping preserve the Uyghur language.
You can set him free.
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter
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✍️ SIGN OUR PETITION: He told the truth. They silenced him.
Rory Branker has been disappeared and detained in Venezuela for doing his job as a journalist.
📋 Add your name to set him free — journalism is not a crime:
www.pen-international.org/rory-branker...
#RoryBranker #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
Rory Branker has been disappeared and detained in Venezuela for doing his job as a journalist.
📋 Add your name to set him free — journalism is not a crime:
www.pen-international.org/rory-branker...
#RoryBranker #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
✍️ SIGN OUR PETITION: He told the truth. They silenced him.
Rory Branker has been disappeared and detained in Venezuela for doing his job as a journalist.
📋 Add your name to set him free — journalism is not a crime:
www.pen-international.org/rory-branker...
#RoryBranker #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
Rory Branker has been disappeared and detained in Venezuela for doing his job as a journalist.
📋 Add your name to set him free — journalism is not a crime:
www.pen-international.org/rory-branker...
#RoryBranker #DayoftheImprisonedWriter
✒️ For all of you writers out there, PEN International's Day of the Imprisoned Writer began Nov 15. Support writers in need.
🔗: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
@peninternational.bsky.social
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
🔗: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
@peninternational.bsky.social
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
November 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
✒️ For all of you writers out there, PEN International's Day of the Imprisoned Writer began Nov 15. Support writers in need.
🔗: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
@peninternational.bsky.social
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
🔗: www.pen-international.org/our-campaign...
@peninternational.bsky.social
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
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Reputation Lost: The Duveen Cleaning Scandal.
Against reunification, retentionists appeal to the British Museum's storied commitment to preserving the Parthenon Marbles. In reality, it's a fiction. Their record is disqualifying. @dominicwexler.bsky.social dominicwexler.substack.com/p/a-reputati...
Against reunification, retentionists appeal to the British Museum's storied commitment to preserving the Parthenon Marbles. In reality, it's a fiction. Their record is disqualifying. @dominicwexler.bsky.social dominicwexler.substack.com/p/a-reputati...
A Reputation Lost: The Duveen Cleaning Scandal.
Against reunification, retentionists appeal to the British Museum's storied commitment to preserving the Parthenon Marbles. In reality, it's a fiction. Their record is disqualifying.
dominicwexler.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reputation Lost: The Duveen Cleaning Scandal.
Against reunification, retentionists appeal to the British Museum's storied commitment to preserving the Parthenon Marbles. In reality, it's a fiction. Their record is disqualifying. @dominicwexler.bsky.social dominicwexler.substack.com/p/a-reputati...
Against reunification, retentionists appeal to the British Museum's storied commitment to preserving the Parthenon Marbles. In reality, it's a fiction. Their record is disqualifying. @dominicwexler.bsky.social dominicwexler.substack.com/p/a-reputati...
✒️ Latest essay on the Parthenon Marbles is out! 🏛️
I discuss the Duveen Cleaning Scandal and why the argument that the British Museum is a competent preserver of Parthenon Marbles is a fiction.
#reunitetheparthenonmarbles
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I discuss the Duveen Cleaning Scandal and why the argument that the British Museum is a competent preserver of Parthenon Marbles is a fiction.
#reunitetheparthenonmarbles
dominicwexler.substack.com/p/a-reputati...
A Reputation Lost: The Duveen Cleaning Scandal.
Against reunification, retentionists appeal to the British Museum's storied commitment to preserving the Parthenon Marbles. In reality, it's a fiction. Their record is disqualifying.
dominicwexler.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
✒️ Latest essay on the Parthenon Marbles is out! 🏛️
I discuss the Duveen Cleaning Scandal and why the argument that the British Museum is a competent preserver of Parthenon Marbles is a fiction.
#reunitetheparthenonmarbles
dominicwexler.substack.com/p/a-reputati...
I discuss the Duveen Cleaning Scandal and why the argument that the British Museum is a competent preserver of Parthenon Marbles is a fiction.
#reunitetheparthenonmarbles
dominicwexler.substack.com/p/a-reputati...
#DayoftheImprisonedWriter is nearly here! From 15 Nov–10 Dec, we’ll highlight four writers jailed for speaking out: Rory Branker, Yalqun Rozi, Mohamed Tadjadit and Mzia Amaglobeli. Join us to call for their release! #DayoftheImprisonedWriter #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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📢 November 15 marks the annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer.
🗓️ PEN Sydney is hosting an event to mark the day on November 23rd at Gleebooks.
🎟️ For tickets: gleebooks.com.au/product/chen...
@peninternational.bsky.social
#auspol #writers #sydney #australia
🗓️ PEN Sydney is hosting an event to mark the day on November 23rd at Gleebooks.
🎟️ For tickets: gleebooks.com.au/product/chen...
@peninternational.bsky.social
#auspol #writers #sydney #australia
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
📢 November 15 marks the annual Day of the Imprisoned Writer.
🗓️ PEN Sydney is hosting an event to mark the day on November 23rd at Gleebooks.
🎟️ For tickets: gleebooks.com.au/product/chen...
@peninternational.bsky.social
#auspol #writers #sydney #australia
🗓️ PEN Sydney is hosting an event to mark the day on November 23rd at Gleebooks.
🎟️ For tickets: gleebooks.com.au/product/chen...
@peninternational.bsky.social
#auspol #writers #sydney #australia
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November 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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#Iran 🇮🇷 ✒️ Read Leila Sadeghi's personal story of detention in Iran on our website. Free.
🔗: pen.org.au/detention-of...
#freespeech #literature #writers
🔗: pen.org.au/detention-of...
#freespeech #literature #writers
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
#Iran 🇮🇷 ✒️ Read Leila Sadeghi's personal story of detention in Iran on our website. Free.
🔗: pen.org.au/detention-of...
#freespeech #literature #writers
🔗: pen.org.au/detention-of...
#freespeech #literature #writers
✒️ In August I asked my friend and @aothenmagazine.bsky.social colleague @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social some questions about her life in the academy and the role of academics in American society.
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#university #academics #phd #gradschool #writing #politics
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#university #academics #phd #gradschool #writing #politics
Interview With An Academic: Kaitlin Smith.
I recently interviewed Kaitlin Smith, a PhD student at UNC, about her personal experience in the academy and the role of universities in contemporary America.
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October 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
✒️ In August I asked my friend and @aothenmagazine.bsky.social colleague @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social some questions about her life in the academy and the role of academics in American society.
dominicwexler.substack.com/p/interview-...
#university #academics #phd #gradschool #writing #politics
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#university #academics #phd #gradschool #writing #politics
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New spotlight on Tomorrow Club is live, amplifying young voices across Asia until the new year.
Over 30 bright young names from 20 countries joined up with inspiring stories, in truth and fiction, opening personal windows into a diverse range of contexts and experiences around the region ⬇️
Over 30 bright young names from 20 countries joined up with inspiring stories, in truth and fiction, opening personal windows into a diverse range of contexts and experiences around the region ⬇️
Spotlight: Asia
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October 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
New spotlight on Tomorrow Club is live, amplifying young voices across Asia until the new year.
Over 30 bright young names from 20 countries joined up with inspiring stories, in truth and fiction, opening personal windows into a diverse range of contexts and experiences around the region ⬇️
Over 30 bright young names from 20 countries joined up with inspiring stories, in truth and fiction, opening personal windows into a diverse range of contexts and experiences around the region ⬇️
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Bertolt Brecht was a German poet and playwright who made significant contributions to aesthetic and cinematic theory. From a young age, he was critical of war. 🖋️
#writer #writing #writerquotes #writerscommunity
📸: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-W0409-300 / Kolbe, Jörg / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
#writer #writing #writerquotes #writerscommunity
📸: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-W0409-300 / Kolbe, Jörg / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Bertolt Brecht was a German poet and playwright who made significant contributions to aesthetic and cinematic theory. From a young age, he was critical of war. 🖋️
#writer #writing #writerquotes #writerscommunity
📸: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-W0409-300 / Kolbe, Jörg / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
#writer #writing #writerquotes #writerscommunity
📸: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-W0409-300 / Kolbe, Jörg / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
✒️ Although a monarchist, Bagehot's 1867 The English Constitution is a necessary text for all republicans, exposing monarchy's degrading effect on society.
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#monarchy #kingcharles #republic #politics #auspol
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#monarchy #kingcharles #republic #politics #auspol
A Monarchist Against Monarchy: Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution
In 1867, Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution critically examined England's system of government. Although a monarchist, Bagehot exposed the ugly truths inherent in monarchism.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
✒️ Although a monarchist, Bagehot's 1867 The English Constitution is a necessary text for all republicans, exposing monarchy's degrading effect on society.
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#monarchy #kingcharles #republic #politics #auspol
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#monarchy #kingcharles #republic #politics #auspol
✒️ Friedrich Nietzsche is everyone’s favourite aphorist. But read as a whole, the German writer lauds a sinister ideal: the Übermensch.
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#philosophy #philosophers #nietzsche
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#philosophy #philosophers #nietzsche
Say No To Nietzsche.
Friedrich Nietzsche is everyone’s favourite aphorist. But read as a whole, the German writer lauds a sinister ideal: the Übermensch.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
✒️ Friedrich Nietzsche is everyone’s favourite aphorist. But read as a whole, the German writer lauds a sinister ideal: the Übermensch.
dominicwexler.substack.com/p/say-no-to-...
#philosophy #philosophers #nietzsche
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#philosophy #philosophers #nietzsche