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If you’re queer or LGBTQIA+ and pro-Palestinian, chances are you’ve been hit with the phrase ‘you’d be killed for being gay in Palestine’ or something similar. This is an example of pinkwashing. According to DecolonizePalestine, Pinkwashing ‘refers to when a state or organization appeals to LGBTQ+ rights in order to deflect attention from its harmful […]
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Erasing Palestine – Rebecca Ruth Gould (2023) [Non-fiction] ‘Our silence is complicity. This complicity also silences Palestinians, keeping their experiences hidden from public view.’ Rebecca Ruth Gould’s Erasing Palestine is a well-researched exploration of free speech and the struggle for Palestinian freedom. Not only does it describe Gould’s experience in being accused of antisemitism for […]
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Good and honest disability representation can be hard to come by. I often wake up in cold sweats remembering Sia’s 2021 Autistic masterpiece Music (note the sarcasm). Misrepresentation of disabled people in media is often caused by a lack of understanding or demonisation of disability. As a disabled bibliophile, I had almost given up finding […]
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Generative AI has been a hot topic, with many conversations about how it is impacting different communities. A recent example is the generators that power the supercomputers (named Colossus) that train Grok, Twitter’s AI bot, and how they’re slowly poisoning a small, historically Black community in South Memphis, Tennessee called Boxtown. What is happening in […]
Continue ReadingBut I don’t know any ‘healthy’ person that wouldn’t BUCKLE, trying to JUGGLE the appointments, the MEDICATIONS, the societal EXPECTATIONS that we are forced to CONQUER. They say that our experiences make us STRONGER… but being queer, being disabled, being anything other than a rich white man is a death sentence. We are supposed to […]
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1 2 3 4 5 six 7 Door closed, window closed, fan on. Check wardrobes to make sure nobody is inside. Close wardrobe doors. Check wardrobe doors are closed. Check again. Double check. Are you even trying? Check again. 1 2 3 4 5 six 7 Turn desk chair so it isn’t facing you. Check […]
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Fanfiction is an integral part of any fandom, including the God fandom. For centuries, people have been writing literature and poetry inspired by their favourite book, the Bible, but do they count as fanfiction? In its simplest definition, fanfictions are stories created by fans about existing media. Typically, fanfiction authors use the same plot, lore, […]
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Little dots suspended in the air with wire- Is this the multiverse? If so, which one is ours? The section of strings without dots- Are those universes yet to be made? Shadows of dots on the wall- Are they the ghosts of dead universes? How long will it take for us to see their deaths? […]
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There are over 90,000 wild horses and burros in the United States of America, and right now, they’re at risk. In Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 Budget, released on May 30th, it was revealed that the budget would slash Wild Horse Program Funding, eliminate the ban on slaughtering wild horses and burros and weaken transfer safeguards, […]
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‘On the edge of Brisbane, the largest city in Australia, spread over hills and steep slopes, are tens of thousands of gravestones, tombs and crypts. The cemetery is a true necropolis- literally a city of the dead.’ This sentence opens The Ghosts of Toowong Cemetery: Volume One by Jack Sim, a neat little book I […]
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