Esther Anatolitis
art – tenacity – democracy
Writer and arts advocate
Creative strategy, Test Pattern
Editor 2022-2025, Meanjin
Co-Chair, Australian Republic Movement
Hon A/Prof, RMIT School of Art
estheranatolitis.net
- An all-Australian tarot of major arcanas I once invented but never actually drew: The Dufus The Tram Inspector The Street Theatre The Vertical Blind The Slab Top Dollar The Real Estate Agent Mr Antenna Hard Rubbish Night The Remedial Massage Therapist The Wisdom Tooth The Low Value Pool Deduction
- Spending the morning at RRR updating my rrradio trrraining because it’s been *blush* decades
- Unrelated: Adam Chrrristou is brrrilliant plus I also got to catch up with the superb RRRichard Watts on his first day back on air 🥰
- Are you a young person with a big vision for strengthening Australian democracy? Apply now to participate in the Australian Republic Movement Youth Series led by @yasminpoole.bsky.social – applications close 21 February and there's an allstar cast: republic.org.au/youth-series...
- I can happily attest to what a writerly place this is for writers who do writing! The Whitlam Essay Residency offers six fellowships for two-week-long residencies at the Whitlam Prime Ministerial home. For Varuna alum or WSU community members. Deadline Tuesday: www.varuna.com.au/for-writers/...
- Canberra! The moon!!!
- Green Square Station v Five Star Box with Lid: the design analysis no one asked for. We begin with an in-depth examination of the spatial dynamics of reductive expedience, followed by a psychosocial account of volumetric forms at default parameters, then we close with observations on non-colour. 1/n
- Astonishing. ABC journalist David Speers just asked the deputy leader of the Liberal Party whether he should “chaperone” a meeting of the leader of the Nationals and the leader of the Liberals – their first female leader. Visibly stunned, O’Brien unfortunately didn’t call it out as rank sexism.
- “More than 50 years of polls, surveys, reports, inquiries… have shown that somewhere between 70% and 87% of the population want a codified charter of rights. To know what [our] rights are and be reassured that they are used to frame policy and legislation.” 👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- A step in the right direction. Class privilege has long tended to protect criminal behaviour before any court appearance; it certainly shouldn’t protect offenders against appropriate sentencing. Ensuring equality before the law is a good start: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
