Dr LJ Maher (cis: she/her, 🌈, AuDHD, Quaintrelle)
Naarm-Melbourne. Settler-Coloniser on Stolen Woi Wurrung
Land.
Research: transmedial life-writing, literature & law, music & memoir, book & reading histories. Lecturer in Publishing Studies at Melbourne Uni. Views my own, not my employer's, etc.
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- What is it like to be an Elder Millennial who remembers life before computers/the internet? You know that TV show Hoarders? That but it's my desktop and/or external hard drives. Also insomnia, back ache and perimenopause.
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- 📜Fresh off the press: Annett Heft, @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, Barbara Pfetsch & I attempted to find a level for defining social media affordances that permits conceptualizing differences between platforms and uses, and is thus useful for theory building. doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...
- Student thesis: I will fill [x] gap in the literature. Me: is that a gap in the literature or have you only read and cited white men? #MarkingCaveOfDoom #DiversifyYourBookshelves #DiversifyCriticalTheory #DiversifyPhilosophy
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- Today I have no classes, the 🐉 (now 1) is in childcare, and my research assistants, Cwtch and Cariad, are helping me mark (which I am doing from bed because insomnia was real last night). There is sun. I have creamy soda and a Bakers' Delight pizza. I am being productive. Small mercies, big loves.
- I hate marking assessments so goddamn much. I've always hated it. Having to also keep an eye out for AISlop in assessments has exacerbated that. I think this is because I genuinely love reading essays, thinking about innovative arguments, and experimenting with the genre's forms and conventions.
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- www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Dear NSW Legal Services Commissioner, question re the Solicitors' Conduct Rules & the practitioner mentioned in the attached article: 1. Do the social media posts that the ABC has identified in this article breach the following provisions of the SCR? 1/ #AusLaw
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- Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb
- How did my class on identifying audiences for digital content become a history lesson on Melbourne's Queer clubbing scene between 2000-2012?
- I am reading Replace Me by Amber Husain (2021, Peninsula Press) and 1) it is more prescient now than it was when it was published, good golly. 2) I love the term "fantasies of self-reconstruction" that she coins to describe Bulgakov's book The Heart of a Dog. Can y'all recommend similar reads?
- I am back in front of a lecture hall! I have no sleep, no caffeine and all the vyvanse. Buckle up for Legal Issues in Arts and Media #PUBL90014 #HowToPourTheTeaNotSpillIt #AcademicSelfie
- It's been a while so here's the #AcademicSelfie. I am back at work & loving it. My classes for s2 are prepped. Dragon is in childcare, I got a lil nap, the midwinter sun is shining, there's a new @benaaronflynn.bsky.social book, I am off to meet a friend for lunch & do some work in a beer garden.
- I am finally back at work post parental leave. I thought I should pull out books from the Home Library that I will need in the Office Library. /1 #Law #BookNerd
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- We have a crawler. #Dragon #MotherOfDragon
- I am cleaning, looking after Dragon and listening to Triple J's Hottest 100 from 1998 and I hated it at the time but the Sunscreen Song has stood the test of time. youtu.be/sTJ7AzBIJoI?... #music #90s #nostalgia
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- Yesterday I joyfully attended the ceremonial sitting for Elizabeth Bennett J at the Federal Court of Australia. Her Honour (that feels so weird) is one of my favourite people; she builds communities of love and mutual support, and integrity is at the core of her being. We are so proud of you, Liz.
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- Learning to parent has consumed my attention for the last 4 months. I've not had more than 3 hours consecutive sleep since I last took Valium (a month ago?). I want to connect with other academic parents in #Melbourne who are also dealing with this learning curve. How do we brain and parent? HMU
- Can confirm that ROSÉ'S song APT is the new Baby Shark. Thanks be to Apollo and St Cecilia. #MotherOfDragon
- #ThingsI'llTellMyDaughter : Red lipstick obscures a variety of ills including the impact of teething and sleep regression.
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- The last 2 months have been A lot. I am delighted to have Dragon in my life. I have housing security (ie: a mortgage) for the first time since I was 10. I am still coming to terms with having secure work, including being able to take 9 months of parental leave. This is all great. The best thing? 1/
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- This weekend has been a slow one. We moved into our own house last week, and are still unpacking but we got rid of the landlord beige on the walls, have a functioning TV, bookshelves and art are going up. The Dragon is having a sleep regression but we are getting there.
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- Something *really* telling about open ai calling artists “abusers” for trying to set up boundaries to protect our work.
- In this house we communicate explicitly. #MôthùrIHūngerrrr #Cwtch
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- My current mindset with the baby is "If she's screaming, she's breathing." I am also going to apply this approach to my research and writing. (I am ok for a given value of ok, where the "given" is *gestures at the world, angry side eyes the US*, just being dramatic. As is the Dragon.)
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- I've been offline for a while because I made a human. Online I will refer to her as Dragon, but she does have a lovely Welsh name (named for the author of Y Gododdin and also for a Welsh Labour politician renound for his oratory skills and for founding the NHS). Like her namesakes, she can roar.
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- Oof. This morning's reading is calling me in. Gotta lift my game.
