RipOffRed
Writer, freelance book editor, reader.
Most recent publication: sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/acts-of-living
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- I respond when I'm damn well good and ready, and if people have a problem with that they're texting the wrong person.
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- Perfect soft-boiled eggs too.
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- I see your Canadians and raise you an Australian.
- Australian publishing in the news, upsetting the correct people. STRAYAAAA!!! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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- As above, so below!
- Language Is a Virus for modern times.
- Refugee Riots – Salience and Storytelling youtu.be/9F4OSDONAR4
- I love how the green glaze (celadon?) gives her a fishy, mermaid quality!
- Practising family therapy skillz on my cats regarding a dispute they've been having, and holy shit if it isn't working.
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- Wealth tax now!
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- David Graeber's 'bullshit jobs', now even more virtual!
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- Okay, but when are you going to #taxtherich?
- The trouble with job interviews is they are conducted in corporate buzzspeak only a sociopath feels at ease with. WTF is a 'core competency'?
- Beloved Catri, always decent, always considering how literature fits into the larger picture.
- I moved my newsletter to Ghost, took a long break, and now I'm back on the horse. Thanks to Creative Australia and the SLQ for pissing me off enough to get back to it. infra-dig.ghost.io/back-from-th...
- A moment of synchronicity, as this week I finally steeled myself to read Behrouz Boochani's No Friend But the Mountains, contemplating the last time this country bipartisanly chose to endorse cruelty towards people who'd nothing except exist in the wrong time, in the wrong place, in the wrong skin.
- I've had so many battles over the years trying to persuade authors not to refer to women or girls as 'females', but now all I have to say is 'It's giving Andrew Tate'. So I'm grateful to him for that, I guess.
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- Never forget that in Ita Buttrose's first biography she wrote that she thought 'multiculturalism has gone too far' and felt as if she was supposed to be 'ashamed of being white'. She learned not to say that kind of thing out loud in following years, but I doubt her position has changed.
- Wonderful. Adore this gentleman and his podcast -- thoroughly recommend.
- I keep thinking about something Melissa Febos said in one of her essays, about 'art monsters', that there is always a corresponding weakness in the work. I think she might be right about that.
- Speculative fiction isn't really my thing but I did go through a phase of reading Gaiman a few years ago, and while he's an engaging storyteller with a good ear for language, far too many of his women are characterised as 'sluts who deserve to die' for my liking.
- A massive failure of imagination in someone who otherwise has quite a lot of it.
