Exploring #BarkLadies at @NGVMelbourne and the curation by Myles Russel-Cook and the exhibition design (I don’t know who did it) are incredible, enhancing the extraordinary art from @yirrkalaart
Mirrors enhance the poles by Galumbu the “Star Lady” reflecting her stars to infinity
I am going to tell you a story, it's a story why you need to get your health checked, why you need to monitor your health and why you need to listen to doctors and follow up on things.
The story is about me, and how I could have died if I hadn't been very lucky.
A thread
About 18 months ago I went to a doctor because I was short of breath a lot, it was not the first time I had been to a doctor for that reason. I had even been to the same clinic before. I was treated for, variously, pneumonia and asthma, both misdiagnosis.
Then that one day 18 months ago I saw a new doctor, because everyone else was booked out, she was a very green, very new GP registrar (Trained doctor doing GP specialist training), she seemed only months, if not weeks, out of uni, very nervous, very young very thorough.
The difference between the Imane Khelif case and the other times Rowling has escaped the consequences of her bigotry is that Imane is not trans and therefore Joanne can't claim her bullying is "safeguarding women" or a protected difference of opinion on the righs of trans women.
Joanne has not just been fucking around, she has seriously fucked up. She has bullied the wrong person this time because there's no excuse, no "difference of opinion" or "protected ideology".
It's interesting also that Khelif has not sued for defamation, that she is claiming cyber-bullying. To prove defamation you need to prove someone has lied and done so to harm. To prove bullying/harassment is easier, it just requires repetitive abuse. statista.com/topics/6698/on…
Let's consider the legal consequences if Sall Grover wins in #TicklevGiggle.
The most important thing here, for the legal concerns, is that Roxi Tickle has had gender affirmation surgery and her birth certificate says she is female.
Sall Grover and her team want that to mean nothing, they want TERFs to be able to ignore someone's legal gender and make decisions whether or not to exclude someone based on perceptions of gender not actual legal sex.
In other words Grover wants to change the law so that a woman can be refused service because someone thinks they "look like a man". This means a masculine looking woman could be refused service because she "looks male", this would affect c!s and trans women alike.
I’m going to say it. I don’t care if you hate me for it. The best thing you can do to reduce your climate footprint is have less children
This is not to say that I hold having children against anybody. What I ask is that an altruistic decision not to have children, a decision that might increase the survival chances of YOUR children, be respected.
Stop looking down on people without children
And to all the people who say "racists called for population control so population control is racist", I am not racistly blaming poor people with lots of children for climate change. I am blaming rich westerners with lots of children for climate change
People have asked me if there was a solution to "return the flag to Aboriginal ownership". The thing is, the flag was already under Aboriginal ownership. It was owned by Luritja man Harold Thomas. It LEFT Aboriginal ownership in January 2022.
I know people are victims of propaganda and their inability to understand copyright, but Harold Thomas licensing his flag to someone does not mean those companies OWNED the flag, he still owned it. It has never left Aboriginal ownership until some people demanded the govt buy it
So, if you wanted a solution to "having the flag Aboriginal owned" the solution was, do nothing, leave it with Harold. But that did not suit the AFL and some partly Aboriginal owned businesses, who wanted to make money from the flag without paying license fees.
More on the flag. People keep giving Clothing the Gaps all the credit for the Flag thing. In reality CTG wanted the Commonwealth to compulsorily acquire the copyright without compensation to Harold Thomas.
I call that theft from an elder.
This is a matter of public record as part of the federal senate hearing that CTG and I both spoke at on opposite sides. CTG's stance, compulsory acquisition. My stance, fair payment to HT for his copyright. CTG are claiming credit for a deal they were trying to prevent.
You need to get this straight. CTG didn't want this deal to happen because they didn't want HT paid for his copyright. In reality the Commonwealth were working a deal already when the senate hearing began and their stance was that the hearings and CTG were jeopardizing the deal