Today's the Guardian freelance day of action: Freelancers, readers and subscribers are calling on @GuardianAus to negotiate a collective agreement with freelancers.

It's also 10 years this week since my first article for The Guardian!
@withMEAA #MEAAmedia @GuardianAus @withMEAA It was my first byline in a big international paper, I was so proud! But @GuardianAus paid me just $150 for that first story, about 17c per word.

Six years later, in 2020 I was paid between $170 and $240 for reviews and opinion, for which The Guardian pays less than reporting.

yes I've seen the Guardian series on "devaluing degrees", yes I know Australia has an endless sadistic appetite for racist myths about cheats, bludgers and queue jumpers but I'm still really dismayed to see this ACA-style attack from the Guardian and from reporters I respect 💔 I thought about writing a long, nuanced thing but honestly I'm sick with rage coz you should all know better. You looked around at this racist country, at decades of vicious attacks blaming international students for every imaginable problem, and chose this framing.

For months, the State Library of Victoria has been telling everyone that the cancellation of Teen Writing Bootcamp had nothing to do with Palestine or our social media posts. Well, we got our FOI request back. See for yourself. 🧵 Here’s SLV Board member Maxine McKew discussing @omarsakrpoet's blog posts with SLV CEO Paul Duldig on 13 Feb.

“We have a duty to be absolutely thorough and super careful about the way language is used by the people we engage,” she says.

okay I just bought a green leather jacket for $10 and I am OBSESSED, let me tell you all about it 🧵 like this is fate for real so first, it is arguably hunter green! but then look at the tag: 635 East Nanjing Rd, Shanghai.

guess what else is a product of 1980s Shanghai, me. reunited in Footscray Savers 🫶 you belong with me babyyy

Okay I'm reading the @crikey_news 3-part series on 'China’s Queer Purge' by Tom Canetti. 🧵 First I wanna note that as a trans Chinese person living in Victoria, it’s weird to see this reporting coming from an outlet that has defended conversion therapy for trans kids in my home state.

can someone send me the Crikey article on trans folk in China pls omg my phone tried to autocorrect to Cringey 😂 I love you autocorrect

wow health authorities recommend eating refrigerated rice within 24 hours? I often keep cooked rice in the fridge for up to a week ... don't blame me if you die but I haven't got sick once! this @guardian article says to freeze rice if you're not eating it within 24 hours, to which i say bollocks
(also says not to put bread in the fridge - alright englishfolk have fun eating mould)
theguardian.com/food/2023/mar/…

I feel like the Mandarin version of Bluey is always just like 2-4 years older than the original, both in the translations and the voice actors @blueytv like in the episode Early Baby, the Chinese is 早产儿 which is the standard translation for 'premature baby' not a kid version

absolutely beaming at @WritesFiona's review of the @powerhouse Oscillations podcast series. I'm v proud of this work but it didn't make much of a splash, so it's really gratifying to see someone give it this close listening
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/podcas… @WritesFiona @powerhouse props to producer @PaperRadio - Jon understood exactly what I was trying to do right away, which is such a rare and magical thing and just what I needed after a few experiences of feeling like my ideas kept getting peeled and cored to fit a 'representation' narrative

there's a bit of hysterical fearmongering about the danger of chest binding at the moment, so i just wanna remind people that binding was the norm for cis women for centuries. the fashion for wearing boobs up and out is a style like any other a homemade flattening bra, 1920-1930, Museums Victoria item SH 880753
collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/250411

so this person who waited months to harass and vilify me over a job I quit in June 2022, who RT'd a personal photo of me with baseless slander just 1 day after I unlocked my Twitter account, has now blocked me. such uncomradely behaviour from a fellow @NTEU member @NTEU I've been joking about it but the systemic harassment of people with Chinese ancestry for everything we say or don't say is a serious problem for academia and media in Australia and @NTEUnion and @withMEAA should pay attention

being Chinese on the internet is amazing particularly funny to see this last night after coming out of Joan Nestle's talk at Hares with @carolmdcruz @bellarozz and feeling really inspired by what Joan said about working in the narrow space between antisemitism and Zionism (not an exact quote sorry!)