Aspiring writer. Criminology Honours student and research assistant. (they/them)
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"DEG can see that traditional criminal justice responses to issues of personal and public safety do not contribute to actual or perceived safety, and in fact make things worse". parliament.nsw.gov.au/ladocs…
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Walgett residents are still buying drinking water. River water unsuitable & Council hasn't made RO system work, so tap water still high sodium. No change since we started alert 2018. Time to bring out our big guns - @thedanesimpson and Bow ❤️💛🖤thelatch.com.au/the-amazing-…
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Sam Kerr is one of the worlds best on the pitch but that's not why she's my hero
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Please sign this letter to Media Watch.
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I've been practicing psychiatry for 38 years. I love my job, my peers, and my patients. But I've come to the conclusion that I'm participating in the biggest intellectual scam of this era. We claim to be a science, but have no understanding how thought or behavior is generated./1
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Our findings call for a deeper understanding of the way affluence (rather than social disadvantage), masculinity (rather than femininity) & whiteness and coloniality (rather than racialized ‘others’) shape the application or otherwise of criminal labels
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Therapy-speak has helped normalize conversations about mental health, but some of the terminology has gotten lost in translation. I wrote about how there are gradations of the human experience and the limits of therapy-speak vox.com/even-better/23769973…
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Big appreciation to @SenatorThorpe for challenging the cop float at Mardi Gras. Some of us remember when this was an actual protest for rights we still don’t have, and against those who do us harm. – at Sydney, New South Wales
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To mark #internationaldayofpersonswithdisability, our Director @JLSbioethics shares her thoughts about this year's theme, Transformative solutions for inclusive development: the role of innovation in fuelling an accessible and equitable world.
disabilityinnovation.unsw.ed…
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I’m speaking at this event if anyone’s interested. I’m writing it as we speak and it’s a little in your face, but may be of interest (definitely abolitionist)
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I always meant to share my one secret piece of sure-fire writing advice, which also doubles as great financial advice and prolongs life, before the end. So with twitter's fate uncertain, I might as well just post it now. 1/2
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TW Suicide. There is an underlying “objective measuring” of a persons mental state based on arbitrary behaviour such as hair washing, using such measures to determine the scale of suffering is lethal. A decade ago I was severely depressed, diagnosed so. 1/
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That extends the record to 234 years without a copper being found guilty for killing an Aboriginal person.
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At a systems level, what we're doing is pretending tech solutions solve fundamental errors in underlying foundations of economics, policy, and detachment of cause and effect.
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I want to yarn about the raise the age campaign again.
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[please know this thread is composed with respect for people in both the abolition and reform camps, and I speak from my own criminalised standpoint]
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Just to be super duper crystal clear: banning abortion in no way protects disabled people or aligns with the politics of disability justice.
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The DIIU Director Professor Jackie Leach Scully writes on the situation for people with disability in Afghanistan.
disabilityinnovation.unsw.ed…