Dion Kagan
@dionkagan.bsky.social
Researcher & editor on unceded Wurundjeri land. Author of Positive Images: Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Culture of Post-Crisis (Bloomsbury 2018). Occasional book and film reviews. Research on hep C, hep B, HIV at Health+Law, UNSW and ARCSHS, La Trobe.
Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
Jews Demand Action
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October 23, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org
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We call on UofM to embrace its responsibilities to students, staff and the public good by acting promptly & housing this important journal within its Community & Cultural Partnerships portfolio and committing to resourcing it appropriately in the long term
www.juliennevanloon.com.au/post/univers...
www.juliennevanloon.com.au/post/univers...
University of Melbourne Creative Writing Program Statement on the proposed closure of MEANJIN
The creative writing program at the University of Melbourne is distressed by the recently announced closure of Meanjin, one of Australia’s oldest and most revered literary journals. Its international ...
www.juliennevanloon.com.au
September 15, 2025 at 3:29 AM
We call on UofM to embrace its responsibilities to students, staff and the public good by acting promptly & housing this important journal within its Community & Cultural Partnerships portfolio and committing to resourcing it appropriately in the long term
www.juliennevanloon.com.au/post/univers...
www.juliennevanloon.com.au/post/univers...
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Powerful op-ed by Randa Abdel-Fattah about what it’s like when Australia’s entire pro-lsraeIi genocide lobby dedicates its efforts to professionally ruining you, specifically, to shut you up
It’s published at @deepcutnews.bsky.social because it was rejected by The Age, Guardian and The Conversation
It’s published at @deepcutnews.bsky.social because it was rejected by The Age, Guardian and The Conversation
Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point.
Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby
www.deepcutnews.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Powerful op-ed by Randa Abdel-Fattah about what it’s like when Australia’s entire pro-lsraeIi genocide lobby dedicates its efforts to professionally ruining you, specifically, to shut you up
It’s published at @deepcutnews.bsky.social because it was rejected by The Age, Guardian and The Conversation
It’s published at @deepcutnews.bsky.social because it was rejected by The Age, Guardian and The Conversation
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A tipping point has been reached.
Gaza is now starving to death in front of the whole world.
Those who facilitated and justified this abomination were given ample warning for 21 months.
You have no excuses, and nowhere to hide: you will be held to account for what you've done.
Gaza is now starving to death in front of the whole world.
Those who facilitated and justified this abomination were given ample warning for 21 months.
You have no excuses, and nowhere to hide: you will be held to account for what you've done.
Gaza health ministry says 33 people dead from malnutrition in last 48 hours
New figures from the Hamas-run ministry include 12 children who have died, as the UN says Israel must allow aid into Gaza.
www.bbc.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A tipping point has been reached.
Gaza is now starving to death in front of the whole world.
Those who facilitated and justified this abomination were given ample warning for 21 months.
You have no excuses, and nowhere to hide: you will be held to account for what you've done.
Gaza is now starving to death in front of the whole world.
Those who facilitated and justified this abomination were given ample warning for 21 months.
You have no excuses, and nowhere to hide: you will be held to account for what you've done.
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'To be a liberal Z'st today is to be both scapegoat & cover: reviled as a traitor when you speak out & trotted out as evidence of pluralism when the world is watching.'
@shaielb.bsky.social, Liberal Z*sm Is Dying: It’s Time to Put It Out of Its Misery. shaielbenephraim.substack.com/p/liberal-zi...
@shaielb.bsky.social, Liberal Z*sm Is Dying: It’s Time to Put It Out of Its Misery. shaielbenephraim.substack.com/p/liberal-zi...
Liberal Zionism Is Dying—It’s Time to Put It Out of Its Misery
For years, liberal Zionism let me feel principled while providing cover for injustice. It’s time to call out the illusion—and stop shielding what can’t be defended.
shaielbenephraim.substack.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
'To be a liberal Z'st today is to be both scapegoat & cover: reviled as a traitor when you speak out & trotted out as evidence of pluralism when the world is watching.'
@shaielb.bsky.social, Liberal Z*sm Is Dying: It’s Time to Put It Out of Its Misery. shaielbenephraim.substack.com/p/liberal-zi...
@shaielb.bsky.social, Liberal Z*sm Is Dying: It’s Time to Put It Out of Its Misery. shaielbenephraim.substack.com/p/liberal-zi...
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I’m also fascinated by how universities emerged as combos of abbeys & madrasas, but most of all as student unions – mainly of international students!
everyone in the early university worked FOR students – what a power shift we have witnessed where universities punish students for organising
everyone in the early university worked FOR students – what a power shift we have witnessed where universities punish students for organising
July 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I’m also fascinated by how universities emerged as combos of abbeys & madrasas, but most of all as student unions – mainly of international students!
everyone in the early university worked FOR students – what a power shift we have witnessed where universities punish students for organising
everyone in the early university worked FOR students – what a power shift we have witnessed where universities punish students for organising
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We KNOW lsraeI's whole plan is to empty Gaza of its people & erase all witnesses; the IOF even exhumes & abducts victims from mass graves so their bones can never shame the evil land-hunger of foreign necro-colonists
So statements like this just send the message "lsraeI's genocide is working"
So statements like this just send the message "lsraeI's genocide is working"
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
We KNOW lsraeI's whole plan is to empty Gaza of its people & erase all witnesses; the IOF even exhumes & abducts victims from mass graves so their bones can never shame the evil land-hunger of foreign necro-colonists
So statements like this just send the message "lsraeI's genocide is working"
So statements like this just send the message "lsraeI's genocide is working"
A must-listen chat with Bill Bowtell on LNL that ends w a prognosis & prediction for what happens globally w HIV now that US funding is withdrawn podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
Bruce Shapiro on US politics, Bill Bowtell surveys 40 years of HIV, and the world's richest shipwreck
Podcast Episode · Late Night Live — Full program podcast · 15/07/2025 · 55m
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July 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
A must-listen chat with Bill Bowtell on LNL that ends w a prognosis & prediction for what happens globally w HIV now that US funding is withdrawn podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l...
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🚨 Big news 5 years in the making: some friends and I made a documentary! 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR hits Shudder soon, directed by Donna Davies and inspired by my 2020 book of the same name
If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival
If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival
1000 Women in Horror
From the silent era until today, the nightmares that have haunted our screen have been sculpted and embodied by women, but many of those artists have gone....
miff.com.au
July 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
🚨 Big news 5 years in the making: some friends and I made a documentary! 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR hits Shudder soon, directed by Donna Davies and inspired by my 2020 book of the same name
If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival
If you are in Australia, I hope you can make it to the world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival
Unclear if this activism will lead to the systemic model change this industry needs, but huge kudos to these academics for stepping up, withdrawing their labour and the intellectual capital they gather.
28 international editors have announced their resignation from commercial publisher Taylor & Francis, which recently acquired their book series from Amsterdam University Press (AUP). The editors made this known today in a signed letter to the publisher. www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...
28 editors resign after takeover at AUP publishing house
www.folia.nl
July 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Unclear if this activism will lead to the systemic model change this industry needs, but huge kudos to these academics for stepping up, withdrawing their labour and the intellectual capital they gather.
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The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
mediastudies.hypotheses.org
July 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Jews say no to anti-protest laws: Jacinta Allan stop exploiting antisemitism chng.it/dgdMnVCN via @ChangeAUS
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July 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Jews say no to anti-protest laws: Jacinta Allan stop exploiting antisemitism chng.it/dgdMnVCN via @ChangeAUS
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It disgusts me the way that the captive media try to justify their genocide stenography as ‘neutrality’ – and punish truth-telling journalists as ‘activists’ –and yet here they are bringing opinion into a news lede in a way that would fail a first-year J-school news writing assignment
July 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
It disgusts me the way that the captive media try to justify their genocide stenography as ‘neutrality’ – and punish truth-telling journalists as ‘activists’ –and yet here they are bringing opinion into a news lede in a way that would fail a first-year J-school news writing assignment
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"'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza"
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank:
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank:
'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank.
zeteo.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
"'Economy of Genocide': UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza"
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank:
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities of making money from Israel's Gaza genocide and illegal occupation of the West Bank:
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TV tonight: Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary the BBC wouldn’t broadcast
TV tonight: Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary the BBC wouldn’t broadcast
Ramita Navai investigates Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s hospitals in a controversial film. Plus: celebrating football hero Mary Earps. Here’s what to watch this evening
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
TV tonight: Channel 4 airs the Gaza documentary the BBC wouldn’t broadcast
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“Doctors Recall Torture They Endured in Gaza Documentary the BBC 'Refused to Air'”
Thank you to Charlie Nash and Mediaite for reporting on our important new documentary ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’
Thank you to Charlie Nash and Mediaite for reporting on our important new documentary ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’
Doctors Recall Torture They Endured From Israeli Military in New Documentary the BBC ‘Refused to Air’: ‘They Hung Me Up’
Palestinian healthcare workers recalled the torture they endured at the hands of Israeli military personnel in a new documentary the BBC "refused to air."
www.mediaite.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“Doctors Recall Torture They Endured in Gaza Documentary the BBC 'Refused to Air'”
Thank you to Charlie Nash and Mediaite for reporting on our important new documentary ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’
Thank you to Charlie Nash and Mediaite for reporting on our important new documentary ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’
Are you a woman working in a male-dominated industry or know someone that is?
We are Union is running a survey as part of the Through the Workplaces for Women project
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We are Union is running a survey as part of the Through the Workplaces for Women project
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Workplaces for Women - Equality Survey
Take our 10-minute survey to tell us what your workplace really looks like.
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July 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Are you a woman working in a male-dominated industry or know someone that is?
We are Union is running a survey as part of the Through the Workplaces for Women project
weareunion.typeform.com/Equality-Sur...
We are Union is running a survey as part of the Through the Workplaces for Women project
weareunion.typeform.com/Equality-Sur...
From Graeme Turner's new book:
“The policy settings that were put there piece by piece since Dawkins have produced a kind of monster [...] I don’t think there’s a lot of care about those consequences now.”
publishing.monash.edu/product/brok...
“The policy settings that were put there piece by piece since Dawkins have produced a kind of monster [...] I don’t think there’s a lot of care about those consequences now.”
publishing.monash.edu/product/brok...
July 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
From Graeme Turner's new book:
“The policy settings that were put there piece by piece since Dawkins have produced a kind of monster [...] I don’t think there’s a lot of care about those consequences now.”
publishing.monash.edu/product/brok...
“The policy settings that were put there piece by piece since Dawkins have produced a kind of monster [...] I don’t think there’s a lot of care about those consequences now.”
publishing.monash.edu/product/brok...
What a gorgeous cover
It’s here! SALVAGE publication day!
Dropped in to Imprints and can confirm there are copies on the table, front and centre 💙📚
Support your local indie bookshop everybody
Dropped in to Imprints and can confirm there are copies on the table, front and centre 💙📚
Support your local indie bookshop everybody
July 3, 2025 at 6:10 AM
What a gorgeous cover
This is such a gorgeously written review of The Materialists by Luke Goodsell in The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film...
Love is ephemeral in Celine Song’s Materialists
Celine Song’s follow-up to Past Lives explores the capitalist trappings of modern romance, without subverting them.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
July 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is such a gorgeously written review of The Materialists by Luke Goodsell in The Saturday Paper. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/film...
I love this pod.
Every time I listen to it I feel altered. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...
Every time I listen to it I feel altered. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...
Why We Turn Grief Into Art
Podcast Episode · Critics at Large | The New Yorker · 19/06/2025 · 45m
podcasts.apple.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I love this pod.
Every time I listen to it I feel altered. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...
Every time I listen to it I feel altered. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...