Melissa Bellanta
@melissabellanta.bsky.social
Soon-to-arrive Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Seoul National University.. Historian of Australian masculinities, menswear and fashion diplomacy. Looking forward to discovering Seoul and teaching Australian studies.
Seoul street scene today: a man protests the US alliance after Korean workers' ICE arrests.
"A chained gangster alliance: 'Just give me the money & technology'.
Did they pressure us to invest in the US to do this?
Trump arrests Korean workers. Anti-human rights. Detain!"
"A chained gangster alliance: 'Just give me the money & technology'.
Did they pressure us to invest in the US to do this?
Trump arrests Korean workers. Anti-human rights. Detain!"
September 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Seoul street scene today: a man protests the US alliance after Korean workers' ICE arrests.
"A chained gangster alliance: 'Just give me the money & technology'.
Did they pressure us to invest in the US to do this?
Trump arrests Korean workers. Anti-human rights. Detain!"
"A chained gangster alliance: 'Just give me the money & technology'.
Did they pressure us to invest in the US to do this?
Trump arrests Korean workers. Anti-human rights. Detain!"
Happy story countering Australia's recent thinly-attended anti-immigrant marches. The Australia-Korea Foundation just is funding "The Most Australian Band Ever!', a documentary about the Hard-ons, the Aust. punk band which started in 1984 with 3 immigrant schoolkids: a Korean, SriLankan & Croatian.
September 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Happy story countering Australia's recent thinly-attended anti-immigrant marches. The Australia-Korea Foundation just is funding "The Most Australian Band Ever!', a documentary about the Hard-ons, the Aust. punk band which started in 1984 with 3 immigrant schoolkids: a Korean, SriLankan & Croatian.
"That clarity isn’t control, it's alignment".
"That's not a swap. That's theft".
Is anyone else already extremely weary of this sentence construction?
Tell me AI wrote it for you without saying AI wrote it for you.
"That's not a swap. That's theft".
Is anyone else already extremely weary of this sentence construction?
Tell me AI wrote it for you without saying AI wrote it for you.
August 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"That clarity isn’t control, it's alignment".
"That's not a swap. That's theft".
Is anyone else already extremely weary of this sentence construction?
Tell me AI wrote it for you without saying AI wrote it for you.
"That's not a swap. That's theft".
Is anyone else already extremely weary of this sentence construction?
Tell me AI wrote it for you without saying AI wrote it for you.
Next minute this reporter will be calling people who criticise Israeli crimes against humanity “vermin” or “enemies of the Australian state”.
‘Wave of hate’: Our response to this report will show how deep the poison runs
At a time when the Holocaust is falling out of living memory, we are leaving young people to their own devices, quite literally, to separate fact from fixation.
www.theage.com.au
July 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Next minute this reporter will be calling people who criticise Israeli crimes against humanity “vermin” or “enemies of the Australian state”.
Late to the party on the Australian Special Envoy on Antisemitism report, but I literally cannot believe this draconian plan to control funding for university, arts, public broadcasting and charity funding is real life.
What is happening to our democracy?
What is happening to our democracy?
I, for one, welcome our new Special Envoy for Vetting Visas, Monitoring Media, Canceling Universities and Censoring Arts Organisations
July 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Late to the party on the Australian Special Envoy on Antisemitism report, but I literally cannot believe this draconian plan to control funding for university, arts, public broadcasting and charity funding is real life.
What is happening to our democracy?
What is happening to our democracy?
At least this democracy has constitutional guardrails that are actually working to protect it ATM: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office after court upholds impeachment
The court said Yoon had ‘committed a grave betrayal of the trust of the people’ over his ill-fated declaration of martial law in December
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
At least this democracy has constitutional guardrails that are actually working to protect it ATM: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Great '90s footage of Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi
talking about his work with underground western Sydney hiphoppers: instagram.com/reel/DGE_rvD....
Australia should be proud for this artist and community developer to represent this at the Venice Biennale #khaledsabsabi
talking about his work with underground western Sydney hiphoppers: instagram.com/reel/DGE_rvD....
Australia should be proud for this artist and community developer to represent this at the Venice Biennale #khaledsabsabi
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February 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Great '90s footage of Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi
talking about his work with underground western Sydney hiphoppers: instagram.com/reel/DGE_rvD....
Australia should be proud for this artist and community developer to represent this at the Venice Biennale #khaledsabsabi
talking about his work with underground western Sydney hiphoppers: instagram.com/reel/DGE_rvD....
Australia should be proud for this artist and community developer to represent this at the Venice Biennale #khaledsabsabi
I remember reading about Toowomba Pasta being a Korean product before leaving Sydney. The Outback Steakhouse franchise marketed it. But at a Sadang supermarket I saw 'Toowomba Pasta' used as a generic name for creamy mushroom pasta sauce. I don't really feel tempted?
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08...
February 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I remember reading about Toowomba Pasta being a Korean product before leaving Sydney. The Outback Steakhouse franchise marketed it. But at a Sadang supermarket I saw 'Toowomba Pasta' used as a generic name for creamy mushroom pasta sauce. I don't really feel tempted?
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08...
So I've just arrived at SNU to a wintry blizzard of a week. At the moment, it feels like climbing the jagged mountains surrounding this enormous storied Seoul campus, but I'm so much looking forward to the view after the upward haul.
#seoulnationaluniversity #visitingprofessoraustralianstudies
#seoulnationaluniversity #visitingprofessoraustralianstudies
February 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
So I've just arrived at SNU to a wintry blizzard of a week. At the moment, it feels like climbing the jagged mountains surrounding this enormous storied Seoul campus, but I'm so much looking forward to the view after the upward haul.
#seoulnationaluniversity #visitingprofessoraustralianstudies
#seoulnationaluniversity #visitingprofessoraustralianstudies
Sharing a brilliant article by Jeffrey Robertson (@junotane, Yonsei University, Seoul) on the importance of the humanities to international relations - now more than ever in the age of AI and the corporatised university:
#humanites #AI #internationalrelations
www.junotane.com/p/the-humani...
#humanites #AI #internationalrelations
www.junotane.com/p/the-humani...
The humanities in the age of AI: renaissance rather than twilight?
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) increases the relevance of the humanities and those that realize this will get ahead.
www.junotane.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Sharing a brilliant article by Jeffrey Robertson (@junotane, Yonsei University, Seoul) on the importance of the humanities to international relations - now more than ever in the age of AI and the corporatised university:
#humanites #AI #internationalrelations
www.junotane.com/p/the-humani...
#humanites #AI #internationalrelations
www.junotane.com/p/the-humani...
Cost of living crises have unforeseen consequences as well as those you'd expect. Here's my piece on how the high price of menswear fuelled a black market in 1920s Australia, attracting Squizzy Taylor & other Oz criminals:
theconversation.com/shoddy-dropp...
#historyofmenswear
#TrueCrime
theconversation.com/shoddy-dropp...
#historyofmenswear
#TrueCrime
‘Shoddy dropping’: how the 1920s cost-of-living crisis fuelled a black market in menswear
The most successful shoddy droppers were smooth talkers attractively dressed in made-to-measure three-piece suits – but the cloth they sold was often poor quality.
theconversation.com
January 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Cost of living crises have unforeseen consequences as well as those you'd expect. Here's my piece on how the high price of menswear fuelled a black market in 1920s Australia, attracting Squizzy Taylor & other Oz criminals:
theconversation.com/shoddy-dropp...
#historyofmenswear
#TrueCrime
theconversation.com/shoddy-dropp...
#historyofmenswear
#TrueCrime