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Laptops, popes and activism

by | Apr 20, 2005 |

Still no new laptop. Old laptop now offi­cially dead, dead, dead. Only read­ing mail and LJ at work so expect delays. Eeep, the new pope was a member of the Hitler Youth. He’s still a con­ser­vat­ive creep. The world is gonna be very yucky. But the Wiki­pe­dia entry on him…

Sparks

by | Apr 18, 2005 | ,

 It’s like this: You go numb into your silent lunch hours Into the chill doom of day­light Are swept street­less down to city lib­rar­ies Walk out with China Mieville novels And Duke Elling­ton and urban fairytales Trying to warm your hands and heart By the heat…

Essential reading

by | Apr 16, 2005 |

The Age finally gets access to asylum seekers in Nauru and tells their stor­ies. If you still don’t care about refugee issues after read­ing this, there’s some­thing wrong. Whatever happened to human com­pas­sion and dignity?

Pride

by | Apr 13, 2005 |

I cannot tell you how utterly fab­ulous it feels to watch stu­dents take some­thing you’ve taught them, push you to learn some­thing new your­self, then grasp it and go beyond it. Thank you. You know you you are.

Dworkin dead

by | Apr 12, 2005 |

Holy shit, Andrea Dwor­kin died. She was only 58. Whether you agree with what she had to say or not, she star­ted a dis­cus­sion that changed a lot of people’s think­ing. I find the whole ques­tion of porn incred­ibly com­plex. I tend to think of myself as a pro-porn feminist…

Solidarity, guilt and privilege

by | Apr 11, 2005 |

It’s been a while since I’ve been made to feel uncom­fort­able at an anarcho thing. During the dis­cus­sion tonight after the films, there was some men­tion of the fact that most people in the room were white and uni­ver­sity-edu­cated. Good point. I have no problem…

Better late than never

by | Apr 10, 2005 |

Meant to put this up earlier: Film screen­ings: the pre­car­ity of labour April 10 (that’s tonight), 7.30pm 140 Barkly St, Brun­swick (one block north from the cnr of Lygon st and Brun­swick rd) It has been increas­ingly noted from research centres to news­pa­pers to radical…

Hot, hot, hot

by | Apr 10, 2005 |

I love this weather. I’ll just pre­tend I’m not at all per­turbed by its pres­ence in April and the implic­a­tions for ‘cli­mate change’/global warm­ing. Where have I been for the last few days? Well, I’ve been grad­ing stu­dent work (and still have more to go on that) and…

New fascinations

by | Apr 4, 2005 |

I’ve recently stumbled upon Post a secret. I’m fas­cin­ated by this site for a number of reas­ons: anonym­ity has always intrigued me; secrets on the web allow for a voyeur­ism that is not pos­sible oth­er­wise; the nature of the post­cards require an off­line com­pon­ent to this…

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

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I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.