disability, poetry, and sometimes some dragons. I'm a librarian and academic interested in cripping your kidlit. All opinions are my own.
Melbourne
Joined August 2012
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It's out! Thank you @ladyredjess and @amandatink for helping 'Who Gets to Survive the Apocalypse? Disability Hierarchy in Post-Disaster Fiction in Australian YA' out in the world as part of this issue. Always love to write about how #CripLit & #kidlit help us imagine crip futures
Australian Literary Studies is proud to publish our latest issue edited by @ladyredjess and @amandatink: Writing Disability in Australian Literature. A major intervention in Austlit scholarship with important new work, read more here:
australianliterarystudies.co…
This one's mine! Looking forward to seeing some you there in person or online
Can't wait!
We're less than a month away! Join us in-person at @CamEdFac or online for two-days of #disability in #childrenslit
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The only thing people can imagine about disabled people is our deaths and they’re usually the cause of it.
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For Les Murray's birthday:
Les Murray said his autism shaped his poetry – his late poems offer insights into his creative process
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Kit Kavanagh-Ryan (@limpinglibrary) uses crip readings of Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn Chronicles and Ambelin Kwaymullina’s Tribe sequence to determine whether they reinforce or subvert current understandings of disability bit.ly/3NJVVMA
ALT Picture of the cover of The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf, it is a close-up shot of a young woman's face.
mixing up our voices, @SarahStivens
ALT screenshot of some raw audio in the Audacity recording program; different voices on alternate lines, shown as soundwaves.
Honoured to a contributor to this exciting collection
Come celebrate ALS special issue, Writing Disability in Australia, edited by @ladyredjess and @amandatink. To be launched by Dr Scott Avery – readings from @katerina_bry and Anna Jacobson
Online, captioned bit.ly/alsspecialissuelaunch bit.ly/alsspecialissuelaunch
Between end of session teaching, pointy end PhD hell and a brutal flare up of winter, I haven't been able to manage long form fiction for months. A year? Time is weird. @KDEdwards_NC's Hourglass Throne is so good and so beautifuly paced I pulled an all nighter to listen to it.
Knowing they're together in all their arguments and catscradle connections, growing in all their own ways, I trust this series. And it has been cathartic and vivid and heartbreaking and often bloody funny.
I know The Hourglass Throne is thr end of only a single cycle. I want to be there until the end.
Tldr: 11/10, @KDEdwards_NC books makes my dehydrated houseplant self want to grow some new leaves. Would lose sleep again. Also, the audio is stellar.
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Good morning @ncte @ILAToday @BUWheelock
It is the 10th anniversary of the book “Wonder”.
After 10 yrs of wondering why the book is so popular I wrote a review.
#SpoilerAlert
#TrashRepresentation
#StopAssigning
#NotOwnvoice
#BookTwitter
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If you need a quick break from the disasters of the world have a listen to this abc.net.au/radionational/pro…
interviewing @joseph_elliott for #TheBookShow was an absolute pleasure. Listen in for disability, queerness, and the worldbuilding of one of my favourite series. (Plus, @NicholsClaire has a great lineup this episode. I mean, just listen!) abc.net.au/radionational/pro…