Loves writing reading justice for all no matter what/who. Writer and academic at non/fictionLab, RMIT 🌈
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DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
Management of universities might be silent, NTEU members are not. As @JennaPrice says in her excellent piece today “only mobilising, organising, campaigning, at all levels will fix this oncoming disaster”. Attend our next campaign briefing this Friday. smh.com.au/national/australi…
DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
#AuthorsForFireys A full set of my picture books with Mem Fox signed by me - sheep, Bonnie & Ben, Ducks and more ! Highest bidder donates that amount to Country Fire Association. More details in the hashtag. Auction goes till 11 pm 11 Jan Melb time
DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
#AuthorsForFireys These could be yours - a signed almost full set of my cartoon books - 30 years of progressive politics and unbridled whimsy! Highest bidder donates that amount to Country Fire Association. More details in the hashtag. Auction goes till 11 pm 11 Jan Melb time
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Inaugural Scribe & Varuna residency fellows announced: booksandpublishing.com.au/ar…
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Delighted to hear my mother tongue spoken at #MelbourneWritersFestival, on #WritersAcrossBorders event. #bahasaindonesia
#mwf18 @MelbWritersFest
DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
“I have a responsibility on how to bring the oral tradition to writing. We have to document—to create an archive of our tradition for the next generation.”—Dicky Senda
#mwf18 @MelbWritersFest
DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
“You need English as a currency as a literary exchange.”
As an ESL speaker: I wholeheartedly agree.
#mwf18 @MelbWritersFest
DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
“English is a tool to write. To experiment.”
—Han Yujoo, South Korean writer who writes in both languages.
#mwf18 @MelbWritersFest
DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
“Stories are what tie us to a place.”
—Joshua Ip, Singaporean writer
#mwf18 @MelbWritersFest
DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
No words would do this panel justice. Every single one of them was so very good and taught me so much in so little time. That and I got to use some of my very rusty Bahasa Indonesia. 🙌🏾 @MelbWritersFest #mwf18
DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
The dangers of Papua New Guinea are real. The dangers of no water, no food, no medications are real. We are responsible #manus
DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
"I think about queer kinship and how do I trace my ancestors? Where is my lineage?"
@quinn_writes ow.ly/yUuD30eZOrO – at Victoria, Australia
DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
'Clay Memory: Diffraction, Dadirri, and Écriture Matière'
by @quinn_writes, @frendles, Jamie James & Robyne Latham
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DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
"...écriture matière inserts bodies of difference, bodies that matter into writing"
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DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
We don't just fight for bread, we fight for roses too - @frendles on revolution, on #equallove #mwf17 #wrice
DrFrancesca🌈 retweeted
Efkharisto para poli #christostsiolkas for reminding us of the opposite of xenophobia, philoxenia love of the stranger #MWF17 #AsiaWhat
