slackbastard- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #019 w Alana Lentin on Why Race Still Matters : May 21, 2020 May 19, 2020On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Alana Lentin. Alana [Twitter] is a race critical scholar and Associate Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis at Western Sydney University who’s just had published a NEW! book titled Why … Continue reading →
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #019 w Alana Lentin on Why Race Still Matters : May 21, 2020 May 19, 2020
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- Daily photos no. 37: On the beach May 22, 2020This was my first visit to Ros Beithe / Rossbeigh beach in Ciarraí/Kerry- now one of my favourite haunts. It's on the north coast of the Iveragh peninsula, looking out to Dingle, but before you get to the open sea and the Sceiligs (of which more later). The swimming is fantastic - rolling waves, good depth and a bracing temperature. The weather changes […]
- Daily photos no. 37: On the beach May 22, 2020
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Mrs Mac Tells All
The river water is a jolly poo brown. The bridge, which I would usually cross to get to school, is entirely obscured. The clubhouse by the soccer fields is visible only by a single layer of breeze blocks and the … Continue reading
the heist
It’s Sunday morning and the sky is clear. The football season is over and the cricket hasn’t started. I have no deeds to do and no promises to keep. I mooch around the house for a bit. I consider getting … Continue reading
slip & sprint
I In his book about memory and the Vietnam War, The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien tells the story of his first love, at elementary school, and her subsequent death. The story is a neat piece of meta fiction in which … Continue reading
words overwhelm
In 1881 the Pretoria Convention established British suzerainty over the youthful republic of the Transvaal, a matter which would be disputed for the next twenty years or so. A small part of this agreement was a guarantee of the independence … Continue reading
haunts and haunting
The Chook and I have returned from our sojourn in the west. It was a good long drive, over 2000 kilometres in all. We headed off north through the city, up the central coast, taking a left up the Hunter … Continue reading
sixteen kinds of hurt
When my Dad was mad he’d threaten me with sixteen kinds of hurt. There was the clip over the ear; the smack on the chops; the belt across my buttocks; the gut punch; the double fisted shirt grab; the single … Continue reading
heaven knows
The day starts with Sex Machine. James Brown shouting his chorus to my sleeping children (Get up! get on up/Get up! get on up) and I feel Bootsy’s deep bass begin the snaking energy transfer from the cold airs to … Continue reading
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