slackbastard- ¡ALERTA! Stop fascists rallying @ LGBT Holocaust Memorial, Sydney : Saturday, September 23, 2017 September 21, 2017This post is dedicated to the memory of Willem Arondeus, the gay Dutch resistance member executed by the Nazis in July 1943 and Righteous Among the Nations. This Saturday in Sydney, Nick Folkes and his Party for Freedom (PFF) are … Continue reading →
- ¡ALERTA! Stop fascists rallying @ LGBT Holocaust Memorial, Sydney : Saturday, September 23, 2017 September 21, 2017
- Plashing Vole
- Lesbian Bastard Heroes and Other Stories. September 15, 2017I have had an eventful week, to put it mildly. A week ago I was decorating a village hall, carrying chairs and checking camera angles for my friends' wedding in an idyllic English village in the heart of Brexit country. My main job was photographer, but I'm now an expert at bunting hanging, guest corralling and taxi-marshalling. The happy couple we […]
- Lesbian Bastard Heroes and Other Stories. September 15, 2017
Tag Archives: Higher Education
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
Posted in domesticity, The F-Bunker
Tagged Depression, Fatherhood, Higher Education, Love, Mental Health
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the curiosity and the joy
Higher education is usually all about the piece of paper, a parchment with heraldry presented at the end. Institutions want their customers to think that without the parchment there is no education; no scholarship without the overarching curricula endorsed by … Continue reading
we don’t need no stinking badges
International education is big business, no, more than that it is an enormous business. For providers of higher education the international student market is a Golden Hind full of doubloons slowly making its way across the oceans to the (Vice) … Continue reading
Posted in The F-Bunker
Tagged Capitalism, Frantz Fanon, Higher Education, Imperialism, International Education, Universities
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fortune teller
I’ve been reading with interest the accounts of life with HECS debts on Music for Deckchairs post Own Goal, and I thought I’d add my thoughts to the mix. For me I think there are two considerations affecting how I … Continue reading
Posted in The F-Bunker, things belonging to the emperor
Tagged HECS, Higher Education
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faith no more
Some years ago I was a casual academic. I taught classes and marked essays. It was great fun. For a fellow as quiet as me, the enforced opportunity to speak about the stuff that I knew was tremendously rewarding. I … Continue reading
