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#louisarmstrong tapes reveal how racism scarred his life Audio diaries tell of the #jazz giant’s anger over the #prejudice he faced https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/03/louis-armstrong-tapes-reveal-how-racism-scarred-his-life-and-career “Hearing him in his own words – hearing hurt, hearing pain, hearing him curse – is going to be the first time many folks have ever experienced this side of Louis Armstrong. What’s important is that he is the one who left behind these tapes, so he r...

Her name was Niani Finlayson. Three seconds. Three seconds after a police officer entered this woman's home after she called for help during a domestic violence incident, that officer had shot her dead. The *victim*. In front of her nine-year-old daughter. And it wasn't the first time this officer had killed someone. He wasn't prosecuted that first time, of course. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/29/la-police-fatally-shot-niani-finlayson-body-camera #PoliceMurder #BlackMast...

Finally scraped together the courage to watch “The Flowers of War” (2011). Brilliantly done, but hard viewing for me. A violent film which still is tame compared to what the Japanese soldiers did to us. White folks are so ignorant of our suffering at the dawn of WWII they write dumb shit like, “Can you think of any reason the character John Miller is needed to tell his story? Was any consideration given to the possibility of a Chinese priest? Would that be asking for too much?" (Roger Ebert)

Second, the double standard is on display in the reactions we have seen to the killing of Israeli civilians and the reactions — or lack thereof — to the killing of Palestinian civilians. Many are rightly highlighting western hypocrisy by drawing comparisons to how the West responded to Russia’s war on Ukraine. A woman holds a placard reading: Jews say stop the genocide against Palestinians A member of South Florida Jewish Voice for Peace holds a sign during a protest calling for a ceasefire ...

Former senior officer's behaviour 'breach of trust', judge says in DV sentence By Nabil Al-Nashar Former NSW Police officer, Jordan Weston, has been sentenced to multiple community corrections orders after pleading guilty to charges of assault, stalking and intimidation of his ex-partner. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-10/former-senior-nsw-police-officer-sentenced-dv-offences-ex/104919444 #OIDV

I've reached the stage in my career where I'm receiving invitations to speak about #EDI #Indigenization #Decolonization from the same institutions that also declined to interview me for TT positions... umm, let's unpack/unwind this with a meandering🧵

Supporting scientists with disabilities is a key priority for the Royal Society and its Diversity Committee, which set up a sub-group to focus on this important area in 2019.

My mother picked a particularly inhumane epoch in Australian politics to get sick. When it comes to aged care, something has to give