Not the Only One

Any time you negotiate for a benefit for yourself, tell other people - particularly those who lack status and power. When I became a faculty member, I negotiated a reduced teaching load for my first year. That was 20 years ago, and I still tell every new hire: "This is what I did and what I got, in case you want to ask for the same." I'm pretty sure that one sentence has cost my school hundreds of thousands of dollars. #sorrynotsorry When I had my first child I had to negotiate the paramete...

Tone policing can be used against anyone. It is frequently used against marginalized people, in part due to unconscious bias. Consider this example: Chris believes that Fran doesn’t have a right to tell Chris what to do because of Fran’s race or gender. For this reason, Chris may try to shift the conversation any time Fran is telling Chris what to do, such as by saying “You seem really angry” instead of talking about the specific issue. According to writer Tess Martin, tone policing is a tac...

This paper draws on the example of the Northern Territory Intervention to examine the role of Australia's broader socio-cultural context in maintaining racist policies concerning Indigenous self-governance. Central to this paper is the claim that legislative, constitutional, and other structural reforms are limited on their own to prevent institutional practices of violence and exclusion that are bound up with popular ways of imagining Indigenous and non-Indigenous identities. In light of the...

I've been excluded from "cool kids'" groups my whole life, and so it's given me a bit of perspective* on blocklists and sometimes it's 100% clear to me when a person is upset because it's the literal first time they weren't by default included in a group they want to be in. But look: as a guy-shaped person, I had to accept that not everyone will feel safe around me, even if I feel sure that I'm a safe guy-shaped person. That isn't their fault, it's the fault of patriarchy. As a white perso...

Data analysis by 7.30 last year revealed Queensland police shot more people in 2022-23 than police in the rest of Australia combined. In that period, QPS shot 14 people, New South Wales police shot eight, one person was shot in Victoria, one in South Australia, and two in Western Australia.

Arguing that violence is inherent within the Indigenous culture-it truly doesn’t get more offensively eugenic than this. Let’s remember we are quite literally in the middle of a white male dominated intimate partner violence crisis. Remember also there is literally no data that links the ethnicity of the victim with the ethnicity of the offender in this country and we know that Indigenous women are married to non-Indigenous men in around 72% of cases. It’s also interesting to me that as a su...

Fighting bias in tech is more than knowing how to evaluate content we consume. It’s dismantling the industry’s systemic inequity in how content is produced. Hiring & coding practices reflect values. “Do you believe people of color are your customers?“ @IjeomaOluo @safiyanoble https://t.co/biiavKshlx

Pregnant migrant women, facing social isolation and removal of familial support systems, found support from new resources

What's a library worth? Report puts dollar figure on 'invaluable' institutions https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-20/report-puts-dollar-value-on-nsw-public-libraries/106473202 > Every dollar invested in the State Library of NSW is worth $4.25 in community benefits, according to a new report commissioned by the library.