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Alex Dane

@alexdane.bsky.social
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academic, annoying woman, animal lover.

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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
This book rules. It is the smartest analysis of platformised self publishing, written by one of the coolest people in the discipline.
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
my girlfriend is struggling with bisexual visibility and representation because all her bisexual friends have boyfriends and husbands. who is representing the bisexual women with girlfriends? it’s tough out there.
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yeah make it as annoying as you can. Bring Foucault to the table. Cite Barthes.
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I respond by asking if they want to know who I think is the best author or who I like the most and then they typically just walk away and regret ever talking to me.
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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 05/02/2026
We are so pleased to announce the recipients of our 2026 Awards! Many thanks to the jurors, our Awards team, and the SHARP members whose membership fees support this work. (If you'd like to support these awards in the future, consider joining us! sharpweb.org/membership/) (1/5)
sharpweb.org
Membership – SHARPweb
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Shout out to the boyfriends who have taken their bisexual girlfriends to the Brunswick Picture House screening of Carol
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Community Publishing in Regional Australia @communitypubinaus.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Registrations are now open for our (free!) upcoming symposium! 🥳 It will be held on 24th November, running approximately between 10am and 4pm AEDT (Syd/Melb Time). It is shaping up to be a great event full of SUCH interesting research on Reading, Writing, and Publishing in Regional Australia.
The image has a bright yellow and orange background, with dark green bold text. In the bottom left corner there is an illustrated image of a microphone. The text says: Registration now open! Reading, Writing and Publishing in Regional Australia Online Symposium Monday 24 November 2025
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I don’t feel great about Helen Garner writing about another Australian woman who has been convicted of a crime.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
"Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has sold its shares in 11 Israeli companies, its managers said Monday, a move they said reduces its holdings in the country against the backdrop of the “serious humanitarian crisis” in Gaza." apnews.com/article/norw...
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Norway's sovereign wealth fund sells its shares in 11 Israeli companies
Managers of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund say it has sold its shares in 11 Israeli companies, a move that they say reduces its holdings in the country against the backdrop of the “serious humanitaria...
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
would love dua to wade into the first stone discourse
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
the only good tasmanian
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Jay @jaycubed2k.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I would literally rather die than use Microsoft Copilot
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
anyway, here’s a link to said book. happy to email you a pdf if you don’t have institutional access: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Gender and Prestige in Literature
This book explores the relationship between gender, power, reputation and book publishing’s consecratory institutions in the Australian literary field from 1965-2015, analysing the ways in which these...
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
feels weird to not mention that i wrote a book about gender and literary fiction that draws on an original data set detailing 50 years of prizes, reviews and festivals. i also should say that the book explores the fact that we’ve been having this debate every decade or so since the 1970s.
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
it’s very male loneliness epidemic coded
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
ok i’m prepared to say it: romulus and remus breastfed for too long.
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
what was going on with puppetry of the penis. that was a weird time, hey.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 25/10/2023
Shoutout to the little pad at the bottom of the raspberry container for when they get their period
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Sorry for being the dumbest bitch alive but all the AI execs saying that their products will have taken over the planet by 2027 sound exactly like I did when I told prospective employers that I have the ability to attract significant public grants for queer book studies.
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Chaser: “It’s boring unless you’re really engaged in it. It’s free and open to everyone, but it does self-select. But that’s the scene – that’s why literature is so good for scene making.”
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Shot: “In reality, these events are unassuming and attract a diverse and expanding crowd. There’s no immovable barrier, secret password or even a ticket to enter – anyone can walk in.”
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Luca Demetriadi @lucambd.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I’m deeply affected by this review of Murnane’s Border Districts on Goodreads
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 18/02/2025
I understand that slogans have a purpose and are not inclusive of all ideas, but the call to "read books" as some sort of inherent defense against fascism nags at me. Which books! Reading is not in and of itself a virtue!
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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The Palestinian flag is now raised in the middle of Gaza City. ❤️🇵🇸
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
the colony will fall
Photo of crowd at invasion day rally in Naam.
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
i love my gf so much. yesterday, she was sitting in the backseat while i was driving and i adjusted the rear-view mirror so i could see her whole face. it was dangerous but worth it.
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lila pearl @lilashapiro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
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There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"We don’t have a policy on Palestine. We just do what the Israelis want us to do.” - Mike Casey, the US diplomat working on Gaza who just quit his job.
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‘Tired of writing about dead kids’: why a US state department worker resigned over Israel-Gaza policy
Mike Casey, one of only two people explicitly focused on Gaza, left over inaction and doing ‘what the Israelis want’
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Still image of John Grant from the film Wake in Fright
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Sure is! Happy to send you a PDF if you’d like.
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This nickname is my greatest achievement.
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Alex Dane @alexdane.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Yes! I wrote a book about the logic of White taste in contemporary book publishing. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
cambridge.org
White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
block Brianna Wu if you want but i actually think it’s important for the ecosystem that we get more morons on here
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