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Bonnie Etherington @bjetherington.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

It has been great to work with Taputukura Raea and the rest of her team as the students worked on their Digital Taonga assignments last term. Now, Digital Pasifik is publishing some of the assignments as part of a blog series, and Aysia's is the first one to go up.

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Bonnie Etherington @bjetherington.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Gutted to hear this news. My students read an essay from @pantographpunch.bsky.social today! We talked about the politics of citation and how the loss of publications like this means it is that much harder for people to share their work and for people to access their work in Aotearoa.

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

It's one month until applications close for our permanent, full-time position in Māori literature and creative communication! Please spread the word to academics and writers who might be interested in this role 👇

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

My programme has a position for a Lecturer in Māori Literature and Creative Communication - it would be fantastic if this ad could be shared widely across academic and Ao/NZ bluesky #kikorangi www.wgtn.ac.nz/about/workin...

wgtn.ac.nz

Current vacancies | About us | Victoria University of Wellington

View our academic and professional staff vacancies.

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

We are advertising for a Lecturer in Māori Literature and Creative Communication. Please share widely (scroll down after following link) www.wgtn.ac.nz/about/workin...

wgtn.ac.nz

Current vacancies | About us | Victoria University of Wellington

View our academic and professional staff vacancies.

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

“…another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”)… This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.””

972mag.com

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation...

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E-Tangata @etangata.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

“An excessive number of items on the coalition’s list buy a culture war that Pākehā New Zealand isn’t ready for. Believe me when I say that te ao Māori is prepared.” — Deb Te Kawa.

e-tangata.co.nz

A culture war? Te ao Māori is ready | E-Tangata

“An excessive number of items on the coalition’s list buy a culture war that Pākehā New Zealand isn’t ready for. Believe me when I say that te ao Māori is prepared.” — Deb Te Kawa.

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Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

From John Campbell's piece below "“We cannot wait to get stuck in”, Christopher Luxon said, as he looked up from this narrow, limp vision of our future. Get “stuck in” to what? And to whom?" www.1news.co.nz/2023/11/25/j...

1news.co.nz

John Campbell: I hoped to be surprised - actually I'm amazed

What has Aotearoa's brand new coalition government promised to deliver?

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Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Moving the fees-free year to the last from the first raises the barrier once again for folk who don't come from university-going families. (I am the first person in my family to go to university - I started my degree in my 20s it took me 15 years to complete cause ... money).

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 07/11/2023

a wild thing about NZ academia is that incompetence in the IT department can lead directly to layoffs of faculty members with permanent appointments as a regular client of the inimitable Staff Service Centre at the University of Auckland, I am .... not surprised #NZpol

thepost.co.nz

The Post

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Jason Danner @jpdanner.com · 06/11/2023

Oh. My. God. John Oliver has done a whole segment on New Zealand's Bird of the Century competition... #kikorangi

John Oliver talking about Bird of the Century

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Marsden Fund @marsdenfund.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Congratulations to all 2023 Marsden grant recipients - ka rawe! www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Wonderful news from our colleague Bonnie Etherington! We're looking forward to seeing her new Marsden project unfold

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Bonnie Etherington @bjetherington.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

There will be more to come, but if you are interested in contributing, or if you know someone else who might, then please sing out!

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Bonnie Etherington @bjetherington.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

I am also sharing publicly because the grant includes funding for a hui at VUW (which will lead to an edited collection) and a podcast entitled That Story's Sick, where I will have conversations with (and compensate) different authors about connections arising from the research.

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Bonnie Etherington @bjetherington.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Alt text cont: ...These literatures offer strategies for caring for one another and our environments as we all, abled and disabled, grapple with diverse ecological conditions once considered deviant.

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Bonnie Etherington @bjetherington.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Alt text cont: ...and advance disability-centred ways of creating sustainable and just environmental futures. This project argues that we cannot emphasise climate justice and account for those living in precarious environmental conditions without also prioritising the stories of disabled peoples.

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Bonnie Etherington @bjetherington.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

I'm excited to share that my project, "Literatures of Environment and Disability from Oceania," has received a Marsden Fast-Start Grant for the next three years. I am immensely grateful to everyone who read my proposal. Attached is the abstract for the project (with alt text).

This project is the first to analyse literatures of environment and disability from Oceania. A diverse range of environmental impacts is hitting Oceania in this current moment of climate change, and disabled people, especially disabled Indigenous people, are increasingly at risk from those impacts. Yet the stories these people tell are often overlooked by literary researchers. It is imperative to highlight disabled people’s stories from Oceania as those who live here face progressively volatile environmental situations. These literatures emerge from contexts where military and extractive contamination often cause disabilities, and where disabled people are considered collateral damage during disasters, including the Covid-19 pandemic. My project analyses novels, short stories, creative nonfiction, and poems from places including Aotearoa, Guåhan, Hawai‘i, Sāmoa, West Papua, Niu Gini, the Marshall Islands, and Fiji, establishing how such stories resist ableist narratives and theorise

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Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition @ponekeantifa.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Thank you once again, Pōneke, for showing the heart of our city beats for Palestine. Thousands of you showed your solidarity with Gaza and all humanity today, joining thousands more across Aotearoa and millions around the world. And this is just beginning. Kia kaha. #SaveGaza#CeasefireNow

Thousands of supporters arrive at Parliament to demand the New Zealand caretaker government immediately call for a ceasefire in Gaza and the end of Israel's genocide against Palestinians.

Thousands of supporters gather in Wellington's Civic Square to demand the New Zealand caretaker government immediately call for a ceasefire in Gaza and the end of Israel's genocide against Palestinians.

Thousands of supporters gather march down Wellington's Lambton Quay to demand the New Zealand caretaker government immediately call for a ceasefire in Gaza and the end of Israel's genocide against Palestinians.

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takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

If you’ve ever had work in takahē, please say hi! We’d love to connect with more of our contributors 🩵

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Mask Up Comments and Opinions @commentsandopi2.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

"...the real losers of this election are going to be beneficiaries, low-income families, public servants, young people wanting to buy their first homes, and those with illnesses requiring regular medicines..." #nzpol

theguardian.com

New Zealand didn’t want to lurch to the right; it just wanted change. It doesn’t know what it’...

The real losers of this election will be beneficiaries, low-income families, public servants and young people wanting to buy their first home

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Bonnie Etherington @bjetherington.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

On Friday, my Honours students presented their amazing final projects. This article is one of them, written by Dr Dunning, who is a former GP and is now studying science communication. Worth a read on this post-election day. www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/opin...

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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

What a depressing night for Australia and New Zealand 😢

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Dan Slevin @danslevin.funeralsandsnakes.net · 09/10/2023

This weekend Booksellers Aotearoa NZ launched this brilliant and game-changing new service for book lovers here in New Zealand. As CEO, this was my biggest initiative and I was sorry not be able to finish the job before leaving the organisation back in June. bookhub.co.nz

bookhub.co.nz

Home

The fast and easy way to buy books in NZ! Over a million titles are available, via click and collect—or couriered to you directly from NZ bookstores.

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Bonnie Etherington @bjetherington.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

For my inaugural post on this platform, I want to again share that our book, Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecological Affects and Prospects, is now out with Amherst College Press. It's free! It was wonderful to co-edit with Brianne Cohen and Erin Espelie. www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

fulcrum.org

Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecological Affects and Prospects

The specifics of ecological destruction often take a cruel turn, affecting those who can least resist its impacts and who are least responsible for it. Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecologi...

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