Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I read a lot of Colwin while giving baby contact naps this year, sometimes verging on too much (like the article says, breaks are good), and I can see a lot of writers trying her style, but it's only endearing when it comes from Colwin's pen. 010
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Don't mean to wade into bs generation wars here, but someone needs to let the Gen Zs know that "-maxxing" is well past its expiry date. 220
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 21/09/2026But don't forget the standout line: "me spotted dick!" 1194
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Always feels like a threat when I get an email from IKEA saying "have fun with your items from IKEA." Not sure I will brother IKEA, sorry. 011
Reposted by Gazala Anveraaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026apartheid is not theoretical or just walls and borders, which is something I think people do struggle to understand it's taking a whole society and breaking it down into people who have freedom and people who are controlled to varying degrees in every aspect of their daily lives 38452
Reposted by Gazala AnverErin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...himalmag.comMary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritageA US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States 6211114
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Pile of hand-me-down toys revealed this suspiciously dildo-looking rattle. It has the right "hand feel" of a dildo too, and the bottom seam (not pictured) looks suspiciously like the real deal. And the worst part? My son likes it. 😶 200
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It has taken me 35 years and a baby to realise that bubbles are a soapy mess. Siddhartha found his first book fair at Sydney Uni a little tedious, but the bubbles made up for it. 000
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Award for the funniest passage in literature goes to...Wilkie Collins! 000
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My husband, once, very seriously and clearly distressed in his sleep: "not enough curry..." 060
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I may or may not have panicked and bought a pregnancy test because I started receiving compliments on my appearance and because I can't take a compliment I panicked and bought a pregnancy test aaaand... it's just a compliment, folks, turns out I look human again. 😅 120
Reposted by Gazala AnverVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 02/09/2026This is not yet Officially Announced (the artist is hard at work on the cover!) but looks like it's already up for ebook/hardcover preorder in the US, so—this is a secret not-announcement that you totally did not hear from me! Out next July, my third novel. I was never here 1632782
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I have always had a healthy hatred of teeth. But after having a baby, my hatred has boiled into something else, a seething, oozing pit of loathing for what is the most insidious design flaw in the human body. 140
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Dead dude is wading into the Homer discourse, too. What a time to be alive. 052
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Words generally scatter from my mom brain, but I managed to summon around 300 of them today, while baby napped. That's 300 words more than I've written all year 🥳 030
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Bookended by contact naps, I managed to bake something for the husband's birthday. I may have been incapacitated by my koala baby, but I still got it 💪🏽 (proof is in the pudding, though, so let's see how it tastes...) 030
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 11/08/2026While it has been debunked, let's, for argument's sake, move Donny's grave to a secret location in Gaza and let the fans do their thing... 120
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 11/08/2026You think asking your mom for recipes is bad? Try asking your aunt, with whom you only speak in a third language, who responds to you in shortened form text in said third language transcribed into the English alphabet. Goodbye fav childhood food. I will never understand her text to eat you again. 140
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Proust tastes a madeleine and was transported. Siddhartha licks the bookcase that houses Proust and leaves a trail of spittle. 490
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Having gone through the public hospital system in Australia, let me tell you that while there are well meaning midwives, they often ignored mothers because they think they know better. My baby nearly died because they didn't listen to me. Thanks for the trauma, I guess. 111
Reposted by Gazala AnverSarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The introduction to my book is now available online, thanks @dukepress.bsky.social 🫶 The official pub date is in October www.dukeupress.edu/content-mach....tinyurl.com 109238
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The worst part about motherhood is not being able to leisurely sit on the throne and do my business at the pace my business demands. 000
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Do you know what I hate the most about book content? Book content. Not the here's-an-awesome-book-I-read-that-you-should-know about (or otherwise), or reviews, or discussions, or anything in that vein. It's the book/reading engagement farms that have been driving me up the wall. 100
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The 2026 Australian Census is completely unrepresentative of my household, because tell me what my 8 month old should select as the main language he speaks when all he says are "mamamama", "bababababa", "nananana" and "SCREECH"? 020
Reposted by Gazala AnverJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 30/07/2026It’s been widely reported that when he was chair of the Booker Prize judges in 1977, Philip Larkin threatened to throw himself out of the window if Paul Scott’s Staying On didn’t win. I’ve repeated it myself, and this week I’ve seen two bookish journo pals cite it. But I no longer think it’s true. 🧵 3232
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Combination of post-baby hormones and the sheer audacity has me foaming at the mouth when boomers (who have offered zero hours of childcare, and had all the help when they were raising kids but still like to claim they had it hard) tell me it's time to think of baby #2. 200
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This reminded me of Marian Engel's The Bear @ds228.bsky.social (from Natalie Zemon Davis's Women on the Margins, Three Seventeenth Century Lives). 120
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Sleep when baby sleeps. Absolutely always, always, put the baby to sleep in the cot. Lol. Guess who bought an expensive ass aesthetic cot and non-toxic mattress that only got used a few times before baby decided he would rather take over half the bed AND drink milk half the night? 110
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The enshittification of men. Jk. They were always kinda shitty to begin with. 010
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Homer:static.klipy.comHomer Simpson Hiding in Bush MemeALT: Homer Simpson Hiding in Bush Meme 001
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 27/07/2026When your baby's clothes have real pockets but yours don't. 120
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Now Watching. It is my contention that most modern male leads have the charm of a goldfish. 210
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 24/07/2026One day kids toy manufacturers will re-discover that kids like colour. But it is not this day. This day it's pastel greige for parents who want to keep their homes as dead as their brains 🤮 000
Reposted by Gazala AnverDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.” 1670821754
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Now reading. Nine months of mat leave has turned my brain to mush. Needed something to wake the grey matter. 120
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Ceylon got colonised so the Brits can drink mud-coloured tea made from dust off tea factory floors. 000
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Really enjoyed reading this. Mosman is a weird place. Picked up some lights from there a while ago, and I felt like an intruder creeping through the hills in my car, buying secondhand George Nelson lights like a thief who pays for her pillage. 121
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Stop making me sympathise with old man shaking fist at the sky. 000
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Baby just unlocked a new milestone: vomiting squarely into my buttoned shirt just as the car was parking. As a result of his remarkable new ability, it pooled between my breasts and I was able to wet wipes the vom off with relative ease and go about my business. 100
Reposted by Gazala AnverSuli Qyre @suliqyre.com · 11/07/2026“When I’m writing, I feel again what is apparently the only paradoxical certainty: that what gets in the way of writing is having to use words.” — Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life 0159
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Mate, just move out and enjoy your books. We don't need an insufferable NYT article (a soft sell for his magazine) using religion/culture to justify owning lots of books. Some of us don't need elaborate excuses or the aura of a plonking wunderkind to own and enjoy books. We just do. 110
