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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

QLD surgeons, please donate to the RACS QLD Centenary book for 2027. No other state is doing one, and it is not centrally funded by RACS (unlike the bi-national Centenary book). ✅️ tax-deductible ✅️ your name will be listed in the front section. www.surgeons.org/about-racs/r...

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RACS Queensland Centenary Book

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Love this so much. Miss Uganda wore a dress representing the 7 layers of a Caesarian section. In a beauty pageant! Because motherhood IS beautiful, and strong, and inspiring. 😍👏

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‘Layers of life’: The incredible story sewn into Miss World Uganda’s gown

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’m fine… just an older person getting gender affirming surgery follow up!

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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There’s a huge change coming to COVID vaccine access policy in Australia. From 1 October, many people will no longer be eligible for a free vaccine. Terrible policy 😡 www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

While this isn’t true for everyone, I’m aware that for many trans people their opportunities in work are diminishing. Said within the greatest of privileges, I had some experiences myself over the last couple of years. I want to share what they look(ed) like and what disrupted them.

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs causes harm when it underlies any program that starts with 'basic' needs like food and shelter- just look at historical Aboriginal missions or current aged care. 😱 The first human need is IDENTITY- to be seen, valued, connected. All else follows from this recognition.

The Eden alternative domains of wellbeing, starting with identity and connectedness at the base.
Attribution: Dementia Beyond Disease, Enhancing Well-Being - Revised Edition. (Well-being pyramid, p. domains, pp. 37-248). By Author G. Allen Power, MD, FACP (2017). Baltimore, MD: Health Press, Inc. Copyright 2017. Adapted by ABeautifulVoice.org with permission of author.
Online source: https://abeautifulvoice.org/about/hierarchy-of-needs/

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

With renewed debate about the misuse potential vs accessibility benefits of smart glasses, this nuanced thread is worth reposting. My take? AI can't be smart enough to narrate pictures yet somehow too dumb to recognise abuse/misuse. Blocking that usage is absolutely doable and should be mandatory.

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Very excited to announce that in 2027 I’ll be joining The University of Queensland in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry as a Professor in Museum Studies where we'll be building an industry-connected Masters. Here’s a photo of me taken a while ago.

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sja @sam-ja.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

i'd recommend people read the response from an LGBTQ+ cancer charity to last year's EHRC proposed guidance - been thinking a lot about this particular section ever since i first read it (full response here outpatients.org.uk/2025/06/26/e...)

Screenshot of article reading:
"The suggestion that transgender people should only be accommodated in side rooms is unfeasible. As anyone in healthcare knows, available side rooms are a rare commodity. If their use was mandated for all transgender patients it would largely be unenforceable. It is necessary to consider the broad variety of people who require side rooms and their availability across the NHS. As per NHS Estates documents, increased floor area, capital cost, management, and staffing issues also need to be considered. If a redrafted single-sex accommodation policy aligns with the EHRC’s Code of Practice, we feel that it could leave transgender people without reliable accommodation options, putting their clinical outcomes at risk."

Quote from article
'“Let us take the example of Joelle, a trans woman who died of an eminently treatable cancer after waiting for eight days on a general ward, because clinicians could not agree whether she should be placed on a men’s ward or a women’s ward. The delay in treatment cost her her life.”

-Dr Roz Savage, MP'

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“Gender-critical” transphobia is fascism. Transphobes don’t want to “protect women & children”, they just hate trans people. There are no “gender-critical beliefs” just hatred. They are just a rhetorical cover for hate. They are certainly not in any way “worthy of respect” in a democratic society.

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Tapani Hopkins @tapani-hopkins.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I've been seeing references to some anti-trans changes coming to English schools in September. Now found out what it's about. Really not good. What it boils down to is making trans children's school time miserable, in the apparent hope it's just a phase and they'll stop all this trans stuff.

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Fae’rynn is Writing @faerynnistired.itch.io · 22/07/2026

not a huge fan of this whole thing of “non-binary people don’t have the same stake in trans rights.” thing going around. kill the Bri Wu in your head please and thank you

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 24/07/2026

If you know, you know 👀

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🏳️‍🌈 Dolly Darren 🏳️‍⚧️ @dollydarren.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Well, the @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social has got how to label toilets properly... 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It’s non-binary people’s day. At a time where there’s so much anti-trans rhetoric, non-binary people are still targeted but are often left behind in the discussion & defence by others. It’s the coloniality of the gender binary of course. I wrote this a few years ago pipewrenchmag.com/binary-gende...

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Issue Seven: No Cession, Sandy O'Sullivan

Who says this depicts a woman? Contemporary gender binaries, not original sources. But gender fluid people have always existed.

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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Judge Rose Falla appointment on 12 May 2026. . Judge Falla was the first Aboriginal person appointed as a magistrate in Victoria and is now the first Aboriginal person appointed as a judge of the County Court of Victoria.

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I have no idea why I keep arguing with colonisers when they’re always going to do the same thing. Always. Meanwhile this NAIDOC, has land been handed back yet?

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Maggie Chapman (she/her) @maggiechapman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Thousands of people in Venezuela urgently need shelter, food, clean water and medical care after two devastating earthquakes. Your support can help families rebuild their lives. If you are able, make a donation @decappeal.bsky.social #VenezuelaAppeal

Aftermath of an earthquake with people searching through rubble

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Anonymous people patronising Aboriginal people. Yep… gotta love NAIDOC.

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

NAIDOC really is a celebration for us. And it’s a celebration of our people. But most of all it’s a week where we keep on doing the work, living our lives, loving our families, and resisting colonialisms.

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Nate Cochrane @natecochrane.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

First Nations People didn’t get a voice to Parliament. So why does Israel get one? 🧐 #auspol #journalism

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Update on my gender surgery from my pjs! It’s been two weeks now. I recorded this a few days ago. Again I’m staying in an Airbnb I promise this isn’t artwork in my home.

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Prof. Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody @annahm.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Very excited for the Intersectional Humanities Summer School 26, starting on Monday! See you there @muahi.bsky.social @muresearch.bsky.social @sandyosullivan.bsky.social @egeertsphd.bsky.social @lauracwatson.bsky.social #race #class #gender #ability #crip #gender #sex

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I’m in the hospital, got out of surgery about eight hours ago. Had some cornflakes, had some bad coffee and then Kat bought me a real one. Then I have just been tooling around on the Internet for the last little while. No pain yet because of the anaesthetic, but it’ll kick in at some stage.

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

On the eve of going into major gender-affirming surgery (at 60, no less), I want to acknowledge the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), my university and others that have ensured gender-affirming leave. This flags the importance of affirmation and support for workers across their life cycle.

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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Trillionaire Elon Musk wants to take anyone who wishes to go to the moon. And I'd like to take Elon Musk, and every other billionaire, to the tax office. 😠

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Feminist scholarship has long critiqued the sex/gender distinction (wherein ‘sex’ is taken to be the biological truth of someone’s identity) as sexist, given the way it reduces women to their bodily parts and functions and

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The Erasure of Intersex, Transgender, Nonbinary, and Agender Experiences Through Misuse of Sex and Gender in Health Research - PubMed

Conflation of the terms and concepts of "sex" and "gender" continues to perpetuate the invisibility of sex and gender minorities and obscure information about the ways in which biological sex and gend...

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Every trans-supporting cis person in the UK needs to make peace with becoming more annoying, persistent, and pedantic than they ever thought possible. EHRC guidance is full of contradictions - they're relying on transphobic compliance out of fear. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

What’s up, Bluesky? Well actually, I’m an Aboriginal person who just got Irish citizenship and a passport. Okay at this stage of my life it’s largely ornamental but still exciting.

Picture of an Irish passport with a bit of an Irish passport card hiding just behind it with my face on it.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/05/2026

all I ask is that if you're using the disabled loo, please join me in my side quest here bsky.app/profile/olde...

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/05/2026

if you are trans in the UK and want a radar key to use disabled loos and you can't afford the £10, my DMs are open, I can afford one for you.

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pausa de hateration @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

the important thing is this strategy of "ban everyone who is not a LinkedIn-style poster, AI apologist, and mod sycophant" is extremely sustainable and will definitely work

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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Can we avoid #BreastCancer chemo when it *won't* give any advantage? Well, yes- for example, HER2+ can avoid the heart-destroying anthracyclines, and T1a + T1b triple negtumours don't need chemo at all. (Dr Andrew Redfern notes the triple neg and HER2 titles should be swapped). #RACS26

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HER2 Positive
• All but very small T1 tumours need HER2 and chemoRx.
• For T1 disease taxane and trastuzumab very effective.
•In cases of toxicity 6 months of trastuzumab can be used especially if ER +ive or LN -ive.
• Can avoid anthracyclines, especially in ER -ive disease,
• Using NAC avoids T-DM1 for good prognosis patients.

Triple negative
• T1a and possibly T1b tumours need no chemoRx.
• For T1c disease taxane based chemoRx effective
• Could give neoadjuvant taxane with capecitabine for non-pCR.
• Capecitabine very effective in early TNBC. Can give adjuvantly.
• Can probably avoid carboplatin in post-menopausal women.
• The post-surgery component of
pembrolizumab may have no benefit. Trials should guide

Hormone Positive

• Grade 1. T1. LN -ive cases could avoid any treatment
• Adiuvant BabyTAM is promising after invasive ca. LoTam trial should confirm
• For G2. T2, NO consider genomic assays especially in young pts
• NAC and pCR give no guidance. Work on Ki67 drop is interesting
• Endocrine Rx even for 1-2 vears has big gains
• Little benefit of Al beyond 7-8 yrs. Consider in very high risk

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

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Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) @westsyduics.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New Book Alert! 📚🚨Huge congratulations to Kate Huppatz on her new co-edited book, “Motherhood, Labour and Care in the 21st Century”. Corrinne Sullivan also co-authors a chapter in the book titled, “The (mis)conception of the ‘bad’ Aboriginal mother in Australia.” tinyurl.com/fp6b4msp

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Wonderful news on gender affirming surgery. I’m really excited and a bit nervous. I’m lucky to have the support of family, a dear friend who will be providing after care, and a workplace that provides appropriate leave.

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’m still surprised by how many starter packs on here recommending follows - and from this continent - that have no Indigenous people listed. It’s almost just though we don’t exist. Maybe there’s not many of us on here, maybe that’s the reason. Maybe.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I had an amazing time over the last few days. I caught up with family and friends up here in Brisbane over the Easter break for my 60th. I kind of love the big family photo where we all look washed out. I’m feeling slightly that way today! It’s been lovely spending time with these folks.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/04/2026

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It’s the 31st of March and I just turned 60 a few minutes ago. Every year on my birthday I share it - appropriately - with the Trans Day of Visibility. Being an older Aboriginal trans person is a gift. One I’m really grateful for. #TransDayOfVisibility #TDOV

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Matthew Klugman (they/them) @raw-toast.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The IOC's betrayal of women (cis, intersex & trans) makes understanding the unnatural role of sport in maintaining the colonial gender binary even more urgent. @sandyosullivan.bsky.social, @michaelburkevu.bsky.social & I tackle the common nonsense of sport. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Sport has never been binary: fragments of a provocation

Over the last two centuries, sports have become one of the most powerful sites for the public imposition, regulation, and maintenance of the rigid colonial binaries of men and women, as well as boy...

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Devastating statistics on racism in universities in Australia. FWIW I wish it said 'Indigiphobia' (or something) instead of 'experience' to describe racism against mob. Less mollifying terms are needed in a title that also describes Islamaphobia and Antisemitism. humanrights.gov.au/resource-hub...

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Respect at Uni: Study into antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism and the experience of First Nations people

A report on the Racism@Uni Study examining the prevalence, nature and impact of racism at Australian Universities.

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Aboriginal people across the continent have been shouting out the hypocrisy of the media and govt for not talking about the explosive device thrown into a group of Invasion Day protesters in Boorloo/Perth. 1st I heard about it was from Tarneen Onus Browne. Politicians still haven’t brought it up.

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Have thoughts about queer museums, queerness in museums, or just plain being queer in museums? We'd love to hear from you. Early findings are turning out to be amazing, and we hope it helps museums do better. mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @alanaaaab.bsky.social #Queer #Museums #QueerMuseums

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Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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