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Vivian Gerrand

@vivsoph.bsky.social
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Writing about alternative narratives, belonging, migration, polarisation, radicalisation and resilience.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
It's the murderers to blame for Bondi; not Muslims, Arabs, leftists, or peace marchers on the Sydney Harbour Bridge #bondi #auspol michaelwest.com.au/taking-advan...
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Taking Advantage of A national Tragedy | The West Report - Michael West
Who to blame for the Bondi Beach mass-shooting? Not Muslims, not Arabs, not peace protestors marching on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It was the men who fired the bullets. In the aftermath of the Bondi...
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Vivian Gerrand @vivsoph.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Great to have had the chance to write this piece for the Conversation's Mapping the Manosphere series with @debbieging.bsky.social, @joshroose.bsky.social and @michaelgflood.bsky.social Big thanks to @erincooperdouglas.bsky.social for her vision and curation. theconversation.com/hustle-muscl...
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Hustle, muscle and grift: how the manosphere has grown into a money-making machine
No longer relegated to an obscure corner of the internet, manfluencers have found ways to expand their audiences and exploit them for profit.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 30/10/2025
Australia is one of the richest countries in the world, yet our tax system is delivering underfunded services and growing inequality. Making giant gas companies and millionaires pay their fair share would be a step towards a better Australia. @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Thomas Mayo @thomasmayo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
If you don’t know the details about Dutton’s flip flopping policies, vote No to Liberal National candidate in the federal election.
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Institute for Research on Male Supremacism @irms.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
☀️ Good morning, IRMS fam! It’s Day 2 of #IRMS2025, and we’re just getting started. Today brings more powerful panels, critical conversations, and opportunities to connect across borders in the fight against male supremacism. #IRMSConf
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Institute for Research on Male Supremacism @irms.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🌍✨ Today’s the day! Welcome to #IRMS2025 — our virtual global gathering on confronting male supremacism begins today! Whether you’re joining from your morning coffee or late-night tea, we’re so glad you’re here. 📲 Stay tuned here for updates & highlights all day. Let’s go! #IRMS2025 #IRMSConf
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)
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Vivian Gerrand @vivsoph.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A privilege to have chapter on conspirituality and radicalization published in this exciting new collection edited by colleagues Michele Grossman and Hisham Hellyer. Open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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Jennifer Walter | Sociologist 🇨🇭 @itsjenniferwalter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
As a Sociologist, I need to tell you the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Richard Flanagan bells the cat. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Albanese’s inaction drives his own party towards extinction
Under Anthony Albanese, Labor gives the ever stronger impression that it has never seen a corporation that it won’t prostrate itself to.
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Vivian Gerrand @vivsoph.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Tomorrow! All welcome to experience Local Positioning Systems, a sonic art installation by Sonia Leber and David Chesworth made from archives of local precariously housed individual voices.
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Vivian Gerrand @vivsoph.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics | ‘The party needs to provide a new vision of a society that offers education and opportunity to all…’ Joseph Stiglitz www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics | Joseph Stiglitz
The party must return to its progressive roots. A new economy is needed with new rules and new roles
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Crucial piece by @astra.bsky.social on how MAGA deployed the tactics of basic community organizing to base build, which beats a lot of knocks on doors from strangers and endless texts... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Democrats should stop mocking Trump’s ground game and start learning from it
Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
One in five Australian renters are living without essential items and in poverty, peak body study finds www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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Struggling Australians being forced into poverty with 'nowhere affordable to live'
More than 20 per cent of Australian renters are living in poverty after their rent has been paid, a new study has found.
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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It was a privilege to be interviewed on Al Jazeera's The Take podcast exploring 'Why is Australia trying to ban social media for children?', with some real space to unpack the many challenges with a blanket ban (noting, this is a call for more & better regulation, not none!) youtu.be/Wf_zq8j7Hds?...
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Why is Australia trying to ban social media for children? | The Take
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Kate FitzGerald @katemfitzgerald.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I have already posted about this ~elsewhere~, but I was very excited to recently receive my copy of this edited volume I contributed to with a number of incredible colleagues in the conspiracy theory research space. Peek Chapter 10 - “QAnon as a Contemporary Re-emergence of the Satanic Panic”. 🎉🥳
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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