NonsenseM

Australians, this time of year is extremely difficult for many people. A thread (in progress) for contacts; 000 if life is in danger. 1300 659 467 : National Suicide Call Back Service (15+) 1800 55 1800 : Kid's Helpline (5-25yrs) 1800 184 527 : QLife (LGBTQI folks)

@torak Ikr!! Eleanor is 12 in October 🤯

@NonsenseMJ GET THE FUCK OUTTA TOWN

18.

First Indigenous Australian woman to serve on higher court will be ACT's new chief magistrate | Region Canberra share.google/qZSUaFr4uhVe6f… This is 🔥 I miss seeing her thoughts regularly, but so amazing.

@RRDirector Very prevalent here, too, particularly for Indigenous students, and also underresearched.

Good morning, I wanted to share some thoughts on the French mayoral result and in particular the widespread harassment of @BallyBagayoko by all corners of French society and the national press which is in many ways, prototypical. He is amongst the most intelligent, eloquent, and eligible figures within the wave of political potential uncovered by the recent election of Black mayors into power in France. That reality is precisely what makes this moment so revealing and what illuminates the racist violence he has be subjected to. Some of you may remember findings from my research on racial violence/trauma a few years ago: it was actually the most gifted Black students/people who tended to experience the most brutality within institutions, and who were therefore most at risk of racial traumatisation. I remember being so troubled by this finding at the time. It may feel counterintuitive, but it makes sense if you stop and think about: 1) stratification transgression 2) historical scripts or what used to happen to subjugated Black people who sought education or were more clever than their master 3) the disruption risks they pose to the system and 4) the reality that they are less likely to be conformists/assimilationists and more likely to be read as rebellious, which in itself is a highly racialised risk factor. This is an underexplored area, particularly empirically, because we are too busy using deficit or pathology lenses. My hypothesis has since been that there is likely a higher level of giftedness/intelligence among Black kids failed by education systems compared to white kids (though that phenomenon also exists in this group) and compared to the general Black population. That throws on its head racial discourses around the so-called achievement gap. It forces us to reframe and rethink: what if there was a widespread issue of misrecognition and systemic hostility toward Black talent, currently masked by lack/deficiency explanatory models? Once more we see echoes of this hostility and an aversion towards Black talent, within political institutions in France at the moment. I would NOT say the dynamic is unique to France at all, and yet I also know that there is something deeply culturally anchored in Frenchness as intellectual sophistication that is relevant too in terms of racialised responses to Black sophistication. When Lewis Gordon talks about a fear of Black consciousness, he posits that Black awareness, articulation, and critique of the world are destabilising forces and threatening to systems that depend on the myths of white superiority. Black consciousness as critical social and historical becomes disruptive in itself. It unsettles who gets to define reality, exposes gaps in dominant narratives, and heightens the sense of disruption. So the response is often not just exclusion, but containment, surveillance, over-scrutinising, delegitimising, diluting its potential/power. It’s not just that Black talent draws averse reactions, which it does but it triggers systemic defenses and hostile protection of prevailing social configurations. What we’re witnessing in France is not reaction to otherness, quite the opposite; it is fear of a Blackness that can express itself and behave in ways systems expect. That can use the grammar and template required by whiteness to de-centre it. When that capacity becomes visible within systems built to crash it, racist violence becomes inevitable. And this is what is happening before our very eyes publicly, and … before our very eyes, more covertly within less public facing institutions.

@imogenrq No, no, then it's an "ear infection" 🫶

All of parenting is just saying ‘oh yeah he’s teething I think’ until they grow all their teeth or you die. I don’t know what comes first.

@ayjaytee0815 "Aaaand now you're black listed"

@1KarenWyld We were talking about amazing fiction we had read 💜 And I was recommending you & Claire

@1KarenWyld Hey, I was talking about your work in class today, is it okay to use Ren Wyld, or is it K.A. Ren Wyld when discussing your writing?

@Brocklesnitch @nichmelbourne This remains one of the greatest things ever. I loved the contact Tracy's (Tracies?)

Some people might argue a comedy sketch can’t be art but they are wrong and shut up

@LisaB_29 I AM NOT OK 😂

@NonsenseMJ STOP IT!!!! 18!!!!

Lucas is 18 in 20 days, just in case you were feeling young. He bought this Lightning McQueen shirt from savers, and he was so excited. It was adorable.

@fuzzybluerain There's probably more, but tbh I have mostly been living off poached or scrambled eggs recently because I have been so tired and T has been feeding the kids

@fuzzybluerain I made stir fried rice for Grace last night, and then portioned that into serves and will freeze what she hasn't eaten by tonight (sometimes she likes to eat it for breakfast 😅).

one of the things i'm struggling with as an adult is organising meals. i don't want to repeat the same things too regularly, and vary up some of what i have, but then i have to get through the meat and stuff i have in the fridge and it makes me overthink it

@abmis0 Take me back to activated almonds

100% of the time when you see a topic become discourse on twitter it’s Bad

I was invited to apply to do my third year placement in the APY lands and I found out today I was successful! I am so looking forward to learning from and with Anangu students and educators. We have a three day induction at Iriwi, and then I head to Uluru on the 10th May!