Bronwyn Clarke
@bronwync.bsky.social
Dress historian, historical dressmaker esp. 1750-1920 every day dress | Spinner, weaver, knitter, quilter, maker| Also novelist (as Bronwyn Parry)| Australian | Social justice matters| On Wadawarrung Country| She/her stitchinghistory.com bronwynparry.com
It's Frocktober! I'm wearing a frock every day for the Australian Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation's campaign to raise awarenes of Ovarian cancer, and research funds. It's the most deadly of gynaecological cancers, and there's no early detection test. www.frocktober.org.au/fundraise/br...
More gas is used to convert gas to LNG exports than is used by the entire manufacturing industry. We don't need more gas. #NoNewGas #TAXtheGAS
we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind
I don't understand where they think we're going to get the additional 4,000 GPs to replace those retiring in the next 5 years without migration. Are any doctors going to want to move to Australia without their families? What's the plan for hospitality & farm workers without backpackers? #auspol
Every single Pauline Hanson story reporting on her latest racist comments should also include that a court has upheld that she racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi.
I wish all the crafters would start writing blogs (not Substack) again. Let's pretend IG doesn't exist and instead share longer form writing, or just pictures, again. Let's reclaim the blog community we used to have... #Blogging
A scientific paper already has a carefully thought out abstract & conclusions I can look at if I want an overview. A book is supposed to be a joy to read, an intellectual and emotional experience to relish. This is not something that advanced statistics can either add to or improve on.
You were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?
A lovely few days back in Armidale, and I presented at the Folk Museum on my re-creation of an 1884 wedding dress - the 1st time the dresses have been together. Alas, I did not get proper photos, only this quick snap. I’m kicking myself I didn’t take better photos and hope someone did.
Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...
We never write history just once. Any person or group who thinks they can get to a “best version” of history and then be done does not understand anything about history, historiography, archives, or data.
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
Basquiat seyde that "art ys how we decorate space, and musique ys how we decorate tyme." It doth followe that poetrye ys how we decorate thoughte and sense, and narratyve ys how we decorate memorye. And all are middel fingeres agaynste death. Make art, or else.
A reminder that AI, even the supposedly more advanced and dependable AI systems that your institution/university pushes you and your students to use will make stuff up (aka lie to you). Don't depend on it.
For in this love he now felt there was compassion: without which love is untempered, and is not whole, and does not last.
13.Before we judge we are shaped by everything that brought this moment to us. After we respond, someone else will be shaped by what we bring into it. Sensitivity sees we participate in unfolding reality, not reacting to isolated events. Every moment is both an inheritance & an offering (cont)
Publication day today for The Women Who Clothed the Stuart Queens! See this 🧵 for a chapter breakdown. Discount code & links in my bio.
'the Humanities and Social Sciences....disciplines ask not just “what works?” but “for whom?”, “at what cost?”, “under what assumptions?” and “towards what kind of society?” They are central to good policy, democratic accountability and social mobility.' Essential reading. Read it. 3/3
A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.
"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." -Ursula K. Le Guin, *A War Without End*
Counterpoint: Since A.I. is built on intellectual property theft and the irreversible destruction of our natural resources, the wealth it generates must be seized for reparations, and the people enabling it thrown in jail.
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off.
Under no circumstances are ‘the people of Clacton’ a substitute for the rule of law.
