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Stephen Morgan

@drsmorgan.com

De/anti-colonialism, Indigenous Cinemas, Settler National Cinemas (CANZUS). Settler kid, raised on Peramangk country. Programming: londonaustfilm.com Teaching: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social

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Stephen Morgan@drsmorgan.com · 3mo ago

This extremely infrequent post is brought to you by a long week, a nice beer, some warm weather, and me remembering that The Battle of Los Angeles includes some absolute belters.

A screengrab of Sleep Now in the Fire, from Rage Against the Machine's album The Battle of Los Angeles, playing on Tidal.
daniel sieradski@self.agency · 4mo ago

it will never cease to fill me with anger and sadness how israel instrumentalizes the holocaust to justify its policies and deflect criticism of itself while conducting itself in ways that mirror the atrocities committed against us and calling this observation "holocaust inversion"

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just a meme shared on Lebanese social media And yes this is a real story. Israel is targeting Lebanese Shias and explicitly warning Christians and Druze not to shelter them

You are sheltering Muslims underneath your floorboards, aren't you? Yes. Ryan Grim @ryangrim • 8 jam Israel is explicitly warning Christian and Druze residents in southern Lebanon not to hide Muslim residents among them as their forces advance.
Stephen Morgan@drsmorgan.com · 5mo ago

The KCL Strand Film Festival starts next Weds, curated by Film Festivals & Film Festival Studies students at @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social! 6 days of filmy brilliance incl. interactive horror + queer docs + filmmaker masterclasses + AI/AV raves + much more. FREE TIX! www.kcl.ac.uk/events/kcl-s...

KCL Strand Film Festival 2026 | King's College London

The student-led KCL Strand Film Festival returns for its ninth instalment, with an exciting programme of features, short films, special guests, and live performances.

kcl.ac.uk

Stephen Morgan@drsmorgan.com · 5mo ago

The fact that a pretty right wing guy I know just posted elsewhere about watching One Battle After Another and saying how much he loved it really tells you everything you need to know. It's a fine film, but please let's stop pretending it's some sort of radical political statement.

Travis Johnson@travisjj.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My hot take is that the way X-Men has historically depicted Australia in general and Indigenous Australian characters in particular is cringy AF and I am praying for some kind of course correction. Like, Bishop is canonically Indigenous. They've never, to my knowledge, even named his Nation.

Atomic Geekdom@atomicgeekdom.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Marvel Comics has announced ‘X-Men: Outback’ A new five issue mini series that returns to the X-Men’s “Outback Era” Written by Steve Orlando with art by Stephen Segovia Beginning June 24

Stephen Morgan@drsmorgan.com · 5mo ago

Just scrolled past some (white) commentator suggesting that if SINNERS wins Best Picture but Coogler doesn't win Best Director it would be a 'problem'. But why are those two things interlinked? It's entirely possible to think it's the best film overall, but not the best directed, surely?

Stephen Morgan@drsmorgan.com · 5mo ago

Wait. So if Iran are the 'hidden hand' behind Hamas, Hezbollah, etc., and Russia is the 'hidden hand' behind Iran, who is the 'hidden hand' behind Russia and is it puppets all the way down?

A screenshot of the Guardian website with a headline reading: "Putin's 'hidden have' lies behind Iran's drone tactics, UK defence secretary says".
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.

Johnnie Jae@johnniejae.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Cherokee Film Productions, the Cherokee Nation’s production company, has released a first-look trailer for an upcoming feature-length documentary focused on Cherokee Freedmen. redpopnews.com/cherokee-fil...

Cherokee Film Productions Teases Documentary on Cherokee Freedmen With First-Look Trailer

Cherokee Film Productions, the Cherokee Nation's production company, has released a first-look trailer for an upcoming feature-length documentary focused on Cherokee Freedmen.

redpopnews.com

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Personally speaking, I would not proclaim this loudly that I am crappy at my job, and that I lack imagination, critical thinking or insight, but each to their own I guess?

‪Alexander Kustov‬ ‪@akoustov.bsky.social‬ · 18h Sorry, Bluesky, but I have to say it: AI can already do social science research better than most professors with PhDs. And, for the first time in my life, I really have no idea what happens in five years. Things are changing already, we just need to wake up.
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Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 5mo ago

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

theguardian.com

Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · last yr.

The key paragraph from @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social's powerful piece describing the urgency of our present moment. They are right, and we better move quickly.

To move forward with focus, we must first understand this simple fact: we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.
Stephen Morgan@drsmorgan.com · 5mo ago

Utterly gutless. These supposed 'leaders' have the moral fortitude of those pissweak little toadies that hang around with bullies, and go squealing to the teacher the bullied kids start fighting back.

Screenshot of a Guardian update on the situation in the middle east. The headline reads: "UK, Germany and France condemn Iranian attacks" and goes on to note that: "The UK, Germany and France have condemned Iranian attacks on countries in the region, saying Iran must refrain from indiscriminate military strikes. They did not comment on US and Israeli attacks on Iran. British prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz issued a statement Saturday saying their countries didn’t take part in the strikes on Iran but are in close contact with the US, Israel and partners in the region. The three countries have led efforts to reach a negotiated solution over Iran’s nuclear program."