Madeleine O'Dea
@madeleineodea.bsky.social
Writer at large. Author of The Phoenix Years, Allen & Unwin, 2016; Pegasus Books, 2017. Contributor to The Beijing Bureau, Hardie Grant, 2021. Deep in a new book ✍️ AKA: 欧美琳 madeleineodea.com
40 years ago today, 2 February, 1986, I landed in China for the first time. It changed my life 💃✍️🀄️ (though I never did learn how to skate 🙃) #china🇨🇳 #ContemporaryArt #ThePhoenixYears
Throw your arms around me! Yes! But wish it had cracked the top ten #Hottest100 #HuntersandCollectors
Global Voices – Hundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasies globalvoices.org/2025/06/25/h...
Hundreds of women writers arrested as China extends crackdown on ‘Boys’ Love’ fantasies
BL is a subversive genre for women to explore their sexuality beyond gender stereotypes, as its relationships eschew expressions of dominance and reproductive function.
globalvoices.org
How it started, how it's going 😃 Have read one (!) book from my original stack, and a whole bunch that weren't on it at all, including #Middlemarch (just as brilliant as I'd always been promised 💜📚) #bookstack #booksky #reading #amreading #amwriting
Madeleine O'Dea@madeleineodea.bsky.social · 2y agoContemplating my 2025 bookstack 😃📚 #booksky #HanKang #MurakamiHaruki #Kawabata #HilaryMantel #SiangLu #WillSelf #MaryRenault #Cities #GhostCities #WeimarRepublic #Rome #AlexandertheGreat #Greece #Gwangju #Japan #China
The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... Fascinating insights in the latest from Peter Hessler in @newyorker.com 🀄️
The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard
Amid escalating threats from the Trump Administration, a student assesses whom he can turn to.
newyorker.com
@christietime.bsky.social Loved your India episode! Really fun and enlightening to see Christie through a different lens. Look forward to your next outing @christietime.bsky.social
3 China correspondents, over 3 decades, with 3 views of the Chinese artist, Aniwar Mamat. Image 1, the late, path-finding, Yvonne Preston, illustrating her piece for "The Age" on the opening of the pioneering Red Gate Gallery with work by Aniwar.
Interesting new angle on #Gaugin by #SuePrideaux in @theGuardian.com ‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light #BookSky
A travesty of justice and a profound embarrassment to the United States
Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · last yr.NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife, Noor, files an upsetting but powerful statement with the court: "The past week has been the worst of my life, and I find myself without my single greatest source of support, in my time of greatest need." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Jim Sciutto@jimsciutto.bsky.social · last yr.Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
Always nice to see your book in the wild, but especially in such interesting company (at Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney) 😃📚 #ThePhoenixYears #ContemporaryArt #China #ArtGalleryofNSW #BookSky 🀄️
Save #USAid
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last yr.Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…
The last weekend of Magritte at the Art Gallery of NSW. Why did I wait so long? #artsky #Magritte #ArtGalleryofNSW #Sydney
Marina Hyde @theGuardian.com aces it 👏👏 #DeepSeek #AI #TechBros #MarinaHyde #China 🀄️ Oh, I’m sorry, tech bros – did DeepSeek copy your work? I can hardly imagine your distress
I met Marianne Faithfull in 1996, when I produced an interview she did for ABC TV. We’d been given strict instructions by her “people” on no account to get personal, and in particular to NEVER MENTION MICK JAGGER. She was touring Australia with a new show based on her interpretation of Kurt Weill
This 👇 #auspol
Amy Remeikis@amyremeikis.bsky.social · 2y agoJust re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.
Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.
www.smh.com.au/business/the... Yep ☹️ #auspol #AustralianElection
This could be the year voters get their priorities wrong
A protest vote on the cost of living will achieve little. The best election outcome would be a minority government dependent on the support of those who get the urgency of climate action.
smh.com.au
新年快乐🎉 Happy New Year everyone! May the “little dragon” be kinder to us than its big brother was in the past year 😎 A Very Happy Year of the Snake to you all! 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🐍 🎉 🀄️
