Olga Prokopis
@olgaphoos.bsky.social
I live and work on unceded Brayakaulung country. Disabled scholar researching Shakespeare and Richard III. Graduate researcher in history at Deakin University.
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Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · yesterdayThe white shoes symbolize the medical professionals who lost their lives while providing care. The installation was organized as a peaceful memorial and a call for greater protection of healthcare workers in conflict zones.
Why does Thomas More’s History of Richard III retain such authority when its account of the princes’ murder is so uncertain? #RichardIII www.historicalreputation.au/the-fate-of-...
The fate of the princes: Cartesian anxiety and narrative closure in Thomas More’s History of Richard III -
The curious similarity between England’s last medieval king and one of the early martyrs of Henry VIII’s reign lies in their afterlives. Both King Richard III and Sir Thomas More have been claimed by ...
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Disturbing commercialisation of Australia's unis exposed at ICAC corruption investigation - VC job for lavish consultant deal at UOW. Adam Lucas & James Guthrie #auspol michaelwest.com.au/uni-of-wollo...
Uni of Wollongong and KordaMentha: The tangled dollar-webs they weaved - Michael West
The NSW ICAC has uncovered a web of conflicting interests at the University of Wollongong, involving executives and consultants KordaMentha.
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Still time to submit to the Hooligan Street #Poetry August issue hooliganstreetpoetry.org/submissions/
The only 'summer of love' in Richard III is in the most heartbreaking scene “Thus, thus,” quoth Forrest, “girdling one another Within their alabaster innocent arms. Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, And in their summer beauty kissed each other. #RichardIII 4.3.10-13 #ShakespeareSunday
78 Years of Genocide: August 2nd Newsletter
78 Years of Genocide: August 2nd Newsletter
Israeli occupiers set fire to 2 mosques in occupied West Bank
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I'm about to start researching my next chapter, after a tedious six months of revisions and rejections and more revisions, and I am SO looking forward to this. I was going to focus part of this chapter on the broader pre-Romantic period and Richard III, but Mary Shelley is much more interesting
Segal proposes antisemitism taskforce over health regulators, professional boards, hospitals, govt departments, unis, primary, secondary and preschools. @sstephanietrann.bsky.social reports Royal Commission #auspol michaelwest.com.au/segal-propos...
Segal proposes antisemitism taskforce for health sector, education down to preschool - Michael West
Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, told the Royal Commission her national antisemitism taskforce would expand in health sector and education down to pre-school. Stephanie Tran report...
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It’s odd being a middle-aged PhD candidate and constantly discovering how naive you still are about academia 🤦🏻♀️ Apparently dodgy citation suggestions are a thing in my discipline too.
Enid did not think or write as a child. She thought and wrote as a teacher
Unmistakably Blytonian: Modernising The Magic Faraway Tree - Nerdalicious
It’s almost a rhetorical question: can Enid Blyton be modernised? Of course she can. And anyone still unconvinced need only look at the ninety-four episodes of the Malory Towers tv series. Some disgru...
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Three very chilled pigs in front of a pen, Karel du Jardin, 1652 (Rijksmuseum)
This is how settlement expansion works: seizure, military protection, then legal recognition. A wave of settler violence swept a dozen West Bank villages after armed settlers stormed Tell, where Israeli forces killed 4 Palestinians. Layth Malhis reports: palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
“Poor Frog,” said Toad. “He must be very sad. I will cheer him up.” Toad ran home. He made sandwiches. He made a pitcher of iced tea. He put everything in a basket.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.
Matthew L Reznicek@drreznicek.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.
Matthew L Reznicek@drreznicek.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.
Matthew L Reznicek@drreznicek.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Magdalena Donea | 🇷🇴 🇬🇷 🏳️🌈 ♿️@maggy.kia.net · last wk.post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.
Matthew L Reznicek@drreznicek.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
Then you perceive the body of our kingdom How foul it is, what rank diseases grow, And with what danger, near the heart of it.
QUEEN ELIZABETH Ah, who shall hinder me to wail and weep, To chide my fortune and torment myself? I’ll join with black despair against my soul And to myself become an enemy. #RichardIII 2.2.35-38 #ShakespeareSunday
Natural selection may not be the only force that has contributed to the evolution of channel millet’s unusual genetics.
Aboriginal people harvested this native grass for millennia. Scientists have now found an odd trait in its DNA
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