laura ticehurst
@percyandfriends.bsky.social
Historian on Awabakal land, she/her
My column this week is about how fat people can’t win and I’m fucking sick of it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fat people cannot win, regardless of what we do. And I’ve had enough | Rebecca Shaw
Using weight loss drugs like Ozempic is not ‘cheating’ – and why does it matter how a person changes their body anyway?
theguardian.com
Awesome crowd at the march for Palestine in Newcastle today. Stop looking away.
Cute historian lunch with these wonderful colleagues!
Effie Karageorgos@eleaud.bsky.social · last yr.A fun lunch today w some of the brilliant historians who taught into the UofNewcastle 700+ student topic HIST1051: The Australian Experience that I convene. Pictured: Pearl Nunn, Rob Wyse, Srishti Guha & Laura Ticehurst (only half of the full team)! I’m very lucky to work with these amazing people 👏🏼
Sam Kerr acquitted! How embarrassing for that man. She was so smart and calm when it must have been supremely infuriating to listen to all that again.
Breaking breaking breaking: Israel is carrying intense air strikes on Gaza City right now. Update to the previous post: a neighbor of the bombed houses believes there are at least 15 people under the rubble. I previously wrote that 5 people were killed.
From a statement by the Palestinian Youth Movement on ig @palestinianyouthmovement
Use your excitement and relief to help a Palestinian in Gaza today - share their fundraisers, donate, use this energy to help them survive. They have a long road ahead.
Free Palestine Christmas mural seen in Newcastle, NSW
At universities across Australia, casuals are getting screwed over and over and over. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
Lucy’s job should be more secure – but at Australian universities, labour laws are having the opposite effect
Closing loopholes bill was designed to offer a pathway to full-time work but some casual academics say it’s not a reality
google.com
Over and over and over and over and over. "The area was previously designated by Israel as a so-called 'humanitarian safe zone' for civilians, but the Israeli army ordered residents, many of them displaced multiple times already, to leave before a new military operation there."
Photos: Thousands flee as Israel orders evacuations in Gaza’s Deir el-Balah
Displaced Palestinians have been forced to move again, but say no place is safe in the besieged enclave.
aljazeera.com
Student encampment at University of Newcastle 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Support request to help get some Palestinian folks to safety. Please share and contribute here if you have the means to do so: gofund.me/be9b0f2d #FreePalestine 🇵🇸💔
13,000 Palestinians are dead. 1.7 million displaced. There is no rationale, no defense, no angle or argument, historical or contemporary, that makes this slaughter acceptable. There is no justification, and there shall be no forgiveness for America’s complicity and material aid in this horror.
More than 96 percent of the water supply in Gaza is “unfit for human consumption,” per the UN.
Israeli Authorities’ Cutting of Water Leading to Public Health Crisis in Gaza
After more than a month of the Israeli government’s unlawful blockade of Gaza, which has included catastrophic cuts to water, fuel, and electricity, the lack of clean water is resulting in “grave ...
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All intensive care patients at al-Shifa Hospital have died, according to the facility’s director: ‘We are left with nothing, no power, no food, no water. With every passing minute, we are losing a life. Overnight we lost 22 persons.’
‘All ICU patients’ dead in al-Shifa amid Israel raid: Hospital director
Al-Shifa director says at least 22 people died overnight at the complex, and 55 in three days.
aljazeera.com
