Philip (Piripi) McKibbin
@piripi.net
Writer, PhD graduate (SEI/USyd), teacher. 🤓 All about the Politics of Love! 🥝 - Māori (Kāi Tahu), Pākehā - based in 🐊🦘🕸️ …for now. ❤️s colour! 🎨✨
‘And your mind never relinquishes what really matters.’ – Verlyn Klinkenborg
‘…it is in choosing love, and beginning with love as the ethical foundation for politics, that we are best positioned to transform society in ways that enhance the collective good.’ - bell hooks www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
Outlaw Culture
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares abou…
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Another recommendation from one of my students. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
Thou shalt kill. A world with no hunger, no disease, n…
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'...Stewart gave Roddenberry’s faith in progress a persuasive human form. If Star Trek was always about showing us how far humankind might travel in the next four centuries, he helped us believe we might actually have grown up by the time we got there.' www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
On Star Trek, Patrick Stewart could make anyone feel hopeful for humanity
As Jean-Luc Picard in seven seasons, four films and a sequel, Stewart made us believe the most interesting person in the room might also be the most humane
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‘I’m not scared of flying too close to the sun… ’ open.spotify.com/track/6qZCPU...
Scared of Flying
Strawpeople · The Best Of 1990>2000 · Song · 2000
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Fans across the world mourn the passing of a true and irreplaceable legend. As Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart took the starship Enterprise to places it had never gone before.
'“I think I’ve been in denial about my life for a very long time,” he said... “I never really took on board how successful I had become. Even today I sometimes think, ‘You’re a lucky son of a bitch, Patrick,’ when something unexpected or good happens to me.”' www.theguardian.com/culture/2026... 😭
Patrick Stewart, Star Trek actor and acclaimed thespian, dies aged 86
Star Trek: the Next Generation and X-Men actor died at his home after ‘a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia’
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‘I made peace long ago with the reality that dissenting opinions often make one an outsider…’ - bell hooks
‘Mist on the glass, watch it all come to pass…’ open.spotify.com/track/5Y4xy4...
Part of Me, Part of You
The Finn Brothers · Everyone Is Here · Song · 2004
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‘But Faustus being of a naughty mind and otherwise addicted, applied not his studies, but took himself to other exercises…’ www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
The English Faust Book: A Critical Edition Based on the…
First published in 1994, this scholarly edition of a ma…
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Another recommendation from a student of mine. (I’ve gotten into the habit of reading anything and everything my kids recommend. It’s good for both of us, I think.) www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
The Book Thief
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be fou…
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‘And is it still raining back in November?’ open.spotify.com/track/2QCaIZ...
Did I Ever Love You
Leonard Cohen · Popular Problems · Song · 2014
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'Over the past decade, some conservatives have invoked principles of academic freedom and free speech in order to subvert both...' www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas
The state now controls what professors can teach.
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