Can't even begin to comment on how scary the draconian US book bans are! "Classics like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye are among the “harmful” books being banned."

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 2y ago

As executive orders ban teaching ‘gender ideology’ and ‘critical race theory’ and the Big Five publishers file a joint lawsuit against book bans, a new era begins.

A great read about the courageous life of the Longs! We should all take a leaf from their book. "...Barbarism grows in the chasm between rich and poor. Decades of neoliberal capitalism have helped it germinate...fight the lurch to the authoritarian right."

Melissa Sweet@melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 2y ago

"In a new Gilded Age where the rich get stratospherically richer and the rest get the picture, my father’s warning that inequality is fertile soil for fascism — a proposition backed by many scholars — looks like sage advice:" Stephen Long thepolitics.com.au/trumps-toadi...

On the anniversary of Kevin Rudd's apology, The Conversation has published our brief article drawing on findings from our recent systematic review: Removing babies is still harming First Nations families, almost two decades after the apology to Stolen Generations theconversation.com/removing-bab...

Removing babies is still harming First Nations families, almost two decades after the apology to Stolen Generations

Indigenous children are 11 times more likely to be removed than non-Indigenous children. Babies under one are at greatest risk.

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Our systematic review of parents' experiences of child protection during & after pregnancy is freely available doi.org/10.1016/j.ch... Big thanks to contributors, original researchers, & participating parents! @emilyked.bsky.social @lisamorriss.bsky.social @karenb-2.bsky.social #academicsky