Let's talk representation in media, using an example from my time as a kindy teacher 🧵

One day, I noticed an awful lot of the books we had in the classroom - in the building - had male protagonists

Like... an AWFUL lot 👀

every welfare recipient should take one look at this shit & demand subsidised housing

What the fuck?!

Our order dare so strict, they include hotel rooms, and islands that don't belong to us. It's an absolute farce to state they're nothing but strong and over reaching.

ALP are rubbish.

this is called an intentional war crime

I talk a lot about the impact of imprisonment on my body, mind and spirit. How it has robbed me of time, my health, my past, my present and much of my future.

But here’s a few ways imprisonment has impacted me that have surprised me:
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Please read this thread. I know and respect Noeleen. She's given a lot to many communities. I'm sad and angry that her pregnant granddaughter is being treated so badly by SA Health. Remote communities need better supports during this pandemic

Let’s ban any article about young millionaires/home owners/self-made entrepreneurs whose parents are, coincidentally, old millionaires.

What do you call a 'Pandemic Disaster Payment' specifically engineered NOT to go to the people who need it the most? A reverse means-testing arrangement?

Every day in this damned colony is survival day

Every goddamned day we struggle to survive.

So, sure, celebrate our survival one day a year…but please, please pay some bloody rent, you fullas, and be good tenants too

FELLOW WHITE WOMAN STOP SICCING THE COPS ON BLACK PEOPLE, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG W YOU

Cos I am feeling petty and sub tweety, Senator....

Bedwetting can occur due to a trauma like sexual assault (not all bedwetting of course there is a diverse and myriad reasons) but as a bed wetter from the aforementioned reason, it's rather a cunty thing to say as a slur.

Cutting the pay of sick people because they “brought it on themselves” is very dangerous slippery slope.

this is not good :( 'NT island community facing twin threat of cyclone and COVID-19' | NITV sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news… via NITV

MELBOURNE to BROOME DIRECT
FEBRUARY 6TH
QANTAS
Only $285, and Omicron travels free into the heart of the Kimberley with its poorly vaccinated, chronically unwell Aboriginal population and its thinly stretched healthcare.

Here’s what a lot of LGBTIQA+ people are thinking: The same federal government that spent over $100 million mailing every Australian a survey on whether we should be able to marry the person we love, still can’t send all Aussies a rapid test.

It really is a shame the most amplified voice right now on issues directly affecting trans women - esp. marginalised & poor - is a billionaire cis white abled woman who gets to sleep in a big mansion while the people she speaks on are forced to fight for a spot in a refuge 🙄

Breaking news park hotel detention in Melbourne is on fire and they keeping us in the building instead of taking us to a safe place!

This is terrible

Free them all

Since we're going the 'personal responsibility' route on COVID, why not other health & safety issues - drugs, euthanasia, bike helmets, etc?

So unbelievably funny to me that a nanny state like Australia suddenly believes in letting people choose their own fate during a pandemic.