Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land. I attended the Invasion Day 2018 protest. Check my Twitter for discussion of the speakers earlier in the day, at The Block, Redfern. This was prior to our march to the Yabun Festival. Some highlights include the following comments from speakers.
Talking Cure, by Australian artist Anne Wallace, explores inner reflection by evoking a scene using Freud’s psychoanalytic process. Photo: Zuleyka Zevallos. Continue reading Talking Cure
Why yes, that is a Freud doll (with Edgar Allan Poe staring in the background)! Continue reading Freud and Poe Walked Into a Bar
I marched at the Marriage Equality rally in Sydney this afternoon among with 30,000 people! It’s the biggest LGBTQIA protest in Australian history and also the biggest rally ever in Sydney.
Continue reading “Marriage Equality”
Fourteen year old Elijah Doughty was killed by a White man who only received three years backdated to his arrest. We cannot allow this nation to continue killing Indigenous people with impunity.
Continue reading “Justice for Elijah”
In the month of August, people who are homeless occupied one of Sydney’s most famous sites, Martin Square, to protest lack of secure, affordable housing.
Continue reading “‘As Long as Poverty, Injustice and Gross Inequality Persist in Our World’”I interviewed Associate Professor Kathleen Butler, sociologist and Aboriginal woman belonging to the Bundjalung and Worimi peoples of coastal New South Wales, who led the “Indigenous Sociology for Social Impact” workshop. Continue reading Decolonising Theory, Methods, and Practice
I’ve been thinking a bit about social marketing lately because I’ve being managing communications and media for research organisations and not for profits for many years. In general, marketing in the social sciences could be enhanced, especially in my field of sociology.
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I’ve been participating in an ongoing conversation on Twitter with other researchers about the sustained hero-worshipping of famous scientists who have a public record of sexism, racism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination.
Continue reading “End the Hero-Worship of Bigoted Scientists”
Social science shows how space affects people’s enjoyment in public places. One study of the Tate Museum used behavioural observation methods and computer simulations to study visitors.
Continue reading “Space and the Museum”
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