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2026-04-23 06:33 UTC

“A children’s picture book scrapped. Just like that. An Indigenous children’s picture book where Indigenous children can read themselves into the literary landscape. A book so needed in this settler colony, where Indigenous children are incarcerated at a higher rate than any other. Cancelled. Erased. Pulped. Because Zionists made those of you up top tremble. But I tremble at your immoral choice, and for that I have made the decision never to sign with you again” https://allaboutnatalia.substack.com/p/terminating-my-relationship-with

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@ki_sekiya@aus.social 2026-04-23 06:38

“Yesterday, news broke that the University of Queensland Press—which is the publisher of my poetry—has declared they will pulp 5,000 copies of a new children’s book Bila, a river cycle by Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money and illustrated by Matt Chun, on the basis of complaints from Zionists at “The Australian” about Matt’s supposed anti-Semitism. These books are already published, sitting in a warehouse somewhere, and they are going to be destroyed for no good reason. I know Jazz personally, and this informs my rage, in all honesty, because Jazz is such a beautiful person and wonderful poet but even were that not the case, this would still be a disgraceful decision on UQP’s part.” https://sakr.substack.com/p/the-cultural-apartheid-in-australias

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