Post #1560804
2026-04-23 06:30 UTC
“But the thing to me that is most pressing about this whole story is the precedent that this sets: that even a kids’ book about a river written by an Aboriginal person on Aboriginal land can be destroyed because of a right wing media campaign.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/23/uq-press-cancels-childrens-book-university-of-queensland-ntwnfb
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@ki_sekiya@aus.social 2026-04-23 06:33
“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