Have we considered studying the cause of neurotypicality in children? I hear itβs terminal (and not even in the train-stop sense).
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Have we considered studying the cause of neurotypicality in children? I hear itβs terminal (and not even in the train-stop sense).
joining the war on autism on the side of autism
Quote a single autistic person in your articles about autism challenge.
nice final draft you got there. be a shame if you keep revising it for the rest of your life even after itβs published
I said at the outset that as annoying as it can be, laws we disagree with being passed is simply a feature of democratic government. What I do think we should all legitimately get angry at, whether we like what any given government is doing or not, is when government tries to get around the parts of our system which make it explain itself. Things like the overuse of urgency in Parliament. Official Information Act shenanigans. Making certain decisions immune from judicial review. Absent or inadequate consultation. Cynical media management to avoid explaining things government finds embarrassing. It's easy to dismiss this as process stuff that only nerds and lawyers (guilty!) care about. But when a government doesn't explain itself, it makes it almost impossible to understand what it is doing, why, and whether that will affect our vote at the next election. And that can't be dismissed as just process.
Wrote this column 2 years ago to the week, under a different government.
Think it was holds up pretty well.
And a different government is hiding from scrutiny in multiple different ways.
www.thepost.co.nz/a/politics/3...
Nope, no clue
If you are a NZ author, I urge you to check the LibGEN database to see if your books have been scrapped by Meta. If so, the NZSA is collecting names (and book titles) in preparation for an international class action lawsuit. #NZWrites #WritingCommunity authors.org.nz/books-scrape...
Award-winning New Zealand novelist Rachael King's THE GRIMMELINGS, a middle grade fantasy steeped in Scottish folklore for fans of Katherine Rundell and The Whisperwicks, in which a girl and her loyal pony must break the curse of a malevolent kelpie (water horse) that is stalking her family, and SONG OF THE SALTINGS, a YA folk horror fantasy, to Karen Wojtyla at Margaret K. McElderry Books by Gaia Banks at Sheil Land Associates, for publication in Fall 2025 a Summer 2026 respectively. Rights also to Allen & Unwin in Australia and New Zealand, and Guppy Books in the UK.
I have US publishing news to share. What makes this incredibly meaningful to me is that MKM (now an imprint of S&S) was the original publisher of Susan Cooperβs The Dark is Rising, and was the American publisher of our beloved Margaret Mahy. Fairy godmothers both. Horse Girl Folk Horror 4 eva!
The Scottish Register of Tartans approves a new design by The Witches of Scotland, an organization seeking justice for those persecuted under the Witchcraft Act.
wildhunt.org/2025/02/newl...
#scotland #tartan #witches #witchcraft #pagansky #witchsky
Doooo it
And while Iβm on the subject, hereβs another beautiful upcoming collection by yet another beautiful poet @amymarguerite.bsky.social (no, this isnβt a thread, though maybe it should be)
An undoubtedly beautiful collection from an equally beautiful poet @nuapk.bsky.social β I am very excited about this.
247,995 of 300,000 signatures
Bahahahahahahahaha this petition now has more votes than ACT
FILING THIS AMONGST THE BEST NEWS OF THE YEAR!
Been waiting so long for the release of this exquisite, expansive work: a much-needed balm for these here times we be living in. Ka mau te wehi @nuapk.bsky.social! He mΔ«haro rawa atu koe! π
We are thrilled to announce the long-awaited book of poetry by the amazing Nafanua Purcell Kersel. FaβamΔlΕ atu
@nuapk.bsky.social! Black Sugarcane is out in February 2025.
The cover art is by Momoe i manu ae ala ateaβe Tasker, and author photo is by Ebony Lamb.
Hell of a list of signatories.
Let's get this clear; these are some of the wealthiest (4 figure hourly rates) but also sharpest litigators in the country. This is not a group demographically disposed to 'woke'. This is their considered view of the law.
Why did the insomniac not sleep last night, you ask? She planned out an entire essay collection.
(Yes, Iβm still working on the novel. Itβs almost finished, I promise!)
This is a great article - good to see the facts clearly stated. Disgusted that our govt are so ignorant even of recent history, since the Crown made a settlement with Moriori in 2021, a pretty clear indicator theyβre still here & strong! Thinking of Moriori friends and hΕ«nau.
So thrilled to have my Chinese ghost story alongside such great company in @takahemagazine.bsky.social 109, just launched today!
Read it here, and donβt forget Iβll be reading an excerpt tonight at the launch on Zoom at 7.30pm βοΈ
takahe.org.nz/shui-gui
Second drafts are knotty things
Getting chunky!
I am so looking forward to the first event for my new book - at the Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts in February. As well as a Unity launch I get to chat with the amazing @auchmill.bsky.social - how lucky am I?? www.festival.nz/events/all/r...
Congratulations, Rachael! How gorgeous!
Stoked to reveal the cover of my new middle grade novel, coming Feb 2024 & pubbed by the wonderful Allen & Unwin in NZ and Aus. Cover image by Max Thompson & design by Katrina Duncan. More info here: www.allenandunwin.co.nz/browse/book/... #kidlit #pukapuka #kikorangi #UKkidlit #middlegrade
Truly a dream come true to appear in Poetry Magazine, especially in the gorgeous 'Lineage & Influence' issue alongside so many of my heroes. Thanks to Diane Seuss for making me hate sonnets less and inspiring this poem. I hope I did you justice. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Too many words to comprehend
so what about if we all meet in a field or by the sea or perhaps on a hill & scream & keen & curse for an extended period til the very sky cracks with the piercing force of our unbridled sorrow and infinite & unquellable rage? just an idea.
