There's some cringeworthy stuff about being GenX, and new cringes bubble up all the time. Right now, it's a pub DJ playing Michael Jackson + the number of ppl my age singing along.
(OK, I'm biased bc the last MJ I liked was ~1980, but how can you ignore his truly dodgy shit later on?)
The book is in press! HK Lennon Wall cover fuck yeah ✊ @keithng.bsky.social , harking back to Te Papa's first round of Asian activist materials collections. I wrote the intro & a few other bits & bobs. Can't wait to see how Grace has let our history speak through objects in the national collection.
All #welly (reasonably) throwing fits bc the main sewerage station is busted , and they're pumping minimally-treated stuff (sieved to get of lumps and fucking flushed wetwipes). Meanwhile in Sydney (pop 5.5 mill), they have THREE pipes pumping the same kind of shit offshore every day.