Published 13 May 201026 March 2011 · Main Posts Meanland extract – There are some people not on Twitter (a post for the modern-day luddite) Jacinda Woodhead Facebook is all the people you go to school with. Twitter is all the people you wish you went to school with. So said some incisive, possibly adolescent, tweeter last week. I joined Twitter last July and, as of this morning, have 1165 tweets. Is that a lot? Almost certainly, yes, but I think the addiction is wearing off. I originally joined Twitter with one clear objective: to talk politics (aka online activism, which is an oxymoron but that’s another story). I’ve kept this objective, though wandering thoughts and other interests have started to encroach on what was once a clearly demarcated space. But I’m mostly happy in my Twitter relationship. I assumed everyone who ever would, had already found Twitter. But I’ve encountered a number of Twitter-curious people – particularly writers – of late, afraid to take the plunge. In conjunction with all the Deveny/Devine heat Twitter’s been getting over the past week, this post seemed fitting. Read the rest of the post over at Meanland. Jacinda Woodhead Jacinda Woodhead is a former editor of Overland and current law student. More by Jacinda Woodhead › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
