Writing from the commons on unceded Gundungarra land: earth care, people care, fair share, queer thought, anti-colonial repair, regenerative farming, and resistance to extraction.https://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.social/post/3msujlnoroc2qMy first essay is now published on Medium: “Queerness as My Way of Seeing.” It begins with something personal: becoming more certain about who I am has made me less certain about many of the categories we use to explain the world. What if the category is wrong? #Queer #Gender #Anthropology https://medium.com/@ijames-au/queerness-as-my-way-of-seeing-1eb9b7330fb612 Aug 2026 06:42 +0000at://did:plc:o7ilmdfnvr4aaxb7cjeylfmx/app.bsky.feed.post/3msujlnoroc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.social/post/3msu67ed6ys2fIt's not complicated. Lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Aug 2026 03:18 +0000at://did:plc:o7ilmdfnvr4aaxb7cjeylfmx/app.bsky.feed.post/3msu67ed6ys2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.social/post/3ms7kyfvig22aThe true cost of food isn't always on the price tag.Most farmers do the right thing, but we should ask: if cheap food depends on exploited labour, who is really paying the price? Every worker deserves dignity. Every ethical farmer deserves a fair go. #modernslavery #ethicalfood https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/australias-hidden-modern-slave-labour-workforce-exposed/106968610?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other03 Aug 2026 22:41 +0000at://did:plc:o7ilmdfnvr4aaxb7cjeylfmx/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7kyfvig22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.social/post/3ms5mpgwqts2pOne Nation bans journalists it doesn't like from its press conferences.That's message control. Playing to the echo chamber. Why should Australians trust a party that won't face independent media? #AUSPOL #onenation #Victoria https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/03/one-nation-candidates-victoria-state-election-2026-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other03 Aug 2026 04:06 +0000at://did:plc:o7ilmdfnvr4aaxb7cjeylfmx/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms5mpgwqts2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.social/post/3mrh2jnd6ek2fMore than 200,000 people fleeing or locked down. Forests burning across France and Spain. Europe heating at twice the global average. How many towns must burn before those in power recognise our planet is nearing climate tipping points, and act as if our lives depend on it? #ClimateCrisis https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/24/france-evacuation-cap-ferret-peninsula-wildfire?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other25 Jul 2026 04:42 +0000at://did:plc:o7ilmdfnvr4aaxb7cjeylfmx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrh2jnd6ek2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.social/post/3mqy5muqhus2lHow can Trump threaten Canada with sanctions over wildfire smoke while his government accelerates fossil-fuel extraction, dismantles climate protections and denies the climate crisis? Is Canada being punished because confronting US's climate culpability would be politically inconvenient? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/republicans-canada-sanctions-wildfire-smoke?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other19 Jul 2026 06:28 +0000at://did:plc:o7ilmdfnvr4aaxb7cjeylfmx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqy5muqhus2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.social/post/3mqt7wosjms2uThis is not an immigration debate. Mourning the White Australia policy is mourning racial hierarchy. Whose Australia does Hanson think was lost, and to whom? Why are evidence-free attacks on Muslims treated as politics? Promoting her daughter anything but dynasty wrapped in softer packaging? #AUSPOL https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/17/pauline-hanson-laments-end-of-white-australia-policy-and-talks-up-daughters-leadership-potential-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other17 Jul 2026 07:26 +0000at://did:plc:o7ilmdfnvr4aaxb7cjeylfmx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqt7wosjms2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.social/post/3mqny7ismkk2dWho gets to name Australia a “Christian nation” when it stands on hundreds of First Nations Countries, laws and spiritual traditions that long predate Christianity, and when churches were entwined with dispossession and forced assimilation? #AUSPOL #FirstNations #TruthTelling #ChristianNationalism https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/15/barnaby-joyce-australia-christian-first-nations-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other15 Jul 2026 05:24 +0000at://did:plc:o7ilmdfnvr4aaxb7cjeylfmx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqny7ismkk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.social/post/3mqnpey5rm22bThe PM says Australia must not subcontract sovereignty to foreign AI monopolies. Agreed. But sovereignty must reach deeper: who owns and governs our data, models and infrastructure? AI should serve communities, Country and the commons, not become another extractive enclosure. #AI #AUSPOL https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-15/federal-politics-live-blog-tobacco-july-5/106916356?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other15 Jul 2026 02:46 +0000at://did:plc:o7ilmdfnvr4aaxb7cjeylfmx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqnpey5rm22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.social/post/3mpzrj5dxx22vBelgium 4, USA 1. Reports that the US President tried to overturn Belgium's win by executive decree have, sadly, been ruled offside. 😂🤣😂 Seems FIFA still insists referees, not politicians, decide football matches. 🇧🇪⚽🇺🇸 #worldcup #FIFA07 Jul 2026 04:31 +0000at://did:plc:o7ilmdfnvr4aaxb7cjeylfmx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpzrj5dxx22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.social/post/3mpx3i2ttrs2rWhat if the Pacific was not a chessboard? Australia and Fiji’s “Ocean of Peace Alliance” sounds less like a defence pact than a poem with wet feet. What would it mean to take “peace” seriously, including how Australia imagines China? #Pacific #China #Peace https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-06/federal-politics-live-blog-pm-podcast/106883162?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other06 Jul 2026 02:52 +0000at://did:plc:o7ilmdfnvr4aaxb7cjeylfmx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpx3i2ttrs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/ijames-commoner.bsky.social/post/3mpbggpqhdr2g27 Jun 2026 12:09 +0000at://did:plc:o7ilmdfnvr4aaxb7cjeylfmx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpbggpqhdr2g