In 2023 Astrid began a co-disciplinary PhD in Journalism/Publishing at the University of Melbourne exploring potential and perceived barriers to publishing and selling climate fiction in Australia.
ARTICLES
Edwards, A. (2023). Book Review: Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires by Sally Young. Media International Australia: DOI: 10.1177/1329878X231191301.
CONFERENCES
June 2023: Chaired the Roundtable on Indigenous Literature in English Education at the Reading Climate Symposium: Interdisciplinary engagement with climate through literature. Panelists included Sandra Phillips, Associate Professor of Indigenous Australian Studies and Publishing Studies at Western Sydney University; Dr Sandra Muse Isaacs, Associate Professor of Indigenous Literature at University of Windsor in Ontario Canada; Declan Fry, writer and critic; and Larissa McLean Davies, Deputy Dean MGSE and Professor of Teacher Education at University of Melbourne.
SCHOLARSHIPS
2023: Received the Fay Marles Scholarship ($120,000 over three years for a student with a disability).
![Feminism is irrelevant if it isn’t intersectional, anti-racist and anti-colonial. I’ve signed, and this is open for signatures during the 16 Days of Activism that begins today, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Respect and love and solidarity to those who are advocating in this worst of times, including @instasaranade, @randaafattah and @amanihaydar, whose books and art are stunning. 📚
#Repost @amanihaydar
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Tomorrow is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, an event with radical origins and rooted in feminist opposition to oppression and state violence.
Over 300 anti-racist feminists, women's health and safety workers, frontline workers, survivor advocates and academics have signed a statement titled Feminists for a Free Palestine calling attention to the ways in which occupation, apartheid and the current genocidal violence on Gaza affects Palestinian women and their children. This is intersectionality in action. The full statement is available to read at the link in my bio and we will continue to accept signatories over the 16 Days of Activism.
Thank you to @thepvblication who are also publishing the full statement on their platform.
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