Judith Ridge

msmisrule

Reader, writer, cat wrangler, neglectful gardener, perma-student. Children’s and youth lit. Leans left. Fabric obsessive. She/her. lutruwita

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Yep, which is why, despite his many other failings, Australians almost universally credit Howard for his response to the Port Arthur massacre. Dignity and compassion first, always.

karencollum

12/15/25

I don’t care which political party is in leadership in Australia when a crisis hits, I have a universal expectation that the Prime Minister will address the nation coherently, with class, with conviction and with clarity. That they will not incite hatred but will ask the community to draw together and support each other. Proud to be an Australian with an actual leader who rose to the occasion on Sunday. Together, we are a light in the darkness.

msmisrule

ChildrensLiterature

09/28/25

New post on Substack, link in my bio. On the latest moral panic around young people and reading and why Dickens will not save us all. #reading #childrensliterature #fauxstalgia

msmisrule

09/24/25

I've posted on Substack about my PhD research. I'm writing about the way White children's writers have worked within the fantasy genre to explore a different relationship to Country than the realist "everything in Australia will kill you" mode allowed.

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Australian children’s fantasy fiction and the Settler Colonial desire for a connection to Country.

msmisrule

08/04/25

I mean, the jokes write themselves…