Based on the Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South Online Seminar Series, this special issue originated in a conference that was to be held in South Africa but became caught u...

In this blog, Shirleene Robinson and the Australian Women's History Network remember Emeritus Professor Kay Saunders, AO, FASSA, FRHistS (1947–2026).

Seventy years after the 1956 Women's March, South Africa still celebrates men's anti-apartheid struggle and pushes women's activism to the margins. The cost is visible now.

This article revisits the cultural storm created by the 1994 publication of Helen Demidenko’s novel, The Hand That Signed the Paper. Purporting to be quasi-autobiographical, written by a young memb...

Kylie M. Smith explores Black women's experiences of racism and sexism within psychiatry during the civil rights era in the United States.

Our new blog series explores topics seen as vulnerable to a systematic reversal of social justice gains in today’s global political climate.

This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...

Come together to celebrate VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network @ 10!

The Australian Women's History Network is excited to announce its new social media initiative: a blog about the research and practice of feminist history.

In this blog, Shirleene Robinson and the Australian Women's History Network remember Emeritus Professor Kay Saunders, AO, FASSA, FRHistS (1947–2026).

How did a group of authors, artists musicians and aristocrats in Edwardian Chelsea use the structures of marriage, class and empire to subvert the heterosexual norm and form a network of queer non-monogamy?

In this blog for the Environment and Gender series, Susan Broomhall discusses the history of Indigenous women's knowledges and botanical collecting.

Kristen C. Howard In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and mu…

How might historians write nonviolently about violence? In this personal essay, suzan meryem rosita reflects on the vocabulary of genocide and war.

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The University of Queensland has decided to pulp all 5,000 copies of a children’s picture book written by an Indigenous poet, after media queries from News Corp’s _The Australian_ newspaper that levelled accusations of anti-Semitism against the book’s illustrator. It’s a decision that also marks the first time a controversial definition of anti-Semitism, adopted by Australia’s universities last year, has been cited as the basis of a book cancellation. _Bila, a river cycle_ , was written by award-winning Wiradjuri poet Jazz Money and illustrated by Matt Chun. It’s an environmentally-focused book that tells the story of a river’s journey from mountain to sea and the people who pollute the waterways. Money and Chun began work on the book in 2022 and it was due for release this year. Jazz Money, the author of __Bila, a river cycle.__ In January this year, Dymocks announced that it was removing all of Chun’s books from its stores after he wrote an article titled “We don’t mourn fascists” in the aftermath of the Bondi terror attack. After the Dymocks announcement, _The Australian_ approached University of Queensland Press (UQP), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Queensland, to ask about _Bila._ The chair of UQP, Professor Heather Zwicker, told the newspaper that the publisher had, “put the proposed publication on hold pending the outcome of an internal review and external legal processes underway,” effectively suspending its publication. ### This post is for subscribers only Become a member to get access to all content Subscribe now

Job Ready Graduates requires urgent reform, but current proposal risks more university cuts, says the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

The Job-ready Graduates reforms have increased student debt, failed to shift enrolments, and entrenched inequality across Australia’s higher education system.

Oyeshi Ganguly explores how women in colonial Bengal played on gendered expectations to carry out radical anti-colonial action.

James Keating and Paige Donaghy present a selection of undergraduate research on the history of gender and sexuality from final-year history students at The University of Melbourne.

What has been done cannot be undone. But a reversal of the current descent into barbarism begins with justice for Gaza. The University of Melbourne still has an opportunity to speak out against genoci...

Rather than a set of teaching and learning relationships, universities have become a bunch of metrics to be gamed. Unwinding these systems will take effort

From initials to butterflies, Nastasha Sartore explores Victorian women's tattoo choices.

In this blog, Michael Stockwell reviews a new edited collection about the feminist academic blog, Nursing Clio, edited by the Nursing Clio Editorial Collective.

Despite repeated calls for the university to revoke his tenure, the economist held onto his teaching and academic appointments until he chose to retire.

MaryAnn Bin-Sallik was the first Aboriginal nurse graduate in Darwin and the first Aboriginal person to receive a PhD at Harvard University. Following her death at age 85, the Djaru Elder is being remembered for her work in Indigenous education, health and human rights.

Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Historian Campbell debuts with a revelatory biography of sex researcher Shere Hite (1942–2020), best known for her 1976 publicat...