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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Join us from August 7 – 9, 2026 online for "Temporalities: The Sixth Annual Critical Femininities Conference". Registration now open through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/temporalit... The full conference schedule is available on our website: www.criticalfemininities.net/program

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Wow, this seems like a HUGE risk for brain drain of our top researchers

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Am I misunderstanding these new schemes -- it seems mid and senior career stage people will no longer be able to apply for their own salary costs? Surely this will have fairly big (negative) consequences, especially for research contingent people?

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

There's still time to contribute to my survey on romantic crushes! Please share widely (though note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+). Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This week we released a new report on the need for wellbeing training for hair and beauty workers – based on almost a decade of research! Co-authored with Stacey Page (Adelaide Uni) Download the full report: www.beautysalonproject.com/publications Or read: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/a-c...

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The physical copies of my new book, based on my DECRA research, have arrived! You can order a copy for your library here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/emotions-... or read about the project at: www.beautysalonproject.com

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

CFP now open for the 2026 Critical Femininities Conference, on the theme "Temporalities"! Full CFP can be found here: www.criticalfemininities.net/conference Please send abstracts to critfemininities@gmail.com by March 13, 2026

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Looking forward to giving this seminar next week, with the incredible Paige Lewin torch.ox.ac.uk/event/hair-c...

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Hair Care as Care Work with Hannah McCann and Paige Lewin

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months! This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis. Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇

Black text on white background. Screenshot of ARC’s Network Message regarding delays to grant announcements because of new security arrangements.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

The incredible repression of information happening in Iran, hiding the bloody state crackdown — and how grotesque to hear the foreign minister using Trump killing civilians to normalise this www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks down

Demonstrators recount experiences on the frontlines as protest movement rapidly moves beyond government’s control

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

There is stuff about touch and massage in there! People who work with sportspeople’s bodies would relate

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

My book is out today! Do me a favour and ask your library to order a copy? www.bloomsbury.com/us/emotions-...

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

There are two venerated, much feared trees on the edge of Barwell Common. Known as Whip Scar and Tangle Knife, they are home to particularly quarrelsome Wood Sprites. To pass between them has a fearsome terror tithe and even if it's paid, you are still likely to hear them spitting curses.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

New poem out today in @theberlinreview.bsky.social ✨ theberlinliteraryreview.com/hannah-mccan...

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Absolutely horrifying to see those scenes from such a cowardly attack in Bondi.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Love this interview with Andrew Brooks www.liminalmag.com/interviews/a...

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Last but not least, a REALLY cool gift idea is a poetry subscription. That could be Giramondo’s poetry subscription where they send you books throughout the year(!) or a lit mag subscription like HEAT or Overland or Island that all support poetic writing. They all rock. Buy poetry!!

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Another poetry collection that is so cool you should buy one for yourself too. It’s Marxism it’s pop it’s the proletariat. Buy for: your friend in your group secret santa, or the person you chat to most about eating the rich

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I have no idea how Isabella Mead had the headspace or memory to exactly capture so much of early parenting days in poetry form, but she has. Buy for: your mum friend who you would like to know that you *see* her and all that she does

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This one is partly about working in offshore detention with refugees, so content warning for upsetting themes. Pettitt-Schipp’s writing is accessible and very beautiful. Buy for: your politically engaged family members

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Another seriously cool collection about femininity and queerness and being Filipina-Australian. There is at least one very sexy poem in this. Buy for: your femme crush

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This is a really excellent exploration of Boorlo/Perth via engagement with colonial archives and loads of cosmological metaphors. Buy for: your friend the emerging writer who wants to learn about voice and research based writing, or your cousin who cares (or ought to) about First Nations writing

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Judith Beveridge will be right up there as a potential Australian poet laureate (once we get one!) I think. The language is accessible but the poems are complex and extremely image based. Queen of metaphors. Buy for: your immediate family member who loves walking in nature/on the beach

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This one is super dark with complex literary devices, it not easy going cognitively nor thematically. But its language rings out. Content warning serious mental health themes. Buy for: your writerly friend or the mother of a complex teen

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This one is super accessible and won a bunch of awards. Barrina South writes about longing and everyday life and her relationship to country as a First Nations person. Buy for: the aunt who you got in secret santa

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Toby Fitch is one of my fav Australian poets and they have new work coming out next year which is SO exciting. This one has lots about parenting and Sydney and Covid (content warning). Buy for: your Covid conscious friend or a friend who studied literature but doesn’t read enough now or a Sydney pal

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This one is so cool, heaps of concrete poetry (poems in shapes), and lots about mental health. But this for: your cherished queer friend you chat about being tired with

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This one WON the Prime Minister’s Literary award this year. Super accessible, can buy for poetry fans and those new to poetry. Includes lots of animal rights poems. Buy for: pretty much anyone

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It’s time for my annual thread of Australian poetry books you should buy ppl for Xmas. No one buys poetry partly cos it’s intimidating. It rarely makes xmas book guides. But poetry is an ethical gift that: supports underfunded writers; wins brownie points with gift receiver; improves the human soul

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Reading the responses to this is unbelievably interesting, I can’t wait to share them in an eventual book

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

NEW! Survey on experiences of romantic crushes, please share widely! The aim of this study is to investigate the romantic crush. Note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+. Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...

A social media tile advertising the study, titled "study on romantic crushes" with an image of an envelope with a small love heart drawn on it wallowing in a puddle with leaves

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

“If this demand eventuates, it will make our emissions objective – and our ability to close coal on schedules that align with the emissions targets – very difficult, if not impossible” @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Datacentres demand huge amounts of electricity. Could they derail Australia’s net zero ambitions?

Banks of servers operating 24/7 generate massive amounts of heat, requiring power to run and cool them

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This is so good. TLDR: young people don't like it, and have great reasons why the ban is a bad idea

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

My only goal between now and Christmas is to close all of the tabs on my computer

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Devastating reading the final edition of @meanjin.bsky.social As @anatolitis.bsky.social says in the editorial “We need these words desperately”

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

ARC are considering a restructure in which jobs there will be lost, a source tells me. This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before! I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

And this is exactly why poetry is relatively safe from AI. It’s not worth anything to capital! Thank you Maggie Nelson!! 🙇🏻‍♀️

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Definitely *do not* search “how many days until Christmas”

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

🆕 New Article! Check out Dr. Catherine Tebaldi’s (@cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) new article on "tradwives," who are social media influencers who promote an idealized, "feminine" womanhood by staging nostalgic chronotopes of tradition, from 1850s homesteads to 1950s suburban homes. 🧵1/3

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A great thing that happened yesterday! 🥳

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