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.

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.

The campaign against trans women in prison exposes how moral panic can be manipulated to defend colonial authority and how fragile Australia’s commitment to equality remains when confronted with diffe...

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

When reproduction defied certainty, it unsettled medicine, law, and belief. This book reveals how ambiguous pregnancies reshaped knowledge, emotion, and the cultural meaning of conception across…

Bill Rutkin (OAM) and Michael Stockwell explore homosexual men's use of lavender language in Queensland during the Bjelke-Petersen era.

In this blog, Managing Editor Paige Donaghy explores the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence in Britain and Australia for “Birth Trauma Awareness Week” 2025.

In recent decades, closer attention to experiences of domestic and family violence has resulted in the naming and detailing of different forms of abuse that fall into the category of domestic and f...

A new quilt commemorating survivors of forced sterilization in California prisons exposes a long, ongoing history of reproductive and medical violence against incarcerated and marginalized women.

In this blog, Lauren Samuelsson explores the colour white and its links with the tradwife movement and white supremacy.

‘Horrendous’ eight-year long project has ended with final fact check, leaving a legacy ‘nobody can argue’ with, says researcher