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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Queer Stories in Australian TV Drama: Production Culture, Policy, and Distribution is out now (published by Routledge). doi.org/10.4324/9781...

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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In the week Australia celebrated the 70th anniversary of its first television broadcast, the government is weighing the future of free-to-air television, including a potential online-dominant approach that would see a significant reduction in Australia’s existing broadcasting infrastructure.

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The end of broadcast TV is on the table

Government considers moving free-to-air services online.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It was great to have a chat to Leonard Bernardone for Information Age about the government's consultation on the future – or maybe even the end – of free-to-air broadcast television in Australia. ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

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The end of broadcast TV is on the table

Government considers moving free-to-air services online.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What actually happens behind the scenes before LGBTQ+ stories make it onscreen in Aussie TV drama?

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Pre-orders are open for my book ‘Queer Stories in Australian TV Drama: Production Culture, Policy, and Distribution’. If you are associated with a university anywhere in the world, you can do me a massive favour by requesting the uni library purchases this book. www.routledge.com/Queer-Storie...

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3C @3c-rmit.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

📺🏳️‍🌈 New from 3C: Damien O'Meara (RMIT) & Whitney Monaghan (Monash) chart 3 decades of queer TV storyworlds — from Queer as Folk to Heartstopper — across the US, UK, Australia & Canada. Turns out queer stories thrive on industrial disruption. Open access: doi.org/10.1177/1749...

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New publication alert 🚨 Check out my chapter in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity, ‘Interviewing queer television celebrities: Methodological and practical reflections’. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

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Interviewing queer television celebrities | 44 | Methodological and pr

The queer television celebrity serves as both a public advocate for the queer community and a behind-the-scenes advocate within television production culture.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I made a little video with RMIT’s brilliant comms team!

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Hello Queer Bluesky, this Pride Month my aim is to reach more awesome queer people on here! So, a small introduction: I’m Damo, a researcher who investigates queer representations in media and culture (particularly onscreen).

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

In exciting news, my book ‘Queer Stories in Australian TV Drama: Production Culture, Policy, and Distribution’ will be published by Routledge in October 2026. It is part of the Advances in Television Studies series.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hey, so Whitney Monaghan and I have found over 70 queer storyworlds in TV since the 1990s across UK, US, Australia and Canada (there’s more in more places), and I’m gonna work through and add as many as I can to the quoted thread throughout Pride Month.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It’s Pride Month, and my challenge to everyone is to watch more queer storyworlds - TV shows that emphasise the social bonds of queer people - because those stories show how we find one another and build community. theconversation.com/activism-com...

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Activism, complicated sexualities, and rural Oklahoma: what to stream this Pride Month

From Queer as Folk to Reservation Dogs, this is a Pride Month special edition of what we’re streaming.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I wrote aabout what to stream during #PrideMonth with the excellent Whitney Monaghan. We'd love you to watch more queer shows, especially as some streaming services haven't been making their LGBTQIA+ categories as prominent during Pride Month in recent years.

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Ben Lyall 💾 @benlyall.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Audio of my evidence in this Parliamentary Inquiry is at this timestamp on the livestream recording: www.youtube.com/live/tWwmO77... Big ups to the parliamentary staff, committee secretariat and committee members for managing these hearings as well as caring about the future petitioning ✨

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House Standing Committee on Petitions | 11/05/2026

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In ‘Queer worldbuilding in mainstream Anglophone television’ - led by Whitney Monaghan - we expand theories of televisual worldbuilding to consider the queer storyworld. doi.org/10.1177/0163...

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 27/03/2026

📺 REVIEW: When Darcy returns home in this new SBS series, he realises there’s another presence in his childhood home: a ghost of his younger pre-transition self, Dee.

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Homebodies: bold TV about a trans man, his mother and the conversations they never had

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Have you ever encountered a queer storyworld? Chances are, it emerged through a liminal moment of experimentation during a disruption to the ecology of television distribution. See my latest work with the brilliant Whitney Monaghan! Always a joy to work together. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Screen shot of the article ‘Distributing queer storyworlds in US, UK, Australian, and Canadian mainstream television drama’.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Final speaker lineup for the ‘100 Years of Broadcast TV Symposium’ coming up this Friday (6 Feb) at RMIT! www.rmit.edu.au/events/2026/...

Poster listing 17 speakers for the 100 Years of Broadcast Symposium.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Aussie TV people: Dean Dezius, General Manager of Freeview Australia and Marco Angele, Media and Entertainment Lawyer at Marshalls + Dent + Wilmoth are joining the ‘100 Years of Broadcast TV symposium' to talk about TV Today and Beyond. www.rmit.edu.au/events/2026/...

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Is there a future for Australian news on broadcast TV? Join Hugh Nailon (Nine National News Director) and Justin Stevens (ABC News Director) in conversation with Professor Alexandra Wake about the history and future of TV news in Australia. www.rmit.edu.au/events/2026/...

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Okay Bluesky, my 2026 goal is to fill the glaring gaps in my sci-fi reading. Starting this thread to keep a record for accountability, but also feel free to reply with your recommendations.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Join a conversation with Amanda Higgs (Matchbox Pictures), Mitch McTaggart (The Last Year of Television), and Jessica Balanzategui (RMIT) for our first of four panels reflecting on the impact and future of broadcast TV in Australia. www.rmit.edu.au/events/2026/...

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Tara Brabazon @tarabrabazon.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The year after finishing a PhD is tough. How we support early career colleagues remains crucial to our academic future. This week's Post learns from the remarkable Dr Damien O'Meara. How do we build success, inclusion, momentum and meaning? New Post - seeing beyond the present: youtu.be/L-laFC91ptE

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Post 127 - Seeing beyond the present (The New Year's Post)

YouTube video by Tara Brabazon

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

If you're in Australia - the ebook version of An Academic Affair is currently $4.99 on all platforms! It's got academic rivals,* a marriage of convenience, and staunch unionism, and I'm quite proud of it. *written by me, an academic

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An Academic Affair

The Love Hypothesis meets The Hating Game in a new standalone rom-com from New York Times acclaimed author and romance academic Jodi McAlister. S...

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Switching off broadcast TV is already being debated in various markets. But what do we stand to lose? RMIT’s 100 Years of Broadcast TV Symposium reflects on the impact of the broadcast signal in Australia. www.sign-research.com/cfps-events

A poster with the question “What happens if we switch off broadcast TV?” At the top. A television is sitting in a paddock.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

If there was ever a case for the urgent funding of humanities education, it’s this. Surely the editorial leadership of a magazine had to complete an intro to media studies course at some point in their education, right?

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Loved getting the chance to talk about streaming, corporate takeovers and the need for diverse content and funding in Australia with Grace McKinnon at ABC.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The speed at which the face scanner verified I was old enough to be on social media felt like an insult.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Apparently I’m so expressive that there’s no way to get a screenshot of my recent appearance on BTN without this face. More importantly, it’s the first time I’ve had a TV interview since I added Stella’s portrait to my media shelf! www.abc.net.au/btn/classroo...

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Fabian Munder @fabianmunder.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Check out our preprint in which we determine how a class of potent protein antibiotics specifically kill P. aeruginosa without a need to enter the cell. doi.org/10.1101/2025... This is work from my PhD in the lab of @rhyswg.bsky.social and many collaborators who contributed amazing data!

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A Protein Antibiotic Inhibits the BAM Complex to Kill Without Cell Entry

Many antibiotics are ineffective against Gram-negative pathogens such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa because they cannot penetrate the bacterial outer membrane. Here, we show that protein antibiotics calle...

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Absolutely stoked to have been part of the team to deliver the 14th Australian Media Traditions conference last week. So many highlights, but here are a few pics of some exciting moments!

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 28/07/2025

Australian TV has changed significantly over the past 15 years, with a boom in queer stories since the 2010s. New research sheds light on how these changes happened.

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A look into the decades of labour that helped bring LGBTQIA+ stories to Australian TV

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

#NewPublication (Media, Culture & Society): ‘Interviewing out lesbian, gay and bisexual creatives and executives about getting queer stories in mainstream Australian scripted television’. A huge thank you to all the Aus television creatives and executives who took part. doi.org/10.1177/0163...

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Proud to speak to ABC about queerness, identity, celebrity branding and bi/pan erasure for this article about the response to Jojo Siwa and Fletcher sharing the complexity of their queer identities during pride month. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Hands down the best graduation gift I received is this portrait of my dog (from my partner). My Staffy (cross) Stella was by my side through my whole thesis. Whenever I was stressed, she would demand a walk to get me out of the house and force a break.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

While interviewing Australian television creatives and executives about how they negotiated queer stories in Aussie TV drama, I found a common theme: networks were worried audiences would switch off if they saw these themes. But what informed this view? djomeara.com/2025/07/03/a...

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Why I chose to research the Green Guide letters

Why research the Green Guide letters? While interviewing Australian television creatives and executives about how they negotiated queers stories in Aussie TV drama, I found a common theme: networks…

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I’ve spent my Sunday reviewing and sending off the proofs for an article - it feels particularly special to hit submit on this one.

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

A little detour on my way to work today to collect my PhD degree certificate from Swinburne Uni. As much as I’d have loved to attend the ceremony, the timing wasn’t going to work. But that doesn’t diminish how bloody proud I am, right now. #Graduation

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 In ‘Australian audience reactions to the ABC’s broadcast of Tales of the City, as seen in the Green Guide letters’ I examine a brief public debate unearthed while searching for audience reactions to the first broadcast of the Mardi Gras in 1994: dx.doi.org/10.1080/1030...

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Damien O'Meara (he/him) @djomeara.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

In good news, I am officially Dr Damo. Very happy. Very thankful to all those who helped me get here.

A screenshot of an email that says “Congratulations Dr O’Meara.”

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

“Many academics tell us they’re avoiding US travel entirely due to genuine fears about border detention and visa issues” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained

‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says

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