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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book

@drkyliesmith.bsky.social
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Historian. Assoc Prof. Author of jimcrowintheasylum.com with @UNCPress. Knitter, baker, dog lover. Dharawal - Muscogee - Meanjin.

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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Saturday morning in Australia. later I’m going to Bunnings #IYKYK
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Paul @irishpaul68.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This clown is a national embarrassment. This is what you get when ignorant, misinformed, racist, homophobic, intellectually inept idiots brainwashed by fox and pedophile enablers vote to try to own the libs 🙄 The whole world sees this while Putin laughs.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Back from 2 days in the bush listening to white people complaining they’re invisible while demanding more from govt, while also whining that Aboriginal people trying to live on their own Country “get hand outs” when they are actually being ignored and erased from local history 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Christ these migration debates are so banal. Race to the bottom politics again I see Australia
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Further to this, just made an appt for a follow up with a specialist that will be partially covered by medicare and some co pay from me. Waiting time, 3 weeks #universalhealthcare
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wallabies at my front door this morning
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I got some interesting health news this week that will need treatment, that is also completely covered under both Medicare and my private health insurance for which I pay $200 a month. Ask me again why I left the US lol
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Farmers markets and the carnival of flowers mark the start of spring in regional Queensland…
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I'm thrilled to have been invited to be a keynote speaker at this years @acmhn.bsky.social conference, celebrating 50 years in Australia. It's one of my favourite things to talk about history with nurses.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Smoky and noisy on the Range this morning. Merlin even picked up the whipbird.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
message from IT: why do you want to use Zotero instead of Endnote? Because its better in let me count the ways christ on a cracker
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here’s the thing: I will not now nor will I ever apologise for the way I moved my life from one country to another and back again especially not to people who’ve never done it. When you’ve been through it and understand what it takes, how hard it is, we can compare notes but until then, nope.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"School students’ reading scores have plunged across the developed world, as widespread access to AI and social media has harmed teenagers’ ability to concentrate, said a newly published international survey."
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Reading scores plummet as ‘digital distraction’ harms students
Widespread access to AI and social media has set back educational attainment across the world, study shows
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ah yes that thing when being excluded from something is your fault for moving to the southern hemisphere….
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When people ask me my I left Emory and the US I will just show them these photos from now on.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My lovely sun drenched writing spot: trying to focus on turning my SSHM paper into an actual journal article…
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This week I received a lovely email from a colleague whose opinion I really respect about using my book in their class, and an invitation to be a keynote at next years @anzshm.bsky.social conference and I’m so grateful for both!
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I had to come to Brisbane today for Dr appt and after two weeks of living up in the mountains I’ve decided I hate cities and people are stupid. Did have a great Bahn mi and visit to the state library though
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I just spoke to the person I wrote the Truth Telling report for at Swinburne and he thought it was "brilliant". I'm just going to tidy some things up and do an executive summary and then he will submit to University executive where he expects it to make some waves so that's good.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ARC has published (inadvertently?) how many Future Fellowships & DECRAs they’ll fund (FT26 & DE27). Even though outcomes aren't out yet, these numbers & success rates are here ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/ncgp-trends-... 299 FT26s & 455 DE27s "funded". Success rate of 20% for both schemes.
Various graphs and statistics are shown in an infographic style. Screenshot from ARC's "NCGP Trends" website showing the number of funded applications for Future Fellowships, the number submitted and the corresponding success rate.Various graphs and statistics are shown in an infographic style. Screenshot from ARC's "NCGP Trends" website showing the number of funded applications for DECRAs, the number submitted and the corresponding success rate.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Grant applications, I love (hate) them. I can not get the title for this one right and thus can not proceed.
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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
NEW at #VIDAblog! @drkyliesmith.bsky.social explores Black women’s experiences of racism and sexism within psychiatry, documenting their activism during the civil rights era in the United States. Read more here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/jane-cr...
Book cover: Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South (The University of North Carolina Press, 2026).Photograph: Associate Professor Kylie M. Smith
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Beautiful afternoon at a vineyard on the Darling Downs, Giabal country.
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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
i write things like this knowing im going to endure bad fatphobia & it will probably not help my overall wellbeing, but the payoff is that it is hopefully validating for some, and maybe..MAYBE it might like sway a few people into thinking differently a bit. feels like very slow going, but its goin
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Today is my first work from home day and this is my view including a wallaby with a Joey in her pouch and the only noise is a cacophony of birds
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I am very pleased to this little essay published today on the @auswhn.bsky.social VIDA site. It teases out some of the specifcally gendered aspects of racist psychiatry in the Jim Crow South. www.auswhn.com.au/blog/jane-cr...
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Jane Crow in the Asylum: Race and Gender in the History of Psychiatry | Australian Women's History Network
Kylie M. Smith explores Black women's experiences of racism and sexism within psychiatry during the civil rights era in the United States.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Thank you so much for @healthhistory.bsky.social for this lovely review of Jim Crow in the Asylum. It’s great when someone understands what you were trying to do 🙏🏼 academic.oup.com/jhmas/advanc...
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Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South Kylie M. Smith
This year I have been teaching a class on the history of the asylum to my students at the University of Strathclyde. It begins by exploring how asylums hav
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I'm supposed to be revising a grant application today yet I find myself staring at photos of Cookie a lot....
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I woke myself up screaming at 2am this morning because I had a dream that Cookie had been attacked and I gathered her up and she died and I just let out this howl. Apparently pets dying in a dream signify major life transitions, stress and grief so I guess it’s normal? I texted and Cookie is fine.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Started my new job today. Turns out I am no longer work fit.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This evenings view from my new home : looking south east over the Great Dividing Range from Toowoomba Queensland.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
After 8 months back in Australia I have signed a contract for a .6FTE 18 month role as a Senior Project Manager with the Institute for Communities and Regional Development at Uni Southern Queensland. I’ll be doing strategic planning for a new Center on regional futures (health and well being)
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/08/2026
My Brilliant Career review – a joyous heroine lights up this rare and beautiful period drama
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My Brilliant Career review – a joyous heroine lights up this rare and beautiful period drama
Phillipa Northeast is brilliant as a young woman rebelling against society’s expectations in 1890s Australia. It is witty, intelligent and absolutely glorious to watch
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s been 8 months I’ve been back in Australia and later this week I’m moving out of my sisters in Brisbane to a little “granny flat” in Toowoomba where I will be working on multiple research, teaching projects and grant applications at the University of Southern Queensland. My view:
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
It is so effing Australian that your old friends spend more time congratulating a mutual who bought a house than they do you who moved countries, wrote three books, and came back alive.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This morning I drove up Bulli Pass as the sun was rising over the Pacific. This blazing ball of fire sent orange rays across the ocean & through the eucalyptus & it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. Then I drove to the airport with it in my face the whole time but I’m glad I’m home.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
There’s something very bittersweet about being back on the campus that made you when you’ve travelled so far since
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My second last day in Wollongong and I am going back to the place where I earnt my PhD (and I did earn it!) to do a talk and I can’t lie, there is an element of sweet revenge in it.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
One last spot I wanted to see again before I pack up and head north on Friday - Seven Mile Beach looking all the way down to Shoalhaven Heads. When you grow up on the Pacific Coast you are constantly reminded how in the grand scheme of things human beings are pointless. #dharawalcountry
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Lovely day of yum cha, book shopping and knitting in Sydney with old friends.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A terrible loss. Her book on the Young Lords is one of my all time favourites and a teaching staple.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Day trip to Sydney, with knitting
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The best thing on Australian tv is Marc Fennell on Mastermind. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Reconnecting with family is one of the reasons i came home 😍
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today I am headed down the coast to Batemans Bay to see the only family member I have any contact with, my dad’s sister Jenny. And my cousin Oisin is coming too and I haven’t seen him in about 20 years. Wild.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This mornings walk. I used to live in a little shack behind that big house but it’s gone now
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Sunday walk -around Minnamurra Headland in Dharawal Country - just south of where I lived before I went to the US
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Home on my heart and soul Country
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
You know the best thing about returning to Australia? Being part of South East Asia again. I fucking love it.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It is very interesting to be among Australians talking about US politics from a certain disconnected and intellectual angle. It makes me realise how deeply traumatising it was to be there and how comfortable Australia as a country really is (not complaining just observing)
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