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Matthew Mitchell

@mattjmitchell.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University. Researching LGBTQ people and the law, media representations of anti-queer violence, & tech-facilitated violence. 🌈 Pre-order my new book! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/govern…

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Matthew Mitchell @mattjmitchell.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
💖 Another article out in the same week! Feels like academic Christmas. TL;DR three queer researchers struggle to understand what it might mean to do queer criminology, to be queer within criminology, and to queer criminology. 🔗 Available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Be gay, do criminology? Affect, subjectivity, and relationality in anti-queer violence research - Matthew Mitchell, Tully O’Neill, Curtis Redd, 2025
As a nascent sub-discipline, queer criminology has been fundamentally concerned with questions about its identity and scope. Within these debates, several schol...
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Matthew Mitchell @mattjmitchell.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
🌈 New article out now, “Anti-Queer Violence in Australia: An Intersectional Analysis of Victimization Among LGBTQA+ Adults” TL;DR Anti-queer violence is pervasive and intersectional. Addressing it will require structural reform beyond tackling homo- and transphobia alone. doi.org/10.1080/0091...
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Anti-Queer Violence in Australia: An Intersectional Analysis of Victimization Among LGBTQA+ Adults
Anti-queer violence is a significant criminological, public health, and social justice concern. While international research has shown that LGBTQA+ people generally experience higher rates of victi...
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Matthew Mitchell @mattjmitchell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I had a great time speaking on Done By Law at 3CR about the national review into gender-affirming care for trans and gender-diverse youth. Tune in to hear some myth-busting around gender-affirming care and learn why it matters! (NB: there are some audio issues at the start, but it picks up)
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Gender Affirming Care for Transgender Youth
This episode discusses gender-affirming care for transgender young people. We might mention suicide and self-harm. Listeners are advised.At the end of January this year, Federal Health Minister Mark B...
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Matthew Mitchell @mattjmitchell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Tune in to hear us talk Playing with Social Theory on the SAGE Teaching Sociology podcast! 🎙️ We chat play, theory, and a bit of dancing 💃 🎧 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: sagesociology.libsyn.com/teaching-soc...
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Sage Sociology: Teaching Sociology - Playing with Social Theory: Creative and Reflexive Methods for Teaching and Practice
Authors Matthew Mitchell, Flynn Pervan, Josiah Lulham and Will Arpke-Wales discuss the article, "Playing with Social Theory: Creative and Reflexive Methods for Teaching and Practice," published in the...
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Matthew Mitchell @mattjmitchell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
🎉🎉🎉 "Playing with Social Theory" is out! We explore teaching social theory through play—freestyle dance, writing fictional histories, and live gender performance in the classroom. me + @josiahlulham.bsky.social + @ftcpervan.bsky.social + will arpke-wales Link below! doi.org/10.1177/0092...
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Playing with Social Theory: Creative and Reflexive Methods for Teaching and Practice - Matthew Mitchell, Josiah Lulham, Flynn Pervan, Will Arpke-Wales, 2025
What does good theorizing look like? And how can or should theorizing be taught? This article challenges the static and exegetic approaches to theorizing that h...
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Matthew Mitchell @mattjmitchell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
It was a pleasure to speak on ABC Radio National this morning about the national review of gender-affirming care for trans and gender-diverse young people and the significant legal scrutiny it has already faced. 📻 Listen below!
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The future of gender-affirming care - ABC listen
They make up a relatively small proportion of the population, yet their most private struggle is in the political spotlight -- again -- trans and gender diverse young people.  The timing of this Aust...
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Matthew Mitchell @mattjmitchell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Following QLD’s pause on puberty blockers and the federal gov’s new review into healthcare for trans youth, a quick piece from me on why gender-affirming care is already one of the most intensely regulated medical practices in Australia—and why we don’t need yet another review into its legitimacy.
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Can a child legally take puberty blockers? What if their parents disagree?
Recent political attention might imply gender-affirming care is risky, controversial, perhaps even new. But Australian law views it as a legitimate medical treatment.
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