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PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖

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rachaelburgin.bsky.social @rachaelburgin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Have you experienced sexual violence and want to share your views on counselling notes requests and legal systems? We are conducting a survey to learn about the relationship between counselling and the legal system. Find out more and complete the survey: swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Sexual violence victim-survivor experiences and perspectives: Counselling notes requests and legal systems
We are conducting this survey to learn about the relationship between counselling and legal system processes for victim-survivors of sexual violence. You can participate in this survey if: - You are a...
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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
PhDone. My thesis A History of Sexual Assault Reporting in The Age, 2011-20 is now online. The last month has demonstrated once again the need for ethical and responsible sexual assault reporting both in traditional media forums and on social media. doi.org/10.26199/acu...
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regina mühlhäuser @remueh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Yay, page proofs! ✨️ I am really looking forward to this upcoming book ⬇️ Sexual Violence in Asia and Eastern Europe. The Silent Aftermaths of World War II Edited by Joohee Kim & Maren Röger, will appear @ceu-press.bsky.social soon
Photo of article entitled "The in/visibility of sexual violence during WWII in Europe and Asia. Notes on contested memories and a persistent lack of awareness"
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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sexual Assault Support Services in Australia 🧵 Media & public conversations around sexual violence cause distress please know there are support services available. You deserve care!
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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
With this news there may be an increase in media discourse around sexual violence. I'm gently reminding you to keep in mind victim-survivors if you share any commentary. Please if you need support reach out as you are so deserving! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Live: Sydney Swans involved in 'alleged incident' as police probe sexual assault
The club says the AFL and authorities have been notified about the alleged incident, as police investigate a report of sexual assault.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
When disabled people/many people who work on disability/health pointed to the dangers of this kind of framing since COVID, they were usually mocked ("oh you think everything is eugenics") or ignored. But normalising the idea that the deaths of disabled people are desirable/reassuring is dangerous.
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My fellow historians, which single academic article of yours do you think 'teaches best', i.e. for both staff and students it's doing work that leads to a strong class discussion + students remember it? I am interested in how people see their own work. I'll go first. Hit reply and link your pick!
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I wrote about the White Australia policy, the myth, the fantasy, for the Conversation.
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‘White Australia’ has always been a myth. Hanson lamenting its end is wrong – and dangerous
Australians have every reason to be angry at our political elites. But Hanson’s nostalgic and false history does not hold the answer.
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
New #OpenAccess article by @helenaaeberli.bsky.social on pica, a lesser-known eating disorder, and its gendered associations with pregnant women and pubescent girls in early modern England. #EarlyModern #Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistMed onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CYRU3R...
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New article has just been published OA @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social ! Lots of archival work in here tracing the the women who ran “Indian houses” in #17thc London. Including one woman who may have helped plot the Glorious Revolution!! #earlymodern www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Simple explanations and contextless analysis are the death of good history. Embrace the fact that it's difficult, that it's weird, that it's convoluted, and that it's complicated. It'll give you the answers you're looking for.
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Coming to a bookstore near you in February 2027.
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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Excited to attend the AHA 2026 Conference Opening this evening at Macquarie Uni’s Wallumattagal Campus 📚 Looking forward to the AWHN Stream across the program: event.mq.edu.au/aha-2026/pro...
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Program - Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2026
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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
History Australia 23(2) has just dropped. Time to grab a ☕ and dig in. Browse the full issue 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/raha20/c...
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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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ANU spent $6k on a 'non-significant' meeting. Then why do they pay tutors even less for a semester?
Last year the Australian National University (ANU) was getting some bad press, so they engaged a company called Bastion Reputation to help with the media fallout from restructures and the heavily crit...
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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
My book Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War (@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social) is out tomorrow (but I have seen photo evidence that it's already out on display in an array of bookstores if you want to get in early). (1/3) unsw.press/books/quiet-...
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Quiet Protest: A new history of activism during the Vietnam War
A new history of protest told through the quiet activism of everyday Australians.
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Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
My article in the newest volume of Lilith A Feminist History Journal is out now. 'Citrus Queens' is based on a talk I gave at the AHA conference 2024, and is about Riverland women negotiating belonging in 1960s SA. press.anu.edu.au/publications...
A black and white photograph of a young woman wearing a small tiara, a white frilly dress, white elbow-length gloves, and a sash that says "Riverland Citrus Queen Competition". She has a cheeky smile, and an engaging expression.
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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
‘AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters” [as it] “disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters”.’
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"As in those languages where a verb is inflected by its object, the nature of a justiciable killing depends on its victim." How could any aspiring historian ever hope to be as eloquent and erudite as Patrick Wolfe?
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David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Can't tell you how thrilled I am to see my PhD student Mary Bellman's first article published! 🥳 'The Demetrius Dilemma: The Implications of Induced Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in the British Shakespeare Association's journal, *Shakespeare*: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Demetrius Dilemma: The Implications of Induced Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the use of the love-in-idleness enchantment is not confined to producing Titania’s comic union with Bottom but is also applied to Lysander and is the source of Demetri...
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Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Historian friends, anyone got any reading recommendations on the Disability Discrimination Act / related campaigns in Australia? And/or on the way that different anti-discrimination Acts related to each other esp. in the 1990s?
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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Also we should talk about the piece from The Conversation about their own survey where they don’t release the survey itself so we can’t look at the methodology, sampling or even the results You can’t do polling analysis and go ‘trust me bro’ as the source instead of a published poll
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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Vital journalism critically examining research results (rather than regurgitating than without any thought for their validity)
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Crystal Jane @crystaljane.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
That big scary survey about Gen Z men being more regressive than Boomers is so flawed. An image of young men is being manufactured in the media and we should be very concerned about that. Why do pollsters keep doing this???
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That gender survey is BS.
Gen Z men where???
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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA. I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation! #18thc #17thc #earlymodern onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...
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Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...
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Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🧵: Books by historians I constantly recommend in policy meetings / professional contexts. In no order, to be added to when I remember: 1. The Seventies, by @michellearrow.bsky.social . Stuff can change, and it's possible to believe in things and plan for the future. unsw.press/books/the-se...
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The Seventies
WINNER of the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Shortlisted for the 2020 NSW Premier's Literary Awards  Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction
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Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I have a new OA article out on the early history of Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. It’s part of a special issue by Agata Ignaciuk and Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska on anti-abortion activism in Europe.Thanks to reviewers and the RSE for funding. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Youth Defence, young people and anti-abortion activism in Ireland, c.1992–97
This article explores the first five years of the Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. Using newspaper articles and archival sources, I illustrate how the group effectively mobil...
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History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
History Australia 23(1) out now! “Happy reading and bon courage for 2026” www.tandfonline.com/toc/raha20/c...
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Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com · 24/02/2026
History Workshop Journal just published its 100th issue—a landmark celebration of critical, community-driven history! From archival recoveries to new interpretations of protest, gender, & empire, HWJ reshapes how we think about the past: oxford.ly/46iUcd2 @historyworkshop.org.uk
Read History Workshop Journal's 100th Issue.
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Tiina Carita Rosenqvist @tcrosenqvist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Our paper about women's pain and psychogenic diagnoses is now out: doi.org/10.1007/s110...
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Women’s pain and psychogenic diagnoses - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
Healthcare providers often rely on the following sort of concerning reasoning when encountering patients with difficult-to-explain symptoms: in the absence of evidence for a physical cause, the sympto...
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Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts says she stepped down as the ACT's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner to prioritise her safety after being subjected to sexual harassment and sexual assault by a public servant.
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Former ACT commissioner alleges sexual assault and harassment
Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts says she stepped down as the ACT's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner to prioritise her safety after being subjected to sexual harassment and sexual assault by a public servant.
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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New article, by Frances M Clarke, Joy Damousi, Philip Dwyer, Mark Edele @edelemark.bsky.social, Reto Hofmann and Hans-Lukas Kieser: 'Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
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Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945*
Abstract. Thinking about and planning for the end of war generally begins as soon as fighting breaks out, if not long before. Yet few studies analyse how p
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ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Online Workshop - ANZSHM x Health & History What is the peer review process and how do you deal with reviewer feedback? February 26th 2025 @ 3pm AEDT (2pm AEST) Zoom details: lnkd.in/g77JzGdg... Password: 534412 Health and History Journal: lnkd.in/gH8u3QJ6
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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...
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Disabled and academic: a collaborative autoethnography on ableism and cruel optimism within Australian higher education
Universities are celebrated as bastions of teaching, knowledge and research excellence, but they can pose risks to staff psychosocial safety and wellbeing. In Australia and elsewhere, we are increa...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I wrote about how the women Epstein and co victimized have been minimized and ignored as individuals even in popular discourse about the very abuse they endured—and how the legal system has punished them and other women, not helped them, for daring to come forward. spitfirenews.com/p/even-the-m...
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Even the most famous victims are silenced
From the Epstein files to Amber Heard, we obsess over victims while denying their own right to speak.
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Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
My first ever Conversation article!
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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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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Today has been surreal as I submitted my PhD Thesis, A History of Sexual Assault Reporting in The Age, 2011-20 for examination. We deserve ethical & responsible sexual assault reporting whether that be within traditional media forums or on social media.
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Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university 1. History & Memory: Uses & Abuses of the Past 2. Underbelly Australia: Crime & Punishment 3. US Foreign Policy Since 1945 4. Event & Experiment: Twentieth-Century Literature 5. Countercultures: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Happy 🇬🇧 UK pub day to THE CROWN’S SILENCE—a deeply researched narrative history of the monarchy’s centuries-long entanglement with slavery. This is the new history book the far right loathes. Please buy it b/c it’s important history but—also—it will really piss them off if it does well in the UK!!😉😘
The UK edition of the crown silence, out now!
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Bethany Keats @bethanykeats.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Publication alert! 🚨 “An (un) Ordinary Farmhouse near Tamworth: Refuge and Danger in the Family Home” has been published by the Royal Australian Historical Society. I talk about gothic literature, family violence and how even unremarkable houses can be important www.rahs.org.au/history-maga...
Looking down at a table with a potted jade, coffee and magazine: History, from the Royal Australian Historical Society. My fingers are touching the bottom left corner of the magazine. The magazine is now open and you can see the title “an (un) ordinary farmhouse near Tamworth: refuge and danger in the family home” and there’s a photo of a woman outside on a mat with three young children and a car behind them on the other side of a fence
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Australian Historical Studies @ahsjournal.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Published online, an article by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, ‘The Emotional Labour of Feminism: Australia’s International Women’s Year 1975’. Abstract below. doi.org/10.1080/1031...
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