Born on this day, March 20, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973), legendary US singer, songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist who played rock'n'roll long before anyone else, a pioneer in music #WomensArt 🎸 #WomensHistoryMonth

Natalie Harkin’s ‘“Our descendants need you”: an archival-poetics manifesto for a just making of history’, asks ‘what do Indigenous voices, poets and creatives contribute to the public life of history’? 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #historyaustralia #openaccess

I really do love the researchers who write basically one paper a year but every paper is a banger. You can make an event out of it

'Running Iris' linocut by Australian printmaker Rachel Newling #WomensArt

Invasion Day Fundraiser – Justice and Sovereignty chuffed.org/project/1503...

25/7/1988, The Go-Betweens📸Steve Pyke

Labor is passing laws that are more extreme than what Trump has attempted, on immigration and speech, largely at the behest of the media. But if Trump tried to do it, the same outlets would say they were bad, fascistic overreach. Insanely dumb country.

Having read the draft of the Australian government's new "hate" legislation, the scope it gives the government of the day to restrict civil society is massive. It's very clear that it could be used to outlaw a Palestine Action-style organisation www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Gabriele Münter, Dahlias, 1945 Expression painter #Womensart

Abdel-Fattah launches defamation proceedings against Premier Malinauskus. This will be a very revealing case, if it gets to court

As usual, Randa Abdel-Fattah speaks with utter clarity and conviction. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...

'When the Adelaide Festival Board’s statement is read closely, it follows the DARVO pattern almost line for line.' - Natasha Joyce in Lantana Journal www.lantana.net.au/words/empty-...

What is the end game here? No publicly funded cultural events that aren’t approved by Israel? No arts boards that aren’t pro-Israel? The sections of our political class and media who are active in this attempted gutting of our cultural landscape need to ask wtf they are doing here.

welp. Looks like we have a date for Herzog arriving in Aust. The first Day of Mourning in this country was held in Sydney on 26 January 1938. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

'Many years ago the former premier Don Dunstan touted Adelaide as the “Athens of the south”. Now South Australia’s tourism slogan could be “Welcome to Moscow on the Torrens”.' - Louise Adler resigns www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Kind of shocking that Randa was the only Arab or Muslim writer booked for the Adelaide Writer’s Fest tbh.

“The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.” David Brophy on “ambient antisemitism” and the institutional mechanisms for curtailing protest and political expression.

You can contact the Adelaide Festival here to express your opinion about their decision to ban Randa Abdel-Fattah. Please refrain from abuse.

I am stunned and saddened by this announcement. Adelaide Writers Week has been an important platform for Arab and Palestinian voices these past few years. I greatly admire director Louise Adler and her fearless advocacy for freedom of speech. There will be more to come on this story, I’m sure.

Randa Abdel-Fattah wrote one of the most important & highly praised novels of recent times, but the board of Adelaide Writer's Week have cancelled her on the grounds of 'cultural sensitivity'. No hiding this racist BS. Boycott!

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden or alice in chains easy! except it was so hard to choose between jeff buckley, liz phair and this:

Australia's unique multicultural broadcaster, SBS, turned 50 in 2025. Here's an insight into what SBS was like in the 1980s and how it enriched Australia, all of its people... and me. Australia, the Balkans, languages and translation all roll into one here for me.

🚨 new article by Ruth Balint academic.oup.com/past/advance...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/fr... @getup.org.au

Here, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women. I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans. I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Following the horrific antisemitic attack at Bondi supporters of peace & rights for all in Israel Palestine are being slurred as supporters of terrorist atrocity. In a democracy peaceful protest is essential but NSW Premier Minns wants more powers to ban it. Write urgently to MPs using this template

As we approach the end of 2025, historians @michellearrow.bsky.social and @zorasimic.bsky.social reflect on Anne Summers’ 1975 book, Damned Whores and God’s Police, fifty years later. Read more here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/anne-su...

My tribute to the late Sneja Gunew, published in the terrific new collection Researching Migration on Indigenous Lands, edited by @pastmigrations & Francesco Ricatti- open access & packed with innovative scholarship link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

“But it’s also that this land, this beautiful Aboriginal land, was not made to hold such grief. It can, and it does, but it shouldn’t have this burden thrust upon itself.” @jordanas.bsky.social on the logic of violence that permeates Australia.

'We find it incomprehensible that Dr Faulkner could have been made redundant on performance...staff who were made redundant at Macquarie University... appear to be mostly women with excellent track records, but associated either with the union or other political causes' ascp.org.au/news/stateme...

A must-read from @hannahforsyth.bsky.social hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/love-and-h...

'The overt cancelation and silencing of esteemed Arab-Australian women ...points towards a pattern of institutional racism at Macquarie University. We demand full transparency ... and call on the University to reinstate Dr Bayeh immediately.' www.sweatshop.ws/news-1/solid...

macquarie uni has an internationally renowned group of classics and acheological scholars, a group that is now being squeezed by higher admin for resources as part of cutting arts courses and presumably prioritising other areas in which the uni has less comparative advantage. great.

“These are full-grown adults, and I’m a teenage girl,” she says. “If you explained this situation to any normal, sane person, they would tell you this is crazy.” www.deepcutnews.com/p/melbourne-...

The more that comes out about the fabricated crisis at Macquarie University, the worse it gets. Wanton destructive ideologically driven managerialism targetting scholars at the peak of their careers, robbing students of choice & expertise, destroying disciplines vital to the whole sector.

REVIEW: At the centre of this novel is a lonely man, the son of a Greek migrant cafe-owning family, who finds a home in a newsroom at a time of turbulence.

Lea Ypi's new book Indignity: A Life Reimagined was inspired by her discovery of the photograph below of her grandparents on their honeymoon. I reviewed the book for @insidestory.bsky.social insidestory.org.au/finding-the-...

The last time I heard anything about Graham Richardson was how he was fighting against the inclusion of girls at Cranbrook- one of Australia’s most expensive & exclusive schools and the place he sent his son. Such a Labor man

A rich tribute to Ali Kazak who fought so hard for a Free Palestine, linking it to and in tandem with others, esp First Nations johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social reviews ‘Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism, and the Archive’, by Anthea Taylor Published by Routledge tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

School of Humanities & Languages #unsw is hiring TWO postdoctoral fellows in history! 2 years fixed term, open to different specialisations. Deadline is Nov 2 external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

I am so happy to announce that my first peer-reviewed research paper is finally out! It is open access, so please have a read and let me know your thoughts! Thank you so much to the lovely people at Australian Feminist Studies. doi.org/10.1080/0816... #AcademicSky #FeministSky #queeracademia

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

With thanks to @aunz.theconversation.com for encouraging me to write about two extraordinary memoirs theconversation.com/friday-essay...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Diana Buttu, Inès Abdel Razek, and Yara Hawari discuss what 'does it mean to recognize a Palestinian state, on paper, while leaving intact the structures of occupation, apartheid, and the genocidal regime that sustains them?' - a must-read explainer al-shabaka.org/roundtables/...

New review from me of 'Sweet Nothings' by Madison Griffiths for @insidestory.bsky.social inside.org.au/a-curiosity-...