On @thesocietypages.bsky.social blog today ⬇️ We spoke with @binarythis.bsky.social about her book "Emotions, Bodies, and Identities in the Hair and Beauty Salon: Caring Beyond Skin Deep", which explores how salons operate as spaces for labor, identity, and connection. tinyurl.com/36brs2h8

New article out today with Shirley Xue Chen about feminist ambivalence when it comes to everyday experiences of beauty www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fantastic new article out from one of my PhD Students Claude Kempen, making sense of confusion in nonbinary memoir: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

CFP now open for the 2026 Critical Femininities Conference, on the theme "Temporalities"! Full CFP can be found here: www.criticalfemininities.net/conference Please send abstracts to [email protected] by March 13, 2026

Looking forward to giving this seminar next week, with the incredible Paige Lewin torch.ox.ac.uk/event/hair-c...

⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months! This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis. Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇

The incredible repression of information happening in Iran, hiding the bloody state crackdown — and how grotesque to hear the foreign minister using Trump killing civilians to normalise this www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

My book is out today! Do me a favour and ask your library to order a copy? www.bloomsbury.com/us/emotions-...

There are two venerated, much feared trees on the edge of Barwell Common. Known as Whip Scar and Tangle Knife, they are home to particularly quarrelsome Wood Sprites. To pass between them has a fearsome terror tithe and even if it's paid, you are still likely to hear them spitting curses.

New poem out today in @theberlinreview.bsky.social ✨ theberlinliteraryreview.com/hannah-mccan...

These stories of bravery are truly amazing, never stop believing in humans even in the worst times www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Returning to this story again and again in the midst of despair www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Absolutely horrifying to see those scenes from such a cowardly attack in Bondi.

Love this interview with Andrew Brooks www.liminalmag.com/interviews/a...

It’s time for my annual thread of Australian poetry books you should buy ppl for Xmas. No one buys poetry partly cos it’s intimidating. It rarely makes xmas book guides. But poetry is an ethical gift that: supports underfunded writers; wins brownie points with gift receiver; improves the human soul

Reading the responses to this is unbelievably interesting, I can’t wait to share them in an eventual book

NEW! Survey on experiences of romantic crushes, please share widely! The aim of this study is to investigate the romantic crush. Note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+. Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...

“If this demand eventuates, it will make our emissions objective – and our ability to close coal on schedules that align with the emissions targets – very difficult, if not impossible” @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NEW! Survey on experiences of romantic crushes, please share widely! The aim of this study is to investigate the romantic crush. Note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+. Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...

Victoria can’t make up its mind about supporting or condemning children, but this is at least welcome news www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is so good. TLDR: young people don't like it, and have great reasons why the ban is a bad idea

My only goal between now and Christmas is to close all of the tabs on my computer

Devastating reading the final edition of @meanjin.bsky.social As @anatolitis.bsky.social says in the editorial “We need these words desperately”

ARC are considering a restructure in which jobs there will be lost, a source tells me. This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before! I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.

So tired of this 🫩

And this is exactly why poetry is relatively safe from AI. It’s not worth anything to capital! Thank you Maggie Nelson!! 🙇🏻‍♀️

Definitely *do not* search “how many days until Christmas”

🆕 New Article! Check out Dr. Catherine Tebaldi’s (@cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) new article on "tradwives," who are social media influencers who promote an idealized, "feminine" womanhood by staging nostalgic chronotopes of tradition, from 1850s homesteads to 1950s suburban homes. 🧵1/3

A great thing that happened yesterday! 🥳

Fantastic, love this poem

I counter the claim that "AI steals just the way human artists steal." We do not. Artists engage relationally with sources rather than severing them for computational processing. Computers are not people. Comparing generative tools to artists is a dehumanizing act.

This demonstrates how artists actually work: through relational thinking, discerning, critiquing, connecting as thinking, feeling people. I know where every reference comes from. When artists take from each other with acknowledgement, responsibility, and respect, we make each other stronger.

Some radical quotes from me about borders and nations in this piece about Miss Universe 😎 www.sbs.com.au/news/datelin...

Who on earth is eating two cups of beans a day?! www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Very happy that @dustpoetry.bsky.social believes in this poem! You can read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/so-many...

Thank goodness for advocates like @gemkillen.bsky.social speaking truth to those in positions of power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Literally can’t believe sometimes good things happen

Hey friends, it's a great time to subscribe to Overland! Subscriberthon is on until November 7. Loads of major and daily prizes. Plus you get to support publishing local writers in an increasingly anaemic literary environment: overland.org.au/2025/10/over...

Quandongs need to be the next big food thing I can’t believe they’re not already

Obsessed with the brilliance of Lily Allen’s new album www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

“AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy” defector.com/higher-eds-r...

My poem in the Poetry of Flight Liquid Amber anthology 🪶

The capitalism of Taylor Swift

I am presenting a summary of my upcoming book, based on my DECRA research, at the Care Lab UNSW next month. Come along if you can, in person or online: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-care-l...

I don't know how many times I have to say this, but if you are in masculinity studies and you want to write about femininity, then 👏 cite 👏 femininity 👏 studies 👏 scholars 👏

Can’t believe they didn’t note that a risk of practicing lucid dreaming is sleep paralysis!! www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

For anyone currently revising (or doubling down on) their view of Taylor Swift, may I direct you to Holly Randall Moon’s excellent analysis in our edited collection from earlier this year, well before TLOASG landed…

Setting the “days since an Australian university admitted to wage theft” back to 0 www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908934...