Hello Queer Bluesky, this Pride Month my aim is to reach more awesome queer people on here! So, a small introduction: I’m Damo, a researcher who investigates queer representations in media and culture (particularly onscreen).

In exciting news, my book ‘Queer Stories in Australian TV Drama: Production Culture, Policy, and Distribution’ will be published by Routledge in October 2026. It is part of the Advances in Television Studies series.

Hey, so Whitney Monaghan and I have found over 70 queer storyworlds in TV since the 1990s across UK, US, Australia and Canada (there’s more in more places), and I’m gonna work through and add as many as I can to the quoted thread throughout Pride Month.

It’s Pride Month, and my challenge to everyone is to watch more queer storyworlds - TV shows that emphasise the social bonds of queer people - because those stories show how we find one another and build community. theconversation.com/activism-com...

I wrote aabout what to stream during #PrideMonth with the excellent Whitney Monaghan. We'd love you to watch more queer shows, especially as some streaming services haven't been making their LGBTQIA+ categories as prominent during Pride Month in recent years.

I teamed up with fellow queer TV expert, Whitney Monaghan, to recommend what to stream this #PrideMonth. theconversation.com/activism-com...

Audio of my evidence in this Parliamentary Inquiry is at this timestamp on the livestream recording: www.youtube.com/live/tWwmO77... Big ups to the parliamentary staff, committee secretariat and committee members for managing these hearings as well as caring about the future petitioning ✨

🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In ‘Queer worldbuilding in mainstream Anglophone television’ - led by Whitney Monaghan - we expand theories of televisual worldbuilding to consider the queer storyworld. doi.org/10.1177/0163...

📺 REVIEW: When Darcy returns home in this new SBS series, he realises there’s another presence in his childhood home: a ghost of his younger pre-transition self, Dee.

Check out my review of the new SBS series, Homebodies in @aunz.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/homebodies-b...

New in Critical Studies in Television Distributing queer storyworlds in US, UK, Australian, and Canadian mainstream television drama Damien John O’Meara and Whitney Monaghan journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Have you ever encountered a queer storyworld? Chances are, it emerged through a liminal moment of experimentation during a disruption to the ecology of television distribution. See my latest work with the brilliant Whitney Monaghan! Always a joy to work together. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Hear my list of the most iconic moments from Aussie TV on ABC’s Nightlife last night! What are yours? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Lovely to see our upcoming Broadcast TV symposium covered in TV Tonight: tvtonight.com.au/2026/02/what...

Final speaker lineup for the ‘100 Years of Broadcast TV Symposium’ coming up this Friday (6 Feb) at RMIT! www.rmit.edu.au/events/2026/...

Aussie TV people: Dean Dezius, General Manager of Freeview Australia and Marco Angele, Media and Entertainment Lawyer at Marshalls + Dent + Wilmoth are joining the ‘100 Years of Broadcast TV symposium' to talk about TV Today and Beyond. www.rmit.edu.au/events/2026/...

Is there a future for Australian news on broadcast TV? Join Hugh Nailon (Nine National News Director) and Justin Stevens (ABC News Director) in conversation with Professor Alexandra Wake about the history and future of TV news in Australia. www.rmit.edu.au/events/2026/...

Okay Bluesky, my 2026 goal is to fill the glaring gaps in my sci-fi reading. Starting this thread to keep a record for accountability, but also feel free to reply with your recommendations.

Join a conversation with Amanda Higgs (Matchbox Pictures), Mitch McTaggart (The Last Year of Television), and Jessica Balanzategui (RMIT) for our first of four panels reflecting on the impact and future of broadcast TV in Australia. www.rmit.edu.au/events/2026/...

The year after finishing a PhD is tough. How we support early career colleagues remains crucial to our academic future. This week's Post learns from the remarkable Dr Damien O'Meara. How do we build success, inclusion, momentum and meaning? New Post - seeing beyond the present: youtu.be/L-laFC91ptE

Excellent start to 2026! I contributed to this roundtable dossier, led by Dr Amy Boyle: “Sites of struggle: Television’s cultural and economic value.” My section examines queer authenticity and publicity in Australian TV drama. doi.org/10.1177/1749...

If you're in Australia - the ebook version of An Academic Affair is currently $4.99 on all platforms! It's got academic rivals,* a marriage of convenience, and staunch unionism, and I'm quite proud of it. *written by me, an academic

Switching off broadcast TV is already being debated in various markets. But what do we stand to lose? RMIT’s 100 Years of Broadcast TV Symposium reflects on the impact of the broadcast signal in Australia. www.sign-research.com/cfps-events

If there was ever a case for the urgent funding of humanities education, it’s this. Surely the editorial leadership of a magazine had to complete an intro to media studies course at some point in their education, right?

Loved getting the chance to talk about streaming, corporate takeovers and the need for diverse content and funding in Australia with Grace McKinnon at ABC.

The speed at which the face scanner verified I was old enough to be on social media felt like an insult.

Apparently I’m so expressive that there’s no way to get a screenshot of my recent appearance on BTN without this face. More importantly, it’s the first time I’ve had a TV interview since I added Stella’s portrait to my media shelf! www.abc.net.au/btn/classroo...

Insightful analysis from my RMIT colleague Alexa Scarlata in @aunz.theconversation.com about the Aus gov’s newly announced streamer regulation. theconversation.com/new-laws-wil...

Check out our preprint in which we determine how a class of potent protein antibiotics specifically kill P. aeruginosa without a need to enter the cell. doi.org/10.1101/2025... This is work from my PhD in the lab of @rhyswg.bsky.social and many collaborators who contributed amazing data!

Absolutely stoked to have been part of the team to deliver the 14th Australian Media Traditions conference last week. So many highlights, but here are a few pics of some exciting moments!

Australian TV has changed significantly over the past 15 years, with a boom in queer stories since the 2010s. New research sheds light on how these changes happened.

Have you ever thought about the hidden labour behind queer representations on our screens? theconversation.com/a-look-into-...

#NewPublication (Media, Culture & Society): ‘Interviewing out lesbian, gay and bisexual creatives and executives about getting queer stories in mainstream Australian scripted television’. A huge thank you to all the Aus television creatives and executives who took part. doi.org/10.1177/0163...

Proud to speak to ABC about queerness, identity, celebrity branding and bi/pan erasure for this article about the response to Jojo Siwa and Fletcher sharing the complexity of their queer identities during pride month. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Hands down the best graduation gift I received is this portrait of my dog (from my partner). My Staffy (cross) Stella was by my side through my whole thesis. Whenever I was stressed, she would demand a walk to get me out of the house and force a break.

While interviewing Australian television creatives and executives about how they negotiated queer stories in Aussie TV drama, I found a common theme: networks were worried audiences would switch off if they saw these themes. But what informed this view? djomeara.com/2025/07/03/a...

I’ve spent my Sunday reviewing and sending off the proofs for an article - it feels particularly special to hit submit on this one.

A little detour on my way to work today to collect my PhD degree certificate from Swinburne Uni. As much as I’d have loved to attend the ceremony, the timing wasn’t going to work. But that doesn’t diminish how bloody proud I am, right now. #Graduation

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 In ‘Australian audience reactions to the ABC’s broadcast of Tales of the City, as seen in the Green Guide letters’ I examine a brief public debate unearthed while searching for audience reactions to the first broadcast of the Mardi Gras in 1994: dx.doi.org/10.1080/1030...

In good news, I am officially Dr Damo. Very happy. Very thankful to all those who helped me get here.

“Many academics tell us they’re avoiding US travel entirely due to genuine fears about border detention and visa issues” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

There’s been a great response to our survey so far with more than 60 Aussie authors sharing how they build and engage their readership! It’s not too late, it’s till open and accepting responses!

Australian book authors, how do you publicise your work? Tell us in this 15-minute survey from RMIT-Swinburne researchers: rmit.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Nice update: found out today that I passed my PhD with minor corrections from one examiner. So happy and will hopefully have those corrections addressed in a couple of weeks.

After numerous requests, were please to share this CFP is extended to 14 April.

Today is officially 6 months since I submitted my PhD. It’s quite frustrating that I still don’t have examiner reports after such a long time. But I’m hopeful I’ll hear soon.

CFP: 14th Australian Media Traditions Conference on the theme of ‘ARCHIVES AND ARCHETYPES: RECOVERY AND RENEWAL’. Conference is running at RMIT in Melbourne, 4-5 September! It covers media histories from journalism, to film and television, to digital archives, and more! ausmediatraditions2025.com

My book on Agatha Christie has been out for less than a year and it's been used in this list. *Sigh*

An absolute honour to contribute to the diversity section of the SIGN Research 10 Years of Streaming in Australia report! You can read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1P-90...