I love a red carpet ✨ Last night at the Sport Australia Hall of Fame Gala representing Deakin University ✨

New book day 📚 Can’t wait to sink my teeth into this one! Especially as we are hosting Dr Rohini Balram at Deakin University in a few weeks for a symposium on arts-based research in sport! So my jam!

Footy feelings quarter-by-quarter from today’s #AFLW Final between West Coast and Carlton 😅 Despite my Eagles falling to the Blues, I’m so proud of their historic moment in making it to finals and look forward to next season. Go Eagles 💙💛🦅 #AFLWFinals

Meeting #WomenInSport around the world at women’s sports bars. The dream! What a highlight it was to meet the amazing Dr @jessicawluther.com IRL last week while in Austin to chat all things sports media while also checking out the iconic @1972pub.bsky.social 💜 Love the women’s sports community!

Our new book has a release date! You can get a copy of 'Contemporary Literary Sports Journalism: Histories, Futures and the Contests in Between' from 5 Dec! I can’t wait until this is out in the world 📚 For more info: link.springer.com/book/9783032...

⚽️ New paper ⚽️ This paper is based on my experiences visiting Millerntor Stadion in Hamburg and discovering the ways that FC St. Pauli visibly signal their activism, advocacy and inclusion 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Co-written with the amazing Lee McGowan 📝 Read it here: www.emerald.com/edi/article/...

Looking to show some 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ love with your footy fandom - check out the merch that author Darcy Green has made. Very, very cool stuff! darcygreen.com/shop

I’ll be on ABC Radio Melbourne’s ‘The Conversation Hour’ around 11.20am today talking all things footy finals and fandom - call in if you want to chat about fan access to finals 🏉📻 #AFLFinals

the story on The Flying Bats will air on ABC at 7:30pm AEST tonight! tune in to learn more about our amazing club, our 40-year history of creating inclusion in sport, and our battles against anti-trans activists. we’d love you to show support by using the hashtag #footballforall 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚽️🦇

I should learn that when I share my cheesy fan photos that they can go anywhere! But I am thrilled that Marnie Vinall picked it up for ABC Sport to share the fan reactions of hope, pride and joy to Mitch Brown's powerful coming out announcement yesterday 🏳️‍🌈 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Sport 🌈

I’ll be on ABC Radio Melbourne tonight at 7.30pm on Evenings with David Astle talking sports romance fiction - tune in 📻💖🏉 #SportsRomance #SportsMedia

I'll be on ABC Radio North Queensland this morning at 9.35am talking all things sports romance fiction based on this article I wrote for The Coversation! Tune in for some sporty spice 💖🏒🏀⛳️⚽️ #SportsRomance theconversation.com/sporty-spice...

Another season of groundbreaking, history-making moments continues tonight. Merry #AFLW to all who celebrate 🥳 #SeeYouAtTheW

Some reflections from me on #AFLW imagery in the lead up to the 10th season with the ABC's Rhiannon Stevens 📸 Was also very cool to be included in this article alongside people I admire in this space in Emma Phillips, Megan Brewer & Adele Pavlidis. See you at the W! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

What a night ✨ So much fun celebrating the Vixens at the 2025 Sharelle McMahon Medal and being with some of my fave netty people 🏆 I even got to present an award to the very cool Kate Eddy 🤩 Congrats to Jo Weston for taking home the Shaz Mac - so well deserved 👏

✨ Book launched ✨ Fun night at @readingsbooks.bsky.social celebrating the launch of the edited collection ‘Taylor Swift: Culture, Capital and Critique’ 🫶 Congrats to editors and contributors - feeling very special to be part of this very special book 🫶 #TaylorSwift #Swiftie

Will remember last night’s Super Netball Grand Final forever 🏆 Go Vixens!!! 💚🩷🦊

#SportsRomance is global!

Sport and spice and all things nice! 🩷 📚 ⚽ 🏒 Some reflections from me in @aunz.theconversation.com on the rise of #SportsRomance fiction and why sports should pay attention to the growth in fans connecting to sport in diverse and different ways. theconversation.com/sporty-spice...

Fun day filming yesterday for the 2nd season of the SBS #WomenInSport doco series ‘Heroines’ alongside one of my heroines, my @deakinuniversity.bsky.social colleague Assoc Prof Kim Toffoletti ✨ #SportsMedia #SportsResearch #DeakinSport 🎥

Like I was not going to buy this ✌️⚽️💚💕 The Admiral X Spice Girls collab kit is indeed spicing up my life. I love her 😍 #SportySpice

Very much looking forward to this tomorrow! I will be moderating a panel for the Sport & Society conference with Konrad Marshall, Greg Baum, Rana Hussain & Jonathan Horn about how #SportsMedia reflects #Melbourne as a diverse and global sporting city. sportandsociety.com/2025-confere...

Got my #WomenInSport fix in NYC 🗽 🏀 Liberty game and got to see Ellie 🐘 #WNBA ⚽️ #NSWL game ⚾️ Women’s Night at the Mets #MLB So. Much. Fun! Love checking out international live sport when I travel!

Another work day abroad in a very special place, the New York Public Library 😍 I just love this place so much 📚🗽🇺🇸

This is so special! Thank you @footycon.bsky.social for always being so supportive of my research on diverse football fan cultures and practices (like producing sports romance fiction!). This award means so much to me😊 #FootyCon25 #SportsRomance 💕📚

To kick off session number 5 at #footycon25 is one of the biggest supporters of the conference, an always welcomed guest & our sole Aussie representative for this year @kaseysymons.bsky.social talking about HER kind of football (quoting Kasey Here) on the AFLW, Romance fiction & fandom.

This online chat is coming up in one hour! Still time to register and join us to discuss all things football fandom ⚽️

I’ve said it before and I will say it again - finding public libraries to write in while travelling for work is the best! These places are so special and make working while away such a joy. This is the Bibliothèque nationale de France and it is STUNNING 😍 Felt very inspired working in here 🇫🇷

Week 10 Teaching Tee ⚽️ It’s the final week of classes and the message I’m leaving with my students is sports media is all about sportsmanship and kindness 💚 Also, congrats to Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis for welcoming little baby Jagger into the world 💛 #TeachingTee #DeakinUniversity #SportsMedia

Week 9 Teaching Tee 🏉 Bit of a footy focus this week with reporting on mental health and Spud’s game. Also we are under 100 days until #AFLW opening night which is very exciting! #TeachingTees #DeakinUniversity #SportsMedia #SportsJournalism

New publication! 'Esport Social Capital: An Avenue to Develop Social Connection and Subjective Wellbeing' in Leisure Studies Journal 🎮 Loved working on this with co-authors Carleigh Yeomans, Adam Karg, Ryan Storr & David Purser 🎮 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Book mail 💌 Collecting books about the #MCG for a keynote I’m giving at The University of Limoges in France in June about the literature on sports stadiums 🏟️📚🇫🇷 #SportsWriting #SportsLiterature

Pretty happy to spend some writing time back in my hometown this week ☀️ Gorgeous weather, river views and serenity… so much serenity 😁 #Mildura #Writing #AcademicLife #MurrayRiver

One of my favourite places to work in the world - The MCC Library at The #MCG. They boast an amazing collection of sports books, records, documents and ephemera as well as the best librarians who are fountains of sporting knowledge. We are so lucky to have this place 🏟️ #MCCLibrary #SportLiterature

Week 6 Teaching Tee 🏴‍☠️ This week is about audience & fans so I think #FCStPauli is a cool team to look at diverse fan culture, especially in terms of branding, merch and content! Tee by Ur So Cool - Jackson Irvine’s wife Jemilla Pir’s designs 🤎🤍❤️ #TeachingTees #DeakinUniversity #SportsMedia

Tillies on the TV, line edits on the lappy 💻 Friday night vibes as a middle-aged sports academic 😅

Week 5 Teaching Tee ✨ We look at the business of sports media this week so commercialisation, sponsorships and partnerships. Got my Mickey Mouse X Lakers NBA Championship tee to kick off the convo 🏀 #TeachingTees #SportsMedia #DeakinUniversity #Lakers #Disney #NBA

The @makingthecall.bsky.social networking event was so much fun! Being in a room of graduates from this groundbreaking program led by stars @emmarace.bsky.social & @racey19.bsky.social was so energising. When we talk about driving change for #WomenInSport, change comes from communities like this 💗

Week 4 Teaching Tee 👕 It is sport & gender week AND we also get to play in Deakin’s state of the art TV Studio today to film halftime shows so no better week to rock this Daisy Pearce tee by League Tees 🎙️ #TeachingTees #SportsMedia #DeakinUniversity #DaisyPearce #SportCommentary

Just a joy watching my Sport Commentary students thrive in the state-of-the-art TV Studio at #DeakinUniversity as they prepared their halftime analysis shows in a live-to-air environment. The confidence they showed was just awesome. Love teaching this unit so much 🎥

Week 3 Teaching Tee ⚽️ We are talking branding, public relations and persona building this week and what better brand in sport than the Matildas! Also - let’s normalise wearing football kits to work! #SportsMedia #DeakinUniversity #TeachingTee #Matildas

The first show of Broad Radio’s brand new sports show ‘Play Big’ airs today and I am truly honoured to be included alongside some amazing women on the first broadcast! Download the free Broad Radio app to listen - live from 9am-11am AEDT 🎙️Tune in! It’s going to be super fun! 💗 #SportsMedia

Week 2 Teaching Tee ✨ It’s history week! In class this week we will be looking at significant milestones in the development of #sportsmedia & the moments sports media shaped 🎙️ Tee by @lindsaygibbs.bsky.social & her amazing #WomenInSport media outlet ‘Power Plays’ 👕 #TeachingTee #DeakinUniversity

Them: did you do something fun on the long weekend? Me: I stayed home and finished Elle Kennedy’s ‘Off Campus’ series 🏒💗 #SportsRomance

Join me at the movies this Saturday 📽️ 🛹 I will be hosting the Q&A with 'Queens of Concrete' filmmaker Eliza Cox and stars of this fabulous doco Hayley, Ava and Charlotte 🛹 Book tickets for just $10 here: www.bunjilplace.com.au/events/miff-... #MIFF #SportsMovies #WomenInSport

Right back at you @drkatietaylor.bsky.social! Your friendship, support and expertise has been such a shining light - thank you for being so awesome 💚

Introducing my Teaching Tees that I bring to my class - Week 1 ✨ (Some) footy starts this week and we looked at different roles of sports journos and all the things they need to be across (like becoming experts at cyclone patterns 🌀). - Tee by The Carlton Draft 👕 #DeakinUniversity #SportsMedia

This post wins the SheBelieves Cup 🏆

Stocked up for the 8hr train/bus combo ahead of me. Sports romance and sweets FTW 💖🍫🚂