So thrilled at this generous write up of my book by one of my favourite feminist historians. thank you @zorasimic.bsky.social 🪄💌 www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

Zora Simic reviews ‘The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared: Shere Hite and The Hite Report’ by Rosa Campbell

When Shere Hite, the feminist sex researcher best known as the author of The Hite Report: A nationwide study of female sexuality (1976), died in London in 2020, aged seventy-seven, she was eulogised a...

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Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Thanks @auswhn.bsky.social for the opportunity to honour Kay Saunders, a truly brilliant historian and person who will be much missed www.auswhn.com.au/blog/remembe...

Remembering Kay Saunders (1947-2026) | Australian Women's History Network

In this blog, Shirleene Robinson and the Australian Women's History Network remember Emeritus Professor Kay Saunders, AO, FASSA, FRHistS (1947–2026).

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Check it out! Wonderful special issue on Legacies of IWY, ed by @michellearrow.bsky.social @scrozierderosa.bsky.social - v. honoured to be a part of this fab line up. Congrats eds 👏👏 Australian Historical Studies: Vol 57, No 2 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...

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Special issue: Fifty Years On: Rethinking the Legacies of Australia’s International Women’s Year 1975. Guest Editors: Michelle Arrow and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa. Volume 57, Issue 2 of Australian Histor...

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Vale James Valentine. I enjoyed all of his iterations, but especially loved him on 702. You could tell he was having fun. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Breaking: James Valentine, beloved ABC talkback radio star, dies aged 64

The presenter and professional saxophone player is being remembered for his ability to explore the humour and oddities of daily life on the airwaves.

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Just posting this again for #historians 🗃️ I’ve really enjoyed hearing about people’s papers that have gone under the radar

Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Academics, is there an article or paper that you've published that you feel has slipped under the radar? Reply or quote this post with your overlooked piece! Here's mine... www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Artwork by Sinéad O'Connor, (who adopted the name Shuhada' Sadaqat in her last years). Her art was used as the cover for her 1994 album 'Universal Mother' #WomensArt

Great idea Evan! My pick is in honour of the writer Streten Božić/ Wongar who died in March, aged 94. Broken English: What to Do with Wongar, the European Migrant Who Became an Aboriginal Writer: Australian Historical Studies: Vol 53, No 4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Broken English: What to Do with Wongar, the European Migrant Who Became an Aboriginal Writer

Streten Božić arrived in Australia in 1960 with a ‘European concept’ of the country, but his outlook was transformed by the experience of living with Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territor...

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Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Academics, is there an article or paper that you've published that you feel has slipped under the radar? Reply or quote this post with your overlooked piece! Here's mine... www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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...

Invasion Day Fundraiser – Justice and Sovereignty

Every year, Invasion Day stands as a powerful reminder of the strength, survival, and resistance of First Nations peoples. It is not a day of celebration — it is a day of mourning, truth-telling, and ...

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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...

Hate laws to pass after Labor and Liberal deal

The Liberal Party struck an agreement with Labor to tighten the scope of a bill to ban hate groups, but the position of the Nationals is unclear.

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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

Breaking: Randa Abdel-Fattah launches defamation proceedings against SA Premier

Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah says her lawyers have launched defamation proceedings against South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, following his public commentary about her sch...

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

Randa Abdel-Fattah on the collapse of the Adelaide Writers’ Festival

Podcast Episode · We Used to be Journos · 13/01/2026 · 36m

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'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-...

Empty Words, Emptying Stages — Lantana

By isolating one writer as a potential risk, the institution produces a broader chilling effect in which participation itself becomes precarious. Public debate shrinks not because anyone is ordered to...

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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.

Exclusive: pro-Israel campaign seeks removal of Palestinian DJ from WOMADelaide

After ruining the Adelaide and Bendigo writers festivals, pro-Israel supporters are now targeting WOMADelaide’s inclusion of Sama’ Abdulhadi

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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...

Albanese calls national day of mourning for Bondi victims on January 22

There will be a national day of mourning for the victims of the Bondi terror attack on January 22, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says.

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'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...

I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler

Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

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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.

Universities and the arts after Bondi: from definitions to “ambient antisemitism” - Overland literary journal

The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah from its upcoming Writers’ Week gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.

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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.

Josh Bornstein@joshbornstein.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Announcement by Adelaide Writers Festival cancelling invitation to Randa Abdel- Fattah

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!