New publication alert 🚨 Check out my chapter in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity, ‘Interviewing queer television celebrities: Methodological and practical reflections’. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Interviewing queer television celebrities | 44 | Methodological and pr

The queer television celebrity serves as both a public advocate for the queer community and a behind-the-scenes advocate within television production culture.

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I made a little video with RMIT’s brilliant comms team!

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.

Damien O'Meara (he/him)@djomeara.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

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...

Activism, complicated sexualities, and rural Oklahoma: what to stream this Pride Month

From Queer as Folk to Reservation Dogs, this is a Pride Month special edition of what we’re streaming.

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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.

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 2mo ago

From Queer as Folk to Reservation Dogs, this is a Pride Month special edition of what we’re streaming.

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

Activism, complicated sexualities, and rural Oklahoma: what to stream this Pride Month

From Queer as Folk to Reservation Dogs, this is a Pride Month special edition of what we’re streaming.

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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 ✨

House Standing Committee on Petitions | 11/05/2026

YouTube video by Australian Parliament House Streaming Portal

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🚨 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.

Homebodies: bold TV about a trans man, his mother and the conversations they never had

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

Homebodies: bold TV about a trans man, his mother and the conversations they never had

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.

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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/...

Distributing queer storyworlds in US, UK, Australian, and Canadian mainstream television drama - Damien John O’Meara, Whitney Monaghan, 2026

This article examines the distribution of LGBTQ+ television from the 1990s to the beginning of the 2020s. It presents new data of what queer-oriented series wer...

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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...

From flickering screens to streaming dreams: 100 years of broadcast TV - ABC listen

Free-to-air TV was the original disrupter. Does it have a place in the digital age?

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

What would Australian culture look like without broadcast television? | TV Tonight

RMIT brings together industry experts from TV production, news, advertising, and policy to tackle a philosophical question.

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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

Post 127 - Seeing beyond the present (The New Year's Post)

YouTube video by Tara Brabazon

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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...

Dossier: Sites of struggle: Television’s cultural and economic value - Amy Boyle, Alexander Beare, Robert Boucaut, Marion McCutcheon, Damien John O’Meara, Sue Turnbull, Elke Weissmann, 2026

In the age of the Anthropocene, television can play a key role in shifting ideologies. However, achieving this is difficult when television continues to operate...

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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

An Academic Affair

The Love Hypothesis meets The Hating Game in a new standalone rom-com from New York Times acclaimed author and romance academic Jodi McAlister.   S...

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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...