The Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association

📢Event Announcement Friday 6th March: No Panel, No Pressure, No Prep. Join AWGSA members & executive for an informal hour of conversation, reflection, and community. No presentations, no panels, & no preparation required, just show up as you are. Open to all women, gender‑diverse people, & allies.

📢 Event Reminder: “What do we do now?” TOMORROW! 25 Feb 12–1pm AEDT. Join us for an honest conversation about navigating feminist careers in and beyond the academy.

Open to HDRs, ECRs, independent scholars, pracademics, and scholar-activists.

Register here: events.humanitix.com/what-do-we-d...

What do we do now? — Pathways in and beyond the academy for early-career feminist scholar-activist-practitioners Join us for a critical discuss on carving out feminist futures—in, against, and beyond the university in this 1-hour

📢 HDR/ECR Event Announcement!

Join us for “What do we do now?” — a 1-hour online fireside chat for early-career feminist scholars, independent activists, and anyone navigating pathways in and beyond the academy on 25 Feb 12pm (AEDT)

Register here! events.humanitix.com/what-do-we-d...

TOMORROW'S SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO 2026 due to unforeseen circumstances!

LAST DAY TO REGISTER: "FORMING TRANS COLLECTIVES NOW" 💥

Please send your expressions of interest (who are? why would you like to join?) to c.kempen@unimelb.edu.au by November 25th.

Trans Awareness Week Trans Awareness Week is 13 to 19 November! Celebrate trans pride and learn how to be a trans ally. Get involved now!

At AWGSA we celebrate #TransAwarenessWeek 💥 and commit to build inclusive spaces where trans and gender diverse people can thrive, and celebrate the joy of being seen, heard, and valued just as they are.

Find resources here: www.minus18.org.au/campaigns/tr...

JOIN US FOR OUR NOVEMBER AWGSA RESEARCH SEMINAR! 🌟

Register here: events.humanitix.com/online-resea...

The Feminist Miscarriage Project A new collaboration led by two feminist academics, Victoria Browne and Susie Kilshaw, promoting intersectional approaches to miscarriage, grounded in bodily autonomy, social justice, and solidarity ac...

Delighted to be launching the Feminist Miscarriage Project! Please see our new website and we'll be updating on news and events soon: feministmiscarriageproject.org

SURVEY ⭐ 📝

Complete survey here:
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Run by Alana Blakers as part of Prof Sandy O'Sullivan's ARC project titled Saving Lives: Mapping the influence of Indigenous LGBTIQ+ creative artists

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⭐ AWGSA MEMBER SPOTLIGHT 🌟 AWGSA Journal Transition Representative, Associate Professor Gail Crimmins !

"Feminisms for me are multiple; they are lived, embodied, theoretical, activist, and collective..."

Read here: awgsa.asn.au/spotlight-on...

#AWGSA #Feminism #HigherEducation

Online Research Seminar Series - September An online research seminar presenting new projects across gender studies and interdisciplinary feminist research.

Still time to register for our September seminar on Friday 26 September, 12:00pm AEST!

At this online research seminar we will hear from Professor Sandy O'Sullivan and Dr Han Reardon-Smith 💥

Register here: events.humanitix.com/copy-of-onli...

#Indigenous #Queer #AWGSA #Anticolonial

LET'S WRITE! 📝

AWGSA is pleased to organise a monthly writing together session on teams/zoom on the last Tuesday of every month from 10am to 12pm starting 30 September 💥 📣

For joining please email awgsa.submissions@gmail.com with your full name and email address

Open to all AWGSA members!

#AWGSA's Upcoming Seminars 💥 Registrations are now open!

💫 26 September, 12 - 1pm
Sandy O'sullivan & Han Reardon-Smith
Register here: events.humanitix.com/copy-of-onli...

💫 28 November 12 - 1pm
Sophie Hindes & Brooklyn Donnelly
Register Here: events.humanitix.com/online-resea...

Job opportunity! Postdoc Research Fellow in the Centre for Organisations and Social Change (COSC) at RMIT. The role will be working on a funded project examining gender norms, gaming influencers and tween boys. Find out more and apply here: rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RMIT_Careers...

@historyaustralia.bsky.social

AWGSA is in full agreement with the AHA open letter here theaha.org.au/advocacy/ calling for urgent replacement of the Job Ready Graduate scheme with equitable policy that values humanities and social sciences education. Please sign the petition & share tinyurl.com/4a3vzvy9 #Highereducation #Arts

Fabulous seminar on Friday with Dr Adrienne Byrt on and Dr Paige Macintosh. Important threads through both about long-term relationships and community building in research and creative work - very exciting discussions about doing co-design better #AWGSA #GenderStudies #Codesign Next one 26 Sep!

AWGSA online seminar dates for the rest of the year - put these in your calendars!

First up is our July research seminar next Friday 25 July at 12pm (AEST) via Zoom. Register here: lnkd.in/gvFZhPvs

#AWGSA
#FeministResearch
#TransIndigenousStorytelling
#HigherEducation

Don't forget to register and join us for our July seminar! events.humanitix.com/online-resea...

💥 ✊ Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association: Statement in support of sociology at Macquarie University

FULL STATEMENT:
awgsa.asn.au/awgsa-statem...

Sign here: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

#MacquireUniversity #Sociology #HigherEducation #AWGSA

AWGSA celebrates this year's NAIDOC Week, which marks a powerful milestone: 50 years of honoring and elevating Indigenous voices, culture, and resilience.

Find local events here: www.naidoc.org.au/local-events...

#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #NAIDOCWeek

SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...

SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY!

SIGN THE PETITION HERE: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/sa...

In solidarity,

AWGSA Exec

#AWGSA proudly joined #NoToViolence and allies to present an open letter to Minister Tanya Plibersek, calling for urgent action to end men's violence.

We are proud to stand with a national coalition demanding bold leadership to stop domestic, family & sexual violence at its source.

#EndViolence

#AWGSA's Executive Committee Statement in Solidarity with Palestine ✊ 🍉

"We join current calls for a permanent ceasefire and international sanctions to Israel, & stand in solidarity with Palestinian liberation and self-determination."

READ FULL STATEMENT HERE: awgsa.asn.au/australian-w...

Join us for our July research seminar with Dr Adrienne Byrt & Dr Paige Macintosh 💥

Date: Fri, 25 July at 12pm (AEST) via Zoom

Register here: events.humanitix.com/online-resea...

#AWGSA #Feminist #GenderStudies #TransIndigenousStorytelling

2025 Theme - Finding Freedom: Diversity in Community - Refugee Week This year's Refugee Week theme is Finding Freedom: Family, which encapsulates a refugee's profound journey of resilience, strength, and unity.

It's #WorldRefugeeDay and we want to highlight the three-year theme of Finding Freedom, which emphasises the vital role community plays in all our lives, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, language, disability, sexuality and age.

www.refugeeweek.org.au/theme/

#RefugeeWeek

🎓 What an incredible first online seminar with the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association recently. | The Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association (AWGSA) 🎓 What an incredible first online seminar with the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association recently. Thank you to Chelsea Clementine Wallis and Dr Dr Naomi Smith for their thoughtful key...

🎓 What an incredible first online seminar with AWGSA recently. Thank you to Chelsea Clementine Wallis and Dr Naomi Smith @deadtheorist.bsky.social for their thoughtful keynotes.

Learn more here:

www.linkedin.com/posts/the-au...

#AWGSA #WomensStudies #GenderStudies #DV

AWGSA Member Spotlight – Samara Kim 김수임 Samara Kim, also known as Kim Soo Im (김수임), AWGSA HDR representative on the Executive

AWGSA MEMBER SPOTLIGHT FOR THE MONTH is Samara Kim (수임 / 지윤) our HDR representative on the Executive 💫

Read more here:

awgsa.asn.au/awgsa-member...

Matrescence Symposium 2025 | 17 July 2025 ONLINE & THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, BRISBANE CITY CAMPUS, AUSTRALIA

Matrescence symposium | Call for abstracts 💥 Online and at UQ, Brisbane

Please submit a 200-word abstract and short bio by 17:00 (AEST) Tuesday 17 June 2025 to: matrescence.symposium@gmail.com

See the full call for abstracts and symposium details at: matrescencesymposium.wordpress.com