Ana Stevenson

Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025…

We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Bambi Sheridan. Image via QNews.

Dame Sybil Von Thorndyke (aka Laurie Dean). Photo from the personal collection of Bill Rutkin.

The Queens Ball circa 1975. Image via QNews.

In our latest blog, prominent LGBTQIA+ Rights Activist Bill Rutkin (OAM) and Contributing Editor Michael Stockwell explore how Queensland’s gay community flouted convention and defied the odds to hold the world’s longest running LGBTQIA+ event, the Queens Ball.

www.auswhn.com.au/blog/the-que...

Your support is needed - sign the petition opposing the Job-ready Graduates Scheme www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

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The disastrous dismantling of the humanities in Australia’s universities has begun

Opinion | "Humanities and social sciences academics are signing petitions, writing open letters and organising actions in response to these threats to their jobs. They are anxious and angry."

A shoutout to all the academics who are also working 9 to 9, 24/7 👩‍💻

Camp Names and Vernacular: Queensland's Lavender Language | Australian Women's History Network Bill Rutkin (OAM) and Michael Stockwell explore homosexual men's use of lavender language in Queensland during the Bjelke-Petersen era.

In our latest #VIDAblog, prominent LGBTQIA+ activist Bill Rutkin (OAM) and contributing editor Michael Stockwell explore how homosexual men living in Queensland during the Bjelke-Petersen era used lavender language to circumvent public and political vilification ⬇️

www.auswhn.com.au/blog/camp-na...

One like, one history opinion

1. Read the introduction, conclusion and endnotes first - in that order

Congratulations Zara!

Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000

More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Job-Ready Graduates attacks the arts and humanities and presents an often insurmountable obstacle for those looking to undertake further study study. Follow the link for an Open Letter to @albomp.bsky.social calling for the repeal of JRG, and sign our petition. linktr.ee/aushistorica...

In an extract from her new book, Narungga poet and researcher Natalie Harkin reveals intimate truths about the shameful history of Aboriginal domestic labour. 👉 theconversation.com/friday-...

Not just ANU either.

Change proposals risk relegating ANU to middle-ranking regional uni Well known historian and long-time ANU staff member, Frank Bongiorno, says he has never seen, such a lack of vision, such a vacuum of ideas, such general disorganisation, nor such cavalier decision-making about institutions and programs built up through hard work over decades in all his years at ANU. He outlined his concerns in this submission to ANU management.

A future in which [ANU] brings up the rear of the Group of Eight and then, unable to compete, evolves in short time into a middle-ranking Australian regional university. That is what is at stake here, writes Frank Bongiorno #auspol #ANU

Seeing the signs: thinking historically about coercive control Coercive control is a course of conduct aimed at controlling and dominating another, most often perpetrated by men against women. It can include physical, sexual, emotional and / or psychological a...

New article from me, open access, from special forum in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

Full article: Seeing the signs: thinking historically about coercive control www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Gap in the Greenhouse Effect: Eunice Newton Foote and Climate Science in the 1850s | Australian Women's History Network In this blog, Harrison Croft examines the life and legacies of Eunice Newton Foote, highlighting her groundbreaking contributions to early climate science and humanitarianism.

Check out the latest blog in the new environmental gender history series - a piece by Harrison Croft (@harrycroft.bsky.social‬) on women's roles in early climate science 🌿⚗️

www.auswhn.com.au/blog/the-gap...

I was Hired as an Expert in Transgender History—Then Fired for it My year at Washington & Lee University

There are less trans woman History Professors in the US than I have fingers on one hand, and one of them was just FIRED 🚨

Why? Anti-trans alumni/donors threatened to pull support form the university...

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I've recently started using SquareSpace. The website designs are much more modern. Easy to use with coherence between the editing and final appearance. The price seemed similar to a WordPress subscription.

An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist.

Read the Open Letter from the Presidents of Gaza's universities.

All of Gaza’s universities have been destroyed. Now, the presidents of 3 of #Gaza 's biggest universities have come together to address the #international community. The statement is an urgent call:

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Histories of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence | Australian Women's History Network In this blog, Managing Editor Paige Donaghy explores the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence in Britain and Australia for “Birth Trauma Awareness Week” 2025.

This week, Australia and Britain mark Birth Trauma Awareness Week 📣

Learn more about the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence from #VIDAblog Managing Editor @paigedonaghy.bsky.social.

#BirthTraumaAwareness #BirthTrauma #ObstetricViolence

Read it here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/histori...

Four CUNY Professors Say They Were Fired for Supporting Palestine As Congress grills CUNY's chancellor, the terminated Brooklyn College faculty say Palestine activism is "the only thing we have in common."

As Congress grills CUNY's chancellor, the terminated Brooklyn College faculty say Palestine activism is "the only thing we have in common."

Histories of Birth Trauma and Obstetric Violence | Australian Women's History Network In this blog, Managing Editor Paige Donaghy explores the history of birth trauma and obstetric violence in Britain and Australia for “Birth Trauma Awareness Week” 2025.

This week is Birth Trauma Awareness week in Australia 📢

I wrote a blog exploring the hidden histories of birth trauma and obstetric violence ⬇️

www.auswhn.com.au/blog/histori...

#birthtraumaawareness #birthtrauma #obstetricviolence

Women's Education | Australian Women's History Network This blog begins a new series, edited by Kaitlin Mills, dedicated to exploring the different higher learning opportunities, both formal and informal, available globally to women from the nineteenth ce...

"Women's Education" is a new series, edited by #VIDAblog editorial assistant Kaitlin Mills.

This series explores the different higher learning opportunities, both formal and informal, available to women globally from the 19C onwards 🎓🍎

Find out more ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/womens-...

Immunities in the COVID age: a sociomaterial and more-than-human perspective - Social Theory & Health Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the topic of human immunity has received intense attention in the scientific literature and public forums: often in contested, highly politicised and confu...

Noticed all the discussion about immunity since the outbreak of COVID? In this essay for Social Theory & Health, I analyse how concepts of human immunities have been portrayed and their biopolitical implications

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The Failing Formula of Remote Schooling | Australian Women's History Network In this blog, Cally Jetta explores the history of the remote schooling system for Aboriginal communities and its current failing formula.

In a new #VIDAblog, Cally Jetta explores the history of the remote schooling system for Aboriginal communities and its current failing formula.

#NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC2025 #StrengthVisionLegacy

Find out more ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/remote-...

Don’t go to university next year. Just don’t Going to university in 2026 is a risk no-one should take. The price is too high.

Devastating piece by @jennaprice.bsky.social, but I think that boycotts will make things worse www.smh.com.au/national/don...

Universities are not a market: How privatising Australian unis undermined our collective knowledge base Successive governments seem to have forgotten that universities are a public good and should be funded as such.

Universities are among the institutions we should fund as a public good. They are worth funding in their own right and in the national interest.

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Sylvia Pankhurst, Mary Ritter Beard, Luli Callinicos, Gerda Lerner, Ann Curthoys, Anne Summers, Henry Reynolds, Natalie Zemon Davis, Cheryll Walker, Jackie Huggins, Nomboniso Gasa, Mary Beard, Nikole Hannah-Jones

No more checklists - just lifelong commitment from today Embedding Indigenous perspectives isn’t a checklist, it's a lifelong commitment. It requires us to honour multiple ways of knowing.

Too often, Indigenous content is reduced to symbolic gestures. Arzoo Kanwal explains how embedding Indigenous perspectives isn’t a checklist, it’s a lifelong commitment. It requires us to question dominant narratives and honour multiple ways of knowing. loom.ly/UZBwZ1U

Office design isn’t keeping up with post-COVID work styles - here’s what workers really want

As fewer employees return to the office full-time, workplace design and expectations are undergoing a dramatic shift.

The world is going troppo: and things in universities are not looking up. This week I went to a *really* good conference with the theme 'Looking Up'. But I was alarmed at the experience of those currently working in universities, many of whom are not able to look up rn.

With a million thanks to @stplbrk.bsky.social for the best collegiality ever, I had two incredible days but a bazillion heartbreaking conversations in North Queensland hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/the-world-...