Hannah McCann
@binarythis.bsky.social
She/her. Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies ~ femininities, queer theory, beauty culture, crushes. Writer, advocate, infamous bisexual, wannabe poet. Views my own and not that of my university. Another world is possible 💅🏻🙇🏻♂️
www.hannahmccann.com.au
www.hannahmccann.com.au
Fantastic, love this poem
What a beautiful anthology from The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, curated and co-edited by @marcellenewbold.bsky.social and Bronwen Evans. I was delighted to have a poem chosen alongside many wonderful poets.
Find out more about it here: www.theweesparrowpoetrypress.com/lines-of-com...
Find out more about it here: www.theweesparrowpoetrypress.com/lines-of-com...
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fantastic, love this poem
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I counter the claim that "AI steals just the way human artists steal." We do not. Artists engage relationally with sources rather than severing them for computational processing. Computers are not people. Comparing generative tools to artists is a dehumanizing act.
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I counter the claim that "AI steals just the way human artists steal." We do not. Artists engage relationally with sources rather than severing them for computational processing. Computers are not people. Comparing generative tools to artists is a dehumanizing act.
Reposted by Hannah McCann
This demonstrates how artists actually work: through relational thinking, discerning, critiquing, connecting as thinking, feeling people. I know where every reference comes from. When artists take from each other with acknowledgement, responsibility, and respect, we make each other stronger.
November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This demonstrates how artists actually work: through relational thinking, discerning, critiquing, connecting as thinking, feeling people. I know where every reference comes from. When artists take from each other with acknowledgement, responsibility, and respect, we make each other stronger.
Some radical quotes from me about borders and nations in this piece about Miss Universe 😎
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www.sbs.com.au/news/datelin...
The first Miss Palestine hopes to make history in the 'Olympics of women's beauty'
This year's Miss Universe will include Miss Palestine for the first time. But do beauty pageants have an impact outside of the arena?
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November 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Some radical quotes from me about borders and nations in this piece about Miss Universe 😎
www.sbs.com.au/news/datelin...
www.sbs.com.au/news/datelin...
Who on earth is eating two cups of beans a day?! www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Beans, beans, the magical fruit: how healthy are they really?
Research shows beans are good for the body and for the planet. Here’s what to know about getting more in your diet
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November 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Who on earth is eating two cups of beans a day?! www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Very happy that @dustpoetry.bsky.social believes in this poem! You can read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/so-many...
November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Very happy that @dustpoetry.bsky.social believes in this poem! You can read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/so-many...
Thank goodness for advocates like @gemkillen.bsky.social speaking truth to those in positions of power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My son was stillborn in 2020. By allowing working parents time to grieve, Baby Priya’s bill will change lives | Gemma Killen
I can hardly imagine how hard it would have been to return to a workplace that had declared that I was not a parent – and that my baby didn’t really count
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November 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Thank goodness for advocates like @gemkillen.bsky.social speaking truth to those in positions of power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Literally can’t believe sometimes good things happen
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Literally can’t believe sometimes good things happen
Reposted by Hannah McCann
Hey friends, it's a great time to subscribe to Overland! Subscriberthon is on until November 7. Loads of major and daily prizes. Plus you get to support publishing local writers in an increasingly anaemic literary environment: overland.org.au/2025/10/over...
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Hey friends, it's a great time to subscribe to Overland! Subscriberthon is on until November 7. Loads of major and daily prizes. Plus you get to support publishing local writers in an increasingly anaemic literary environment: overland.org.au/2025/10/over...
Quandongs need to be the next big food thing I can’t believe they’re not already
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Quandongs need to be the next big food thing I can’t believe they’re not already
“AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy”
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Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
“AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy”
defector.com/higher-eds-r...
defector.com/higher-eds-r...
My poem in the Poetry of Flight Liquid Amber anthology 🪶
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
My poem in the Poetry of Flight Liquid Amber anthology 🪶
The capitalism of Taylor Swift
The only quibble I have with “enshittification” as a concept is that in 99% of cases you can substitute the word “capitalism” for it with no loss of meaning.
October 23, 2025 at 6:31 AM
The capitalism of Taylor Swift
I am presenting a summary of my upcoming book, based on my DECRA research, at the Care Lab UNSW next month. Come along if you can, in person or online:
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The Care Lab Seminar Series: Dr Hannah McCann
The Care Lab at UNSW presents Dr Hannah McCann on Caring Beyond Skin Deep: Emotions, Bodies, and Identities in the Hair and Beauty Salon
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October 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I am presenting a summary of my upcoming book, based on my DECRA research, at the Care Lab UNSW next month. Come along if you can, in person or online:
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-care-l...
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-care-l...
I don't know how many times I have to say this, but if you are in masculinity studies and you want to write about femininity, then 👏 cite 👏 femininity 👏 studies 👏 scholars 👏
October 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I don't know how many times I have to say this, but if you are in masculinity studies and you want to write about femininity, then 👏 cite 👏 femininity 👏 studies 👏 scholars 👏
Can’t believe they didn’t note that a risk of practicing lucid dreaming is sleep paralysis!! www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
Fly around or make out with your crush: how to start lucid dreaming
We asked experts to share tips on how to take control of dreams once you realize you’re in it
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October 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Can’t believe they didn’t note that a risk of practicing lucid dreaming is sleep paralysis!! www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
For anyone currently revising (or doubling down on) their view of Taylor Swift, may I direct you to Holly Randall Moon’s excellent analysis in our edited collection from earlier this year, well before TLOASG landed…
October 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
For anyone currently revising (or doubling down on) their view of Taylor Swift, may I direct you to Holly Randall Moon’s excellent analysis in our edited collection from earlier this year, well before TLOASG landed…
Reposted by Hannah McCann
Setting the “days since an Australian university admitted to wage theft” back to 0 www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908934...
Second Canberra University reports staff were paid incorrectly
Vice-chancellor apologises after $1.5m blunder hits staff.
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October 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Setting the “days since an Australian university admitted to wage theft” back to 0 www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908934...
It’s over for us. Sex tech always yields revolutionary developments
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
ChatGPT is about to get flirty.
buff.ly
October 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
It’s over for us. Sex tech always yields revolutionary developments
Reposted by Hannah McCann
LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.
LGBTQIA+ advocates say social media ban will 'cut off' regional queer teens
LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.
www.abc.net.au
October 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
LGBTIQA+ advocates are concerned the social media ban will have a significant impact on queer youth in regional and remote areas of Australia. They say there are not enough offline, physical supports for these teens to access when the ban comes into effect.
E. E. Cummings speaking from the past to our AI soaked future: "nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time-and whenever we do it, we’re not poets."
redtreetimes.com/2016/05/05/a...
redtreetimes.com/2016/05/05/a...
A Poet’s Advice ( e.e. cummings)
Whenever I am asked to speak with students I usually tell them to try to find their own voice, to try to find that thing that expresses who they really are. I add that this is not something…
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October 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
E. E. Cummings speaking from the past to our AI soaked future: "nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time-and whenever we do it, we’re not poets."
redtreetimes.com/2016/05/05/a...
redtreetimes.com/2016/05/05/a...
Who said social movements were dead
October 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Who said social movements were dead