Ana Stevenson
@dranastevenson.bsky.social
anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | ✍ social movements 🪧 women in politics 📚 AcLits 📐 evaluation | #VIDAblog @auswhn.bsky.social | archivingsocialmovements.com | 🗳 The Suffrage Postcard Project | 🗺️ Mapping Monuments | 🎼 blockflute ♫♬♫ | 😷
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Ana Stevenson
@dranastevenson.bsky.social
· Sep 28
I'm excited to be speaking at the Lines in the Sand festival in Maryborough in October!
This talk draws on my Camera Obscura journal article about Mary Poppins and The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of women's suffrage postcards.
Find out more ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lines-in-t...
This talk draws on my Camera Obscura journal article about Mary Poppins and The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of women's suffrage postcards.
Find out more ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/lines-in-t...
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ARC are considering a restructure in which jobs there will be lost, a source tells me.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
ARC are considering a restructure in which jobs there will be lost, a source tells me.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
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I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
thepoint.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA — one of Australia’s most influential humanities scholars and a towering figure in the Academy’s history. humanities.org.au/our-communit...
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA — one of Australia’s most influential humanities scholars and a towering figure in the Academy’s history. humanities.org.au/our-communit...
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I am heavily invested in handwriting & historical documents. Historians need to weigh carefully whether time spent transcribing documents is “wasted,” or whether it actually helps thought processes & skills. This is not to say these tools should not be used.
Just consider the cost of “time saved.”
Just consider the cost of “time saved.”
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I am heavily invested in handwriting & historical documents. Historians need to weigh carefully whether time spent transcribing documents is “wasted,” or whether it actually helps thought processes & skills. This is not to say these tools should not be used.
Just consider the cost of “time saved.”
Just consider the cost of “time saved.”
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HOWL is building an archive of stories from the 1960s to now.
Join the HOWL Friends Scheme to help us to continue collecting stories from the Women's Liberation Movement 💥📚✨
Become a Friend: howl-uk.org/join-the-how...
#WomensHistory #FeministArchive #HOWLUK #SupportIndependentProjects
Join the HOWL Friends Scheme to help us to continue collecting stories from the Women's Liberation Movement 💥📚✨
Become a Friend: howl-uk.org/join-the-how...
#WomensHistory #FeministArchive #HOWLUK #SupportIndependentProjects
JOIN THE HOWL FRIENDS SCHEME AND HELP US GROW EVEN STRONGER | HOWL
We have achieved a lot with very little money and we want to do more of this vital work, but we need your help ….
howl-uk.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
HOWL is building an archive of stories from the 1960s to now.
Join the HOWL Friends Scheme to help us to continue collecting stories from the Women's Liberation Movement 💥📚✨
Become a Friend: howl-uk.org/join-the-how...
#WomensHistory #FeministArchive #HOWLUK #SupportIndependentProjects
Join the HOWL Friends Scheme to help us to continue collecting stories from the Women's Liberation Movement 💥📚✨
Become a Friend: howl-uk.org/join-the-how...
#WomensHistory #FeministArchive #HOWLUK #SupportIndependentProjects
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Pauline Hanson’s use of the Burqa speaks volumes about her and the kind of country she wants
But Senator Fatima Payman’s essay on bravery speaks volumes about the need for quite a different Australia
Please read and share if your want to cleanse people’s feeds…
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
But Senator Fatima Payman’s essay on bravery speaks volumes about the need for quite a different Australia
Please read and share if your want to cleanse people’s feeds…
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
The Floor I Crossed Was Between Fear and Freedom
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Pauline Hanson’s use of the Burqa speaks volumes about her and the kind of country she wants
But Senator Fatima Payman’s essay on bravery speaks volumes about the need for quite a different Australia
Please read and share if your want to cleanse people’s feeds…
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
But Senator Fatima Payman’s essay on bravery speaks volumes about the need for quite a different Australia
Please read and share if your want to cleanse people’s feeds…
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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LAST DAY TO REGISTER: "FORMING TRANS COLLECTIVES NOW" 💥
Please send your expressions of interest (who are? why would you like to join?) to [email protected] by November 25th.
Please send your expressions of interest (who are? why would you like to join?) to [email protected] by November 25th.
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
LAST DAY TO REGISTER: "FORMING TRANS COLLECTIVES NOW" 💥
Please send your expressions of interest (who are? why would you like to join?) to [email protected] by November 25th.
Please send your expressions of interest (who are? why would you like to join?) to [email protected] by November 25th.
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Australia talks a big game on innovation – but keeps cutting the institutions that make it possible. Why we need to reverse course, fast. 🧪📉 #SciencePolicy #CSIRO #HigherEd #PublicSchools #AustralianPolitics #STEM #Innovation #EducationFunding #Auspol
Innovation talk, austerity walk: Australia’s failing science policy
Despite constant rhetoric about innovation, Australia is steadily dismantling its scientific capacity. Public schools, universities and the CSIRO are all under pressure – the result of decades of market-driven policy-making that prioritises short-term cost-cutting over long-term national capability.
johnmenadue.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Australia talks a big game on innovation – but keeps cutting the institutions that make it possible. Why we need to reverse course, fast. 🧪📉 #SciencePolicy #CSIRO #HigherEd #PublicSchools #AustralianPolitics #STEM #Innovation #EducationFunding #Auspol
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NEW: Protecting public interested journalism as a public health good by Bronwyn Fredericks, Neha Lalchandani, Melissa Sweet, Alex Cramb, & Carmel Williams in the Medical Journal of Australia - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/... FREE Access. 👈🏽
#PublicHealth #PHCMatters #PublicHealthMatters
#PublicHealth #PHCMatters #PublicHealthMatters
November 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
NEW: Protecting public interested journalism as a public health good by Bronwyn Fredericks, Neha Lalchandani, Melissa Sweet, Alex Cramb, & Carmel Williams in the Medical Journal of Australia - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/... FREE Access. 👈🏽
#PublicHealth #PHCMatters #PublicHealthMatters
#PublicHealth #PHCMatters #PublicHealthMatters
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NEW at #VIDAblog!
Andrea Gaynor expands on the themes of her keynote at the 2025 @austhistassoc.bsky.social conference, discussing gender and regenerative histories of landcare in Australia.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/gender-...
Andrea Gaynor expands on the themes of her keynote at the 2025 @austhistassoc.bsky.social conference, discussing gender and regenerative histories of landcare in Australia.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/gender-...
Gender and regenerative histories of landcare in Australia | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Andrea Gaynor expands on the themes of her keynote at the 2025 Australian Historical Association Conference on gender and environmental history.
www.auswhn.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
NEW at #VIDAblog!
Andrea Gaynor expands on the themes of her keynote at the 2025 @austhistassoc.bsky.social conference, discussing gender and regenerative histories of landcare in Australia.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/gender-...
Andrea Gaynor expands on the themes of her keynote at the 2025 @austhistassoc.bsky.social conference, discussing gender and regenerative histories of landcare in Australia.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/gender-...
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Warning: this quiz is tough — how good are you at guesstimating how far apart Australian cities are?
Can you guess the distance between Australian cities? It's not as easy as you think
Warning: this quiz is tough — how good are you at guesstimating how far apart Australian cities are?
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Warning: this quiz is tough — how good are you at guesstimating how far apart Australian cities are?
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WTF Flinders. 🤬
Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?
It’s one of Australia’s worst underwater environmental catastrophes. What’s going to happen to South Australia’s vast algal bloom as summer heat warms the ocean?
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
WTF Flinders. 🤬
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What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Writing history in a time of genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
What does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
Anne Irfan on the stakes of studying, researching and writing the history of Gaza.
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NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
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Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
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Delighted to share an article that I co-wrote with @dranastevenson.bsky.social, that was published this week in the 'Journal of Australian Studies'. The article highlights the achievements of five pioneering Australian women flautists.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Making an Entrance on a Man’s Stage: Pioneer Women Flautists in Australia
Flute playing was primarily a male domain during the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. Whereas the piano and singing were traditionally considered acceptable musical pursuits ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Delighted to share an article that I co-wrote with @dranastevenson.bsky.social, that was published this week in the 'Journal of Australian Studies'. The article highlights the achievements of five pioneering Australian women flautists.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Universities, governments, and business leaders need to support our visionary voices, or the system will continue to search for an identity that honours its achievements and its aspirations. It's time to reconnect universities to national imagination. #auspol
A search for purpose, vision and identity in Australian universities
The Australian university sector has become disconnected from the national imagination and needs a compelling new vision for the future.
johnmenadue.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Universities, governments, and business leaders need to support our visionary voices, or the system will continue to search for an identity that honours its achievements and its aspirations. It's time to reconnect universities to national imagination. #auspol
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When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
November 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Governments have been crying poor to justify & conceal their priorities for decades…now some of our publicly owned universities are using the same neoliberal accounting tricks to claim they are in ‘crisis’ when they are hoarding records amounts of cash and shares
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Governments and universities alike have perfected the art of crying poor to conceal wealth
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
October 31, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Governments have been crying poor to justify & conceal their priorities for decades…now some of our publicly owned universities are using the same neoliberal accounting tricks to claim they are in ‘crisis’ when they are hoarding records amounts of cash and shares
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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The Pub at the End of the University
As universities implode, the world still needs us.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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On the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal, revisit the career and achievements of Elizabeth Reid, the world’s first advisor on women’s affairs advisor to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, at #VIDAblog.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/revisit...
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/revisit...
November 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
On the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal, revisit the career and achievements of Elizabeth Reid, the world’s first advisor on women’s affairs advisor to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, at #VIDAblog.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/revisit...
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/revisit...
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With a bold reform agenda and occasional administrative chaos, Whitlam’s three-year government continues to have a profound effect on Australian life.
👉 theconversation.com/extraor...
👉 theconversation.com/extraor...
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
With a bold reform agenda and occasional administrative chaos, Whitlam’s three-year government continues to have a profound effect on Australian life.
👉 theconversation.com/extraor...
👉 theconversation.com/extraor...
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We’ve forgotten what universities are for
We’ve forgotten what universities are for
With New Zealand universities facing not only a funding crisis but a philosophical challenge to their role, the soul of tertiary education is at stake....
thespinoff.co.nz
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
We’ve forgotten what universities are for