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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Human rights advocates are calling for the Australia Government to stop violating children’s rights and locking them up in “cages” as the country faces renewed calls to increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4a07kEL
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4a07kEL
January 30, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Human rights advocates are calling for the Australia Government to stop violating children’s rights and locking them up in “cages” as the country faces renewed calls to increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4a07kEL
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4a07kEL
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I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
January 28, 2026 at 7:52 PM
I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.
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Congratulations to the authors of the top 10 most-read blogs for 2025! ✨
And a huge thanks to the #VIDAblog editorial team for all their stellar work in 2025.
@paigedonaghy.bsky.social | @dranastevenson.bsky.social | @veramackie.bsky.social
Read these blogs + more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/
And a huge thanks to the #VIDAblog editorial team for all their stellar work in 2025.
@paigedonaghy.bsky.social | @dranastevenson.bsky.social | @veramackie.bsky.social
Read these blogs + more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/
January 19, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Congratulations to the authors of the top 10 most-read blogs for 2025! ✨
And a huge thanks to the #VIDAblog editorial team for all their stellar work in 2025.
@paigedonaghy.bsky.social | @dranastevenson.bsky.social | @veramackie.bsky.social
Read these blogs + more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/
And a huge thanks to the #VIDAblog editorial team for all their stellar work in 2025.
@paigedonaghy.bsky.social | @dranastevenson.bsky.social | @veramackie.bsky.social
Read these blogs + more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/
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“On April Fool’s Day—bonus points for DOGE’s sense of humor—I wake up at 4:45 AM and check my email. I’ve been RIFed, along with the rest of my Division. There is no proposal to Congress; no 'bump and retreat'.” pghrev.com/my-last-day-...
My Last Day at the Centers for Disease Control - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Sixteen years ago, I became part of what Donald Trump has called “the Deep State.”
pghrev.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:31 PM
“On April Fool’s Day—bonus points for DOGE’s sense of humor—I wake up at 4:45 AM and check my email. I’ve been RIFed, along with the rest of my Division. There is no proposal to Congress; no 'bump and retreat'.” pghrev.com/my-last-day-...
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Ed Simon explores the complex relationships between writers and their day jobs.
The Work Behind the Writing: On Writers and Their Day Jobs
For nineteen years, until his retirement in 1885, Herman Melville would awake, slick back his dark hair and unsnarl the snags from his beard, don a uniform of dark navy pilot cloth and affix to his…
buff.ly
January 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Ed Simon explores the complex relationships between writers and their day jobs.
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Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Holy hell, what an obituary
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It’s funny how Wikipedia used to seem relatively unreliable, because it was written by regular people instead of encyclopedia experts, and now it seems relatively reliable, because it’s written by regular people instead of glib CliffsNotes robots
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 3:21 PM
It’s funny how Wikipedia used to seem relatively unreliable, because it was written by regular people instead of encyclopedia experts, and now it seems relatively reliable, because it’s written by regular people instead of glib CliffsNotes robots
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“Writers perform a crucial national service. For this service they are underpaid and undervalued. The Adelaide Writers’ Week Festival has just made them pay the price for a problem they didn’t create."
Read Leanne Minshull’s full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Read Leanne Minshull’s full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
January 13, 2026 at 11:09 PM
“Writers perform a crucial national service. For this service they are underpaid and undervalued. The Adelaide Writers’ Week Festival has just made them pay the price for a problem they didn’t create."
Read Leanne Minshull’s full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Read Leanne Minshull’s full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Next in 49.4:
Lonsdale and Stevenson highlight five pioneering women flautists breaking the glass ceiling of Australia's professional music scene.
#OzMusic #WomensHistory #flutes #OzStudies #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/3ypwd9xc
Lonsdale and Stevenson highlight five pioneering women flautists breaking the glass ceiling of Australia's professional music scene.
#OzMusic #WomensHistory #flutes #OzStudies #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/3ypwd9xc
January 12, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Next in 49.4:
Lonsdale and Stevenson highlight five pioneering women flautists breaking the glass ceiling of Australia's professional music scene.
#OzMusic #WomensHistory #flutes #OzStudies #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/3ypwd9xc
Lonsdale and Stevenson highlight five pioneering women flautists breaking the glass ceiling of Australia's professional music scene.
#OzMusic #WomensHistory #flutes #OzStudies #OpenAccess
tinyurl.com/3ypwd9xc
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Another day, another ECG. Life with heart damage from covid.
Having long covid feels like living in an alternate reality where I've been left behind. My friend @emendenhall.bsky.social makes the invisible visible in her powerful new book
Having long covid feels like living in an alternate reality where I've been left behind. My friend @emendenhall.bsky.social makes the invisible visible in her powerful new book
Invisible Illness by Emily Mendenhall - Hardcover
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
January 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Another day, another ECG. Life with heart damage from covid.
Having long covid feels like living in an alternate reality where I've been left behind. My friend @emendenhall.bsky.social makes the invisible visible in her powerful new book
Having long covid feels like living in an alternate reality where I've been left behind. My friend @emendenhall.bsky.social makes the invisible visible in her powerful new book
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“The sense that work in the humanities is subjective or ungrounded in relation to the sciences occludes the more fundamental distinctions between the two forms of research.”
Read an excerpt from HUMANITIES THEORY by Amanda Anderson and Simon During (@academic.oup.com). pghrev.com/framing-the-...
Read an excerpt from HUMANITIES THEORY by Amanda Anderson and Simon During (@academic.oup.com). pghrev.com/framing-the-...
Framing the Humanities - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Contemporary discussions of the humanities tend to focus either on its perceived decline in status (conceived mainly with respect to numbers of majors and the
pghrev.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 PM
“The sense that work in the humanities is subjective or ungrounded in relation to the sciences occludes the more fundamental distinctions between the two forms of research.”
Read an excerpt from HUMANITIES THEORY by Amanda Anderson and Simon During (@academic.oup.com). pghrev.com/framing-the-...
Read an excerpt from HUMANITIES THEORY by Amanda Anderson and Simon During (@academic.oup.com). pghrev.com/framing-the-...
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Very excited about this first online sighting of ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS:
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...
English Majors at Work
English Majors at Work: Career and Life Pathways details the professional superpowers—the many marketable skills—gained from studying literature, creative writing, film, and popular culture. It prepar...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org
January 6, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Very excited about this first online sighting of ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS:
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...
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"My sources broke categories: they were monstrous. Studying them meant integrating methods from several disciplines — and being marginalized by the more conservative practitioners in all of them."
The final piece in our monsters series, from @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
The final piece in our monsters series, from @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Can the Archive Make a Monster of a Historian?
A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster...
contingentmagazine.org
December 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"My sources broke categories: they were monstrous. Studying them meant integrating methods from several disciplines — and being marginalized by the more conservative practitioners in all of them."
The final piece in our monsters series, from @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
The final piece in our monsters series, from @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
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👀 WATCH THIS SPACE! 🚨
Have plans right after the ball drops in Times Square? 🪩 Join us here!
At 12:01am ET, we’ll start rolling out highlights for #PublicDomainDay2026 — iconic books, films & music newly free for reuse + where you can find them.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
Have plans right after the ball drops in Times Square? 🪩 Join us here!
At 12:01am ET, we’ll start rolling out highlights for #PublicDomainDay2026 — iconic books, films & music newly free for reuse + where you can find them.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
December 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
👀 WATCH THIS SPACE! 🚨
Have plans right after the ball drops in Times Square? 🪩 Join us here!
At 12:01am ET, we’ll start rolling out highlights for #PublicDomainDay2026 — iconic books, films & music newly free for reuse + where you can find them.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
Have plans right after the ball drops in Times Square? 🪩 Join us here!
At 12:01am ET, we’ll start rolling out highlights for #PublicDomainDay2026 — iconic books, films & music newly free for reuse + where you can find them.
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
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Dear Jon Stewart,
No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.
No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Dear Jon Stewart,
No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.
No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Merry Christmas Eve, darlings!
For Christmas, @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social published an excerpt of Selling Out Santa in which I discuss finding 7 pages of a rumored lost Frank Capra script in his archives, a script I traveled two days to find because I knew it'd change everything.
AI could never.
For Christmas, @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social published an excerpt of Selling Out Santa in which I discuss finding 7 pages of a rumored lost Frank Capra script in his archives, a script I traveled two days to find because I knew it'd change everything.
AI could never.
Archives, McCarthyism, and the Legendary Pink Capra-Corn - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Archives are capable of wondrous things, sometimes holding the key to all your academic mythologies deep in a box only a handful of people even know exist.
pghrev.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Merry Christmas Eve, darlings!
For Christmas, @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social published an excerpt of Selling Out Santa in which I discuss finding 7 pages of a rumored lost Frank Capra script in his archives, a script I traveled two days to find because I knew it'd change everything.
AI could never.
For Christmas, @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social published an excerpt of Selling Out Santa in which I discuss finding 7 pages of a rumored lost Frank Capra script in his archives, a script I traveled two days to find because I knew it'd change everything.
AI could never.
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The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
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Now published…
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...
journals.sagepub.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Now published…
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
Church organ tuning records mirror our warming climate
The records appear to reflect climate change, as well as the increased heating of churches in winter
www.thereengineer.pro
December 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating.
A new scoop for The Reengineer!
www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
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Karoline Leavitt, like all of the politicians Chris Anderson photographed for that Vanity Fair article, has remade herself in Trump’s image. Anderson’s camera captured exactly what that costs.
The Trump Administration Looks Even Worse Up Close
Photographs by Chris Anderson for Vanity Fair reveal the cost of remaking yourself in Trump’s image.
hyperallergic.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Karoline Leavitt, like all of the politicians Chris Anderson photographed for that Vanity Fair article, has remade herself in Trump’s image. Anderson’s camera captured exactly what that costs.
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
December 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!
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As we approach the end of 2025, historians @michellearrow.bsky.social and @zorasimic.bsky.social reflect on Anne Summers’ 1975 book, Damned Whores and God’s Police, fifty years later.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/anne-su...
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/anne-su...
Anne Summers: Living in the Seventies | Australian Women's History Network
Vera Mackie joins Michelle Arrow and Zora Simic in commemorating fifty years of Anne Summers' 1975 feminist blockbuster, Damned Whores and God's Police.
www.auswhn.com.au
December 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
As we approach the end of 2025, historians @michellearrow.bsky.social and @zorasimic.bsky.social reflect on Anne Summers’ 1975 book, Damned Whores and God’s Police, fifty years later.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/anne-su...
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/anne-su...