Dr Kasey Symons
@kaseysymons.bsky.social
Sports fan. Writer. Book lover. Lecturer of Communication - Sports Media at Deakin University in Melbourne/Naarm. Co-founder of Siren Sport. She/Her
New book day 📚
Can’t wait to sink my teeth into this one! Especially as we are hosting Dr Rohini Balram at Deakin University in a few weeks for a symposium on arts-based research in sport! So my jam!
Can’t wait to sink my teeth into this one! Especially as we are hosting Dr Rohini Balram at Deakin University in a few weeks for a symposium on arts-based research in sport! So my jam!
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
New book day 📚
Can’t wait to sink my teeth into this one! Especially as we are hosting Dr Rohini Balram at Deakin University in a few weeks for a symposium on arts-based research in sport! So my jam!
Can’t wait to sink my teeth into this one! Especially as we are hosting Dr Rohini Balram at Deakin University in a few weeks for a symposium on arts-based research in sport! So my jam!
Footy feelings quarter-by-quarter from today’s #AFLW Final between West Coast and Carlton 😅
Despite my Eagles falling to the Blues, I’m so proud of their historic moment in making it to finals and look forward to next season. Go Eagles 💙💛🦅 #AFLWFinals
Despite my Eagles falling to the Blues, I’m so proud of their historic moment in making it to finals and look forward to next season. Go Eagles 💙💛🦅 #AFLWFinals
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Footy feelings quarter-by-quarter from today’s #AFLW Final between West Coast and Carlton 😅
Despite my Eagles falling to the Blues, I’m so proud of their historic moment in making it to finals and look forward to next season. Go Eagles 💙💛🦅 #AFLWFinals
Despite my Eagles falling to the Blues, I’m so proud of their historic moment in making it to finals and look forward to next season. Go Eagles 💙💛🦅 #AFLWFinals
Meeting #WomenInSport around the world at women’s sports bars. The dream! What a highlight it was to meet the amazing Dr @jessicawluther.com IRL last week while in Austin to chat all things sports media while also checking out the iconic @1972pub.bsky.social 💜 Love the women’s sports community!
October 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Meeting #WomenInSport around the world at women’s sports bars. The dream! What a highlight it was to meet the amazing Dr @jessicawluther.com IRL last week while in Austin to chat all things sports media while also checking out the iconic @1972pub.bsky.social 💜 Love the women’s sports community!
Our new book has a release date!
You can get a copy of 'Contemporary Literary Sports Journalism: Histories, Futures and the Contests in Between' from 5 Dec! I can’t wait until this is out in the world 📚
For more info: link.springer.com/book/9783032...
You can get a copy of 'Contemporary Literary Sports Journalism: Histories, Futures and the Contests in Between' from 5 Dec! I can’t wait until this is out in the world 📚
For more info: link.springer.com/book/9783032...
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Our new book has a release date!
You can get a copy of 'Contemporary Literary Sports Journalism: Histories, Futures and the Contests in Between' from 5 Dec! I can’t wait until this is out in the world 📚
For more info: link.springer.com/book/9783032...
You can get a copy of 'Contemporary Literary Sports Journalism: Histories, Futures and the Contests in Between' from 5 Dec! I can’t wait until this is out in the world 📚
For more info: link.springer.com/book/9783032...
⚽️ New paper ⚽️
This paper is based on my experiences visiting Millerntor Stadion in Hamburg and discovering the ways that FC St. Pauli visibly signal their activism, advocacy and inclusion 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Co-written with the amazing Lee McGowan 📝
Read it here: www.emerald.com/edi/article/...
This paper is based on my experiences visiting Millerntor Stadion in Hamburg and discovering the ways that FC St. Pauli visibly signal their activism, advocacy and inclusion 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Co-written with the amazing Lee McGowan 📝
Read it here: www.emerald.com/edi/article/...
Standing with FC St. Pauli: an examination of a reflexive autoethnographic account of a woman sports fan’s experience of German men’s professional football
Purpose. The professional German football team Fuβball Club Sankt Pauli of Hamburg (FC St. Pauli) are renowned for their inclusive celebration of community alongside fervent fan-driven social and poli...
www.emerald.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
⚽️ New paper ⚽️
This paper is based on my experiences visiting Millerntor Stadion in Hamburg and discovering the ways that FC St. Pauli visibly signal their activism, advocacy and inclusion 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Co-written with the amazing Lee McGowan 📝
Read it here: www.emerald.com/edi/article/...
This paper is based on my experiences visiting Millerntor Stadion in Hamburg and discovering the ways that FC St. Pauli visibly signal their activism, advocacy and inclusion 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Co-written with the amazing Lee McGowan 📝
Read it here: www.emerald.com/edi/article/...
Looking to show some 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ love with your footy fandom - check out the merch that author Darcy Green has made. Very, very cool stuff!
darcygreen.com/shop
darcygreen.com/shop
September 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Looking to show some 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ love with your footy fandom - check out the merch that author Darcy Green has made. Very, very cool stuff!
darcygreen.com/shop
darcygreen.com/shop
I’ll be on ABC Radio Melbourne’s ‘The Conversation Hour’ around 11.20am today talking all things footy finals and fandom - call in if you want to chat about fan access to finals 🏉📻 #AFLFinals
September 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I’ll be on ABC Radio Melbourne’s ‘The Conversation Hour’ around 11.20am today talking all things footy finals and fandom - call in if you want to chat about fan access to finals 🏉📻 #AFLFinals
Reposted by Dr Kasey Symons
the story on The Flying Bats will air on ABC at 7:30pm AEST tonight! tune in to learn more about our amazing club, our 40-year history of creating inclusion in sport, and our battles against anti-trans activists. we’d love you to show support by using the hashtag #footballforall 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⚽️🦇
August 28, 2025 at 4:08 AM
the story on The Flying Bats will air on ABC at 7:30pm AEST tonight! tune in to learn more about our amazing club, our 40-year history of creating inclusion in sport, and our battles against anti-trans activists. we’d love you to show support by using the hashtag #footballforall 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️⚽️🦇
I should learn that when I share my cheesy fan photos that they can go anywhere! But I am thrilled that Marnie Vinall picked it up for ABC Sport to share the fan reactions of hope, pride and joy to Mitch Brown's powerful coming out announcement yesterday 🏳️🌈
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Mitch Brown's announcement brings 'hope, pride and joy' to AFL fans
Mitch Brown's history-making announcement he is bisexual has had an enormous impact on AFL fans, especially those in the LGBTQIA+ community.
www.abc.net.au
August 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I should learn that when I share my cheesy fan photos that they can go anywhere! But I am thrilled that Marnie Vinall picked it up for ABC Sport to share the fan reactions of hope, pride and joy to Mitch Brown's powerful coming out announcement yesterday 🏳️🌈
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
I’ll be on ABC Radio Melbourne tonight at 7.30pm on Evenings with David Astle talking sports romance fiction - tune in 📻💖🏉 #SportsRomance #SportsMedia
August 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I’ll be on ABC Radio Melbourne tonight at 7.30pm on Evenings with David Astle talking sports romance fiction - tune in 📻💖🏉 #SportsRomance #SportsMedia
I'll be on ABC Radio North Queensland this morning at 9.35am talking all things sports romance fiction based on this article I wrote for The Coversation!
Tune in for some sporty spice 💖🏒🏀⛳️⚽️ #SportsRomance
theconversation.com/sporty-spice...
Tune in for some sporty spice 💖🏒🏀⛳️⚽️ #SportsRomance
theconversation.com/sporty-spice...
Sporty spice: how romance fiction is adding a new dynamic to sports fandom
Romance novels are on the rise – but what has that got to do with sports?
theconversation.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I'll be on ABC Radio North Queensland this morning at 9.35am talking all things sports romance fiction based on this article I wrote for The Coversation!
Tune in for some sporty spice 💖🏒🏀⛳️⚽️ #SportsRomance
theconversation.com/sporty-spice...
Tune in for some sporty spice 💖🏒🏀⛳️⚽️ #SportsRomance
theconversation.com/sporty-spice...
Another season of groundbreaking, history-making moments continues tonight. Merry #AFLW to all who celebrate 🥳 #SeeYouAtTheW
August 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Another season of groundbreaking, history-making moments continues tonight. Merry #AFLW to all who celebrate 🥳 #SeeYouAtTheW
Some reflections from me on #AFLW imagery in the lead up to the 10th season with the ABC's Rhiannon Stevens 📸
Was also very cool to be included in this article alongside people I admire in this space in Emma Phillips, Megan Brewer & Adele Pavlidis. See you at the W!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Was also very cool to be included in this article alongside people I admire in this space in Emma Phillips, Megan Brewer & Adele Pavlidis. See you at the W!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
What these photographs tell us about AFLW
AFLW arrived like a freight train in 2017, changing Australian rules football forever. Photographs have told its story and challenged the status quo.
www.abc.net.au
August 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Some reflections from me on #AFLW imagery in the lead up to the 10th season with the ABC's Rhiannon Stevens 📸
Was also very cool to be included in this article alongside people I admire in this space in Emma Phillips, Megan Brewer & Adele Pavlidis. See you at the W!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Was also very cool to be included in this article alongside people I admire in this space in Emma Phillips, Megan Brewer & Adele Pavlidis. See you at the W!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
What a night ✨
So much fun celebrating the Vixens at the 2025 Sharelle McMahon Medal and being with some of my fave netty people 🏆 I even got to present an award to the very cool Kate Eddy 🤩 Congrats to Jo Weston for taking home the Shaz Mac - so well deserved 👏
So much fun celebrating the Vixens at the 2025 Sharelle McMahon Medal and being with some of my fave netty people 🏆 I even got to present an award to the very cool Kate Eddy 🤩 Congrats to Jo Weston for taking home the Shaz Mac - so well deserved 👏
August 10, 2025 at 1:39 AM
What a night ✨
So much fun celebrating the Vixens at the 2025 Sharelle McMahon Medal and being with some of my fave netty people 🏆 I even got to present an award to the very cool Kate Eddy 🤩 Congrats to Jo Weston for taking home the Shaz Mac - so well deserved 👏
So much fun celebrating the Vixens at the 2025 Sharelle McMahon Medal and being with some of my fave netty people 🏆 I even got to present an award to the very cool Kate Eddy 🤩 Congrats to Jo Weston for taking home the Shaz Mac - so well deserved 👏
✨ Book launched ✨
Fun night at @readingsbooks.bsky.social celebrating the launch of the edited collection ‘Taylor Swift: Culture, Capital and Critique’ 🫶
Congrats to editors and contributors - feeling very special to be part of this very special book 🫶
#TaylorSwift #Swiftie
Fun night at @readingsbooks.bsky.social celebrating the launch of the edited collection ‘Taylor Swift: Culture, Capital and Critique’ 🫶
Congrats to editors and contributors - feeling very special to be part of this very special book 🫶
#TaylorSwift #Swiftie
August 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
✨ Book launched ✨
Fun night at @readingsbooks.bsky.social celebrating the launch of the edited collection ‘Taylor Swift: Culture, Capital and Critique’ 🫶
Congrats to editors and contributors - feeling very special to be part of this very special book 🫶
#TaylorSwift #Swiftie
Fun night at @readingsbooks.bsky.social celebrating the launch of the edited collection ‘Taylor Swift: Culture, Capital and Critique’ 🫶
Congrats to editors and contributors - feeling very special to be part of this very special book 🫶
#TaylorSwift #Swiftie
Will remember last night’s Super Netball Grand Final forever 🏆 Go Vixens!!! 💚🩷🦊
August 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Will remember last night’s Super Netball Grand Final forever 🏆 Go Vixens!!! 💚🩷🦊
#SportsRomance is global!
When @kaseysymons.bsky.social told me about the rise of sports romance as a literary genre, I thought it was just a thing in the English speaking world - until my local German library showed me this section on their app‘s start page. Still no German titles, but they’re read here too ☺️
August 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#SportsRomance is global!
Sport and spice and all things nice! 🩷 📚 ⚽ 🏒
Some reflections from me in @aunz.theconversation.com on the rise of #SportsRomance fiction and why sports should pay attention to the growth in fans connecting to sport in diverse and different ways.
theconversation.com/sporty-spice...
Some reflections from me in @aunz.theconversation.com on the rise of #SportsRomance fiction and why sports should pay attention to the growth in fans connecting to sport in diverse and different ways.
theconversation.com/sporty-spice...
Sporty spice: how romance fiction is adding a new dynamic to sports fandom
Romance novels are on the rise – but what has that got to do with sports?
theconversation.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Sport and spice and all things nice! 🩷 📚 ⚽ 🏒
Some reflections from me in @aunz.theconversation.com on the rise of #SportsRomance fiction and why sports should pay attention to the growth in fans connecting to sport in diverse and different ways.
theconversation.com/sporty-spice...
Some reflections from me in @aunz.theconversation.com on the rise of #SportsRomance fiction and why sports should pay attention to the growth in fans connecting to sport in diverse and different ways.
theconversation.com/sporty-spice...
Fun day filming yesterday for the 2nd season of the SBS #WomenInSport doco series ‘Heroines’ alongside one of my heroines, my @deakinuniversity.bsky.social colleague Assoc Prof Kim Toffoletti ✨
#SportsMedia #SportsResearch #DeakinSport 🎥
#SportsMedia #SportsResearch #DeakinSport 🎥
July 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Fun day filming yesterday for the 2nd season of the SBS #WomenInSport doco series ‘Heroines’ alongside one of my heroines, my @deakinuniversity.bsky.social colleague Assoc Prof Kim Toffoletti ✨
#SportsMedia #SportsResearch #DeakinSport 🎥
#SportsMedia #SportsResearch #DeakinSport 🎥
Like I was not going to buy this ✌️⚽️💚💕 The Admiral X Spice Girls collab kit is indeed spicing up my life. I love her 😍 #SportySpice
July 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Like I was not going to buy this ✌️⚽️💚💕 The Admiral X Spice Girls collab kit is indeed spicing up my life. I love her 😍 #SportySpice
Very much looking forward to this tomorrow!
I will be moderating a panel for the Sport & Society conference with Konrad Marshall, Greg Baum, Rana Hussain & Jonathan Horn about how #SportsMedia reflects #Melbourne as a diverse and global sporting city.
sportandsociety.com/2025-confere...
I will be moderating a panel for the Sport & Society conference with Konrad Marshall, Greg Baum, Rana Hussain & Jonathan Horn about how #SportsMedia reflects #Melbourne as a diverse and global sporting city.
sportandsociety.com/2025-confere...
July 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Very much looking forward to this tomorrow!
I will be moderating a panel for the Sport & Society conference with Konrad Marshall, Greg Baum, Rana Hussain & Jonathan Horn about how #SportsMedia reflects #Melbourne as a diverse and global sporting city.
sportandsociety.com/2025-confere...
I will be moderating a panel for the Sport & Society conference with Konrad Marshall, Greg Baum, Rana Hussain & Jonathan Horn about how #SportsMedia reflects #Melbourne as a diverse and global sporting city.
sportandsociety.com/2025-confere...
Got my #WomenInSport fix in NYC 🗽
🏀 Liberty game and got to see Ellie 🐘 #WNBA
⚽️ #NSWL game
⚾️ Women’s Night at the Mets #MLB
So. Much. Fun! Love checking out international live sport when I travel!
🏀 Liberty game and got to see Ellie 🐘 #WNBA
⚽️ #NSWL game
⚾️ Women’s Night at the Mets #MLB
So. Much. Fun! Love checking out international live sport when I travel!
June 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Got my #WomenInSport fix in NYC 🗽
🏀 Liberty game and got to see Ellie 🐘 #WNBA
⚽️ #NSWL game
⚾️ Women’s Night at the Mets #MLB
So. Much. Fun! Love checking out international live sport when I travel!
🏀 Liberty game and got to see Ellie 🐘 #WNBA
⚽️ #NSWL game
⚾️ Women’s Night at the Mets #MLB
So. Much. Fun! Love checking out international live sport when I travel!
Another work day abroad in a very special place, the New York Public Library 😍 I just love this place so much 📚🗽🇺🇸
June 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Another work day abroad in a very special place, the New York Public Library 😍 I just love this place so much 📚🗽🇺🇸
This is so special!
Thank you @footycon.bsky.social for always being so supportive of my research on diverse football fan cultures and practices (like producing sports romance fiction!). This award means so much to me😊 #FootyCon25 #SportsRomance 💕📚
Thank you @footycon.bsky.social for always being so supportive of my research on diverse football fan cultures and practices (like producing sports romance fiction!). This award means so much to me😊 #FootyCon25 #SportsRomance 💕📚
As we’re just back from lunch, we just want to take a moment to celebrate the joint winners of our #footycon25 day 1 best paper, sponsored by Routledge
, who are Tim Mills, with his paper on @carlisleunited.bsky.social & @kaseysymons.bsky.social
for her paper on romance fiction in the AFLW sphere
, who are Tim Mills, with his paper on @carlisleunited.bsky.social & @kaseysymons.bsky.social
for her paper on romance fiction in the AFLW sphere
June 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This is so special!
Thank you @footycon.bsky.social for always being so supportive of my research on diverse football fan cultures and practices (like producing sports romance fiction!). This award means so much to me😊 #FootyCon25 #SportsRomance 💕📚
Thank you @footycon.bsky.social for always being so supportive of my research on diverse football fan cultures and practices (like producing sports romance fiction!). This award means so much to me😊 #FootyCon25 #SportsRomance 💕📚