Zara
@zarasaunders.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
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Zara
@zarasaunders.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Rape, law and stories of trauma: representations of sexual violence in The Australian Women’s Weekly, 1970–82
The 1970s ushered in a period of significant feminist activism, public debate and judicial reform on issues of rape and child sexual abuse. In this article, I examine how The Australian Women’s Wee...
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I am fortunate to have recently published my first journal article entitled Rape, law and stories of trauma: representations of sexual violence in The Australian Women’s Weekly, 1970–82 with the wonderful team at History Australia.
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Re-sharing: Sexual Assault Support Services in Australia 🧵 If you need support please know there are services available & you are deserving of care!
Sexual Assault Support Services in Australia
Full Stop (available 24/7)
1800 385 578
1800 Respect (available 24/7)
1800 737 732
QLife (available 3pm-midnight)
1800 184 527
Rainbow Sexual, Domestic & Family Violence Helpline (available 24/7)
1800 497 212
13 Yarn (available 24/7)
13 92 76
Full Stop (available 24/7)
1800 385 578
1800 Respect (available 24/7)
1800 737 732
QLife (available 3pm-midnight)
1800 184 527
Rainbow Sexual, Domestic & Family Violence Helpline (available 24/7)
1800 497 212
13 Yarn (available 24/7)
13 92 76
November 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Re-sharing: Sexual Assault Support Services in Australia 🧵 If you need support please know there are services available & you are deserving of care!
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Thrilled that my former student Will Schultz has his first book out with @uncpress.bsky.social. Check it out!
Jesus Springs
In the years after World War II, American evangelicals flocked to the once-sleepy mountain town of Colorado Springs. Drawn by cheap property, beautiful scene...
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November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Thrilled that my former student Will Schultz has his first book out with @uncpress.bsky.social. Check it out!
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This week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!
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A gentleman skeleton at a ball asks a lady skeleton to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862.
Image: Wellcome Collection, London.
Image: Wellcome Collection, London.
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A gentleman skeleton at a ball asks a lady skeleton to dance; representing the effect of arsenical dyes and pigments in clothing and accessories. Wood engraving, 1862.
Image: Wellcome Collection, London.
Image: Wellcome Collection, London.
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We're discussing youth sexuality in my 'Sex, medicine and society' tutorial tomorrow so wanted to flag these brilliant publications by @kristinwh0.bsky.social on unmarried women & contraception in Scotland and @carorusterholz.bsky.social's fantastic book on the Brook Centres! Links below (all OA).
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We're discussing youth sexuality in my 'Sex, medicine and society' tutorial tomorrow so wanted to flag these brilliant publications by @kristinwh0.bsky.social on unmarried women & contraception in Scotland and @carorusterholz.bsky.social's fantastic book on the Brook Centres! Links below (all OA).
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“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
These reforms violate human rights obligations, contradict the evidence and will be devastating for children and young people in conflict with the law.
Victoria’s ‘adult time for violent crime’ reforms will not solve the youth crime problem
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.
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Our Nov issue is up, guest ed is Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social it’s devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia. It’s also the final issue for outgoing eds Tim Rowse & Fiona Paisley–thanks for your excellent stewardship these last four years
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
November 2, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Our Nov issue is up, guest ed is Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social it’s devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia. It’s also the final issue for outgoing eds Tim Rowse & Fiona Paisley–thanks for your excellent stewardship these last four years
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...
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My first lot of marking has arrived but so has the cover of the book!
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My first lot of marking has arrived but so has the cover of the book!
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Wonderful story from the #Emory African American Studies Department about Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s contributions to “The Gilded Age.”
#hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
#hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
Meet the historian ensuring ‘The Gilded Age’ drama rings true | Emory University | Atlanta GA
Emory professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar specializes in sharing the often-overlooked historical experiences of Black women in America. That includes using her talents to bring the characters in the HBO ...
news.emory.edu
November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Wonderful story from the #Emory African American Studies Department about Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s contributions to “The Gilded Age.”
#hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
#hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...
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I am beyond thrilled that my @universitypress.cambridge.org book, Music & Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, has won the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the best book written by "a scholar past the early stages of their career" 🙏♥️ #AMSMT25
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I am beyond thrilled that my @universitypress.cambridge.org book, Music & Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, has won the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the best book written by "a scholar past the early stages of their career" 🙏♥️ #AMSMT25
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Available March 2026 from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, but pre-order possible. The real editing has been done by Charlotte Greenhalgh and @clarecorbould.bsky.social
#histsci #histstm #STS
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
#histsci #histstm #STS
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
The Social Survey in Global Perspective, 1900-2020s | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
ftp.berghahnbooks.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Available March 2026 from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social, but pre-order possible. The real editing has been done by Charlotte Greenhalgh and @clarecorbould.bsky.social
#histsci #histstm #STS
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
#histsci #histstm #STS
@austhistassoc.bsky.social
Non-Fiction November Recommendations 📖📚
Ten books ranging from historical non-fiction, investigative journalism to memoir 🧵
Ten books ranging from historical non-fiction, investigative journalism to memoir 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Non-Fiction November Recommendations 📖📚
Ten books ranging from historical non-fiction, investigative journalism to memoir 🧵
Ten books ranging from historical non-fiction, investigative journalism to memoir 🧵
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Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026!
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026!
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
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My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee!
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee!
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
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I'm the director of an anti-sexual violence charity. This measure won't prevent harm, nor will it mean perpetrators will hand themselves into police. It will, however, make some victim-survivors less likely to report, and subject others - including children - to additional financial distress
Fugitives on the run and wanted for some of the most serious crimes and sexual offences could soon be stripped of their welfare payments.
Fears fugitive welfare cut-off will capture innocent people
Fugitives on the run and wanted for some of the most serious crimes and sexual offences could soon be stripped of their welfare payments.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I'm the director of an anti-sexual violence charity. This measure won't prevent harm, nor will it mean perpetrators will hand themselves into police. It will, however, make some victim-survivors less likely to report, and subject others - including children - to additional financial distress
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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My review of former Australian PM Tony Abbott's new book out today: Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...
Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him
Tony Abbott begins his book Australia: A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
My review of former Australian PM Tony Abbott's new book out today: Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...
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There's a long tradition of people dressing up as famous women during their lowest moments.
msmagazine.com/2023/11/03/a...
msmagazine.com/2023/11/03/a...
Domestic Abuse Is Not Your Halloween Punchline
Schitt’s Creek's star Emily Hampshire dressed as Johnny Depp with a wine bottle for Halloween, her friend as Amber Heard. Domestic assault isn't a joke.
msmagazine.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
There's a long tradition of people dressing up as famous women during their lowest moments.
msmagazine.com/2023/11/03/a...
msmagazine.com/2023/11/03/a...
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My introduction to a brand new special issue of 'Australian Historical Studies' devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia has just appeared. Thanks to all of the contributors and the journal's editors. 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
After ‘Anglobalisation’: Anglo-German Relations in Australasia
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 56, No. 4, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:41 AM
My introduction to a brand new special issue of 'Australian Historical Studies' devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia has just appeared. Thanks to all of the contributors and the journal's editors. 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Imagine introducing laws to protect kids from how toxic social media is and... thanking News Corp for helping?
Every media outlet that uses social media as a distribution channel actively shapes the culture of those platforms.
These things are not separate.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/n...
Every media outlet that uses social media as a distribution channel actively shapes the culture of those platforms.
These things are not separate.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/n...
October 31, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Imagine introducing laws to protect kids from how toxic social media is and... thanking News Corp for helping?
Every media outlet that uses social media as a distribution channel actively shapes the culture of those platforms.
These things are not separate.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/n...
Every media outlet that uses social media as a distribution channel actively shapes the culture of those platforms.
These things are not separate.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/31/n...
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Today we learned of a shocking amendment to the income apportionment bill that involves police in social security decisions.
We're joining the call for Labor to abandon police powers to stop Centrelink payments.
Why is @amyremeikis.bsky.social is the only one in the press gallery covering this?
We're joining the call for Labor to abandon police powers to stop Centrelink payments.
Why is @amyremeikis.bsky.social is the only one in the press gallery covering this?
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October 30, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Today we learned of a shocking amendment to the income apportionment bill that involves police in social security decisions.
We're joining the call for Labor to abandon police powers to stop Centrelink payments.
Why is @amyremeikis.bsky.social is the only one in the press gallery covering this?
We're joining the call for Labor to abandon police powers to stop Centrelink payments.
Why is @amyremeikis.bsky.social is the only one in the press gallery covering this?
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🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word!
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History
Wadham College invites applications for a fixed-term Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History, named the David Richards Fellowship, September 2026 – August 2029.
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word!
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
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Critical introduction to forthcoming "Gender & Segregation" special issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social by Lisa Hellman, @writinghelena.bsky.social, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & me is now out and #OpenAccess! Issue itself to follow shortly... 🌟
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Gender and Segregation: An Introduction
This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregatio....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Critical introduction to forthcoming "Gender & Segregation" special issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social by Lisa Hellman, @writinghelena.bsky.social, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & me is now out and #OpenAccess! Issue itself to follow shortly... 🌟
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It also raises the question of how adults (& the criminal justice system) will respond to teens who have been victimised online - will they end up being treated as the ‘problem’ for breaching social media ban?
Not to view everything through the lens of the teen social media ban, but I'm curious what people think will happen to teens' likelihood of being victimised when they migrate to less trustworthy platforms or feel like they're breaking the rules by getting around the ban
AFP to target men 'hunting' young girls, coercing them to commit violent acts
In an address to the National Press Club on Wednesday, new AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett will announce the new taskforce and flag a desire to recast the agency as a national security agency.
www.abc.net.au
October 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
It also raises the question of how adults (& the criminal justice system) will respond to teens who have been victimised online - will they end up being treated as the ‘problem’ for breaching social media ban?