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Mindy Blaise, Emily Gray, Jo Pollitt, Emma Fishwick Professor Blaise’s props and our Wheel of (mis)Fortune, photograph by Emma Fishwick What is Kiss Club? KISS club is a performance event for ideas in development, featuring artists of different career stages and working across live and experimental arts practice. Created by Sydney based artist Karen Therese, … Continue reading #FEAS Wheel of (mis)Fortune Live at KISS Club: Consciousness raising for the 21st Century

My PhD research investigates how Aboriginal women use community radio ‘musicking’ to empower themselves in place and over the airwaves. I developed the project aims in consultation with local Aboriginal leaders in Derby, who participated in my master’s research project on community musicking (conducted between 2016 and 2018). These leaders own and operate 6DBY Larrkardi … Continue reading Brigitta Scarfe Feminist listening practices across lifeworlds

Karen Nociti, Edith Cowan University Karen took part in an ethical citational practices workshop that Mindy, Emily and Linda ran at Edith Cowan University in WA. Following the workshop, we gathered together to make the first #FEAS zine – the photographs that accompany this blog are of our collective zine making. As a research student … Continue reading Ethical Citational Practices

Dorina Pojani is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Queensland. A group of colleagues and I looked at funding provided by the Australian Research Council (ARC) to planning academics and planning project proposals between 2010 and 2018. (The ARC is the largest and most prestigious public research funding body in Australia.) We … Continue reading Dorina Pojani on the ARC’s gender bias in urban planning

Katie Strom is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Core Faculty, Educational Leadership for Social Justice EdD at California State University, East Bay, USA. Dear Division K Proposal Submitter,  Thank you for your submission.  While your submission was not accepted this year, we wanted to give you some insight into the review and decision-making process for … Continue reading Katie Strom on AERA

Anna Bull of the 1752 Group The recent publication of the Australian Human Rights Commission report on sexual harassment in Australian universities has met with a muted reaction. Following the first few days’ media coverage, the story appears to have died down, both on campus and off it. And yet, despite the many shortcomings of … Continue reading Staff sexual misconduct in universities: using the AHRC report to push the agenda forward?

Sadie Slyfox Sex workers are not only sex workers. Like any other work, sex work could be a primary or supplementary source of income. Like any other workers, sex workers can also be students, parents, friends, volunteers, whatever; our work does not define us. The patchy criminalisation of sex work across Australia, in addition to … Continue reading Sex workers in the academy

Feminists All These #FEASy Feisty Femmes Though Our Collective Kweernessesesses Eclipses Gendered Femmememeses Four Multiplicities Moar Than More Moreish Maids Made By Our Own Same Same Different Transmogrific Paradigms Winding Up With Withlings Battling Sexist Things Entwingled Entwined Reminding Us That Pervasive Patriarchy Poses Under The Bed When We Wish For Equity Instead Can't We … Continue reading Ode to #FEAS by Dr Red Ruby Scarlet