home cooked theory

International Women’s Day

This afternoon the Women and Work Research Group at the University of Sydney held a special event for International Women’s Day. I was asked to present some of my research from the Working From Home study. Here is a copy of the text from my talk, and a powerpoint presentation for those interested in some [...]

Women in research

A new report shows that women’s progress in science has stalled over the past 15 years. While this won’t sound like news to many, I was shocked to read the statistic on how many women are Federation Fellows (8.5%). When you add that to other recent news stories, particularly with regard to the ongoing pay [...]

Remembering Eve

In honour of our Sedgwick event today, here’s a link to an old essay I wrote a few years ago when I was asked to review Touching Feeling. It’s called “How to Avoid Being Paranoid” and it’s this general directive and its ongoing relevance for those working in the corporate academy that will form the [...]

Remembering Eve Sedgwick

This is something I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. Hope some of you might like to come! We are also looking in to the logistics of recording it – so it would be good to hear if people would find this useful.
Remembering Eve Sedgwick: The beginnings, present and future of queer theory
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Getting Desperate: Twitter on primetime

Last night’s episode of Desperate Housewives showed how far things have come: it included a scene that hinged on Tom’s lack of knowledge about Twitter, and hence his failure at a job interview. This shameful experience led to an extended subplot about whether or not Tom should get plastic surgery to disguise his age and [...]

Story of my life

Three hours in a Bloomsbury bookshop on the weekend and this is the result:

Rural broadband

At the end of last week I spent two days at the University of Wollongong listening to a range of stakeholders and researchers talk about broadband. The workshop was organised around the ideas of self, place and “making do” and was an effort to talk about the cultural reality of communications infrastructure in non-metro areas [...]

Glocalising sex and gender: Travel bursaries

The workshop I mentioned yesterday has just announced that there are 4 grants available for students wishing to attend the workshop, but who usually reside outside of the Sydney urban area. There is a draft of the program here for anyone who might be thinking of going.
To apply for a grant, you will have [...]

Learning from Underbelly

In a couple of weeks the Television and the National conference is on at ACMI in Melbourne. I’m giving two papers. The first is the Work on TV paper I’ve mentioned here previously, and which I’ll post about separately as I add some more touches. I now have to mention Tina Fey’s Palin persona as [...]

Wired women

Another book I picked up last month in Yungaburra was Lynn Cherny and Elizabeth Reba Weise’s Wired Women collection from 1996. Subtitled “Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace”, it gives an insight into the imaginaries and experiences of women heading online when Usenet and IRC were at a peak. Having come to the internet — [...]

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