Hannah McCann
@binarythis.bsky.social
She/her. Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies ~ femininities, queer theory, beauty culture, crushes. Writer, advocate, infamous bisexual, wannabe poet. Views my own and not that of my university. Another world is possible 💅🏻🙇🏻♂️
www.hannahmccann.com.au
www.hannahmccann.com.au
Join us from August 7 – 9, 2026 online for "Temporalities: The Sixth Annual Critical Femininities Conference". Registration now open through Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/temporalit...
The full conference schedule is available on our website: www.criticalfemininities.net/program
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The full conference schedule is available on our website: www.criticalfemininities.net/program
July 24, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Join us from August 7 – 9, 2026 online for "Temporalities: The Sixth Annual Critical Femininities Conference". Registration now open through Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/temporalit...
The full conference schedule is available on our website: www.criticalfemininities.net/program
www.eventbrite.ca/e/temporalit...
The full conference schedule is available on our website: www.criticalfemininities.net/program
Am I misunderstanding these new schemes -- it seems mid and senior career stage people will no longer be able to apply for their own salary costs? Surely this will have fairly big (negative) consequences, especially for research contingent people?
The ARC's new grant scheme table, in case you don't want to read through the details (which are here: www.arc.gov.au/system/files...)
July 23, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Am I misunderstanding these new schemes -- it seems mid and senior career stage people will no longer be able to apply for their own salary costs? Surely this will have fairly big (negative) consequences, especially for research contingent people?
There's still time to contribute to my survey on romantic crushes! Please share widely (though note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+). Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...
May 28, 2026 at 8:44 AM
There's still time to contribute to my survey on romantic crushes! Please share widely (though note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+). Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...
This week we released a new report on the need for wellbeing training for hair and beauty workers – based on almost a decade of research! Co-authored with Stacey Page (Adelaide Uni)
Download the full report: www.beautysalonproject.com/publications
Or read: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/a-c...
Download the full report: www.beautysalonproject.com/publications
Or read: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/a-c...
May 6, 2026 at 1:00 AM
This week we released a new report on the need for wellbeing training for hair and beauty workers – based on almost a decade of research! Co-authored with Stacey Page (Adelaide Uni)
Download the full report: www.beautysalonproject.com/publications
Or read: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/a-c...
Download the full report: www.beautysalonproject.com/publications
Or read: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/a-c...
Reposted by Hannah McCann
On @thesocietypages.bsky.social blog today ⬇️
We spoke with @binarythis.bsky.social about her book "Emotions, Bodies, and Identities in the Hair and Beauty Salon: Caring Beyond Skin Deep", which explores how salons operate as spaces for labor, identity, and connection.
tinyurl.com/36brs2h8
We spoke with @binarythis.bsky.social about her book "Emotions, Bodies, and Identities in the Hair and Beauty Salon: Caring Beyond Skin Deep", which explores how salons operate as spaces for labor, identity, and connection.
tinyurl.com/36brs2h8
3Q with Hannah McCann Emotions, Bodies, and Identities in the Hair and Beauty Salon: Caring Beyond Skin Deep - Council on Contemporary Families
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
thesocietypages.org
March 17, 2026 at 7:37 PM
On @thesocietypages.bsky.social blog today ⬇️
We spoke with @binarythis.bsky.social about her book "Emotions, Bodies, and Identities in the Hair and Beauty Salon: Caring Beyond Skin Deep", which explores how salons operate as spaces for labor, identity, and connection.
tinyurl.com/36brs2h8
We spoke with @binarythis.bsky.social about her book "Emotions, Bodies, and Identities in the Hair and Beauty Salon: Caring Beyond Skin Deep", which explores how salons operate as spaces for labor, identity, and connection.
tinyurl.com/36brs2h8
New article out today with Shirley Xue Chen about feminist ambivalence when it comes to everyday experiences of beauty www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An uneasy ordinariness: feminist ambivalence negotiating beauty in the everyday
Feminist approaches to beauty can largely be understood along two lines: a major strand that emphasizes the punishing and harmful aspects of beauty practices; and a more minor strand that attempts ...
www.tandfonline.com
March 3, 2026 at 9:12 PM
New article out today with Shirley Xue Chen about feminist ambivalence when it comes to everyday experiences of beauty www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fantastic new article out from one of my PhD Students Claude Kempen, making sense of confusion in nonbinary memoir: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The nonbinary playing field: confusion as participatory affect in contemporary memoir
This article theorizes confusion as a central affect in nonbinary life writing. Drawing on a corpus of contemporary nonbinary memoirs, I propose the metaphor of the nonbinary playing field to descr...
www.tandfonline.com
February 25, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Fantastic new article out from one of my PhD Students Claude Kempen, making sense of confusion in nonbinary memoir: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The physical copies of my new book, based on my DECRA research, have arrived! You can order a copy for your library here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/emotions-... or read about the project at: www.beautysalonproject.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The physical copies of my new book, based on my DECRA research, have arrived! You can order a copy for your library here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/emotions-... or read about the project at: www.beautysalonproject.com
CFP now open for the 2026 Critical Femininities Conference, on the theme "Temporalities"! Full CFP can be found here: www.criticalfemininities.net/conference Please send abstracts to [email protected] by March 13, 2026
February 3, 2026 at 11:19 PM
CFP now open for the 2026 Critical Femininities Conference, on the theme "Temporalities"! Full CFP can be found here: www.criticalfemininities.net/conference Please send abstracts to [email protected] by March 13, 2026
Looking forward to giving this seminar next week, with the incredible Paige Lewin
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/hair-c...
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/hair-c...
Hair Care as Care Work with Hannah McCann and Paige Lewin
torch.ox.ac.uk
January 21, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Looking forward to giving this seminar next week, with the incredible Paige Lewin
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/hair-c...
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/hair-c...
Reposted by Hannah McCann
⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months!
This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.
Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.
Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
January 12, 2026 at 1:17 AM
⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months!
This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.
Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis.
Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇
The incredible repression of information happening in Iran, hiding the bloody state crackdown — and how grotesque to hear the foreign minister using Trump killing civilians to normalise this
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘The streets are full of blood’: Iranian protests gather momentum as regime cracks down
Demonstrators recount experiences on the frontlines as protest movement rapidly moves beyond government’s control
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:51 AM
The incredible repression of information happening in Iran, hiding the bloody state crackdown — and how grotesque to hear the foreign minister using Trump killing civilians to normalise this
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
My book is out today! Do me a favour and ask your library to order a copy? www.bloomsbury.com/us/emotions-...
January 8, 2026 at 12:07 AM
My book is out today! Do me a favour and ask your library to order a copy? www.bloomsbury.com/us/emotions-...
Reposted by Hannah McCann
There are two venerated, much feared trees on the edge of Barwell Common. Known as Whip Scar and Tangle Knife, they are home to particularly quarrelsome Wood Sprites. To pass between them has a fearsome terror tithe and even if it's paid, you are still likely to hear them spitting curses.
December 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
There are two venerated, much feared trees on the edge of Barwell Common. Known as Whip Scar and Tangle Knife, they are home to particularly quarrelsome Wood Sprites. To pass between them has a fearsome terror tithe and even if it's paid, you are still likely to hear them spitting curses.
New poem out today in @theberlinreview.bsky.social ✨ theberlinliteraryreview.com/hannah-mccan...
December 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
New poem out today in @theberlinreview.bsky.social ✨ theberlinliteraryreview.com/hannah-mccan...
These stories of bravery are truly amazing, never stop believing in humans even in the worst times
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Her instinct is to save lives’: Chaya, 14, recovers after being shot while shielding children during Bondi terror attack
The 14-year-old answered a desperate call for help and left her place of shelter to protect two younger children
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
These stories of bravery are truly amazing, never stop believing in humans even in the worst times
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Absolutely horrifying to see those scenes from such a cowardly attack in Bondi.
December 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Absolutely horrifying to see those scenes from such a cowardly attack in Bondi.
Love this interview with Andrew Brooks www.liminalmag.com/interviews/a...
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Love this interview with Andrew Brooks www.liminalmag.com/interviews/a...
It’s time for my annual thread of Australian poetry books you should buy ppl for Xmas. No one buys poetry partly cos it’s intimidating. It rarely makes xmas book guides. But poetry is an ethical gift that: supports underfunded writers; wins brownie points with gift receiver; improves the human soul
December 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
It’s time for my annual thread of Australian poetry books you should buy ppl for Xmas. No one buys poetry partly cos it’s intimidating. It rarely makes xmas book guides. But poetry is an ethical gift that: supports underfunded writers; wins brownie points with gift receiver; improves the human soul
Reading the responses to this is unbelievably interesting, I can’t wait to share them in an eventual book
NEW! Survey on experiences of romantic crushes, please share widely! The aim of this study is to investigate the romantic crush. Note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+. Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Reading the responses to this is unbelievably interesting, I can’t wait to share them in an eventual book
Reposted by Hannah McCann
NEW! Survey on experiences of romantic crushes, please share widely! The aim of this study is to investigate the romantic crush. Note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+. Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...
December 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
NEW! Survey on experiences of romantic crushes, please share widely! The aim of this study is to investigate the romantic crush. Note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+. Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...
“If this demand eventuates, it will make our emissions objective – and our ability to close coal on schedules that align with the emissions targets – very difficult, if not impossible” @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Datacentres demand huge amounts of electricity. Could they derail Australia’s net zero ambitions?
Banks of servers operating 24/7 generate massive amounts of heat, requiring power to run and cool them
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
“If this demand eventuates, it will make our emissions objective – and our ability to close coal on schedules that align with the emissions targets – very difficult, if not impossible” @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NEW! Survey on experiences of romantic crushes, please share widely! The aim of this study is to investigate the romantic crush. Note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+. Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...
December 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
NEW! Survey on experiences of romantic crushes, please share widely! The aim of this study is to investigate the romantic crush. Note that this is only for people currently residing in Australia who are 18+. Find out more and complete the survey at this link: q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...