Sara Meger
@sarameger.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in International Relations, University of Melbourne. Interested in critical political economy, security and feminist theory.
Powerful provocation from @drmeljohnston.bsky.social at #EISAPEC2026: women should not need to perform agency in order to be taken seriously as full political subjects
September 4, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Powerful provocation from @drmeljohnston.bsky.social at #EISAPEC2026: women should not need to perform agency in order to be taken seriously as full political subjects
Reposted by Sara Meger
ICE violence is fueled by misogyny and white nationalism.
ICE violence is fueled by misogyny and white nationalism
How the Trump administration has mobilized state-sponsored terror in Minneapolis and beyond.
www.motherjones.com
August 26, 2026 at 1:00 AM
ICE violence is fueled by misogyny and white nationalism.
Solidarity to teachers and the AEU, holding out for a real wage increase 💪
May 13, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Solidarity to teachers and the AEU, holding out for a real wage increase 💪
Perhaps my data finding a correlation between pornography use and support for violent extremism shouldn’t be so surprising had we just listened to feminists
March 9, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Perhaps my data finding a correlation between pornography use and support for violent extremism shouldn’t be so surprising had we just listened to feminists
Some preliminary data from my recent study finds that not only does pornography use strongly and significantly correlate with attitudes permissive of violence against women, but also with attitudes sympathetic to violent extremism.
Exclusive: Several of Australia's most popular porn websites have begun blocking users of all ages ahead of next week's deadline to introduce age verification.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/06/p...
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/06/p...
Top porn websites block Australian users ahead of age-verification deadline
Redtube, YouPorn, Tube8 and other popular free video platforms owned by Canadian porn giant Aylo have begun blocking all Australians just days before a March 9 deadline to introduce 'appropriate age…
www.crikey.com.au
March 9, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Some preliminary data from my recent study finds that not only does pornography use strongly and significantly correlate with attitudes permissive of violence against women, but also with attitudes sympathetic to violent extremism.
Great news 🥰
Exclusive: Several of Australia's most popular porn websites have begun blocking users of all ages ahead of next week's deadline to introduce age verification.
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/06/p...
www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/06/p...
Top porn websites block Australian users ahead of age-verification deadline
Redtube, YouPorn, Tube8 and other popular free video platforms owned by Canadian porn giant Aylo have begun blocking all Australians just days before a March 9 deadline to introduce 'appropriate age…
www.crikey.com.au
March 6, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Great news 🥰
Among 13–17 year old boys in Australia:
— 28% agree that violence should be used against feminism
-- 36% agreed with misogynistic attitudes.
-- 25–30% agree with various forms of violent extremism
-- 40% agreed that women lie about domestic and sexual violence.
theconversation.com/40-of-teenag...
— 28% agree that violence should be used against feminism
-- 36% agreed with misogynistic attitudes.
-- 25–30% agree with various forms of violent extremism
-- 40% agreed that women lie about domestic and sexual violence.
theconversation.com/40-of-teenag...
40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research
An Australian study of anti-feminist attitudes shows up to 30% of boys surveyed expressed agreement with various forms of violent extremism.
theconversation.com
March 5, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Among 13–17 year old boys in Australia:
— 28% agree that violence should be used against feminism
-- 36% agreed with misogynistic attitudes.
-- 25–30% agree with various forms of violent extremism
-- 40% agreed that women lie about domestic and sexual violence.
theconversation.com/40-of-teenag...
— 28% agree that violence should be used against feminism
-- 36% agreed with misogynistic attitudes.
-- 25–30% agree with various forms of violent extremism
-- 40% agreed that women lie about domestic and sexual violence.
theconversation.com/40-of-teenag...
Reposted by Sara Meger
Question for all the academics who will read this: do you think of PhD supervision as 'teaching' or 'research'? Why? Please pick one; it's for workload allocation purposes. Please also tell me relevant details like continent, discipline, lab model or no, grant-funded or no. Thanks so much!
October 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Question for all the academics who will read this: do you think of PhD supervision as 'teaching' or 'research'? Why? Please pick one; it's for workload allocation purposes. Please also tell me relevant details like continent, discipline, lab model or no, grant-funded or no. Thanks so much!
Guided missile warheads???
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Guided missile warheads???
A lot of liberal denunciation of political violence on this app today. Good time to spruik this new edited volume with a chapter by yours truly on Revolutionary Feminism!
www.routledge.com/Che-Lives-Th...
www.routledge.com/Che-Lives-Th...
Che Lives!: The Legacy of the Che Guevara in World Politics
This book explores the vast and ongoing legacy of Che Guevara in world politics. It is one of the first volumes to explore both historical and contemporary manifestations of Che’s legacy, with an emph...
www.routledge.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
A lot of liberal denunciation of political violence on this app today. Good time to spruik this new edited volume with a chapter by yours truly on Revolutionary Feminism!
www.routledge.com/Che-Lives-Th...
www.routledge.com/Che-Lives-Th...
This week, the UK government is proposing a ban on pornography that depicts strangulation. Much of the left is handwringing about it. But as Lucy and @drmeljohnston.bsky.social explain, “the left can’t have its whores and politics too.”
www.ppesydney.net/can-the-left...
www.ppesydney.net/can-the-left...
Can the Left Have Pornography and its Politics Too? - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Andrea Dworkin’s book, Pornography: Men Possessing Women, has recently been republished. It addresses the material conditions of women’s subjugation, with specific reference to the political economy o...
www.ppesydney.net
June 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This week, the UK government is proposing a ban on pornography that depicts strangulation. Much of the left is handwringing about it. But as Lucy and @drmeljohnston.bsky.social explain, “the left can’t have its whores and politics too.”
www.ppesydney.net/can-the-left...
www.ppesydney.net/can-the-left...
Someone will need to explain to me the logic of deregulating minimum fees in rates for solar in Victoria as incentivising more competitive rates?
June 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Someone will need to explain to me the logic of deregulating minimum fees in rates for solar in Victoria as incentivising more competitive rates?
Well this can’t be good…
June 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Well this can’t be good…
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"On Wednesday, LA city councilor Hugo Soto-Martinez said in a video posted to Instagram that ICE had shown up at a confidential domestic violence shelter, apparently in search of one person who was not present." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
LA's ICE raids are impacting domestic violence shelters
These programs "should be safe sanctuaries—and we can't even guarantee that anymore."
www.motherjones.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The use of Lime scooters and bikes as weapons of the resistance delights me in ways I can’t describe.
June 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The use of Lime scooters and bikes as weapons of the resistance delights me in ways I can’t describe.
Day trip to Canberra and I’m greeted this morning at the airport cafe with the below sentiment.
To quote @drmeljohnston.bsky.social - “the revolution will be caffeinated.”
To quote @drmeljohnston.bsky.social - “the revolution will be caffeinated.”
May 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Day trip to Canberra and I’m greeted this morning at the airport cafe with the below sentiment.
To quote @drmeljohnston.bsky.social - “the revolution will be caffeinated.”
To quote @drmeljohnston.bsky.social - “the revolution will be caffeinated.”
Anti-feminism is an prevalent political attitude in Australia. Violent anti-feminism is supported by nearly 20% of Australian men.
Needless to say, recognising our country’s problem with femicide does not amount to a “war on men”
www.australianfemicidewatch.org
Needless to say, recognising our country’s problem with femicide does not amount to a “war on men”
www.australianfemicidewatch.org
May 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Anti-feminism is an prevalent political attitude in Australia. Violent anti-feminism is supported by nearly 20% of Australian men.
Needless to say, recognising our country’s problem with femicide does not amount to a “war on men”
www.australianfemicidewatch.org
Needless to say, recognising our country’s problem with femicide does not amount to a “war on men”
www.australianfemicidewatch.org
Reposted by Sara Meger
Can you win with the support of lads and dads alone? No, duh!
Is Peter Dutton aware that women... can vote?
In 2022, Scott Morrison made bungled, offensive comments about women. Three years later, Peter Dutton is just ignoring women altogether.
www.crikey.com.au
April 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Can you win with the support of lads and dads alone? No, duh!
That election rap is a bop and I’m afraid it may actually work.
April 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
That election rap is a bop and I’m afraid it may actually work.