Sharing this again! Applications are open for the MWFF Critics Lab 2024📺

All systems go for #MonashGIG Fiji! For the next 2 weeks Monash students will be learning about local sustainable development challenges with experts from The University of the South Pacific. First up, reading the newspaper to find out about what’s newsworthy in Fiji!

Thank you to Inoke Droya from The University of the South Pacific for sharing insights into development issues in the Pacific. Exploring the social, political and economic impacts of climate change is a sobering reminder that “climate change is huge threat to our immediate survival.” #MonashGIG

Morning lecture on mangroves followed by an afternoon of mangrove planting. I love #MonashGIG days like these!

So excited for this! Visible Evidence is coming to Monash's School of Media, Film and Journalism! CFP has just launched!

Brilliant Sunday arvo panel on the intersections between film, climate and communicating science with Sonya Pemberton maddi and Prof Brett Sutton, hosted by Monash's School of Media, Film and Journalism PhD student Melanie Ashe 🙌

Just published: new research on queer representation on Australian TV in the 2000s and 2010s. Such a pleasure to work with Damien J O'Meara 📺 🏳️‍🌈 on this! Ping: Monash's School of Media, Film and Journalism

Such a pleasure to reflect on the #MonashGIG experience with my colleagues! Our piece "Climate and culture lessons from the Pacific Islands" has just been published in Monash Lens lens.monash.edu/2024/03/11/138…

Dr Whitney Monaghan, Monash's School of Media, Film and Journalism, has co-authored a #MonashLens feature on the climate & culture lessons 150 first-year Monash Global Immerson Guarantee (GIG) students learnt on their recent trip to the Pacific Islands. Read more and learn about GIG here: lens.monash.edu/@education/202…

Last early bird tickets selling now on our website! Use code MWEARLY24 to snap yours up. Melbourne Women in Film Festival is just ONE WEEK AWAY! #MWFF #MWFF24 #VicScreen #WIFTVIC #CityOfMelbourne #Sustainability #womeninfilm #genderequality #genderdiversity #melbourne

The queer reps on Aussie scripted telly research got a write up in Star Observer. starobserver.com.au/news/new-study…

Calling all budding film critics: applications for the Melbourne Film Fest 2024 Critics Campus are now open! Closes May 20. miff.com.au/criticscampus

Our first critics lab article is by freelance critic Grace Boschetti. View Boschetti’s article and support our talented critics by visiting: mwff.org.au/critics-lab-bl… #criticslab #mwff24 #environments #CityofMelbourne #womeninfilm #genderequality

When you find yourself (and Omar Sakr !) on the shelf at your favourite London bookshop 😭🙌🏼 Whitney Monaghan

New from me: "Queer media in the age of streaming video" in Convergence Journal special issue on Streaming Diversity. I explore how streaming platforms and the information-led practices of VOD are changing the way we know and understand queer media 🌈📺 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

I’m working on a project to share queer stories that have appeared in Aussie TV drama that Whitney Monaghan and I found in our study in LGBTNb representation on Australian scripted television in the 2000s and 2010s published in MIA. doi.org/10.1177/132987…

Just added the 15th Aussie TV drama that includes queer stories to this thread of what Whitney Monaghan and I found in our study of the 2000s and 2010s. Make sure to bookmark to see your favourite, and discover some you may have never seen!