Dear beloved BroadAgenda readers,
Since I was headhunted for the role of BroadAgenda (BA) editor back in 2021, we’ve achieved so much! This blog has gone from having a handful of dedicated readers to hitting 249k impressions a month. Wow!
We couldn’t have done it without YOU—our incredible readers and contributors. For me personally, it’s been such a privilege to edit and publish such a diverse range of feminist voices and research over the last 3.5 years. Thank you for trusting me with your thoughts and your writing. Thanks for taking the time to read and believe in what we’ve published; we’ve really contributed to the sharing of vigorous ideas and discourse around gender-related topics. I’m so proud of the diversity of voices we’ve published.
I’m definitely raising a glass to a more equitable future! (And I hope you do too.)
All the best for the new year—especially to my colleagues at UC and around the country who have been made redundant and/or whose contracts have not been renewed. This will be a tough holiday season for many.
On that note, I’m also one of the many folks in Australian universities who have accepted a redundancy in response to financial pressures at the tertiary institutions we’re working for. So I will be leaving this role as of today (Friday, December 20, 2024). This selfie is of me feeling quite blue yesterday as I handed in my UC office keys, and other effects!
I met so many wonderful colleagues (you know who you are!) at UC, and it’s with great sadness that I will no longer be having lunches or corridor chats with them. A special shout out to BA’s founding editor, Dr Pia Rowe, who was my life raft when I first started at UC, and continues to be a dear friend.
With the warmest of wishes for the holiday season and solidarity in the feminist fight,
Ginger Gorman
PS: BroadAgenda is currently not taking submissions, and at this stage, I don’t have further information about its future while this enormous change process is underway.
PPS: If you’re wanting to get in touch with me personally, please do that via my website.
Ginger Gorman is a fearless and multi award-winning social justice journalist and feminist. Ginger’s bestselling book, Troll Hunting,came out in 2019. Since then, she’s been in demand both nationally and globally as an expert on cyberhate and the real-life harm predator trolling can do. She's also the editor of BroadAgenda and gender editor at HerCanberra. Ginger hosts the popular "Seriously Social" podcast for the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Follow her on Twitter.
