Matthew Mitchell

Be gay, do criminology? Affect, subjectivity, and relationality in anti-queer violence research - Matthew Mitchell, Tully O’Neill, Curtis Redd, 2025 As a nascent sub-discipline, queer criminology has been fundamentally concerned with questions about its identity and scope. Within these debates, several schol...

💖 Another article out in the same week! Feels like academic Christmas.

TL;DR three queer researchers struggle to understand what it might mean to do queer criminology, to be queer within criminology, and to queer criminology.

🔗 Available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Anti-Queer Violence in Australia: An Intersectional Analysis of Victimization Among LGBTQA+ Adults Anti-queer violence is a significant criminological, public health, and social justice concern. While international research has shown that LGBTQA+ people generally experience higher rates of victi...

🌈 New article out now, “Anti-Queer Violence in Australia: An Intersectional Analysis of Victimization Among LGBTQA+ Adults”

TL;DR Anti-queer violence is pervasive and intersectional.

Addressing it will require structural reform beyond tackling homo- and transphobia alone.

doi.org/10.1080/0091...

I had a great time speaking on Done By Law at 3CR about the national review into gender-affirming care for trans and gender-diverse youth.

Tune in to hear some myth-busting around gender-affirming care and learn why it matters!

(NB: there are some audio issues at the start, but it picks up)

Sage Sociology: Teaching Sociology - Playing with Social Theory: Creative and Reflexive Methods for Teaching and Practice Authors Matthew Mitchell, Flynn Pervan, Josiah Lulham and Will Arpke-Wales discuss the article, "Playing with Social Theory: Creative and Reflexive Methods for Teaching and Practice," published in the...

Tune in to hear us talk Playing with Social Theory on the SAGE Teaching Sociology podcast! 🎙️

We chat play, theory, and a bit of dancing 💃

🎧 Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: sagesociology.libsyn.com/teaching-soc...

Playing with Social Theory: Creative and Reflexive Methods for Teaching and Practice - Matthew Mitchell, Josiah Lulham, Flynn Pervan, Will Arpke-Wales, 2025 What does good theorizing look like? And how can or should theorizing be taught? This article challenges the static and exegetic approaches to theorizing that h...

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"Playing with Social Theory" is out!

We explore teaching social theory through play—freestyle dance, writing fictional histories, and live gender performance in the classroom.

me + @josiahlulham.bsky.social + @ftcpervan.bsky.social + will arpke-wales

Link below!

doi.org/10.1177/0092...

Thanks Jess – hard to say at this stage. The QLD and Federal reviews do seem quite different, and the Fed's public messaging has been careful. If I’m optimistic, I’d hope it helps legitimise and expand access, and the NHMRC seems the right body for that. But the UK’s situation makes me cautious.

The future of gender-affirming care - ABC listen They make up a relatively small proportion of the population, yet their most private struggle is in the political spotlight -- again -- trans and gender diverse young people.  The timing of this Aust...

It was a pleasure to speak on ABC Radio National this morning about the national review of gender-affirming care for trans and gender-diverse young people and the significant legal scrutiny it has already faced.

📻 Listen below!

Can a child legally take puberty blockers? What if their parents disagree? Recent political attention might imply gender-affirming care is risky, controversial, perhaps even new. But Australian law views it as a legitimate medical treatment.

Following QLD’s pause on puberty blockers and the federal gov’s new review into healthcare for trans youth, a quick piece from me on why gender-affirming care is already one of the most intensely regulated medical practices in Australia—and why we don’t need yet another review into its legitimacy.