Category Archives: Vilification

Reflection: ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’ Symposium

by Managing Editor Posted on October 29, 2025

In this blog, authors Eli Branagh and Taylah Evans discuss their experience hosting ‘Thinking Beyond Liberal Narratives of Progress’, a one-day symposium held in response to the recently published Personal Politics: The Remaking of Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship (2024). In … Continue reading →

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Camp Names and Vernacular: Queensland’s Lavender Language

by Managing Editor Posted on July 30, 2025

In this blog, prominent LGBTQIA+ Rights Activist Bill Rutkin (OAM) and Contributing Editor Michael Stockwell explore how homosexual men living in Queensland during the Bjelke-Petersen era used lavender language to circumvent public and political vilification. Homosexuality: Bjelke-Petersen’s Convenient Scapegoat “I … Continue reading →

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“Production-line baby-killing centres”: Vilification of Abortion in Queensland’s Recent History

by Managing Editor Posted on April 22, 2025

In this blog, Cassandra Byrnes discusses Queensland’s historic use of the vilification of abortion as a political tool to support conservative values. On a global scale, we have seen how abortion is a contentious issue in the United States, particularly … Continue reading →

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Unreal and untrue: Refrigerator mother theory and the historic vilification of the mothers of disabled children

by Managing Editor Posted on March 19, 2025

In this blog Dr Kate McAnelly explores the underpinnings of refrigerator mother theory and how it was incorrectly used to blame and vilify mothers as being the cause of their children’s autism. Motherhood in and of itself has long been … Continue reading →

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“Vilification”

by Managing Editor Posted on March 10, 2025

VIDA editorial assistant and PhD candidate Michael Stockwell introduces a new blog series exploring historical and contemporary experiences of vilification through gender, sexual orientation and roles associated with them. Vilification, Scapegoats and Silence Vilification is a long held, unfortunate paradigm … Continue reading →

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