Lauren Pikó
@booklearning.bsky.social
Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com
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Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi-clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, hi....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
New open access article by @evansmithhist.bsky.social and myself, looking at patterns in membership application data of the National Front of Australia:
Where did you get this picture of me reading ASIO data
February 11, 2026 at 10:17 AM
Where did you get this picture of me reading ASIO data
being unblessed with your skills of being coherent and calm in the face of massive levels of nonsense, I have chosen a path of just yelling instead (much less constructive I fear)
February 11, 2026 at 2:03 AM
being unblessed with your skills of being coherent and calm in the face of massive levels of nonsense, I have chosen a path of just yelling instead (much less constructive I fear)
Just saw that the link fell off that post, here's the full article:
Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
Us and Them: Disability Ethics, Oral History and Inclusive Praxis in the Reuse of Asylum Photography
www.cambridge.org
February 11, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Just saw that the link fell off that post, here's the full article:
Further proving that the citations that are most personally significant are those that don't "count" conventionally, have just seen that a podcast episode featuring some guy I know was mentioned in a wonderful @royalhistsoc.org paper from last year:
February 11, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Further proving that the citations that are most personally significant are those that don't "count" conventionally, have just seen that a podcast episode featuring some guy I know was mentioned in a wonderful @royalhistsoc.org paper from last year:
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It’s often assumed the far right recruits from ‘white working class’ and there’s surprise some have ‘normal’ middle class jobs. @booklearning.bsky.social and I looked at who applied to join an Australian far right group in 1970s-80s to test this assumption.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 10, 2026 at 12:04 AM
It’s often assumed the far right recruits from ‘white working class’ and there’s surprise some have ‘normal’ middle class jobs. @booklearning.bsky.social and I looked at who applied to join an Australian far right group in 1970s-80s to test this assumption.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Thanks for sharing this. I have been (typically slowly) chipping away on something on historical knowledge produced by non-walking bodies, and this piece was refreshing in that it didn't lapse into the common walking-fetishism that does a real number on my blood pressure
February 10, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Thanks for sharing this. I have been (typically slowly) chipping away on something on historical knowledge produced by non-walking bodies, and this piece was refreshing in that it didn't lapse into the common walking-fetishism that does a real number on my blood pressure
Reposted by Lauren Pikó
A long time in the making, @booklearning.bsky.social and I have published this article in AJPH on exploring the question of who joins far right political groups, using membership application forms for the National Front of Australia in the 1970s-80s. 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi-clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, hi....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM
A long time in the making, @booklearning.bsky.social and I have published this article in AJPH on exploring the question of who joins far right political groups, using membership application forms for the National Front of Australia in the 1970s-80s. 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New open access article by @evansmithhist.bsky.social and myself, looking at patterns in membership application data of the National Front of Australia:
Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi-clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, hi....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:09 AM
New open access article by @evansmithhist.bsky.social and myself, looking at patterns in membership application data of the National Front of Australia:
Reposted by Lauren Pikó
Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...
Disabled and academic: a collaborative autoethnography on ableism and cruel optimism within Australian higher education
Universities are celebrated as bastions of teaching, knowledge and research excellence, but they can pose risks to staff psychosocial safety and wellbeing. In Australia and elsewhere, we are increa...
doi.org
February 6, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...
This mad eme cry in a very good way Liz, thank you and your comrades for sharing so beautifully. Also even as much as I couldn't hang in there, I am glad you are still sticking it to them 💕
February 8, 2026 at 7:00 AM
This mad eme cry in a very good way Liz, thank you and your comrades for sharing so beautifully. Also even as much as I couldn't hang in there, I am glad you are still sticking it to them 💕
I fully endorse this approach, for whatever that's worth
February 3, 2026 at 6:24 AM
I fully endorse this approach, for whatever that's worth
Unexpectedly seeing your name on the feed amongst a stellar lineup rules.
My piece with @drdrehistorian.bsky.social in here is maybe frozen in 2021 in some ways but I will forever stand by the underlying principle that history as a discipline has a real problem with embodiment it won't face up to.
My piece with @drdrehistorian.bsky.social in here is maybe frozen in 2021 in some ways but I will forever stand by the underlying principle that history as a discipline has a real problem with embodiment it won't face up to.
Grab a ☕ and revisit a History Australia Collection!
History in practice: Trove Special Section.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...
Eight great articles from 18(4) 2021.
History in practice: Trove Special Section.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rah...
Eight great articles from 18(4) 2021.
February 3, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Unexpectedly seeing your name on the feed amongst a stellar lineup rules.
My piece with @drdrehistorian.bsky.social in here is maybe frozen in 2021 in some ways but I will forever stand by the underlying principle that history as a discipline has a real problem with embodiment it won't face up to.
My piece with @drdrehistorian.bsky.social in here is maybe frozen in 2021 in some ways but I will forever stand by the underlying principle that history as a discipline has a real problem with embodiment it won't face up to.
Coordinating the fountain pen to the drink is absolute next level class ❤️
February 3, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Coordinating the fountain pen to the drink is absolute next level class ❤️
Oh man, too real. If I look too deeply into the comparison of lapsed Catholicism / lapsed academia, my soul will truly implode
January 25, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Oh man, too real. If I look too deeply into the comparison of lapsed Catholicism / lapsed academia, my soul will truly implode
In job interviews I have also described myself as a "travelling salesman for qualitative research" which is only 20% tongue-in-cheek
January 25, 2026 at 11:10 AM
In job interviews I have also described myself as a "travelling salesman for qualitative research" which is only 20% tongue-in-cheek
In fancier contexts I use "independent scholar" as it's consistent with what journals want you to use as your affiliation, but I have been semi-jokingly using "recovering historian" in daily life
January 25, 2026 at 11:09 AM
In fancier contexts I use "independent scholar" as it's consistent with what journals want you to use as your affiliation, but I have been semi-jokingly using "recovering historian" in daily life
Solidarity, and I wholly agree -- it's been truly fascinating and very instructive to observe how people respond when they hear about my parents. The topic becomes a mirror where you see what behaviour people are prepared to accept, and how they define what's "normal".
January 24, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Solidarity, and I wholly agree -- it's been truly fascinating and very instructive to observe how people respond when they hear about my parents. The topic becomes a mirror where you see what behaviour people are prepared to accept, and how they define what's "normal".
This rules Liz! One I will absolute come back to
January 23, 2026 at 7:02 AM
This rules Liz! One I will absolute come back to
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I also have something really nice to share, the first article from our hi vis workwear and workers project is out — a collaboration with Jesse Adams Stein and Bettina Frankham, all from the Faculty of Design & Society at @utsengage.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 23, 2026 at 4:21 AM
I also have something really nice to share, the first article from our hi vis workwear and workers project is out — a collaboration with Jesse Adams Stein and Bettina Frankham, all from the Faculty of Design & Society at @utsengage.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Yes, we are lucky to have small strange friends! Even regularly getting the shit scared out of me by a random tawny frogmouth who likes to hang out near my bins is a form of delight
January 23, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Yes, we are lucky to have small strange friends! Even regularly getting the shit scared out of me by a random tawny frogmouth who likes to hang out near my bins is a form of delight
Recent experience of an extremely loud flock of black cockatoos deciding in unison to interrupt a funeral; universally experienced by attendees as a heartening moment. Birds are little comrades even when screechy
January 23, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Recent experience of an extremely loud flock of black cockatoos deciding in unison to interrupt a funeral; universally experienced by attendees as a heartening moment. Birds are little comrades even when screechy
The devil on my shoulder usually agrees! I think I'm probably tedious enough as it is though :)
January 21, 2026 at 4:41 AM
The devil on my shoulder usually agrees! I think I'm probably tedious enough as it is though :)
Why prevent, or why mention? Tbh I think part of my brain is constantly scanning life for connection to my boy Tony*, but trying to practice not derailing unrelated conversations with non-academics
*I can only assume he is haunting me for calling him this
*I can only assume he is haunting me for calling him this
January 21, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Why prevent, or why mention? Tbh I think part of my brain is constantly scanning life for connection to my boy Tony*, but trying to practice not derailing unrelated conversations with non-academics
*I can only assume he is haunting me for calling him this
*I can only assume he is haunting me for calling him this
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I have done this in the past and I really should do it more. I am working my way through some very theoretical stuff at the moment so might send off a few emails to the authors who have helped me think through it.
January 20, 2026 at 3:16 AM
I have done this in the past and I really should do it more. I am working my way through some very theoretical stuff at the moment so might send off a few emails to the authors who have helped me think through it.