Essays and Criticism

Yves Rees, “Poetry, parties and ‘strong Australian tea’. The surprising story of how Anzac Day has been marked in the US for over 100 years,” The Conversation, 24 April 2024.

“The best books of 2023,” The Age, 9 December 2023.

Yves Rees, “Acknowledgements, mon amour,” Griffith Review, 6 December 2023.

“Books of the Year,” Australian Book Review, no. 460, December 2023.

Yves Rees, “A time of transness,” Australian Book Review, no. 458, October 2023.

Yves Rees, “Hidden women of history: disabled Australian author Dorothy Cottrell was ‘the Liane Moriarty of the Jazz Age’ but is almost unheard of here,” The Conversation, 20 September 2023.

Yves Rees, “Elliot Page’s defiant memoir burns with the fury of the long silenced,” Sydney Morning Herald, 22 June 2023.

Yves Rees, “Voice Notes,” in Portrait23: Identity, edited by Penelope Grist and Rebecca Ray (National Portrait Gallery, 2023), pp. 197-201.

Yves Rees, “All Ages,” The Big Issue, 17 February 2023, pp. 18-19.

Yves Rees, “Queer togetherness and joy online,” Archer, 20 January 2023.

“Books of the Year,” Australian Book Review, no. 449, December 2022.

Yves Rees interviews Jeff Sparrow about Crimes Against Nature (2021), Australian Policy and History, 3 November 2022.

Yves Rees, “The fight for the white stuff: the ongoing machinations of the milk wars,” Griffith Review 78: A Matter of Taste, November 2022, pp. 115-26.

Yves Rees, “Honour Your Joy,” Melbourne Writers Festival Blog, 13 September 2022.

Yves Rees, “Akwaeke Emezi’s revolutionary imagination,” Overland, 5 September 2022.

Yves Rees, “The book that changed me: how Priya Satia’s Time’s Monster landed like a bomb in my historian’s brain,” The Conversation, 22 June 2022.

Yves Rees, “Adventures in the New Sobriety,” Meanjin, Winter 2022, pp. 100-109.

Yves Rees, “Australia in Three Books,” Meanjin, Summer 2021.

Yves Rees, “Self-Portrait,” Openbook, Summer 2021-22.

“Books of the Year,” Australian Book Review, no. 438, December 2021.

Yves Rees, “The pains of inheritance: a new history of trans Britain,” Australian Book Review, no. 438, December 2021.

Yves Rees, “Archer Asks: SJ Norman, author of Permafrost,” Archer, 2 December 2021.

Yves Rees, “Beyond Binary,” Sunday Life liftout in Sunday Age, 24 October 2021.

Yves Rees, “Detransition, Baby,” Overland, no. 342, 2021, pp. 38-43.

Yves Rees, “Anzac Day,” Kill Your Darlings, 10 September 2021.

Yves Rees, “What Counts,” Sydney Review of Books, 9 September 2021.

Yves Rees, “Airwave feminism: a history of women broadcasters,” Australian Book Review, no. 435, September 2021.

Yves Rees, “My experience as trans person doesn’t fit the script, but why should it?” Guardian Australia, 31 August 2021.

Yves Rees, “Notes from a transition: the diagnosis game,” BroadAgenda, 30 August 2021. (Republished in HerCanberra.)

Yves Rees, “It never fails to sting when I get call she, or even he, instead of they,” 9Honey, 29 August 2021.

Yves Rees and Pema Bakshi, “Ally Etiquette: 28 Gender Identity Terms Everyone Should Know,” Refinery29, 27 July 2021.

Yves Rees, “When Trans Visibility Comes at the Cost of Trans Safety,” Junkee, 31 March 2021.

Yves Rees, “Debate on transgender ‘issue’ has one thing missing,” The Age, 8 December 2020.

Yves Rees, “Blondie,” Darebin Unsettled exhibition, December 2020.

“Books of the Year,” Australian Book Review, December 2020, no. 427.

Yves Rees, “Storying the Suffragists,” Sydney Review of Books, 5 November 2020.

Yves Rees, “What I’m Reading,” Meanjin, 4 November 2020.

Yves Rees, “Misadventures in Menswear,” Archer Magazine, no. 14, GROWING UP issue, 2020.

Yves Rees, “Secret Feminist Agenda — a treasured item in my ‘feminist killjoy survival kit’,” The Conversation, 19 August 2020.

Yves Rees, “Reading the Mess Backwards,” Australian Book Review, June-July 2020, no. 422, 36-39. [Winner of 2020 Calibre Essay Prize]

Yves Rees, “Letting go: a riotous reimagining of the trans memoir,” Inside Story, 10 June 2020.

Yves Rees, “Friday essay: The Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism,” The Conversation, 22 May 2020.

Yves Rees, “Remembrance of trans past: a history that misses the mark,” Australian Book Review, May 2020, no. 421, 52-53.

Yves Rees, “Writing trans and gender-diverse lives,” Australian Book Review, March 2020, no. 419, 54-55.

Carla Pascoe Leahy, Andrea Gaynor, Ruth Morgan, Yves Rees and Daniel May, “Working paper on sustainable history: the responsibilities of academic historians in a climate-impacted world,” May 2020.

Yves Rees, “The League of Nations was formed 100 years ago today. Meet the Australian women who lobbied to join it,” The Conversation, 10 January 2020.

Yves Rees, “Blood will Tell,” Archer Magazine, 26 November 2019.

Yves Rees, “Who’s afraid of transgender cricket?” Overland, 22 August 2019.

Yves Rees, “Trans and gender diverse inclusion in academia; or, why we need to get better at pronouns,” Australian Historical Association ECR Blog, 20 May 2019.

Contributor, “A Conversation About Casualisation,” Australian Historical Association ECR Blog, 3 May 2019.

Anne Rees, “The pioneering envoy who ‘waged war’ on Canberra,” Inside Story, 7 March 2019.   

Anne Rees, “An Australian in silent Hollywood,” Inside Story, 8 March 2019.   

Anne Rees, “Isabel Letham, daring Australian surf pioneer,” The Conversation, 25 February 2019.

“Ask an Americanist: Dr Yves Rees,” Australian & NZ American Studies Association Blog, 26 November 2018.

Katherine Ellinghaus, Nikki Henningham, Andy Kaladelfos, Alana Piper, Laura Rademaker, Anne Rees, Jordana Silverstein, Mary Tomsic, Naomi Wolfe, “Sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination ‘rife’ among Australian academics,” The Conversation, 2 July 2018.

Anne Rees, “The Australian women expats who found liberation in the US,” ABC Online, 14 June 2018.

Anne Rees, “US once locked up white Australian immigrants in ‘horror’ camps akin to Manus and Nauru,” The Guardian, 20 November 2017. 

Anne Rees, “When the US locked up white Australian immigrants like Australia does to asylum seekers,” The Conversation, 20 November 2017.

Anne Rees, “Meet the woman who can lay claim to being Australia’s first female judge,” The Conversation, 24 August 2017. 

Anne Rees, “Persia Campbell, our woman at the UN,” Australian Women’s History Network Blog, 15 March 2017. 

Anne Rees, “How women historians smashed the glass ceiling,” The Conversation, 19 October 2016.

Anne Rees, “A different view of women: Mentors, Australian women professionals and the United States,” Australian Women’s History Network Blog, 29 September 2016.