Zora Simic
@zorasimic.bsky.social
Lurking for now, but getting ready to roll
Lea Ypi's new book Indignity: A Life Reimagined was inspired by her discovery of the photograph below of her grandparents on their honeymoon. I reviewed the book for @insidestory.bsky.social
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Finding the right words • Inside Story
Accusations that her grandmother was a communist spy or a fascist collaborator — or both — sent Lea Ypi back to Albania and into her own imagination
insidestory.org.au
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Lea Ypi's new book Indignity: A Life Reimagined was inspired by her discovery of the photograph below of her grandparents on their honeymoon. I reviewed the book for @insidestory.bsky.social
insidestory.org.au/finding-the-...
insidestory.org.au/finding-the-...
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The last time I heard anything about Graham Richardson was how he was fighting against the inclusion of girls at Cranbrook- one of Australia’s most expensive & exclusive schools and the place he sent his son.
Such a Labor man
Such a Labor man
November 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The last time I heard anything about Graham Richardson was how he was fighting against the inclusion of girls at Cranbrook- one of Australia’s most expensive & exclusive schools and the place he sent his son.
Such a Labor man
Such a Labor man
A rich tribute to Ali Kazak who fought so hard for a Free Palestine, linking it to and in tandem with others, esp First Nations
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A tribute to Ali Kazak
I had the privilege, together with the late Frans Timmerman, of working with Ali a good deal from the mid-1970s till the mid-1990s in producing the newspaper/magazine Free Palestine, and as national s...
johnmenadue.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
A rich tribute to Ali Kazak who fought so hard for a Free Palestine, linking it to and in tandem with others, esp First Nations
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social reviews ‘Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism, and the Archive’, by Anthea Taylor
Published by Routledge
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Published by Routledge
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November 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social reviews ‘Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism, and the Archive’, by Anthea Taylor
Published by Routledge
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Published by Routledge
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
School of Humanities & Languages #unsw is hiring TWO postdoctoral fellows in history! 2 years fixed term, open to different specialisations. Deadline is Nov 2
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
Postdoctoral Fellow in History
Undertake independent research and contribute to UNSW’s vibrant History program as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in any area of historical study.
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au
October 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
School of Humanities & Languages #unsw is hiring TWO postdoctoral fellows in history! 2 years fixed term, open to different specialisations. Deadline is Nov 2
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
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I am so happy to announce that my first peer-reviewed research paper is finally out! It is open access, so please have a read and let me know your thoughts!
Thank you so much to the lovely people at Australian Feminist Studies.
doi.org/10.1080/0816...
#AcademicSky #FeministSky #queeracademia
Thank you so much to the lovely people at Australian Feminist Studies.
doi.org/10.1080/0816...
#AcademicSky #FeministSky #queeracademia
Roberta Perkins: Sex Work, Feminism, and the Dawn of Transgender Activism in 1980s Australia
In the 1980s, Australia witnessed the rise of its first transgender advocacy organisations. The most radical and pathbreaking of these was the Sydney-based Australian Transsexual Association (ATA)....
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October 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I am so happy to announce that my first peer-reviewed research paper is finally out! It is open access, so please have a read and let me know your thoughts!
Thank you so much to the lovely people at Australian Feminist Studies.
doi.org/10.1080/0816...
#AcademicSky #FeministSky #queeracademia
Thank you so much to the lovely people at Australian Feminist Studies.
doi.org/10.1080/0816...
#AcademicSky #FeministSky #queeracademia
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Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”
October 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”
With thanks to @aunz.theconversation.com for encouraging me to write about two extraordinary memoirs
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Friday essay: trauma memoirs can help us understand the unthinkable. They can also be art
Sad Tiger and Trauma Plot are two stunning memoirs by rape survivors who immerse themselves in art and literature. They both transcend ‘art as therapy’.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
With thanks to @aunz.theconversation.com for encouraging me to write about two extraordinary memoirs
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
Diana Buttu, Inès Abdel Razek, and Yara Hawari discuss what 'does it mean to recognize a Palestinian state, on paper, while leaving intact the structures of occupation, apartheid, and the genocidal regime that sustains them?' - a must-read explainer
al-shabaka.org/roundtables/...
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Statehood Without Liberation: Europe’s Response to Genocide | Al-Shabaka
Why now? What political or strategic interests are driving this wave of recognition? And what does it mean to recognize a Palestinian state
al-shabaka.org
September 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Diana Buttu, Inès Abdel Razek, and Yara Hawari discuss what 'does it mean to recognize a Palestinian state, on paper, while leaving intact the structures of occupation, apartheid, and the genocidal regime that sustains them?' - a must-read explainer
al-shabaka.org/roundtables/...
al-shabaka.org/roundtables/...
New review from me of 'Sweet Nothings' by Madison Griffiths for @insidestory.bsky.social
inside.org.au/a-curiosity-...
inside.org.au/a-curiosity-...
A curiosity worth sweating over • Zora Simic
Can relationships between academics and their students be defended?
inside.org.au
September 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
New review from me of 'Sweet Nothings' by Madison Griffiths for @insidestory.bsky.social
inside.org.au/a-curiosity-...
inside.org.au/a-curiosity-...
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It should not be possible to be this wrong
September 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
It should not be possible to be this wrong
Terrific piece by @shakirahussein.bsky.social , full of grab quotes, but best read the whole thing.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/15/i...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/15/i...
You get an envoy! And you get an envoy! Islamaphobia report shows envoys are not the answer to combatting racism
The landmark report on Islamophobia in Australia attributes little significance to a major Islamophobic hate crime committed on this country's doorstep by one of its citizens.
www.crikey.com.au
September 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Terrific piece by @shakirahussein.bsky.social , full of grab quotes, but best read the whole thing.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/15/i...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/15/i...
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⚡️Hannah Einbinder on saying "Free Palestine" in her Emmys acceptance speech:
"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture…is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."
"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture…is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."
September 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
⚡️Hannah Einbinder on saying "Free Palestine" in her Emmys acceptance speech:
"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture…is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."
"It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture…is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."
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Melbourne poet Pi-O performs a poem at the Save Meanjin rally this morning
September 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Melbourne poet Pi-O performs a poem at the Save Meanjin rally this morning
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People in Melbourne, get along to the rally at 9am tomorrow (Thursday 11 September) on the footpath outside Melbourne University Press (715 Swanston Street, Carlton) to demand that Meanjin be saved. (I'll be there in spirit)
September 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
People in Melbourne, get along to the rally at 9am tomorrow (Thursday 11 September) on the footpath outside Melbourne University Press (715 Swanston Street, Carlton) to demand that Meanjin be saved. (I'll be there in spirit)
Finally upgraded to a paid sub to @cormacmccafe.bsky.social's Yeah Nah substack after reading this take-no-prisoners rant about the murder of Meanjin.
Meanjin’s Murder is Bullshit and Shameful
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Meanjin’s Murder is Bullshit and Shameful
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Meanjin’s Murder is Bullshit and Shameful
MUP are dipshits and Mark Leibler is a Cunt
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September 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Finally upgraded to a paid sub to @cormacmccafe.bsky.social's Yeah Nah substack after reading this take-no-prisoners rant about the murder of Meanjin.
Meanjin’s Murder is Bullshit and Shameful
open.substack.com/pub/yeahnah/...
Meanjin’s Murder is Bullshit and Shameful
open.substack.com/pub/yeahnah/...
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I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture
Opinion | Melbourne University Press says it shut down Meanjin for "purely financial reasons". Perhaps the university could have used some of its $273 million surplus to safeguard the seminal journal, @catrionamp.bsky.social writes.
Meanjin's 'financial' shutdown doesn't add up
www.crikey.com.au
September 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture
The final article from our special section of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social is out!
Important work from Catherine Kevin.
Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia
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Important work from Catherine Kevin.
Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia
Reproductive coercion refers to the obstruction of a person’s reproductive autonomy by interfering in decision-making related to contraception or termination of pregnancy. The term emerged in the 2...
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September 8, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The final article from our special section of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social is out!
Important work from Catherine Kevin.
Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Important work from Catherine Kevin.
Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The government and public institutions, along with traditional media companies, have totally abandoned arts journalism. Surely there some non-Zionist arts patrons who understand the importance of this stuff. Get in touch!! Would love to make arts and culture the next pillar of what we are building!
September 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM
The government and public institutions, along with traditional media companies, have totally abandoned arts journalism. Surely there some non-Zionist arts patrons who understand the importance of this stuff. Get in touch!! Would love to make arts and culture the next pillar of what we are building!
Is your Mayor at this summit? Will they come back and ban the wearing of the keffiyeh? Has the envoy against antisemitism said anything about neo-Nazis yet?
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Watermelons deemed an antisemitic symbol at pro-Israel mayoral summit
A leaflet shared at Gold Coast summit includes a bizarre list of 'antisemitic' items
www.deepcutnews.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Is your Mayor at this summit? Will they come back and ban the wearing of the keffiyeh? Has the envoy against antisemitism said anything about neo-Nazis yet?
www.deepcutnews.com/p/watermelon...
www.deepcutnews.com/p/watermelon...
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Please sign this very pointed Open Letter to the VC of Melbourne University about the closure of Meanjin.
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An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin
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September 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Please sign this very pointed Open Letter to the VC of Melbourne University about the closure of Meanjin.
openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
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Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.
September 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.
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What’s the real reason it’s being shut down?
It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance?
This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.
It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance?
This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.
Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing
Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.
www.crikey.com.au
September 4, 2025 at 1:34 AM
What’s the real reason it’s being shut down?
It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance?
This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.
It sure ain’t a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
Did the university council not like what it had been publishing, per chance?
This was one of the handful of publications in Aus that published Randa Abdel-Fattah or Max Kaiser.