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Zora Simic
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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d
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.”
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · 5d
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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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · 8d
Overhead projectors and slides - fun times!
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · 8d
We didn't know how good we had it! At least pre 1996..
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · 16d
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

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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
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · 19d
New review from me of 'Sweet Nothings' by Madison Griffiths for @insidestory.bsky.social

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A curiosity worth sweating over • Zora Simic
Can relationships between academics and their students be defended?
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19d
It should not be possible to be this wrong
WorldNorth AmericaTrump's America Opinion Kimmel missed the point: In America, the left and right have become one Waleed Aly Columnist, author and academic
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · 22d
Terrific piece by @shakirahussein.bsky.social , full of grab quotes, but best read the whole thing.

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.
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Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 23d
Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!"

(via @Variety)
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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 23d
⚡️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."
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 27d
Melbourne poet Pi-O performs a poem at the Save Meanjin rally this morning
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28d
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)
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James Ley @jamesley.bsky.social · 28d
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Save Meanjin
Save Meanjin from closure
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · 29d
Love your work! And your swearing.
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · 29d
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
MUP are dipshits and Mark Leibler is a Cunt
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Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social · Sep 8
I wrote for Crikey about the decision to shut Meanjin down - and to sever a connection to a hopeful progressive vision of Australian culture
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · Sep 8
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
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · Sep 8
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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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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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · Sep 5
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!
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · Sep 5
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
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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · Sep 4
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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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · Sep 4
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.
The Egg, a cricket trophy awarded to the winners of Overland vs Meanjin matches, alongside a copy of Jim Davidson's Emperor in Lilliput, the book about magazine founding editors Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · Sep 4
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.
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.
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Claire G. Coleman @clairegcoleman.bsky.social · Sep 4
Meanjin Journal is 85 years old; older than the Sydney Opera House. Closing it down is cultural vandalism of the highest order, roughly equivalent to demolishing the above mentioned opera house.

I am disgusted

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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
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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · Sep 4
This sucks. One of Australia's richest universities has shut down a priceless cultural platform.

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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
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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · Sep 2
A man that split a woman's head open yesterday, for asking them to just please leave, walked up to a Woman Premier and threatened them and he is still walking around.
A 11 year old Aboriginal girl has been in an adult jail for 4 months for shoplifting.
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