Zora

Historian (sort of); Gender Studies (sometimes); Reviewer (often); Wog Westie Feminist; She/ Her; works at @UNSW 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[Dr. Steve Cube 🇵🇸 @MildCuthbert]

Every Australian rock band is called Todd Wongo and the Bongo Drongos or something like Drunk Mum and it's three double-denimed private school graduates in chuck taylor's and all their songs are called "Smoko at the Bowlo" or "TAB Cunt." Chris Bowen is their biggest fan.

[Klonopin Centaur @facetedcarapace]

Slightly relieved Ed Sheeran didn't stand his ground or have any principals so I did not have to develop begrudging respect for a guy who makes Hallmark channel music for your most lobotomized coworkers

[Zora @ZoraSimic]

Restore Integrity at UOW: Council Must Resign or Be Removed - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/O6wZZMopgl via @ChangeAUS

[Nick Riemer @NickRiemer1]

A snapshot of the intimidation Israel critics are under on campuses. Solidarity with @jumanabayeh.

Macquarie academic claims she was threatened, followed after criticising Israel https://t.co/mcsY9THM9x

[Larissa Waters @larissawaters]

Laws to strip women of abortion rights in SA were defeated last night, due to the tireless work of advocates fighting to protect access to healthcare.

But it was shameful to see Labor Premier Malinauskas vote alongside right-wing MPs to trample abortion access.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Hanson says we can't have social cohesion if people speak another language.

Millions of Australians are proudly bilingual, raising kids knowing many languages while contributing to the country.

Speaking Mandarin or Arabic at the dinner table never hurt anyone. Her speech did.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

silly email Outlook has a service that calls itself Copilot which will "summarize" a one-line email for you, to save you the effort of reading a one-line email from a person.

[Zora @ZoraSimic]

Thanks to @auswhn for the opportunity to honour Kay Saunders, a truly brilliant person and historian who will be much missed

Remembering Kay Saunders (1947-2026) | Australian Women's History NetworkAustralian Women's History Network https://t.co/5eaLGe1YaO

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

"So far this year 34 women have been killed by their partners"

"Budget found $604m for antisemitism .. found nothing to increase domestic violence services"

Andrew Brown on the silence. Part 1
#auspol

https://t.co/wgAY7idRlL

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

‘Besides her extensive personal experience dealing with far-right antisemitism — including being doxxed in neo-Nazi chat groups — Silverstein emphasised in her evidence that “the majority of the antisemitism [she has] experienced has come from Jewish Zionists”.
“While I have a PhD in Jewish history, it has repeatedly been made clear to me that I will never be employed in a Jewish Studies department in Australia because I and my work are anti-Zionist,” Silverstein’s evidence stated. “I have also been targeted on social media by Jewish people who discuss me as being a ‘traitor to Jews’, as ‘self-hating’, and so on.”
Examples of such targeting featured in Silverstein’s report include a Melbourne rabbi accusing her of “adopting a narrative of those who hate us”; a prominent Melbourne lawyer describing her on social media as “a token self-hating Jew”; a pro-Zionist Instagram account depicting her and other anti-Zionist Jews as rats and comparing them to Nazi collaborators; and abusive emails labelling her “kapo shit” and wondering why her family did not die in the Holocaust.
While many of the witnesses before the Commission have routinely conflated antisemitism with support for Palestinians and opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Silverstein noted in her report that, “I have never experienced antisemitism from proponents of the [pro-Palestine] movement throughout the course of my extensive, decades-long, professional and personal involvement in the Palestine solidarity movement and in researching histories of Palestinians in Australia”.’

https://t.co/6szpHrlePs

[Deepcut News @deepcutnews]

Jewish anti-Zionist groups have revealed the shocking antisemitic abuse that the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion declined to hear in its public hearings.

https://t.co/InDZiu90go

[yosoymario @yosoymario91]

Average balkan diet is like

Breakfast: coffee and cigarette
Lunch: coffee and cigarette
Dinner: 2kg grilled meat, bread, baklava, 2 liters of rakija from a coca cola bottle with a sprite cap

Life expectancy: 90 years

[Zora @ZoraSimic]

@MichelleArrow1 @SCrozierDeRosa @catherinekevin5 Big thanks to you and Sharon for making it happen Michelle!

[Zora @ZoraSimic]

V. honoured to be in this truly exciting AHS special issue on IWY, ed. by ⁦@MichelleArrow1⁩& @SCrozierDeRosa. My article co-authored w @catherinekevin5 is open access as are several others.

Australian Historical Studies: Vol 57, No 2 https://t.co/Dn9Kl2B7Iz

[Zora @ZoraSimic]

Full article: ‘We Marched in the Streets One Day, Wrote Submissions the Next’: Feminism, Domestic Violence and International Women’s Year https://t.co/IYFYTWb80a

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Academics should not read for pleasure. Do heart surgeons operate for pleasure? Do engineers build rockets? Reading is an arduous calling, not a hobby

[australian kitsch 🦘 @OzKitsch]

Hoo roo and happy 100th birthday David Attenborough

[Tom Zohar @TomZohar]

Proud mom posing with her son who is still in costume after his performance in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at his high school

[Zora @ZoraSimic]

Please sign to help save Sydney's Radio 2SER!
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[Zora @ZoraSimic]

Back on the beat for @insidestorymag reviewing Gisèle Pelicot's powerful memoir & 'Living With Men' by Manon Garcia

https://t.co/WM8jAatdzy