Suzanne Hevey
Compassion. Bravery. Curiosity. Fun.
Second Prize Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Comp 2025, longlisted The Four Faced Liar 2025 Short Story Comp.
Writer. Grower of orgs for better futures. Media + Journalism. Mama.
- So genocide: Yeah! Children's Hospital for its victims: Nah. As bad as having Dutton would've been. Disgraceful @senatorwong.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social honestly don't know how you sleep at night any more. Never been more ashamed of our country. open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
- Hope. Act. Hope. Act. Hope. Act. Cry, deep breath, scream into void, then go again. Much as it goes against my nature to say it: there’s no more time for our despondency.
- Would you join the flotilla? It looks terrifying... however... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Israeli Government now paying for ads on google when you search ‘global sumud flotilla’. Report.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyIt began with crowd size.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyThe chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court obtained arrest warrants against Israeli leaders for war crimes. He also faces charges of sexual misconduct. The two issues have become entangled.
- @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social where are you?
- What courage looks like.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyThe silencing continues... The National Press Club of Australia, caving to the Israel lobby, Cancels My Talk on Our Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
- If the National Press Club is silencing journalists rather than loudly and bravely denouncing the attacks on~and murder of~them, and amplifying their voices, then what’s the point of it? Shame on you NPC.
- Send an email to your government in seconds to demand the release of civilians attempting to deliver aid on the Global Sumud Flotilla and for an end to supporting the Genocide in Palestine. globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...
- @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social Richard Marles: What will it take to stop enabling this? However you frame it, Australian's don't want to look back and say they enabled these horrors.
- “Where in the world is this allowed to happen?” From on the ground in Gaza, UNICEF Spokesman James Elder tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the worst things he’s seen — including children targeted by quadcopters and shot at American aid sites. Watch: zeteo.com/p/unicef-gaz...
- "Who around the world allows this to happen?" ~A mother next to her child who had been shot. Whatever action you can take: take it. Only light can drive out darkness and your action is light, however small. All our tiny candles can bring an end to this unimaginable darkness. They must.
- Reposted by Suzanne Hevey“It’s been engineered, [the famine in Gaza is] absolutely preventable...” Unicef Spokesperson James Elder joined @mehdirhasan.bsky.social to discuss the ‘man-made’ famine in Gaza and how humanitarian efforts are exceedingly difficult with Israel’s constant bombardment. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/unicef-gaz...
- Reposted by Suzanne Hevey“Where in the world is this allowed to happen?” From on the ground in Gaza, UNICEF Spokesman James Elder tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the worst things he’s seen — including children targeted by quadcopters and shot at American aid sites. Watch: zeteo.com/p/unicef-gaz...
- If we all do a little, it can mean a lot. I *know* we can feel useless and powerless from far away. Don't let that futillity get in the way of taking whatever small action you can. 💛🕊️
- The last one... www.youtube.com/live/U4KG_oi...
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyBREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyThe Global Sumud Flotilla seemingly breached Israel’s blockade of Gaza while provoking an Israeli response that triggered anger and reprisals from various governments. It’s one of the most successful acts of civil disobedience in recent history. jacobin.com/2025/10/sumu...
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyI always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...
- This is smart policy for the environment, for health, and for the animals. Secondarily, benefits for the economy in saved healthcare costs alone (likely the fastest benefits to be realised) will be hugely rewarding
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyJesse Watters just called for the bombing of the UN on national television. FCC? Nothing? Crickets? Got it.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveySame goes for public schools, colleges, and universities.
- the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
- And in good-er news:
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyI really do recommend writing poetry, because if you write it (even if you aren't satisfied with your own poems as: whom amongst us) you will start to _read_ other people's poetry with more excitement and focus and appreciation, and that is a joy.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyAFL and NRL grand finals bring celebration, but also alarming spikes in domestic and family violence across Australia. womensagenda.com.au/latest/austr...
- Reposted by Suzanne Heveythis absolute tour de force is the only article you and everyone you know needs to read today. theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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- This weekend will deliver more violent attacks than normal (which is saying something) to many Australian women in their own homes. Structural, systemic + generational changes matter. But for this weekend? Check in. Don't stay silent. Call for help.
- Stopping family violence means governments, communities and men working together to change behaviours and build respect every day, writes Natalie Hutchins. womensagenda.com.au/latest/grand...
- Free speech challenged. People kidnapped from their homes + workplaces then disappeared. '24 campaign near promised an authoritarian regime: ‘You won’t have to vote any more’. Was international coverage clearer on this than domestic? Post RBG death; what checks + balances are left?
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyNewsom: "People ask, 'Are you being hyperbolic?' Bullshit we're being hyperbolic. If you're Black or brown, it's here in this country. And so I'm deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing the nation's first bill to address masking ... these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian govt"
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyWow — Italy and Spain have now both officially announced they're sending military ships to support the Gaza aid flotilla
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyThe UN-Practical Jokers got Trump GOOD
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyIf you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health what until you see what guns do.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyWhether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.
- Sounds like parenting goals to me.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyIt was immediately clear the Trump administration would use Kirk’s murder as a pretext for accelerating its authoritarian project, writes Emma Shortis, from RMIT University. womensagenda.com.au/politics/jim...
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyIf they can rewrite his life so can we.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyMore at #StCharlieKirk
- Reminder that seeking asylum does not an 'illegal' make. Deporting asylum seekers is tantamount to murder. "... the flight held 14 men — 13 from Nigeria and one from The Gambia — who had all been granted protections from removal to their countries of origin for fear of persecution or torture...”
- NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- Feels like a good time to re-read Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh. While the poet herself hates it, if we read it as Pugh intended: "it says sometimes things go right, but not that often, and usually only when people make some kind of effort in that direction." Which feels pertinent.
- That fourth pillar of US democracy under more stress than I've seen in my lifetime.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyNo comment and all class @anatolitis.bsky.social
- Terrific to see former editor of Meanjin @anatolitis.bsky.social in good spirits at an event celebrating the now-defunct journal last night
- A must listen podcast open.spotify.com/episode/4N3g...
- I will never stand for anti-anything-ism; what we are seeing globally right now has little to do with any ism other than fascism or authoritarianism. The right to question matters. michaelwest.com.au/antisemitism...
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyIt is not hyperbole to say Trump is enacting Hitler’s playbook to a T. #TrumpisaFascist
- For a masterclass on why writers and TV satirists matter... No notes @thedailyshow.com youtu.be/_GXNJ3V9lzg
- "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right. And that there should be almost no checks and balances on it," Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) said. "I don't feel that way anymore." www.inkl.com/news/senate-...
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyAfter years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyShe put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyThis is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyLetterman on Kimmel: "We all see where this is going, correct? It's managed media. It's ridiculous. You can't go around firing somebody because you're fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian, criminal administration. That's just not how this works.”
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyWorth linking to Eli McLean's Overland essay on Meanjin's closure and the state of publishing if you haven't yet
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- Dark days. @jimmykimmel.com
- Four people arrested for human trafficking and rape of children *checks notes* sorry, arrested for projecting images in peaceful protest while the aforementioned perpetrators have a fancy dinner at the tax payers expense. Umm …
- If it looks like it and bans like it, then yes, it’s an authoritarian regime.
- This is not a list anyone wants ticked off but given Trump's assurances pre-election that people wouldn't need another one...
- Controlling the media is one of the items on the authoritarian checklist; this includes not just hard news, and increasingly social media, but also threatening satirists who mock the regime. The FCC is pushing this control, but corporations do not have to fold. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
- Is it enough *now*?
- My advice? Don't wait until your mid-40's to do the thing you always wanted to do. But if you do, don't wait any longer because it's joyous. And we don't want you missing out on joy amidst the weight of the heartbreaking and enraging. @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
- Huge congratulations to all the prize winners of the 2025 Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition. First prize went to Tim Collyer. Full list of winners are available on our website: munsterlit.ie/o-faolain-sh... #writing #shortstory #competitions
- My story–along with the winner's and the shortlisted entries–will be in Southword's Summer (Northern Hemisphere time) edition. If you want to meet my muses beforehand, you can meet Clarabelle + Valentine @edgarsmission.bsky.social here: edgarsmission.org.au/kindness/cla...
- My new idol.
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyUPDATE: Our ad has been pulled. While the Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun talk about freedom of speech all the time, they've decided that they won't be proceeding with our ad tomorrow. We still hope they will run our ad at a later date, because we need to broadcast the message, end the genocide!
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyWe're launching a campaign to end the genocide in Gaza. Sign our petition to call on the Australian government to sanction Israel NOW. Tomorrow we'll be in the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun so please: Snap a photo of yourself with the ad and tag us www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/peti...
- Reposted by Suzanne HeveyGreat pod out today from @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social @janfran.bsky.social @ettemedia.bsky.social New info from insiders + *checks notes* silence from @mupublishing.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/e...
- Reposted by Suzanne Hevey"Where is the world? Where are the Arab nations?" This Palestinian girl broke down as she described an Israeli attack that targeted her family’s shelter in Gaza City.
- Reposted by Suzanne Hevey"The State of Israel has committed genocide." Navi Pillay, chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has told Al Jazeera that Israel’s war on Gaza is a genocide.
- Very excited to be included among this incredible group in the 2025 Seán Ó Faoláin Prize! Huge thanks to @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social and @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Congrats to Tim Collyer, @daveyfrankel.bsky.social, Tetiana Suchodolska, Farid Hamka, and JP Garvey munsterlit.ie/o-faolain-sh...
