Donna Zuckerberg
@donnazuck
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Writer, editor, recovering academic. Author of "Not All Dead White Men" (@Harvard_Press, October 2018). Formerly: Editor-in-chief of @eidolon_journal. She/her.
California, USA
Joined May 2012
Can't wait to share the story of how my ex and I built a beautiful queer family while quoting Homer and Sophocles all the time. For all the trolls who thought the end of @eidolon_journal (miss u ❤️) meant I was done with woke Classics bullshit - think again.
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wow am I not going to spend my one wild and precious life on people telling me what I should do with the scrooge mcduck pool of gold doubloons I allegedly have, BUT I've written about most recently about Eidolon's closure on my newsletter here: https://t.co/YpOfwTR8wc
@debscavator @zacharyherz @jordantpickett @donnazuck @eidolon_journal She literally started the journal on her own! And then shut it down with no explanation. I’m not asking her randomly to do anything she didn’t instigate herself!
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real ones get upset about Shakespeare misquoting Plutarch
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Also, I know it's kind of sinister, but honestly I find their whole "we're under no obligation to reveal our editors, HOW DARE YOU suggest otherwise" schtick hilarious on a level their satire can only aspire to be
@donnazuck @eidolon_journal You probably already know about all this but I've been posting about their masthead nondisclosure and their ties to right wing American money, and they are MAD about it-- they can't seem to own their neocon agenda:
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the worst part of the end of @eidolon_journal is that Antigone is now the main online publication for people to pitch public-facing classics-related essays. the best part is that we don't have to exhaust ourselves reacting to every gross thing that they do
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Join me as I find the meaning of life buried in the reviews on the Jellycat website https://t.co/RXJH0RD1YS
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The "Ship of Theseus" article has been edited 1792 times since it was created in July of 2003. At present, 0% of the phrases in the original article (seen below) remain.
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In my newsletter, some thoughts on this week's review-bombing scandal and Dionysiac justice https://t.co/4MrPTGu0bf
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I’d love to promote some Greek myth retellings that might be going under the radar, particularly by Greeks or BIPOC. I have to limit fiction author conversations bc that isn’t the point of my show, but I would love to share more titles, descriptions, links to buy, re: fiction
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@DelReyBooks All my negative reviews are from organic, locally sourced, free range haters just as God intended
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In my first newsletter essay, I wrote about feeling (wrongly) like I can't be a mother and scholar at the same time. sorry about the header image, which @ScullinSarah described as a "moist sarlacc"
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What's that? Yet another substack with niche jokes about literature, classics, parenting, and more? WHY NOT:
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Yes, it’s true: we literally started an independent publication just so we could call Henry Kissinger a warmongering dick in peace without conservative dudes whining
In honor of Henry Kissinger's death, let us remember the time I wrote this satirical blog post and our parent organization kicked @eidolon_journal out in response. https://t.co/sLSBm7azE9
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(read her Odyssey before her Iliad, it's totally worth it!)
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I want to gently send her a copy of everything @lyzl has written
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I enjoyed this, but also... you can in fact get divorced and it is every bit as great as it seems
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Sometimes I fantasize about being divorced. I don’t want the heartbreak or the meanness, the money fights or the bitterness. Even “amicable” divorces seem painful. Honestly, I don’t even want to be…
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