Simić is particularly interested in activist interventions in the media. In 2007, Simić went on
Tko želi biti milijunaš?, the Croatian version of the
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and outed herself as a
lesbian. She ended up winning 125,000
HRK. For her activist engagement in 2011, she was named the Croatian
LGBT person of the decade by the
Zagreb Pride Committee. During the debate on
2013 Croatian constitutional referendum, Simić was the guest on
Nedjeljom u dva, becoming the first out lesbian to appear in the long history of this most popular Croatian political TV show. Simić received a literary grant from the
Croatian Ministry of Culture in 2012. From 2013 to 2015, Simić hosted the weekly TV show
Peti dan (
Fifth Day) on
Croatian Radiotelevision. During the
leftist-liberal coalition government, Simić was named to the Croatian Ministry of Culture's committee for non-profit media in 2013, 2014, and 2015. The committee was relieved by the next and shortest
nationalist-democrats coalition government. With her band Drvena Marija (
Wooden Mary), Simić took part in protests calling for the government's resignation organized by the far-
left Workers' Front on 1 February 2016. In 2017, Simić has signed the
Declaration on the Common Language of the
Croats,
Serbs,
Bosniaks and
Montenegrins. == Political work ==