Overland literary journal

"The movement for Palestine is now stronger, smarter, louder and better connected than ever before." (Noura Mansour)

What strikes you as you wander through the galleries is not only the overtly political messaging of many of the works on display, but also the way that textile and fabric art makes visible the slow, quietly defiant labour of its creation, and gives form to the idea of solidarity across individuals and groups as a kind of weaving together.

By drawing out the cultures of indie porn, Stardust pushes readers to see beyond issues of content classification, aesthetics and representation to consider the political economy of pornography. She positions pornography within broader systems of economic inequality, trade relationships and globalisation, and frames indie porn in terms of its efforts to “redistribute power, labour, and wealth in global media production.”

In the Pacific, we know that climate change is exacerbating a human rights crisis. Our survival relies on the world following international law to limit the warming that threatens our people and shores. Yet the recent trajectory of Pacific governments picking and choosing which rights to defend and which to ignore is deeply troubling.

Looking for things meant I could enjoy the feeling in my body. Something like hope, or friendship.

As a poem attuned to form, embodiment, sensory experience and memory, van Neerven’s “Finger Limes” presents an intricate meditation on poetic sustenance and survival. Its riddling currents exemplify how poetry is not sustained along a linear axis but unfolds in eddies and counter currents.

They had been tangled together like kelp from the age of fourteen: sunburned, electric Meg and her sidekick Ruth the dreamer, up to all manner of sinister things. So said their parents; so their teachers reported when the two girls were found down at the estuary during a school excursion, whispering to something scaly wriggling in the reeds.

We sit in silence a few more moments as there is no need to talk further; it is the right place to end. There is more I want to know but we had revisited enough of the horror for one day. As I stood up to thank Bác Dzũng for sharing his story, I wished I could tell him how I finally understood that Father’s prophecy would never be fulfilled.

In the face of genocide and apartheid, the Federal Government’s response has not been to impose sanctions on Israel, but rather to open a parliamentary inquiry into antisemitism on campuses that acquiesces to the political pressures of Zionist lobbying and empowers university administrators to repress pro-Palestinian activism under the guise of safety and inclusion.

In the internet age we have the means to make Vivan Maier's photographs and materials available to everyone, preserved and displayed, away from the necromantic urges of capital accumulation at the expense of a dead artist.

We, the undersigned who represent the diverse education community across the continent of Australia, demand an end to the complicity of the Australian education sector’s leaders in the systematic destruction and attempted annihilation of the Palestinian education system.

BDS Unimelb responds to Pip Nicholson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (People & Community) and Barry Judd, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous).

Last week, five police officers turned up on my doorstep. They didn’t have a warrant to arrest me or search the house, but they insisted on coming inside and looking for me. They walked into my room as I was climbing out of bed and placed me under arrest. One officer stayed in the room while I stripped down to get dressed, telling my objecting housemate “it’s so she doesn’t jump out the window.”