Published 6 November 200910 November 2009 · Main Posts Dishonourable Discharge Maxine Beneba Clarke fucking arabs man / are they crazy yeah / okay we know hasan wz born in virginia & american bred bt the real truth wz there in his blood: jordanian & before you say racist lemme just say september eleven before you jump on that lemme throw at you seven seven mean anything to you how long before we learn to lock the fucking gates & save our children close the fucking borders send the brown skins back freeloading boaters or even if they’re fucking born here who cares twelve real americans died at last count & he injured thirty one they were sending him to counsel soldiers to shoot his mother / the army wz shipping malik to afghanistan probably / when he couldn/t deal with this an american born soldier became un-american they were sending him to ease the guilt of those who killed his sisters / the army wz shipping him to afghanistan & probably his objections just didn’t go down too well today / malik nadal hasan dishonourably discharged himself the army spilled american blood bt somehow the news on cnn is a desperate brown man army trained / born & bred who no longer is the slightest bit american (crossposted @ slamup.blogspot.com) Maxine Beneba Clarke Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian author and slam poet of Afro- Caribbean descent. Her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the 2015 ABIA Award for Best Literary Fiction and the 2015 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her memoir, The Hate Race, her poetry collection Carrying the World, and her first children’s book, The Patchwork Bike, will be published by Hachette in late 2016. More by Maxine Beneba Clarke Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 25 May 202326 May 2023 · Main Posts The ‘Chinese question’ and colonial capitalism in New Gold Mountain Christy Tan SBS’s New Gold Mountain sets out to recover the history of the Gold Rush from the marginalised perspective of Chinese settlers but instead reinforces the erasure of Indigenous sovereignty. Although celebrated for its multilingual script and diverse representation, the mini-TV series ignores how the settlement of Chinese migrants and their recruitment into colonial capitalism consolidates the ongoing displacement of First Nations peoples. First published in Overland Issue 228 15 February 202322 February 2023 · Main Posts Self-translation and bilingual writing as a transnational writer in the age of machine translation Ouyang Yu To cut a long story short, it all boils down to the need to go as far away from oneself as possible before one realizes another need to come back to reclaim what has been lost in the process while tying the knot of the opposite ends and merging them into a new transformation.
