Published in Overland Issue Audio Overland II: Resistance · Writing Guitar Belinda Lopez Belinda Lopez Belinda Lopez is a writer, radio producer and occasional storyteller. Her poetry has also appeared in Mascara Literary Review, Quadrant and Urbi et Orbi, a multilingual anthology tracing the journeys of four poets through different cities of the world, published by Les Éditions du Zaporogue. The live guitar track included in the poem is used with permission of the musician, Geoff Bennett (http://soundcloud.com/geoffbennett). More by Belinda Lopez › 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 17 July 202417 July 2024 · Writing “What is it that remains of us now”: witnessing the war on Palestine with Suheir Hammad Dashiell Moore The flame of her poetry scorches the states of exceptions that allow individual and state-sponsored violence to continue, unjustified, and unhistoricised. As we engage with her work, we are reminded that "chronic survival" is not merely an act of enduring but a profound declaration of existence. 5 February 202417 February 2024 · Writing Here and now: our call for justice and liberation Tzedek Collective Our community is one of action and activism, informed by histories and imaginings of Jewish and other resistance. In our anticolonial work, we are explicitly anti-Zionist and work for a free Palestine. We take on this work not to centre or salvage Judaism and Jewishness, but to oppose settler colonialism in all its forms, and to acknowledge the specific and necessary role of Jewish anti-Zionists in opposing violence done in our names.
