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251 Winter 2023

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New fiction, poetry, and essay from literary luminaries such as Daniel Browning, Bill Gammage, Jen Craig, Rico Craig, Luoyang Chen, Jane Downing, and Jo Langdon. Featuring cover art from Liss Fenwick's haunting Humpty Doom series.

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Amal Naser

Amal Naser is a Palestinian organiser living and working on unceded Gadigal Land. She is currently studying a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNSW. She has strong interest in the intersection of the law and the rights of Indigenous persons.

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15 June 202229 April 2023 · Palestine

Battling dispossession on stolen land

Amal Naser

The Nakba is ongoing. However, our story of dispossession is not unique, but rather forms part of the many stories of Indigenous populations being uprooted, murdered and having their lands destroyed by violent colonial regimes, including the land we live on.

17 March 20225 November 2022 · Palestine

Reframing the conversation on Palestine after Amnesty’s ‘apartheid’ report: the case for abolition

Jeanine Hourani and Amal Naser

In the context of Palestine, failing to adopt an abolitionist lens and, instead, focusing on apartheid isolates the Palestinian question from the broader settler colonial project of which it is subjected, and ignores what we know about the use of prisons and incarceration in older settler colonial projects.