This issue goes to print on the cusp of a darkening world… Overland 255 is the second issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. In this issue, Samuel J Cox interviews Kim Scott on his works True Country (1993) and Benang (1995) in ‘Writing from the South’. Elsewhere, Juliet Scott interrogates ‘The Australian Media’s problem with Palestine’ and Sam Ryan looks back at Overland and the state of arts funding in Australia from 1973 to 1975. This issue also features poetry from Yeena Kirkbright, DJ Huppatz, Debbie Lim, among others, and short fiction from Lauren Collee, Madeline Byrne and Jordan Smith.
The Australian Disability Justice Network (DJN) is group led by and for multiply-marginalised disabled people across so-called Australia. In the spirit of love and justice, the DJN has come together to share space, organise, provide mutual aid, and care for each. To get in contact with the DJN, you can email disabilityjusticenetworkau@gmail.com. You can contribute to the DJN’s mutual aid fund here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/disability-justice-network-mutual-aid-fund
