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253 Summer 2023/4

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Dženana Vucic on the subtle and not-so-subtle Marxist symbolism in Sailor Moon, John Docker, a "non-theatre person" by his own admission on The New Theatre, Sarah Schwartz on prison healthcare as punishment and the killing of Veronica Nelson, a poignant short story on memory and displacement from Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini, Jeanine Leane's prize-winning poem, "Water under the bridge", and more.

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Dorell Ben

Dorell Ben is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose primary focus is on Oceanic cultural tattoos and ideas of liminality within Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Ben’s interests are in cultural art forms of the cultural tattoo. She focuses on decolonising identities through tattoo art forms. Ben is a Gujarati-Rotuman woman from Fiji. Instagram: @dorellben

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Published in Overland Issue 252 Spring 2023 · Fiction

Tautoga ne Tu’ura: dance of Tu’ura

Dorell Ben

The Rotuman culture is rich in community, land, the spiritual and the physical. Various factors from colonialism to Christianity have left generational legacies that clash with Indigenous knowledges. Often such clashes leave cultural practices, like that of the Rotuman tattoo, on peripheries of a history. In between survival in a Western-modern world and the need […]