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256 Spring 2024

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Overland 256 is the third issue in a suite of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. Inside its pages you'll find: Daniel Browning on the politics of memory, Antonia Pont on impatience, Sarah Wehbe on Palestinian fury and joy, and a special editorial by our departing poetry editor Toby Fitch. There's also new short fiction from Rowan MacDonald, Bethany Lalor and Amalia Stone, and new poetry from Josie Suzanne, Tim Loveday, Lulu Houdini 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 […]