Overland 254 is the first in a set of four special editions dedicated to commemorating 70 years of Overland. This issue also launches a new design and format by Common Room Editions, inspired by Overland’s trove of radical literature spanning from 1954 to today. Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange consider the asymmetrical responses to two events: the wearing of keffiyehs by three cast members during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Anton Chekov’s The Seagull, and, on the same day in the US, the shooting of three Palestinian men wearing keffiyehs. Jeff Sparrow uncovers the Sydney Herald’s legacy of Terra Nullius, and Daniel Lopez writes on Marx, Meredith and the festival as an inversion of modern life.
Genevieve Grieves is a Worimi woman from New South Wales who has made her home in Kulin country. She is an educator, filmmaker, oral historian, artist and curator. Her most recent project was as Lead Curator of the ‘First Peoples’ exhibition at the Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Melbourne Museum. She is currently undertaking her PhD at the University of Melbourne.
