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255 Winter 2024

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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.

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Kyle Evans

Kyle Evans is a freelance sound editor, recordist and co-creator of Canned Geek, an online guide to geeky events for Australia and New Zealand and tweets @canned_geek.

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18 November 201322 November 2013 · Reflection

Queer inclusivity in gaming

Kyle Evans

Video games that feature queer characters, on any part of the LGBTIQA+ spectrum, are few and far between. Even rarer: games that explicitly explore queer issues, such as Gone Home. Rarest of all are games that represent transgendered people, which can be counted on one hand. The thing is, no-one likes to be told they don't exist.