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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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Larissa Behrendt

Larissa Behrendt is the author of award-winning novels Home and Legacy, and is currently a Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney

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Published in Overland Issue 203 Winter 2011 · Main Posts

Under skin, in blood

Larissa Behrendt

They call me Aunty and I pretend to these young things that I mind. ‘I’m not your Aunty,’ I say crossly. Cheeky mites. But those words, that name, they are medicine to these tired bones. ‘Outside with you, you little buggers. Don’t get under my feet.’