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.
Lisa Stefanoff is a mother, researcher, writer, media producer, and curator of Macedonian-Anglo heritage who lives and works in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, mostly on collaborative-dialogical arts/media-led projects. She has long-held relationships with the families in In My Blood It Runs that began through work on the 2003 CAAMA Productions film Beyond Sorry. She respectfully acknowledges the sovereignty, leadership, history and futures of Arrernte and all other First Nations people.
