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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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Rathlin Emerson

Rathlin Emerson an emerging queer writer of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Their passions include mental health and sex work advocacy, video games, and reading classical literature. They are from Dunedin, New Zealand.

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10 December 201911 March 2020 · Mental health

Myriad-minded miracle: knowing and caring for someone with dissociative identity disorder

Rathlin Emerson

Popular culture and dialogue doesn't often touch on dissociative identity disorder, but when it does, it's often in the same vein as the way mainstream media tends to treat mental illnesses in general – incorrectly and with a tendency to both glamourise and to indulge in stereotypes.