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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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The Department of Homo Affairs

The Department of Homo Affairs is a collective of radical queer activists and artists based on Dharawal and Gadigal land We are interested in playful and performative disruptions to neo colonial border politics. We work in solidarity with First Nations people and struggles as well as people seeking asylum and refuge on this continent.

Articles by The Department of Homo Affairs:

4 March 202030 March 2020 · Colonial fictions

Communiqué from the Department of Homo Affairs – #resist250

The Department of Homo Affairs

On Saturday 28th of February, the Department of Homo Affairs detected and intercepted an UNAUTHORISED ENTRY at the 42nd Mardi Gras Parade. We are happy to report that the Liberal Party of NSW float was successfully turned back and will not make Mardi Gras their home.

5 March 20184 June 2018 · Refugees

Communiqué from the Department of Homo Affairs

The Department of Homo Affairs

As queers with a stake in this party – and its proud history of protest – we consider the Liberal and Labor Party floats unauthorised arrivals at Mardi Gras; they’re dangerous vote-seekers jumping the queue, and they’re threatening to terrorise the values that we hold dear. So we handed out flyers with a grave warning, ‘The risk is real and growing. Illegal floats are stealing your blow jobs.’