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.
Zahra Stardust is writing her PhD on DIY pornography at the University of New South Wales. She has chapters in books such as Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Pornography, Protection and Privacy (3L Media, 2015), Queer Sex Work (Routledge, 2015) and The DIY Porn Handbook: Documenting Our Own Sexual Revolutions (Greenery Press, 2016). She has published in journals Porn Studies, Research for Sex Work and the World Journal of AIDS. She is a former Penthouse Pet, Hustler Honey and award-winning porn star. www.zahrastardust.com
