Published in Overland Issue Audio Overland II: Resistance · Writing Drowning in three children Tiggy Johnson Tiggy Johnson Tiggy Johnson’s words have appeared widely, including in Cordite, Island, Quadrant, Going Down Swinging, and in Black Inc’s Best Australian Poems 2012. Her short story collection Svetlana or otherwise was published in 2008, her poetry collections First taste in 2010 and That zero year, co-written with Andrew Phillips, in 2012. She is currently writing her family history in poetry and can be found online at tiggyjohnson.com. (The work of Andrew Phillips, the second voice in her recording, can be found at piedhillprawns.wordpress.com/.) More by Tiggy Johnson › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 5 February 202417 February 2024 · Writing Here and now: our call for justice and liberation Tzedek Collective Our community is one of action and activism, informed by histories and imaginings of Jewish and other resistance. In our anticolonial work, we are explicitly anti-Zionist and work for a free Palestine. We take on this work not to centre or salvage Judaism and Jewishness, but to oppose settler colonialism in all its forms, and to acknowledge the specific and necessary role of Jewish anti-Zionists in opposing violence done in our names. 3 26 May 20238 June 2023 · Writing garramilla/Darwin Lulu Houdini We sit in East Point Reserve and look at how the gidjaas, green ants, make globe-like homes out of the leaves — connected edges with fibrous tissue that I later learn is faithful silk. Safe inside. Why isn’t it safe outside? I pick up the plastic around this circular lake cause this is the way […]
