Published in Overland Issue 207 Winter 2012 · Uncategorized Issue 207 Jeff Sparrow Contents Regulars Jeff Sparrow − Editorial Judy Horacek Alison Croggon Rjurik Davidson Features Matthew Clayfield − Waiting on the Arriaga-Ixtepec The horrific ordeal of America’s immigrants Jennifer Lee − A big fat fight The case for fat activism Gail Dines & Sharon Smith − Porn and the misogyny emergency What should feminists prioritise? Jessica Whyte − ‘Intervene, I said’ Human rights versus social justice Diana M Pho − Leftist constructs The radicalism of steampunk Toufic Haddad − The Arab revolutions reloaded What follows the Arab Spring? Jo Case, John Weldon & Malcolm Neil − Bookshops, ebooks and the future of the novel A Meanland roundtable Louis Proyect − Republican Democrats The real Barack Obama Anitra Nelson & Frans Timmerman − Non-market socialism today Glimpses of another future Fiction Sarah Schmidt − The dolphin Luke Johnson − Of rivers and blood Stephen Pham − Holiday in little Saigon Poetry Patrick Jones − Step by Step Joe Dolce − Starvation Box Blues Andy Quan − Islands Pam Brown − To Nina Sam Langer − ‘Clouds fall like snow on the sky’s clear rocks’ Fiona Hile − Maximum Security Mark O’Flynn − Corydalis William Druce − poem a Sebastian Gurciullo − Published by Global Supermarket Pty Ltd Fiona Yardley − Your Bath David Prater − Wireless Alan Wearne − Also Starring … Graphics Lofo Vane Lindesay Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow is a Walkley Award-winning writer, broadcaster and former editor of Overland. More by Jeff Sparrow › 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 15 April 202415 April 2024 · open letter Statement of solidarity with Palestine and call to action from Victoria University staff, students and alumni VU NTEU Palestine Action Group We the undersigned members of the Victoria University community, sign this petition, to urgently appeal to Victoria University to take a principled stance against Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. 12 April 202412 April 2024 · Friday Poetry Dido Caroline Williamson Growing up not comfortable exactly, there / were deaths and silences and other difficult things, / when you talk about that history later people / are sometimes lost for words. But as you are / growing up, things happen to other people which you / observe, not fully understanding.
