Published in Overland Issue 223 Winter 2016 Uncategorized Issue 223 Editorial team REGULARS Editorial – Jacinda Woodhead Natalie Harkin Mel Campbell Giovanni Tiso Alison Croggon Contributors FEATURES Sisonke Msimang End of the rainbow The Fallists and contemporary South Africa Natalie Kon-yu ‘A testicular hit-list of literary big cats’ Sexist values in literary culture Stuart Glover Getting on the same page Where to for arts funding? Sarah Burnside Science is golden Just not in Australia Olivier Jutel The political logic of desire On Antipodean conservatism Jay Carmichael Smalltown boy Coming out in an unsafe school Dean Biron The gun Life as a Queensland detective nakata brophy charmaine papertalk-green, toby fitch, katherine firth Nakata Brophy Prize report ellen van neerven First place: Expert FICTION Claudia Salazar Jiménez Translated by Elizabeth Bryer Letter to Salvador Ben Walter It’s all happening here Ellena Savage Postscript POETRY susie orpen Still dreaming shale preston Luminosity Philip Hammial Cautionary tales ouyang yu Their talk Fiona Wright There is repetition And they are angry Leif Mahoney Night pieces elliptic ecliptic Chris Mansell Quads 17–19 paul chicharo Transcendental mathematics Anna ryan-punch pseudonyms for women ARTWORK Savina Hopkins Guest artist issue 223: cover; illustrations on pages 4, 58, 65, 68 Brent Stegeman All other artwork Editorial team More by Editorial team 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 First published in Overland Issue 228 24 March 202324 March 2023 War Conga line to Armageddon: the rush to get us into a war with China Ben Brooker It shouldn’t need spelling out that Australia could not win a war with China in any sense that matters, even with the backing of the US and its allies. At best, such a victory would be a Pyrrhic one. At worst, we would be so utterly humiliated as to not even know what kind of defeat had been inflicted upon us. First published in Overland Issue 228 23 March 2023 Trans rights Why gender essentialism is a white supremacist ideology Maddison Stoff The idea that these neo-Nazis are just ‘cosplayers’, rather than the local version of an international and decades-long attempt by numerous lone wolves and paramilitary groups to seize control of multiple countries, is too dangerous to seriously contemplate. The better question might be: why do so many anti-trans rights activists, who often see themselves as left-wing or self-describe as feminists, tolerate or downplay the presence of Nazis in their circles? And, just as importantly, why do neo-Nazis show up to support them?
