Published in Overland Issue 223 Winter 2016 · Uncategorized And they are angry Fiona Wright and they apologise in all their emails and they remember where they put their keys and they buy vegetables and milk and they’re assumed to be on birth control and they write perhaps and arguably and in a sense and they are sympathetic and they have internal ultrasounds and they carry band-aids in their purses and they break big notes before they go to dinner and they match their underwear and they make pots of tea and they sit narrowly on trains and buses and they pretend to talk on phones when they walk home and they run on treadmills and they don’t interrupt and they don’t ask for exceptions and their disposable razors come only in pink and the doctors ask if they feel anxious and they desire and they are angry. Read the rest of Overland 223 – If you liked this article, please subscribe or donate. Fiona Wright Fiona Wright’s new essay collection is The World Was Whole (Giramondo, 2018). Her first book of essays Small Acts of Disappearance won the 2016 Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for nonfiction, and her poetry collections are Knuckled and Domestic Interior. More by Fiona Wright › 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 21 February 202521 February 2025 · The university Closing the noose: a dispatch from the front line of decasualisation Matthew Taft Across the board, universities have responded to legislation aimed at rectifying this already grim situation by halting casual hiring, cutting courses, expanding class sizes, and increasing the workloads of permanent staff. This is an unintended consequence of the legislation, yes, but given the nefarious history of the university, from systemic wage theft to bad-faith bargaining, hardly a surprising one. 19 February 2025 · Disability The devaluing of disability support Áine Kelly-Costello and Jonathan Craig Over the past couple of decades, disabled people in much of the Western world have often sought, or agreed to, more individualised funding schemes in order to gain greater “choice and control” over the support we receive. But the autonomy, dignity and flexibility we were promised seems constantly under threat or out of reach, largely because of the perception that allowing us such “luxuries” is too expensive.
