Published in Overland Issue · Uncategorized Still dreaming Susie Orpen When I woke that morning I felt as if I had a slight fever; warm and viscous with the slippery perception of vertigo. My vision was clear, but tepid and it slid. There was the suggestion of oblivion in the periphery, like optical vignetting, like low blood pressure. Movement was a slow, shaky playback. My whole body listed sideways – I was an ungainly ship, and the air had waves in it, twittering, full of static. Read the rest of Overland 223 – If you liked this article, please subscribe or donate. Susie Orpen Susie Orpen is an emerging poet writing in Melbourne. More by Susie Orpen › 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 31 January 202531 January 2025 · Racism The QUT Symposium: holding the line against rising racism Elizabeth Strakosch, Jordy Silverstein, Crystal McKinnon, Eugenia Flynn, Natalie Ironfield, Holly Charles, Priya Kunjan, Roj Amedi and Lina Koleilat Last weeks's QUT Symposium met in the staunch tradition of the Brisbane Blacks, who have fought for sovereignty, land rights, liberation and an end to racial violence for decades. It was a gathering of Elders, academics, organisers and frontline community workers who speak, theorise and embody the truth about race and racism in this place. It refused to clothe itself in multicultural platitudes about tolerance, or to speak about racism only in terms of individual prejudice. 29 January 202529 January 2025 · Palestine The demonisation of the Palestine movement fuels anti-Muslim racism Mariam Tohamy and Miroslav Sandev The spate of anti-Muslim racist attacks around the country are being fuelled by the anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian policies of mainstream politicians. Political attempts to undermine the Palestine movement and bipartisan support for Israel’s genocide are causing this.
