Published in Overland Issue 225 Summer 2016 · Uncategorized Networking drinks Charlotte Guest ‘You see society through old frames, you are perpetuating that against which you argue,’ says a confident boy with flushed capillaries, exalting in this repartee. ‘No, what I am saying is, the historically oppressed form allegiances based on the common ground of dis- advantage. It’s a well known historical framework through which to consider societal behaviour.’ I hold my gaze. His eyes bulge as he takes a swig from his Old Fashioned, looking down his straight nose at me. ‘Why are we still bandying about old terms? Why do we still talk of race and gender? Have the last fifty years meant nothing?’ I open my mouth and push bubbles out. We are talking underwater, sacks over our heads, like dipped witches. Image: ‘Drinks’ / flickr Read the rest of Overland 225 If you liked this poem, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four outstanding issues for a year Charlotte Guest Charlotte Guest is a writer and publishing officer at UWA Publishing. Her debut collection Soap is due out in late 2017. More by Charlotte Guest › 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 26 April 202426 April 2024 · Aotearoa / New Zealand “Ration the Queen’s veges”: Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the poetics of erasure Toyah Webb In Te Waka Hourua’s intervention, I read a refusal of this binary. By using black spray paint to erase all but a few words and phrases, the activists transform the figuratively white “backdrop” into the legible difference that stands out against the illegible redaction. Yet it is this redaction’s very illegibility that demands to be read — not as difference, but as a radical contestation of colonial world-making. 24 April 2024 · History Anzac Day and the half-remembered history of the Anzacs in Palestine Bill Abrahams and Lucy Honan Schools are deliberate targets for government-funded mystification about Australia’s role in wars. Such instances of official remembrance crowd out the realities of war, and the consequences of Australia’s role in imperialism. As teachers, we should strive to resist this, and we should introduce our students to a fuller understanding of the history of the Anzacs.
