Published in Overland Issue 237 Summer 2019 · Uncategorized Wheelie bin juice Liz Duck-Chong it’s fuckin hot out today we sweat at each other, perspiring punctuation; this is my sentence and i am lying on the dying lawn like death row. another day in another tank watered garden variety backyard we dream, draining the dam dry trying to get the sticky off our skin until guilt sets in; staining our limbs like bathing in cordial, we are an island girt by cicada thrum. the drone of cut grass never stops, all two stroke exhaust, a blue collar man’s suburban blade dance to the goddess of something greener; a domestic picks up half a block away, odd words perforating welcome soft breeze as the wheelie bins join in, kick up a stink of their own. meanwhile, back on the ranch we roast alive; i lean and reach for the tap; dig your own grave you concur, preferring to take the anthroposcenic route together. sprinkler on, eyes closed, tongue out and devout in prayer to whatever. Read the rest of Overland 237 If you enjoyed this piece, buy the issue Or subscribe and receive four brilliant issues for a year Liz Duck-Chong Liz Duck-Chong is a writer, sexual health nerd and filmmaker who has had articles, poetry and essays in a range of publications, including previously in Overland. She co-hosts wholesome sex ed show @letsdoitpodcast, and is on Twitter at @lizduckchong. More by Liz Duck-Chong › 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 27 September 2023 · Sport When the sport circus comes on Country Jenny Fraser The next huckster in the carnival of sport is the upcoming 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games. If we want aspects of it to be in line with Aboriginal protocol, we need action from across the four winds of the world. If it’s not done right we need solidarity and protest just the same. We are each other’s safety net in this theatre of sport. As a senior Aboriginal woman activist once told me, ‘we are all only as good as we negotiate’. First published in Overland Issue 228 25 September 202326 September 2023 · The university Solidarity but only among managers, or the future of the university sector Hannah Forsyth The process continued during Covid. Jobs were being cut due to the threats posed by the pandemic, yet more scholars were being recruited. Nice people, good at their job. But why are we doing this, we kept asking. Management kept telling us we have a funding crisis (which often turned to a surplus in the end), so why are we also on a hiring spree? All along it looked like it could end badly, for all of us.
