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Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954. | Editors: @evelynaraluen @jonathandunk @gtiso @toby_fitch @ccorbettauthor
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Proud to be out in solidarity with Palestine today 🇵🇸🖤
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“The truth of it is that there is no appropriate person for this role, because the role simply should not exist.”
@jordana_s_
on the appointment of a Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism.
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A Statement from the Board of Overland Literary Journal
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So happy to see our beautiful comrade
@jordana_s_
and other Jewish mob showing their solidarity for Palestine today ✊🏽🖤
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"We implore The University of Melbourne to stand on the right side of history by condemning Israel’s genocidal attack against the people of Palestine."
Calling all
@UniMelb
affiliates to read and sign this powerful open letter.
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Historian Barry Corr responds to Scott Morrison with a history of Aboriginal slavery in New South Wales:
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Proud to once again be marching with our comrades today in Naarm for a free Palestine. In the words of Mehreen Faruqi, who spoke at today's rally, 'people power will always prevail'
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"We reject passivity, cynicism, pessimism and lethargy. We replace them with hope, determination and civil disobedience."
Overland is proud to publish this joint statement from 11 Palestine student solidarity encampments across Australia.
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So many Union comrades showing up for Palestine today!
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Overland crew are back out again in solidarity with Palestine - join us every weekend until Palestine is free!
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Today we’re releasing Elias Greig’s much-discussed essay on ecofascism and Heather Rose’s ‘Bruny’ from our latest print edition.
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Proud to be marching alongside our comrades for Palestine again today! ✊🏽
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'To let suffering speak' | Overland's co-editor
@jonathandunk
responds to some of the criticism we have received for our solidarity with Palestine.
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Honoured to have our co-editor
@evelynaraluen
join the Indigenous Solidarity panel at the University of Melbourne Palestine camp 🇵🇸🖤
Indigenous solidarity panel on day 7 of the encampment 🫶🏽
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if you'd like to assist the many First Nations communities displaced and otherwise impacted by the horrific damage to Country donate here:
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'It would be foolish to overlook the world-breaking shift in public comprehension of the Palestinian struggle.'
@SammakTasnim
on a turning of the tide.
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Shout out to our Union comrades showing up in solidarity for Palestine! We are not free until Palestine is free
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The Overland team would like to say you have absolutely no business talking about healing country, get out of the Pilliga and pay the Gomeroi and Gamilaraay reparations.
Around Australia, we celebrate
@naidocweek
from 4-11 July. This year's theme is Heal Country! with a focus on recognising, protecting and maintaining all aspects of culture and heritage for all Australians. Learn more:
#proudlyaustralian
#NAIDOC2021
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'What gives colonisers the moral authority to mandate the solutions, when the colonisation they benefit from is a root cause of the problem?' Ahead of tomorrow's
#climatestrike
, Philip Winzer issues a call for a Blak New Deal to fight the climate crisis.
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We are privileged for the opportunity to publish this important statement by nine former winners of the NSW Multicultural Award in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah.
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If you're a TERF and want to leave trolling comments to one of our articles, it generally helps if you understand how IP addresses work.
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Honoured to be out in solidarity with Palestine today ✊🏽🖤
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'We can’t boycott housing, because we need it to survive, and we can’t raise our voices alone because it’s not safe.'
@purplepingers
on why it is vital for renters to organise — and tell their own stories.
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'To be a children’s author is to be a caretaker. You have a duty to your readers. They should be safe with you.' Alison Evans (
@_budgie
) responds to JK Rowling.
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Today we are proud to announce that Overland is the first publication to sign on to MEAA (
@withMEAA
) Freelance Charter of Rights! We hope that this agreement will encourage other publishers to get involved with this campaign for fair rates and conditions.
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A call to action from artists, producers, front of house staff, audiences and beyond. Creatives for Palestine urge you to show your solidarity for Palestine Wednesday 13 December and to call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire.
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We cannot evaluate the accomplishments and failings of THE REST OF US: PART II unless we properly situate it in the broader medium of videogames, argues
@BRKeogh
.
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Gosh we are excited to bring you this important Overland update!
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"We the undersigned call on people of conscience everywhere to continue to support the Palestinian people in their struggle for self-determination and their aspirations for freedom, justice, dignity, and equality for all."
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Far from the actions of an extremist fringe, the recent riots in Jerusalem are 'a targeted, violent persecution of Palestinians, with the aim of causing harm and, ultimately, to drive them from their homes' writes Na'ama Carlin (
@derridalicious
).
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'It should be clear to anyone paying attention (or running an employment services inquiry) that the key problem is not that welfare recipients are cheating the government—it’s that the government is cheating _them_.'
@JeremyPoxon
on 'dole bludgers'
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'When access to public transport is stymied, so too is access to public life.' Millie Baylis (
@MillieBaylis
) on travelling with an invisible disability
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Sam Wallman's latest. It's as good as it looks, so see it in its entire glory by clicking through.
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Overland was very touched to receive a donation to pay the contributor fee for a First Nations writer to publish with us. While we’ll respect the wishes of the person to remain anonymous, we wanted to acknowledge that this is a powerful gesture to support marginalised voices.
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Overland stands in solidarity with journalists reporting on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. We stand with our Palestinian brothers and sisters, with the families of the children who have been massacred.
#FreePalestaine
#SaveSheikhJarrah
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'I do not wish to defend Australian universities as they exist. But I do wish to defend the principle of public tertiary education as a good – not a product, but a good – that should be available to everyone.' Anwen Crawford on the attack on the university
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After three arduous years, Victoria Police have today withdrawn their charges against two organisers of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protest. Organisers
@claphands82
and
@crystalam
welcome their decision, but note their mediocrity gave them no other option.
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"With every coal mine built, with every kilojoule of gas extracted ... and now with the re-election of the Coalition government, the chances of preventing a global fascist climate crisis horror show in which millions will perish are reduced." Brami Jegan
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'The Voice is simply yet another Aboriginal advisory body. And we’ve got a long history, at least a fifty-year history, of Aboriginal advisory bodies.'
@paddygibson
interviews Professor Gary Foley on the Voice referendum debate
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'We didn’t need a statistician to paint a picture for us. We already knew, in our bones, what COVID-19 meant for our families.' The brilliant Tina Ngata (
@nonplasticmaori
) on community checkpoints and the Māori duty to protect.
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'The only job that matters is the one that bosses tell themselves they have to do.'
@hannahforsyth
on solidarity among managers and the logic that governs the university sector.
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'The reduction of all work to essential work is, by itself, illuminating. Because it turns out that the work that sustains us all is often the lowest paid. Healthcare workers. Childcare workers. School teachers. Waste removalists. Supermarket checkout operators ...
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'This is what it ultimately means for videogames to be taken serious as ‘art’: for them, quite simply, to be made by creators who consider their practice as artists.'
Brendan Keogh (
@BRKeogh
) on UNTITLED GOOSE GAME and the rise of videogame communities.
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We have just opened two residencies – one for a woman writer who is a sole parent and the other for a First Nations writer. The residencies are open to local, regional and interstate writers, and provide space, time, mentorship + a $882.80 weekly stipend.
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Today Overland is proud to publish an open letter—wondefully illustrated by
@wallmansam
—in support of the union campaign at Better Read Than Dead, 'a litmus test for Australian literature and for retail working conditions across the continent.'
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'It’s not possible to be progressive without fighting for everyone.' Roz Bellamy (
@bellarozz
) on the politics of being ‘progressive except for Palestine’.
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This shouldn't be a civic responsibility – but here's a list of ways you can donate to help the volunteer firefighters, stay safe friends
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'Mostly we don’t want to isolate ourselves because we know what the stakes are. For any queer person, cis or trans or a secret third thing, being transphobic is more than cringe—it’s suicidal.'
Liz Crash responds to the Lesbian Action Group
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It's the last publishing day of 2023 for our online magazine and we can't think of a better way to leave you than with this breathtaking new comic by
@wallmansam
| Why Palestine is union business.
Sam wishes to thank Michael Hiscox for his contribution.
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'We take on this work not to centre or salvage Judaism and Jewishness but to oppose settler colonialism and acknowledge the specific and necessary role of Jewish anti-Zionists in opposing violence done in our names'
@tzedekcollectiv
| Our call for justice
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“In Australia, the attack on Gaza engendered one of the broadest social movements in decades, perhaps ever — and its diversity has broken the conservative brain.”
@Jeff_Sparrow
on what makes the Palestine solidarity movement such a unique threat to power.
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Centrelink rules force scores of disabled people in Australia to choose between their relationships or their independent income.
@nataliesqrl
writes about the eugenicist roots and implications of this policy.
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'THE JAKARTA METHOD meticulously traces the role of the US in the events in Indonesia and connects them to a wider ‘monstrous international network of extermination’ that existed in the second half of the twentieth century.'
Naish Gawen on Vincent Bevins.
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Just your regular reminder that we are Overland Journal the literary publication, not our dear friends and colleagues over at Overland Journal the mechanized off-highway capable transport magazine
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If you’re a casual academic, you are an expert first of all in precarity.
@kate_cantrell
and
@kellywithawhy
respond to *that* article in
@ConversationEDU
.
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Today we are very pleased to host an open letter by authors in support of
@raffwu
members at Readings bookstores fighting for fair wages and fair conditions.
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Overland is out again in solidarity with Palestine ❤️✊🏽🖤
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This year Samah Sabawi (
@gazaheart
) submitted an op-ed to ABC Religion only to see it published alongside a response by the Zionist Federation of Australia, who were given access to it without her knowledge. She writes about her complaint and its lessons.
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"As historians who study [...] settler-colonialism, genocide, apartheid, gendered and sexed violence, Jewish history, Palestinian history, Israeli history, and more, we say that this breathtaking and heartbreaking violence is unacceptable."
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We're thrilled to finally reveal the BOLD cover art for Overland 238, from the very talented
@MillarBaker
. Look out for this very special issue, the first from our new editors
@evelynaraluen
and
@jonathandunk
– coming to you in June! We can't wait for you to read it.
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This report is being prepared by members of Overland's staff. If you or someone you know has experienced censorship, intimidation, or has been subject to restrictive policies regarding advocacy for Palestine in the workplace, please share your experiences.
Do you work for an Australian organisation that has advised staff and affiliates not to speak about Palestine, or has placed restrictions on any expression of support for Palestine? We are gathering anonymous data on Aus orgs censoring their staff.
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We interrupt our Summer break to bring you an important piece by
@rihabcharida
,
@jeaninehourani
and
@matt_chun
.
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'If you believe in equality and democracy in Australia, there’s no excuse for endorsing ethno-chauvinism elsewhere.'
@Jeff_Sparrow
on the common logic of settler colonial violence.
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"I am part of a class whose deaths don’t matter but whose violence is counted . . . If you can’t understand these words, then try to feel what makes a body write them."
Micaela Sahhar on the demand for Palestinians to explain and defend their humanness.
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For International Overdose Awareness Day, our
@wallmansam
has drawn a cartoon in defence of safe injecting rooms.
'Safe injecting rooms save lives. Build them. Defend them.'
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'The lack of accessible trans healthcare in this country isn’t because of a lack of medical evidence of effectiveness, or a lack of need. Rather, it’s ideologically driven.'
Felix McIntyre on why gender-affirming surgery should be covered by Medicare
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"When a cop steps on our back one day and someone else’s the next, it’s the same boot. And it doesn’t matter if the cop is a homo—either it’s his boot or he will stand by and watch his accomplices do it. What’s the difference?"
@hierobadge
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'Few people even realise that, in a wave far worse than anything seen in 2020, unemployed people have been offered no help at all.'
Part 2 of a discussion by Kristin O'Connell and Jay Coonan on the unemployed workers' movement.
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'As a young Aboriginal woman working in literature, it’s not within my disposition or critical practice to give texts the benefit of the doubt.'
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“Safety cannot mainly be a matter of individual feeling: it has to be about the conditions in which people can be safe collectively.”
@NickRiemer1
on the Palestine solidarity encampments, campus safety and the Israelisation of Western universities
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'To say Australian officials were complacent in keeping Kiwi Farms operational for as long as it was would be an understatement.'
@nataliesqrl
on the lessons for Australian institutions from the campaign to take down Kiwi Farms
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"A private school that receives public money is not a private school: it is a fee-paying public school."
@packetofchips
on NSW's jellyfish government and privatisation-by-neglect.
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'Thank god for the gothic writers, who knew that women are stuck in the horror, performing subservience and subordination in order to survive.'
Kelly Cheung on Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier and the persistent horror of patriarchal houses.
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Here at Overland we wish solidarity and strength to mob today. March in pride and honour for lands and ancestors. Allies, follow in respect and reverence.
#AbolishAustraliaDay
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It's time for your annual reminder that we aren't the 4WD journal, so please stop tagging us in vehicular commentary (unless the vehicle is engaged with radical politics).
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'On the same day that the Morrison government announced they were giving $500 million to defence so they can buy bigger guns, I learned that Overland was not invited to renew its four-year funding from federal arts body the Australia Council.'
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Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert is currently imprisoned in Iran under charges of espionage. Today we host an open letter to Anthony Albanese urging him to assist in securing in her release, signed by over fifty of her colleagues.
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A harrowing document emerged this week of repeated attempts to take a baby from their mum at a New Zealand hospital, showing the country's child removal policies in action.
@MorganGodfery
responds.
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Overland is honoured to share Jazz Money's beautiful poem dedicated to the Djab Wurrung embassy, 'sweet smoke', which was a runner-up in this year's Nakata Brophy Prize.
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We are thrilled to announce the 2020 Judith Wright Poetry Prize shortlist, which includes such formidable and outstanding emerging poets as
@SaraSalehOz
,
@_DeclanFry
, Brooke Scobie and Frances Libeau!
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"Until the Albanese government can show a willingness to fight for the rights of Palestinians, and impose consequences on Israel for its actions, its professed democratic and egalitarian values ring hollow."
@salcheikhh
on being a Palestinian in Australia
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'I do not know if Israel will proceed with its plans to empty Sheikh Jarrah of its Palestinian inhabitants, but it is clear that the tide is turning: we are seeing the seeds of a potentially global Intifada in support of the families facing dispossession.'
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The all-too-familiar story of DentalSlim reveals how, in their zeal to solve the ‘obesity epidemic’, too many health researchers lose sight of the fact that the fat people in their trials are precisely that—people.
@dimsie
on the history of jaw-wiring.
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In our first featured essay sponsored by
@Co_Power_
for the year,
@elias_greig
uses the form of the memoir to reflect on housing, settlement and history. We guarantee that this one will stay with you.
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Our
@wallmansam
has drawn a memorial to Jack Mundey, who passed away this week, and we think you should see it.
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'I can’t even find a pencil for my students to write with, yet the Department is able to summon the time and money to take legal action against its unionised teachers.'
Dan Hogan (
@packetofchips
) on the reasons behind tomorrow's school strike in NSW.
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'COVID-19 is a reminder of how unfair it is for universities to rely on employees paid the lowest wages for the least secure work to deliver so much of the core teaching that brings in the revenue.'
@rebeccapearse
&
@mikejbeggs
on academic labour strategy
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Have you opened your little red surprise yet?
We’re so excited to finally hard launch our incredible new (old) design to commemorate 70 years of radical publishing. With thanks to Common Room Editions for this gorgeous work ❤️✊🏽
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Proud to publish this open letter from University of Melbourne academics, staff and students (current and former) calling on the university to divest from the detention industry
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By now we're fairly accustomed to explaining that we aren't the 4WD journal, but this is probably the first time we've been mistaken for the
@abcnews
For the record, we love a good "non-binery and pronoun gender childrens show" here at Overland 🌈
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No Pride in Genocide - the Melbourne community continues to show up for Palestine ❤️👊🏽🇵🇸
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Urgent call-out! Come to the Deakin Burwood campus Weds 6.30pm to support the Palestine student encampment. University management has threatened to shut down the camp and issued letters of allegation against students. Show your solidarity in the fight to free Palestine 🇵🇸🖤✊🏽
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"In sharing these accounts, I hope readers will begin to understand their uniquely horrific experiences of the genocide, and how their Deaf and Palestinian identities are inextricably embedded within them."
@DrRyanAlNatour
on being Deaf in Gaza.
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Posting again because it’s that good (and because of a broken link) - Elias Greig’s poignant lyric essay on housing and whale watching from our latest print edition. This is one to be endlessly reread.
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'Governments have created a social housing market that delivers dividends to private capital, dressed up as a solution to the deepening crisis.'
David Kelly, Kate Show and Libby Porter on vulture funds and housing.
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"Casualisation is not a valid hiring practice with ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ but a system of exploitation that brutalises academics and imperils not only teaching and research, but the spirit of inquiry itself."
@kate_cantrell
&
@kellywithawhy
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Overland is seeking submissions for a special ‘false documents’ edition – that is, fiction disguised as ‘real’ textual artefacts
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“This is the making of solidarity: a shared commitment to understanding the systemic forces of domination and oppression and the collective action to address these injustices.”
Sophie Rudolph on the pedagogy of discomfort and safety as a collective project
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