“... But as you are
growing up, things happen to other people which you
observe, not fully understanding. ...”

The latest entry in our #fridaypoetry series is DIDO, by Caroline Williamson. overland.org.au/2024/04/dido/

'It becomes impossible to see this work without thinking about fragility, the rainbow serpent in the gorge, the health of the continent, ongoing injustice to Indigenous peoples, and the race we are all in to survive.'

Louise Martin-Chew on Judy Watson. overland.org.au/2024/04/bathin…

As Sarah Schwartz argues in this powerful Overland Journal piece, prison healthcare systems in Australia operate on the same punitive logic as the prisons themselves - leading to medical neglect, serious harm, and deaths in custody.
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My essay ‘Prison healthcare as punishment - the killing of Veronica Nelson’ in Overland Journal is out!

Neglectful, profit-driven healthcare is an extension of the carceral system.

Love to Veronica’s family, Megan Williams, Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service

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'It is unfair to place the burden on individual artists to continue advocating for political change, while organisations benefit from the creative and cultural capital of this labour.'

Sophia Cai on why art cannot be apolitical. overland.org.au/2024/04/why-ar…

I am proud of my dear friend Sofia, one of the most kindest people I know and has done so much for her community. Here is an image she drew for her comic inspired by one of my protest photos for the Overland Journal

a statement from Jewish academics in support of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah.

'Academics have responsibilities and obligations to speak the truth: Dr Abdel-Fattah is a shining example of how to do so with integrity and commitment.'

add your name: forms.gle/V7WrysgrHjM9hr…

'Prison healthcare, or the absence thereof, is an extension of the logic of prisons — its own distinct form of punishment.'

From our latest print edition, Sarah Schwartz on the carceral state that killed Veronica Nelson

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Some thoughts on the Prague shootings, Gaza & the Global War on Terror -- 'SOFT TARGETS' -- in Overland Journal on Friday, ICYMI (link ↓)

Thanks to Giovanni Tiso and Overland Journal for publishing this review. There are many valuable critiques of settler colonial theory, but Humphreys' idealistic approach to race actually makes a material analysis of its role in capitalism impossible.

'What are the feelings that connect us towards justice and liberation for all? ... How can we fight in angry ways, and say ‘stuff you’ to those who refuse to see that anger is love, is community, is resistance, is building?' Jordy Silverstein in @overlandjournal
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In reviewing Jordan Humphreys' INDIGENOUS LIBERATION & SOCIALISM, Jon Piccini finds a valuable work of historical scholarship that fails to deal adequately with the fundamental question: what is racism? overland.org.au/2024/04/settle…

Deeply appreciative of this statement of support by the Jewish Council of Australia
When zionists attack, we see everywhere in so many spaces an ethics of solidarity and practice of care towards each other. We see a chance to affirm what we stand for and what world we insist we can build…

“In the rightwing media this became a story about yet another misunderstood white boy, suicided by those institutions of liberal “woke” propaganda otherwise known as the humanities.”
Louis Armand on the 21 December attack in Prague & the meaning of terror overland.org.au/2024/04/soft-t…

Must read article in ⁦Overland Journal⁩ by the brilliant ⁦Jordy Silverstein⁩
overland.org.au/2024/04/the-ev…

'Emotions are evidence. Expressing emotions is useful not for telling the truth, but instead for the histories and connections they reveal.'

The evidence of emotions overland.org.au/2024/04/the-ev… via @overlandjournal

Fighting evil by moonlight; owning the street in sunlight - the new issue of Overland Journal is a thing of beauty. Rare point of joy at present to subscribe and contribute to this journal - why not do this too?

‘For those of us who are colonisers..the question becomes: how to ensure humility, & cultivate the practice of decentring ourselves & our feelings. How to always be in a position of learning.’Jordy Silverstein

The evidence of emotions overland.org.au/2024/04/the-ev… via @overlandjournal