co-editor @overlandjournal, lecturer Deakin, writer, jonathan@overland.org.au
Joined September 2017
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“The final trick of OR is that it stages something utterly universal: the search for a momentary recognition of ourselves in language.”
Grace Roodenrys reviews Toby Fitch, brilliantly.
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“Nobody can tell how long the breath pause—the testing and the thought—will last.” (Celan)
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Jun 13
I am so fkn sick of people like this using ADHD as an excuse for being a dickhead. I have it! It makes me terrible at emails and doing my washing; it doesn't make me try to cover up a genocide, or call a powerful neurodiverse woman 'problematic' while speaking to an IDF sniper.
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Jun 10
maybe your cat is meowing bc it wants a cigarette
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Let’s stop calling it settler violence. It is settler TERROR. These criminals roam the West Bank with impunity, and the world stays silent.
The horrifying assault on our friend Abu Ayoub in the village of Fakhit, as captured by security cameras. Abu Ayoub is currently hospitalized with a fractured skull after undergoing emergency surgery during the night.
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RT @shanebazzi: “Penny Wong, champion of women, would not raise her eyes to the survivors in Parliament House, then called for the Israeli…
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2 Sep 2021
I'm afraid that the Chinese govt will find a way to weaponise Dave Hughes against us, or even worse, they already are..
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Jun 11
Epic response by Cathy Wilcox to Murdoch grubs after their Israel lobby smear campaign
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Jun 11
On a side note, I often find creative writers and intellectually minded people from regional areas the most interesting as people. I've often thought it is not just because they have a different perspective, but because they have had to overcome so much just to be creative.
“To remain in place without the means to move is to experience a narrowing of possible futures.”
Emma Goldrick on how distance in Australia is political
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Come along for wine and intergenerational poetry, never mind the rumoured ghost in the cellar.
Poetry this Friday, get yr vinum both daemonum and earthly. tally.so/r/J9WKDY
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Jun 11
Come join us for a Roundtable on Janette Turner Hospital's Fiction - free and open to all.
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“What is now being reassembled under the banner of fighting antisemitism is a shift in the figure of the ‘bad’ Muslim: from the radical Muslim to the antisemitic Muslim.”
Sara Cheikh Husain on the future laid out by the Royal Commission.
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Jun 10
A fascinating article that identifies the poison as the cure. Ideology in full effect.
Jun 10
Back in the Daily Telegraph today.
This time exploring the difficulties young people have in getting ahead.
For most, they cannot earn enough to afford the life their parents had - even if they earn $400k per year.
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I ran a script to replace every instance of 'whale' in Moby Dick with the word 'lesbian', and I have to tell you, Captain Ahab does not come out of it well
Replace "billionaire" with "Jewish" in all Polanski's polemic and propaganda, and his antisemitism becomes clear.
It's all just Zackshit.
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Jun 9
‘Shakespeare is, in every play he ever wrote, a profoundly political poet. It doesn’t take any unraveling or stretching of the concept to see that. It’s unmistakable right at the surface.’ (Keston Sutherland)
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“To remain in place without the means to move is to experience a narrowing of possible futures.”
Emma Goldrick on how distance in Australia is political
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getting to Northcote from St Kilda on ptv
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