Overland Journal

"What does it mean to work within an institution that feels like this? To feel, viscerally, the rot within the house?" Anna Hush (@_annahush) on sexual violence and academia.https://overland.org.au/2019/06/institutional-work-on-sexual-violence-and-academia/ …

'Even before it enters the narrative, Stroud is describing "teacher-tiredness". In London, it "often consumed my whole weekend … a cumulative tiredness that seemed to layer heavily on top of itself, no matter how much sleep I got each evening."'https://overland.org.au/2019/06/naplan-and-bureaucracy-or-standard-teacher-burnout-close-reading-teacher/ …

'National security dramas ... are inherent story engines. They engender a constant threat of attack, and a sense of national unity (read: stakes) that need to be defended.' Monty Fish on the enemy in Australian TV – and the complicity of screenwritershttps://overland.org.au/2019/05/islamophobia-as-antagonist-the-enemy-within-australian-tv-drama/ …

"What drives my work now, and what I think is a big question for us post-#MeToo, is the potential for erotica and sex-fiction writing and reading to play a part in creating a non-fiction world, or a new sexual reality for women."https://overland.org.au/2019/05/how-reading-and-writing-erotica-could-revolutionise-sexual-ethics-for-women/ …

"My aim is to constantly challenge the authority of rules that are not made for women’s sexuality. Throughout my life, I have consistently been harmed by these rules." Victoria Brooks on the power of reading - and writing - erotica.https://overland.org.au/2019/05/how-reading-and-writing-erotica-could-revolutionise-sexual-ethics-for-women/ …

"Worker democracy provides for greater resilience in the face of adversity. Workers grappling with a period of economic difficulty are far less likely to initiate layoffs. Instead, they tend to preserve jobs through temporarily scaling back working hours."https://overland.org.au/2019/05/the-cooperative-solution-to-stagnant-wages/ …

"There is no reason why Australia cannot build up a worker cooperative sector employing tens of thousands of people in well-paid secure jobs over the next decade." Godfrey Moase (@gemoase) on the solution to stagnant wages and precarity.https://overland.org.au/2019/05/the-cooperative-solution-to-stagnant-wages/ …

"By debunking the framing of Vincent van Gogh’s lifelong struggle with poverty and mental illness, Gadsby leads Nanette into a wider and intensely personal interrogation of the damage that comes with perceiving artists as separate, ‘outside the world’."https://overland.org.au/2019/05/syphilis-envy-the-burden-of-creativity-and-hannah-gadsbys-nanette/ …

"Syphilis acquired twisted positive connotations within European artistic circles during the Victorian era." Ellen Muller on the historical background to Hannah Gadsby's NANETTE.https://overland.org.au/2019/05/syphilis-envy-the-burden-of-creativity-and-hannah-gadsbys-nanette/ …

"This trauma is not separate from you. It is being perpetrated against our bodies and minds in your name. It forms who you as a country are and will become." A second despatch from Manus Island by Shamindan Kanapathi.https://overland.org.au/2019/05/our-self-harm-your-free-speech-an-open-letter/ …

"We have no choice but to remain as calm as possible and keep our dignity as we plead with Australia’s politicians and people to show some compassion." The Federal Election seen from Manus Island in the words of Shamindan Kanapathi.https://overland.org.au/2019/05/six-years-waiting-for-freedom-a-response-to-the-federal-election-from-manus-island/ …

"Perhaps ‘my wife doesn’t work’ is a good example of an international feminist joke." Rosa Campbell on Marie Kondo, housework and the climate crisis.https://overland.org.au/2019/05/oh-the-messes-we-make-tidying-up-and-sparking-joy-with-marie-kondo-in-a-time-of-crisis/ …

"In every episode of Tidying up with Marie Kondo, a woman cries." Rosa Campbell (@rrrosavalerie) on what Kondo has to say about the unpaid work women do in the home, and the climate crisis.https://overland.org.au/2019/05/oh-the-messes-we-make-tidying-up-and-sparking-joy-with-marie-kondo-in-a-time-of-crisis/ …

Arjun Rajkhowa chronicles the climate of violence and intimidation in the lead up to the Indian elections.https://overland.org.au/2019/05/fear-loathing-and-the-culture-wars-the-2019-indian-elections/ …