Giovanni Tiso
@gtiso
Online magazine editor, @OverlandJournal. Bylines at New Humanist, Pantograph Punch, New Inquiry, Popula, Sport. Translator. He/him. @gtiso on bluesky also.
“The vote was called, the hands went up. Strike action it was.” Union organiser Shane Reside on the collective agreement won by Painters & Dockers working on Garden Island, and what it means for the rights of workers and migrants. overland.org.au/2025/07/the-pa…
“The collective noun for landlord is a major party” Our latest Friday poem — the first one selected by our new poetry editor Elena Gomez — is “Late night shopping?” by Dan Hogan. overland.org.au/2025/06/late-n…
“Before anything further was said, I could guess the nature of the complaint and pinpoint the offending teaching material to which it referred.” A case study on academic censorship by Zain Swaleh overland.org.au/2025/06/whose-…
New Zealanders are lucky to have premium butter as their only option, says fucking idiot who can't help himself. rnz.co.nz/news/business/…
“The rise in autistic self-identification with rigid lists of behaviours and “symptoms” is at odds with the utopian intentions of the neurodiversity movement.” Clem Bastow and Ali Schnabel on online neurodiversity in late capitalism. overland.org.au/2025/07/beyond…
“Shane Jones is described as a New Zealand First MP who "supports companies that support him ".” Hey @mangonui08 you really ought to sue these people, this is the most succinct definition of “corrupt” I have seen in all my days. rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/…
"So, let me say that I’ve been working on this field of famine, food crisis and humanitarian action for more than 40 years, and there is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is…
“There can be no true justice and accountability while police are permitted to investigate the actions of their colleagues in relation to complaints and deaths in police custody.” Maggie Munn and Monique Hurley on the Kumanjayi Walker inquest. overland.org.au/2025/07/kumanj…
“My hand hovers above the dog lead. I close my eyes. Pippa is _his_ dog. I can’t steal his dog.” Our latest #fridayfiction is INNER ANTS, by Caitlin Mahony. overland.org.au/2025/07/inner-…
“Our universities are employing police-state tactics to discipline and punish students and staff for their opposition to the Gaza genocide.” James McVicar on the findings of the People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine. overland.org.au/2025/07/the-pe…
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my actions.
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“ROCK FLIGHT urges its reader to turn the object of the poem into another kind of tool in which a poem is not just a poem but an action.” Micaela Sahhar’s review of Hasib Hourani’s debut poem is also a meditation on liberation and resistance. overland.org.au/2025/07/poetry…
This one is quite dear to me: I have enormous respect for John and his thoughts on language and translation.
“What greater challenge could there be than to translate non-human into human, to breathe fresh vitality into a desiccated husk of information?” John Jamieson on Walter Benjamin, storytelling and the disembodied language of AI. overland.org.au/2025/06/humani…
oops quiet bit out loud there m8
Gary Mond, chair of the National Jewish Assembly, says Bob Vylan's actions at Glastonbury are "absolutely sick". "This all began several years ago... when the England football team started taking the knee to Black Lives Matter." 📺youtu.be/WZQIsGIYwrg @ThatAlexWoman
Shillan Shebly, Natalie Ironfield and Elizabeth Strakosch write about the policing of Palestine solidarity and the intensifying climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne, all “operating in the name of ‘antiracism’.” overland.org.au/2025/06/rebran…
Submission against the Regulatory Standards Bill uploaded. Opposing this government seems to require a lot of admin and I hate it.
“Ensuring the way forward for the CFMEU involves more rank-and-file participation, more democracy and more transparency.” An essay by Sarah Missen beautifully illustrated by our Sam Wallman. overland.org.au/2025/06/a-demo…
Of note: Shane Jones, who's one of the biggest turncoats we have, was part of that government.
