Published 14 February 20111 June 2012 · Writing / Main Posts i is the revolution Maxine Beneba Clarke your transaction has been processed by paypal this purchase will appear on your credit card bill as item: revolution number of items: 1 cost: $AUD priceless the revolution thanks you for choosing itself the revolution is downloading onto your ipad & being transferred onto your iphone it is an irevolution the revolution is i i is the revolution the revolution is available in e-book form the revolution/s full text is available for 99c on amazon the revolution comes in 4 short podcasts that can be worn as a USB bracelet the revolution hz been turned on you must follow the revolution it will be abbreviated to fit its own twitter feed: the revolution will drop all vowels / capital letters & apostrophes & present itself in short profundities of 140 characters or less join @the revolution as it LOLs and WTFs the revolution will have a GSOH / as the mo fo moves in & takes over cyberspace dig the revolution take out a sub: the revolution’s RSS feed will bitch-slap your inbox every night at around about 12 o/clock do not reply to the revolution do not trash the revolution the revolution is not spam you cannot click here to unsubscribe to the revolution do not drag the revolution into your junk mail can you cannot RTS the revolution: the revolution is anonymous the revolution lives nowhere the revolution is every return address forward the revolution to everyone you know: the revolution is a virus no norton has an anti for infection is the revolution/s cure befriend the revolution graffiti the revolution/s wall the revolution invites all 500 million fans to the facebook event of itself rsvp to the revolution/s event it is the revolution / show yourself attending the revolution will remind you of itself by SMS the revolution has a silent number bt you can forward the revolution on by text to find the revolution type: revolution into your GPS give the revolution it/s own ringtone do not turn the revolution off the revolution must be able to reach you at all times & at full volume the revolution is here the revolution is real the revolution is now the revolution has just been wiki-leaked the revolution does not exist in second life download the revolution/s soundtrack from myspace you have just read the revolution i is the revolution i is the revolution i is the revolution the revolution has just been blogged Maxine Beneba Clarke Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian author and slam poet of Afro- Caribbean descent. Her short fiction collection Foreign Soil won the 2015 ABIA Award for Best Literary Fiction and the 2015 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Her memoir, The Hate Race, her poetry collection Carrying the World, and her first children’s book, The Patchwork Bike, will be published by Hachette in late 2016. More by Maxine Beneba Clarke › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays First published in Overland Issue 228 28 March 202428 March 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. First published in Overland Issue 228 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.