Published 3 September 20203 October 2020 · Poetry / Reviews / Main Posts September in poetry Shastra Deo Shastra Deo Shastra Deo was born in Fiji, raised in Melbourne, and lives in Brisbane. Her first book, The Agonist (UQP, 2017), won the 2016 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize and the 2018 ALS Gold Medal. More by Shastra Deo › 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 8 April 20249 April 2024 · Reviews Settlers or workers? Jordan Humphreys’ Indigenous Liberation & Socialism Jon Piccini In Indigenous Liberation & Socialism, historian and activist Jordan Humphreys probes the Australian far left’s evolving attitude towards Indigenous peoples, locating a tradition of working-class solidarity dating back to the 1890s. Humphreys is not blind, however, to the fact that this tradition was a minority perspective, or that solidarity was often clouded by paternalism and assimilatory thinking. 28 March 20249 April 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.