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2 You tell her you were born in Aotearoa and that you have Maori and Pakeha heritage, that her poetry/prose has given you oxygen. Cultural Studies Review, 25:2, 250-252. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr. v25i2.6915 ISSN 1837-8692 | Published by UTS ePRESS | https://epress. lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index. php/csrj CULTURE REVIEW Lived Experience Baden Offord Curtin University Corresponding author: Baden Offord: baden.offord@curtin.edu.au DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v25i2.6915 Article history: Accepted 1/11/2019; Published 22/11/2019 Studying is above all thinking about experience, and thinking about experience is the best way to think accurately. Your own survival of a family template of suicide did not come through mental health institutional care nor mental health services, but through friendships and connections, and understanding the value of that lived experience. 1 You have just thanked Claudia Rankine for her mesmerising book Citizen, which has catalysed your interrogations of oppression, power and agency with and through a critical as well as lyrical passion for multiple ways of knowing. [Extracted from the article]