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'Reflect, listen and learn': Melissa Lucashenko busts colonial myths and highlights Indigenous heroes

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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Melissa Lucashenko’s latest novel, Edenglassie, takes the reader on a journey through magnificent and heartbreaking dual narratives set five generations apart.

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  • Melissa Lucashenko’s latest novel, Edenglassie, takes the reader on a journey through magnificent and heartbreaking dual narratives set five generations apart.
  • Review: Edenglassie – Melissa Lucashenko (UQP) Lucashenko gifts us with characters impossible to not to invest in.
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    With wit and tenderness, Miles Franklin winner Melissa Lucashenko writes back to the 'whiteman's world'

It’s Granny Eddie’s world

    • The first character we meet is Granny Eddie, who has been hospitalised after a fall.
    • Winona laments not seeing her Granny Eddie enough, while also trying to find a job, disrupt the colony and make sure her granny is safe and cared for.
    • Respectful, kind and considerate, he is trying his best to care for Granny Eddie – and finds himself pushing professional boundaries as he falls head over heels for fiery Winona.
    • She and Dr Johnny have much to learn from each other as they bond over their care for Granny Eddie.

Shifting time

    • Lucashenko transports you, shifting through time.
    • In 1844, we meet Mulanyin, saltwater man, whose inner complexities are explored in depth as he learns the Law and lessons from Country and Ancestors.
    • With that thought, the boy had the electric realisation that all his life he had been eating the decisions of his Ancestors.
    • With that thought, the boy had the electric realisation that all his life he had been eating the decisions of his Ancestors.
    • I am reminded of the poem, The Past, by the late Oodgeroo Noonuccal:
      Let no one say the past is dead.
    • Haunted by tribal memories, I know
      This little now, this accidental present
      Is not the all of me, whose long making
      Is so much of the past.

‘Your body is not your own’

    • In the present, Winona and Granny Eddie interact and relate with Māori mob, through shared understandings of birthing practices and opposition to white cultural appropriation.
    • I found myself laughing, crying and fighting off goosebumps as I read.
    • There were moments when I had to put the book down, to sit with what I was reading.
    • It is clear Lucashenko has done extensive research to position this historical fiction through past and present Magandjin localities.
    • This is further evidenced by Lucashenko’s extensive acknowledgments and thanks to contributors and knowledge holders in the book’s author notes.

Children's Tumor Foundation Announces Nearly 500 Architectural Icons Around the World to Shine a Light on NF on World NF Awareness Day

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023
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NEW YORK, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Children's Tumor Foundation announces nearly 500 world-famous buildings, bridges and architectural icons are participating in this year's Shine a Light on NF campaign and will show their support in the global fight against NF by lighting up in blue and green, the official colors of the NF cause. NF is a group of genetic conditions that affects 4 million people around the world and causes tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body. It can lead to blindness, deafness, bone abnormalities, disfigurement, learning disabilities, disabling pain, and cancer. There is no cure yet, but this campaign raises awareness and communicates the need for scientific research funding into NF.

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  • There is no cure yet, but this campaign raises awareness and communicates the need for scientific research funding into NF.
  • There is no cure, but this campaign raises awareness and communicates the need for scientific research funding into NF.
  • Launched by the Children's Tumor Foundation in 2014 to increase public knowledge of this rare disease, the Shine a Light on NF campaign has grown substantially over the years.
  • The Children's Tumor Foundation partners with NF organizations, medical and research institutions, and corporate and media partners around the world to expand awareness globally.