{"product_id":"personal-score","title":"Personal Score","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning writer Ellen van Neerven plays football from a young age, learning early on that sport can be a painful and exclusive world. The more they play, the more they realise about sport’s troubled relationship with race, gender and sexuality – and question what it means to play sport on stolen, sovereign land, especially in the midst of multiple environmental crises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith emotional honesty and searing insight, van Neerven shines a light on sport on this continent from a queer First Nations perspective, revealing how some athletes have long challenged mainstream views and used their roles to effect change not only in their own realm, but in society more broadly.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePersonal Score\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a ground-breaking book that confirms, once again, van Neerven’s unrivalled talent, courage and originality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEllen van Neerven is an award-winning writer of Mununjali Yugambeh and Dutch heritage. Ellen’s first book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeat and Light\u003c\/em\u003e, was the recipient of the David Unaipon Award, the Dobbie Literary Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Indigenous Writers’ Prize. They are the author of two poetry collections: \u003cem\u003eComfort Food\u003c\/em\u003e, which was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize; and \u003cem\u003eThroat\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Kenneth Slessor Prize, the Multicultural NSW Award and Book of the Year in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Their memoir, \u003cem\u003ePersonal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FISH - Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44599927439521,"sku":"","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0413\/0353\/9873\/files\/PersonalScore_a9f1ef51-67f4-41d0-9494-af2bada1f0bc.jpg?v=1788928259","url":"https:\/\/shop.fish.asn.au\/products\/personal-score","provider":"FISH - Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health","version":"1.0","type":"link"}