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Melanie Mununggurr-Williams Melanie Mununggurr-Williams i(13536053 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Djapu ; Irish ; Scottish
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1 I Run... i "I like to call myself a runner", Melanie Mununggurr-Williams , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Solid Air : Australian and New Zealand Spoken Word 2019; (p. 141-142) Fire Front : First Nations Poetry and Power Today 2020; (p. 150-151) In Your Hands 2020; (p. 78-79)
1 Our Beating Hearts i "In the shadows of 3 colossal meltdowns my prince, the apple of my eye, he rests his weary eyes and sleeps", Melanie Mununggurr-Williams , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2019; (p. 20-21)
1 Wäŋa Marrkapmirr (My Beloved Homeland) i "Baman’ ŋarra marrtjindja", Melanie Mununggurr-Williams , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Poetry in First Languages 2018-2020;
1 Grey Melanie Mununggurr-Williams , 2018 single work life story
— Appears in: Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia 2018; (p. 164-168)

'[...] I once had a friend who said to me, somewhat confused, 'If your mum is white and your dad is black, then why aren't you grey?' I was ten.

'I laugh sometimes when I think of that remark, not because it was humorous but because, funnily enough, that's how my life felt most days. My world was often grey. Every area was a grey area, because of who I was: a grey Aboriginal.' (Introduction)
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