Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity

Award-winning writer Ellen van Neerven plays football from a young age, learning early on that sport can be a painful & exclusive world. The more they play, the more they realise about sport's troubled relationship with race, gender, & sexuality, questioning what it means to play sport on stolen, sovereign land, especially in the midst of multiple environmental crises. 

With emotional honesty & 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 & used their roles to effect change not only in their own realm, but in society more broadly. Personal Score is a ground-breaking book that confirms, once again, van Neerven' s unrivalled talent, courage & originality.