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Vanessa Cavanagh

The author’s children at the National Indigenous Fire Workshop Dhungala 2019. Lauren Tynan, Author provided

This grandmother tree connects me to Country. I cried when I saw her burned

Vanessa Cavanagh, The Conversation, January 2020

In this essay, Vanessa Cavanagh beautifully illustrates the interconnectivity of all things (the land, plant humans, celestial beings and animals). There is love within these relationships, but also obligations of reciprocity. Cavanagh calls for the centring of Indigenous knowledges as we face the impacts of climate change, and in this way articulates the all-encompassing nature of Indigenous love – love for community, the future and for the land and all things.

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