Sonya Heaney Author

Historical author with HarperCollins/HQN. Raised Ukrainian harpercollins.com.au harpercollins.com harpercollins.co.uk sonyaheaney.com

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Australian rainbow lorikeet in Canberra. June 2025. X

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Galah in Canberra, Australia. June 2025. X

[mariacallous]

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Portrait of Lesya Ukrainka by Fotiy Krasytskyi. 1904.

Lesya Ukrainka (Леся Українка, born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, 1871 – 1913) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and female rights activist.

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Early 20th century postcard of Ukrainian women in traditional dress. X

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Kangaroo, Canberra, Australia. Winter 2025. X

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The Aurora Australis over Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. X

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Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Arkhypenko (1887-1964) his studio.

Decolonising culture: Ukrainian artists, banned and stolen by Russia.

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Climbing Syvulia Velyka in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine. 1970s. X

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8th June 1956: Pupils of one of the kindergartens of the Bila Tserkva district of the Kyiv region of Ukraine.

[glorious-spoon]

certainly not a new sentiment but i am becoming increasingly sour on the entire concept of 'consuming content'. you're not reading a book or watching a show or listening to music or looking at art, you're consuming content. it's such a weird, bland, homogenizing way of talking about art, and i get that it exists as a shorthand, but i'm not at all convinced it's a good or useful one

[5soswfttwtaf]

getting this news in real time was horrifying bc at first we were laughing at them like oh they knew how many soldiers they were gonna lose and came prepared but then Bucha happened, Mariupol happened, and the moment we realised it was for us made my blood run cold

[snovyda]

Same as when their authorities published instructions on how to dig mass graves. We thought it was also due to them preparing for losses, but it was all planned for us. A lot of us did end up in those mass graves, in Kyiv region, in Izium, in Mariupol, but they had plans for do much more...

[wordswithoutaworld]

I’m ashamed that this fact — even though I read those news reports at the time — faded into the background in my mind over time.

But at the same time, you realize how huge the whole SYSTEM of genocide working against us is, that sometimes you can’t even keep in your head all the methods Russians use to get rid of you, to destroy you completely.

Meet the incinerator IN-50.1K — a mobile crematorium designed for the disposal of human remains.

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Emus in the snow around Mount Hotham in Australia's Victorian Alps. X

[catchymemes]

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Winter fog over the valleys of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

9th June 2019

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Ukrainian actress Natalia Doroshenko. Early 1900s. X

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Mulligans Flat Woodland Sanctuary in Canberra, Australia.

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