Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 28 April
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The way we live is ever-changing, but societal expectations about women’s relationships to motherhood have remained stiflingly rigid. Too often, popular narratives around motherhood disregard the varied and often challenging experiences that inform a person’s decision and opportunity to parent (or not). In this event, three remarkable writers and thinkers from different backgrounds discuss their recent books about the political and personal implications of the journey towards, around or away from motherhood.
Join Gina Rushton, Sian Prior, and Natalie Kon-yu for an inclusive and interrogative discussion that considers the complexities of contemporary motherhood. Hosted by Eleanor Jackson.
Content note: this event may include discussion of topics that some audience members may find difficult or sensitive, such as fertility and medical procedures.
The bookseller for this event is Neighbourhood Books.
Featuring
Natalie Kon-yu
Natalie Kon-yu is a writer, academic and editor whose work has been published nationally and internationally. She is the co-commissioning editor of #Me Too: Stories from the Australian Women’s Movement (Picador, 2019), Mothers and Others: Why Not All Women are Mothers and All Mothers are Not the Same (Pan Macmillan, 2015) and Just Between Us: Australian Writers Tell the Truth about Female Friendship (Pan Macmillan, 2013), and is the author of The Cost of Labour: How Women are Trapped by the Politics of Pregnancy and Parenting (Affirm Press, 2022). She lives and works in Naarm.
Sian Prior
Sian Prior has had a multi-faceted career in the arts, education and media, as a writer, broadcaster, teacher and singer. She is best known as a former presenter on ABC RN, ABC Classic and ABC Melbourne, and a columnist ...
Gina Rushton
Gina Rushton is the author of The Most Important Job in the World and news editor of Crikey. Her work has been published in The Monthly, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Australia Associated Press, The Saturday Paper, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian.
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Eleanor Jackson
Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer and sometimes community radio broadcaster. She is the author of Gravidity and Parity, winner of Small Press Network’s Book of the Year (2022), ...