Skin in the Game: Mothering and Bodies
Series
When
Sunday, 5 Mar 2023, 02:00pm - 03:00pm
Event Status
Past event

Join a panel of body image and disability advocates for a fearless conversation about the ideas, expectations and pressures around pregnancy, birth and mothering bodies.
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About
Pregnant bodies change. Fact. But what is the true physical cost of pregnancy and birth? How does a changing body impact sex, desire and emotions? And why does society hold such rigid expectations on pregnant people and parents to look a certain way?
April Hélène-Horton, also known as The Bodzilla, advocates for body acceptance and fat positivity. Lefa Singleton Norton is a writer and producer who recently wrote about her experience parenting with a disability in We’ve Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents. Frankie van Kan is a writer, performance artist, sex worker and parent.
For this M/Other event, they come together to discuss navigating changing bodies, desire, stereotypes around fatness and motherhood, and the realities of parenting with a chronic illness in a wide-ranging conversation hosted by poet, performer and advocate Eleanor Jackson.
Please note Vanessa Muradian is no longer appearing in this event.
Conversations in M/OTHER may include references to topics such as mental health, reproductive rights, and childbirth. If you need assistance with any of these issues, you can learn more and seek advice via the Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE), Perintal Anxiety & Depression Australia (PANDA) and Beyond Blue.
Accessibility

Wheelchair accessible

Accessible toilets available
Please notify us of all access requirements when booking online so we can assist you with your visit. If you require further information, please contact reception on 03 9094 7800 or ticketing@wheelercentre.com.
Official Bookseller
The official bookseller for M/OTHER is Neighbourhood Books.
About M/OTHER
M/OTHER is a weekend of fearless conversation about the ways ‘motherhood’ is experienced, portrayed and labelled by those who mother, have been mothered, wish they were mothers, do not identify as mothers, cannot or do not want to mother, and by society at-large.
Featuring

April Hélène-Horton is a writer, public speaker, actor and model; you might know her as The Bodzilla. April is all about fat joy – a passionate advocate for intersectional experiences, she’s a noted MC and keynote speaker who gives people the confidence to take up the space they deserve. Her s... Read more

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), and A Leaving, both by Vagabond Press. Her live album, One Night Wonders, is produc... Read more

Lefa Singleton Norton is a writer and creative producer. Her work centres on disability, feminism and motherhood.

Frankie van Kan, aka Frankie Valentine, is an interdisciplinary queer artist working with live performance, costume, the written word and dance. Writer, sex worker and parent living in Naarm, she is devoted to spreading the gospel of pleasure through her work both onstage and off. Her practise explo... Read more
Location
176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000
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