The Mother Load: Motherhood, Trauma and Resilience

This conversation originally scheduled to take place on Monday 2 August will now be released as a podcast only. This is in response to current health advice and restrictions on interstate travel.  While it is unfortunate that we can’t present this conversation in person we invite you to subscribe to the Wheeler Centre podcast to hear this conversation.

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What happens when trauma intersects with motherhood – and how do mothers and children find the strength to endure, survive and thrive? 

 In her memoir The Mother Wound, artist, lawyer and advocate Amani Haydar tells the heartbreaking story of her mother’s death through a brutal act of violence perpetrated by her father. Award-winning writer Alice Pung’s latest novel, One Hundred Days, examines the faultlines of love and control in a complex mother-daughter relationship.

Both women are mothers themselves, and write with nuance and compassion about the intersections and complexities of culture, class, and family. In this Broadly Speaking event, Haydar and Pung will discuss the extraordinary resilience mothers and children demonstrate in the face of trauma with host Susan Carland.

Content warning: This event includes discussion of family violence and other topics audience members may find confronting.

The bookseller for this event is Neighbourhood Books.

 The Broadly Speaking series is proudly supported by Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and family and the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund