Episode description
Frequently described as victims, as failures or even as women without morals, single mothers often get a bad rap. They are part of Australian statistics. Of the 1.1 million single parents, 83 percent are women, they are more likely to live in poverty and up to 65 percent have fled violent relationships. In this frank conversation, three women thrash and burn some of the assumptions about single mothers.
Recorded at the All about Women Festival by the Sydney Opera House
Speakers
BarkaaMalyangapa, Barkindji woman, musician and rapper
Karen Pickeringfeminist writer and organiser
Edwina Throsby (host)producer, curator and former head of ABC Managing Editor of Arts.
Further Information
About Bloody Time by Karen Pickering & Jane Bennett
Doing It: Women Tell the Truth about Great Sex. UQP Edited by Karen Pickering