Busting single motherhood myths

Big Ideas

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

Baarka Music