Tag: Mothers
Judy Watson & Helen Johnson – explore colonisation
Judy Watson & Helen Johnson: the red thread of history, loose ends
10 September – 12 November 2022
Two of Australia’s leading and celebrated artists, Judy Watson and...
Judy Watson & Helen Johnson: the red thread of history, loose ends
10 September – 12 November 2022
Two of Australia’s leading and celebrated artists, Judy Watson and Helen Johnson, explore complex and varied perspectives on colonisation,...
Sunday essay: single parenting with a disability – how my 9-year-old daughter became my carer in shining armour
Shakira Hussein (seated in chair) with daughter Adalya Nash Hussein. Photo by Leah Jing McIntosh. Author provided
My daughter started to describe me as disabled long before I...
From hidden women to influencers and individuals – putting mothers in the frame
Dorothea Lange’s famous Migrant Mother portrait,
showing a mother of seven children in California, 1936.
US Library of Congress/Flickr
There are images of her everywhere, especially...
Mums with an intellectual disability already risk family violence and losing their kids. Coronavirus could make things worse
KieferPix/Shutterstock
The coronavirus pandemic is keeping us at home due to widespread unemployment, school closures and social distancing. This has already led to concerns about...
POTATO JACK
Potato Jack often left home without his jacket on. His mum warned him he’d catch his death, but she was wrong. Just like she...