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Girls, Interrupted

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When

Sunday

April 2
11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Where

University of Newcastle NUspace X207
Level 2
Cnr Hunter & Auckland St
Newcastle NSW 2300

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Tickets

Free

Girls, Interrupted

Meg Vertigan’s The Strong Dress and Kate Ryan’s The Golden Book navigate coming-of-age trauma for girls in Australia. Meg’s  protagonist Kate is a fictional teenage patient of a discredited Australian psychiatrist in the era of Cleo’s sealed section and reactive moral panic around female desire. In Kate’s novel, the protagonist Ali revisits an intense childhood friendship in a markedly different era of parenting and understanding of adolescent mental health.

Meg and Kate will unpack the complexities of writing female subjectivity and characterisation with Catharine Coleborne.

The Speakers

Meg Vertigan

Meg Vertigan’s The Strong Dress and Kate Ryan’s The Golden Book navigate coming-of-age trauma for girls in Australia. Meg’s  protagonist Kate is a fictional teenage patient of a discredited Australian…

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Kate Ryan

Meg Vertigan’s The Strong Dress and Kate Ryan’s The Golden Book navigate coming-of-age trauma for girls in Australia. Meg’s  protagonist Kate is a fictional teenage patient of a discredited Australian…

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Catharine Coleborne

Meg Vertigan’s The Strong Dress and Kate Ryan’s The Golden Book navigate coming-of-age trauma for girls in Australia. Meg’s  protagonist Kate is a fictional teenage patient of a discredited Australian…

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