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Mother State: Helen Charman in conversation with Hannah Proctor
Thursday, 29th August , 5:30pm to 6:30pm
On the launch date of her new book Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood, Helen Charman in conversation with Hannah Proctor will discuss the political act of motherhood. Mother State takes us from Women’s Liberation to austerity, meeting mothers fighting for alternative futures: lesbian squatters, antinuclear campaigners, wives of striking miners and teenage mothers protesting housing cuts. Can we imagine a world where mothering ceases to be a solely individual responsibility and becomes one of shared possibility for people of any gender, with or without children of their own?
Helen Charman is a Fellow and College Teaching Officer in English at Clare College, University of Cambridge. Her critical writing has been published in the Guardian, The White Review, Another Gaze, and The Stinging Fly among others. As a poet, Charman was shortlisted for the White Review Poet’s Prize in 2017 and for the 2019 Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment, and has published four poetry pamphlets, most recently In the Pleasure Dairy. Charman volunteers as a birth companion in Glasgow.
Hannah Proctor is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, interested in histories and theories of radical psychiatry. She is a member of the editorial collective behind Radical Philosophy, and has been published in Jacobin, Tribune, The New Inquiry and elsewhere. Hannah Proctor’s recent book Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat draws on historical resources to find out how revolutionaries and activists of the past kept a grip on hope.
Mother State: Helen Charman in conversation with Hannah Proctor
Thursday, 29th August , 5:30pm to 6:30pm
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