Motherhood conference in April: confirmed speakers include Andrea O’Reilly and me!

February 11, 2011 by blue milk

Mothers at the Margins
6th Australian, International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Motherhood
The University of Queensland, Australia
27-30 April 2011
(Early bird registration closes on 28 February)

I will be speaking about the responses I have received from you lovely readers to my 10 Questions About Your Feminist Motherhood. It won’t be an academic paper as such, more a discussion of some of the key themes I see emerging out of the responses and some of the most interesting insights that have sprung up out of all that. And I don’t know yet which day of the conference program I am scheduled to speak on.. stay tuned. I promise to put notes from my presentation up on my blog after the conference for those who are interested and aren’t able to get to a conference here.

Posted in 10 feminist motherhood questions, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood | 19 Comments

19 Responses

on February 11, 2011 at 4:08 am | Reply Brigid Keely

Congratulations!
on February 11, 2011 at 4:36 am | Reply Stef

SUPERLIKE!
on February 11, 2011 at 8:09 am | Reply Cassandra

Awesome! I am looking forward to those notes (sniff … I’m stateside and can’t afford to go)!
on February 11, 2011 at 9:21 am | Reply Jamie

That is awesome! I wish I could go, but those prices are way, way out of my ability. 🙂 But I’ll cheer you on from the South side!
on February 11, 2011 at 9:33 am | Reply blue milk

Thanks everyone for your support.

Am feeling a little less than honest right now after seeing these gorgeous comments of support. I have spoken at one of these conferences before but I was too wall-flowerish that last time to announce it on my blog.. but this time round I feel obliged to overcome any discomfort in tooting one’s horn as I am, after all, talking about reader responses – feel you kinda have a right to know. Also, would like to meet some of you,
on February 11, 2011 at 9:43 am | Reply Jamie

I see no dishonesty, you never claimed it was your first!

And while I can’t go to the session, I would also gladly meet up in a park somewhere sometime and the kids can go gyre and gimble while we talk.

(Sorry, I have Jabberwocky on the brain today. 🙂 )
on February 11, 2011 at 10:48 am | Reply Catherine

That’s great.

I was to do a presentation too, but now I can’t go – I have a residential school for my uni course at exactly the same time! Very disappointed. I love meeting up with Andrea and other women interested in aspects of mothering. So interesting. I’ll save my presentation for 2013.
on February 11, 2011 at 11:08 pm | Reply PJ

Very exciting! But exactly the days I am working, unfortunately.
on February 12, 2011 at 12:50 am | Reply Alison

Congratulations!! I kinda wish I was in Qld. Or, you know, a mum.
on February 12, 2011 at 11:19 pm | Reply ana australiana

Sounds great, good on you!!

I’m curious about the conference title – do you feel you are a “mother at the margins”? How so? Around being a consciously feminist parent, I guess?
- on February 15, 2011 at 10:27 pm | Reply blue milk
  
  Good question.
  
  I personally don’t identify as someone who is particularly mothering on the margins, but I think feminist parenting is at the margins of parenting… plus, I am just one of many speakers at the conference and some speakers will be talking a lot more about marginalism than I.
on February 16, 2011 at 4:18 am | Reply ana australiana

Well, it’s a great idea and will be great to hear about it on this here interblog.
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on February 25, 2011 at 1:48 am | Reply Jessica Montalino

congrats! what great news and what a fun project to present. i am glad to have been a contributor to this feminist exercise! good luck can’t wait to hear about it.
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