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The Upside of Downs  goes to air at 9.30pm, Tuesday, October 20 on ABC TV and iview. Read Fiona Place’s book  Portrait of the Artist’s Mother  to read more about the issues of prenatal testing and raising Fraser, an award-winning artist.

The Upside of Downs goes to air at 9.30pm, Tuesday, October 20 on ABC TV and iview. Read Fiona Place’s book Portrait of the Artist’s Mother to read more about the issues of prenatal testing and raising Fraser, an award-winning artist.

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Portrait of the Artist's Mother: Dignity, Creativity and Disability
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Fiona Place

I am seen by many as a danger. As having failed to understand the new rules, the new paradigm of successful motherhood.

A memoir and an examination of the politics of disability. Fiona Place describes the pressure from medical institutions to undergo screening during pregnancy and the traumatic nature and assumptions that a child with Trisomy 21 should not live, even though people with Down syndrome do live rich and productive lives. Fiona's son, Fraser, has become an artist and his prize-winning paintings have been exhibited in galleries in Sydney and Canberra. How does a mother get from the grieving silence of the birthing room through the horrified comments of other mothers to the applause at gallery openings?

This is a story of courage, love and commitment to the idea that all people, including those who are 'less than perfect', have a right to be welcomed into this increasingly imperfect world.

2019 | ISBN 9781925581751 | Paperback | 234 x 153 mm | 312 pp

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I want everyone to know that people with Down syndrome are capable of living in the world and reaching their goals. I want their voices to be heard and to make the world a better place for them.
— Actor Julia Hales

Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life   by Sheila Jeffreys in The Australian 5th September 2020. Subscribers can read  here .

Trigger Warning: My Lesbian Feminist Life by Sheila Jeffreys in The Australian 5th September 2020. Subscribers can read here.


Murmurations by Carol Lefevre

One True Note. A novella soars: Review by Josephine Taylor

A full page review in the August edition of the Australian Book Review.

Carol Lefevre has shown herself adept at exploring connection and alienation in different genres. In The Happiness Glass (2018), the ambiguous zone between fiction and memoir forms a creative space within which Lefevre plumbs the intricacies of motherhood and loss; home and exile. Murmurations is imbued with similar tropes, the slight heft of the book belying its ethical density and the scope of its narrative ambition.

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