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The structures of our families have become more bespoke, complex, sometimes messier. Some find comfort in a 'chosen family', choosing friends over blood-relatives as kin. Patchwork families are increasingly common. You can a birth mother, a genetic mother and a social mother. How is the family changing and with what impacts? Meet three writers here to help you re-imagine the ties that bind. Presented at the Byron Writers Festival, supported by the Byron Shire Council.

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Kon KarapanagiotidisCEO and Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre; author of A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia

Marina KamenevFormer deputy arts editor of the Moscow Times, author of Kin

Molly SchmidtWriter and journalist, author of Salt River Road

Rosemarie MilsomFounding director of Newcastle Writers Festival, journalist and broadcaster

Also listen to Future Tense: The greatest demographic shift in a century is being ignored: single living

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Manage episode 471780207 series 5381
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The structures of our families have become more bespoke, complex, sometimes messier. Some find comfort in a 'chosen family', choosing friends over blood-relatives as kin. Patchwork families are increasingly common. You can a birth mother, a genetic mother and a social mother. How is the family changing and with what impacts? Meet three writers here to help you re-imagine the ties that bind. Presented at the Byron Writers Festival, supported by the Byron Shire Council.

Speakers

Kon KarapanagiotidisCEO and Founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre; author of A Seat at My Table: Philoxenia

Marina KamenevFormer deputy arts editor of the Moscow Times, author of Kin

Molly SchmidtWriter and journalist, author of Salt River Road

Rosemarie MilsomFounding director of Newcastle Writers Festival, journalist and broadcaster

Also listen to Future Tense: The greatest demographic shift in a century is being ignored: single living

  continue reading

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