The structures of families have gotten complex, even messy. Patchwork families are increasingly common. You can a birth mother, a genetic mother and a social mother. People choose friends as kin. How have families and communities changed? 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 

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