Underfoot: The Facility - Track 2 - Good breeding

Tuesday, 6 August 2024 - 3:00pm
Image of a white woman and man in profile, looking very Aryan, from a public health ad on venereal disease.

What does it mean to be good, to be respectable, to be legitimate? These concepts have long been used to police women’s sexuality. The Fairhaven clinic at Yarra Bend Park – ostensibly a treatment centre for sexually-transmitted infections – was one of many institutions that incarcerated women and put their children up for forced adoption, under the guise of charity and care.

In this episode, Liz and Jinghua talk about 200 years of whorephobia and slutshaming in the colony, and how in every era, bad girls found ways and means of their own.

Postcard of Yarra Bend Park with halftone effect.
Friday
Through multimedia storytelling, Underfoot: The Facility tells the story of carceral logics over the last 180 years and reveals whispers of resistance that still resonate today.

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Jinghua Qian and Liz Crash

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