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.
Jinghua Qian and Liz Crash