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'I feel like I need to come out every day. I’m pushing the stroller, fishing out the dummy, pointing out dogs, but this isn’t what it looks like. At the playground or the checkout, I take the nods and maternal solidarity, staying inside the parenting illusion until it feels slightly disingenuous. I am not the mother. I am an aunt instead, if ‘instead’ is even the right word. There are categories – infertile, childless by circumstance, childless by choice – and within these, more specific groups like the Birthstrikers, who are publicly delaying procreation until there is climate action. Being an aunt of the Anthropocene is none of these, and all of them at once.' (Introduction)
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Child Adjacent
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Child Adjacent
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26342274
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Awards
- 2023 runner-up The Calibre Prize
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https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2023/june-2023-no-454/990-june-2023-no-454/10308-child-adjacent-by-bridget-vincent
Child Adjacent
Australian Book Review
Australian Book Review
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- Ballarat, Ballarat area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,
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