The Possibility of the Personal: Sarah Jane Barnett
Civic Square, 101 Wakefield St, Wellington
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Notes on Womanhood started as a personal project –– a way of understanding what womanhood meant for Sarah Jane Barnett through the arrival of middle-age, a hysterectomy and the process of getting to know herself anew. The project transformed into a memoir, a feminist manifesto, a blazing personal meditation and what has been described as ‘a coming-of-middle-age-story’. Join Megan Dunn as she talks to Sarah about how our personal journeys and reckonings can reverberate through our art, expanding the possibilities of the personal and transforming the things we create, including ourselves.
“This book is a conversation with myself about my own womanhood… The act of looking showed me the stitches: Western society's beauty standards, the male gaze, a fear of aging, hair politics, care work, my grandmother, life stage transitions, orca whales and tramping.” – Sarah Jane Barnett
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