Amani Haydar on 'The Mother Wound'

We know we say this about every episode of Booksmart...but this is a really special episode.

This week, social worker and former Wayside Aboriginal Cultural Centre Manager Cassandra Ashcroft interviews Amani Haydar about her incredible book, The Mother Wound.  

Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mother in a brutal act of domestic violence perpetrated by her father. Five months pregnant at the time, her own perception of how she wanted to mother (and how she had been mothered) was shaped by this devastating murder.

After her mother's death, Amani began reassessing everything she knew of her parents' relationship. They had been unhappy for so long - should she have known that it would end like this? A lawyer by profession, she also saw the holes in the justice system for addressing and combating emotional abuse and coercive control.

In this moving discussion, Cassandra and Amani talk about their own lived experience, the power of female resilience, and the role of motherhood in the home and in the world. This is truly a conversation not to be missed.