Hot pod summer: Carly Findlay and Sam van Zweden at the Sydney Writers Festival

Remember that window in 2021 when there were few covid cases, no lockdowns and people could travel across state borders? Yeah! That actually happened, and during that blessed window, we hosted a show, live, from the Sydney Writers Festival. Ok sure, BW was beamed in via a giant screen on stage, but three out of four people on a stage ain’t bad. In this RN summer highlight, BW + BL talk to Carly Findlay, editor of Growing Up Disabled in Australia, and Sam van Zweden, the author of Eating With My Mouth Open in a conversation covering the body, disability, fatness – and the medicalisation, language and politics around these things. If you need support or to talk to someone. The Butterfly Foundation is a site where you can find resources for eating disorders and body image: www.butterfly.org.au Lifeline is also available 24 hours: https://www.lifeline.org.au/