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SERIES TWO: PLAY ZONE

Living Disgracefully

A conversation between Susan Johnson, Jacinta Parsons and Tracey Spicer

Older women know that our society, smitten with youthfulness, devalues them in ways that can diminish their self-worth. In the second episode of our ‘Play Zone’ series, Susan Johnson, Jacinta Parsons and Tracey Spicer discuss ways to reclaim pride in one’s ageing self – including by living disgracefully.

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Jacinta Parsons

Jacinta Parsons is a broadcaster, writer and public speaker who currently hosts the Afternoon program on ABC Local Radio Melbourne. She has just released her second book, A Question of Age: Women, ageing and the forever self.

Tracey Spicer

Tracey Spicer is a Walkley Award-winning journalist whose latest book is Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future.

Susan Johnson

Novelist Susan Johnson has turned to memoir with Aphrodite’s Breath, which exposes the struggles and joys of moving to a Greek island with her 85-year-old mother, Barbara, without a word of Greek.



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