Radio host and writer Jacinta Parsons discusses female ageing and ageism for the final instalment of M/Other’s free Soapbox Series.  

Getting older is inescapable. But what are the political, social and emotional impacts of ageing for women? And why is society so resistant to the idea of women getting older? 

Jacinta Parsons’ latest work A Question of Age confronts these questions head on, exploring ideas such as female rage, social constructs of ageing and how women age.  

Between M/other events, meet us as the Moat as Jacinta Parsons gets on her soapbox to confront expectations around mothers’ ageing, the changes to the motherhood experience that occur as children grow up, and what it means to be a ‘mother of a certain age’. 

This is the third Soapbox event taking place during M/Other. You can also hear from podcaster and writer Madison Griffiths on Friday 3 March and Frankie van Kan on Saturday 4 March.