ABSTRACT
This chapter documents and explores the experiences of being mothers to bi-racial children. Both of us are from white Anglo-Celtic backgrounds, educated and middle class, and yet the experiences of being mothers to our children introduced us to new understandings and ways of interacting with Australian society. Using autoethnography, we show the ways in which we were forced to engage not only with the racialised discourses that underpin key social narratives in Australia, but also the habitus of compulsory social institutions such as schools, in ways we had not experienced previously.
