Shame, secrecy and the private world of pulling with Adele Dumont

Differently Brained

About our guest

Adele Dumont is an Australian writer and critic. Her work has appeared in Griffith Review, Meanjin, Southerly, ABR, and Sydney Review of Books. Adele’s first book, No Man is an Island, is an account of her experiences teaching English to asylum seekers in detention. Her second book, The Pulling, is a work of memoir charting her experience of trichotillomania.

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• Adele's website

Representations

• Bezoar by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rahul Bery

Resources

• TrichStop website
• TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors website

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