Samuel Leighton-Dore, author of Wow It’s All A Lot

Differently Brained

In this episode, Jacinta and Lachlan chat with Samuel Leighton-Dore.

About our guest

Samuel Leighton-Dore is a visual artist and writer. His book How To Be A Big Strong Man brought accessibility and humour to topics of masculinity and mental health. Samuel has explored these themes at great length, particularly as experienced by members of the LGBTIQ+ community across his multifaceted creative practice, winning Visual Artist of the Year at the 2019 Honour Awards and producing work for organisations including Equality Australia, ACON, Twenty10, ReachOut and, most recently, writing and producing a series of short animations for men’s health organisation Man Cave. His ceramic work has featured on the cover of the Journal of Australian Ceramics and exhibited as part of the North Queensland Ceramic Awards.

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Representations & resources

• Samuel's website, instagram, twitter and newsletter
• Sad Man Studio website
• Samuel's books How To Be A Big Strong Man and Wow It's All A Lot
• You Can't Ask That Obsessive Compulsive Disorder episode
• Australian Survivor episodes
• How Villains Are Made by Parvati Shallow
• Adult Fantasy by Briohny Doyle

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About the podcast

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