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AFL, Secrets and Living Authentically: Danielle Laidley’s groundbreaking 'Don’t Look Away'

AFL, Secrets and Living Authentically: Danielle Laidley’s groundbreaking 'Don’t Look Away'

Update: 2025-10-01
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Critic and memoirist Sam Elkin joins Rebecca to discuss Danielle Laidley’s unflinching autobiography, Don’t Look Away. A powerful account of a compartmentalised life, this book follows Laidley as she reckons with her gender identity over many decades inside the deeply masculine and heteronormative institution of the AFL. 


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AFL, Secrets and Living Authentically: Danielle Laidley’s groundbreaking 'Don’t Look Away'

AFL, Secrets and Living Authentically: Danielle Laidley’s groundbreaking 'Don’t Look Away'

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