by Ali Hall Prepare to be taken on a journey of self-discovery, personal knowing, and spirituality in this debut book by Jennifer Flint. Wild Egg hooked me in from the start. Opening with a powerful Mary Oliver quote sets the bar high. Our protagonist, Hollie, lets...
by Melanie Holmes When SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, reproductive freedom activists wondered, “What now?” The answer: there have been people preparing for a post-Roe America for decades, and Robin Marty’s handbook outlines the way forward. Marty...
by Melanie Holmes Jessica Nabongo had it all. The corporate job with great pay and benefits, a company car, and an expense account for business trips. But it didn’t make her happy— not in the way she had expected. So, she traded it all for a job in Japan teaching...
Davinia Thornley, a colleague of mine, has a book that just came out: Childfree across the Disciplines: Academic & Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children. I had the pleasure of interviewing her about the book: What inspired you to do this collection of...
by Ali Hall With a Foreword by Australian scholar Patricia MacCormack who doesn’t mince her words, Do Childfree People Have Better Sex?: A Feminist’s Journey in the Childfree Movement hooked me in from the start. It seems author Dr. Verena Brunschweiger is a...
@Paula_JKnight And trying to heal your inner child by having a child is a selfish act. To put that on a kid sure is not thinking about the kid first. One can argue that a person is not ready to have a kid Until they deal with healing their own inner child. #pronatalism
As you know ; ) points to the deep #pronatalist assumption that we are all supposed to want children. If we think we don't, we also don't know our own mind, bcz we will eventually realize we do want them. Hogwash, but so ingrained! twitter.com/ChildFreeBC/st…
