by Laura | Sep 11, 2025
After many years as a social activist, writer and researcher on reproductive choice and the right to control one’s reproductive life, as I have gotten older (and with the death of both of my parents), I have found myself delving into control at the end of one’s life...
by Laura | Jan 17, 2025
Review by Brandye Nobiling From the first essay entitled “Famous Last Words” to the last entitled “DINKS on a Plane,” Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent, edited by New Zealanders Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien, and Kathryn Van Beek, gives...
by Laura | Feb 29, 2024
Review by Nicole Louie In Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine, Olivia Campbell tells the story of three courageous women who fought for their medical education and degrees in the mid-1800s. They are Elizabeth Blackwell,...
by Laura | Aug 5, 2022
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 Laura | May 4, 2022
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...
