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OMG somebody (@amazonkindle?) made an AI version o

OMG somebody (@amazonkindle?) made an AI version of Women Without Kids.

PLEASE DO NOT CONFUSE THE TWO 👀

The “book description” is right on point. The “content” … not so much.

While I’m here, you can read slides 4-6 for one of the MYRIAD ways MY VERSION examines the factors behind the “4B” trend (coined by women in S Korea: no marriage, no dating, no sex, no babies - in protest of patriarchal motherhood) that people are saying is trending post-election.

But also: please be VERY careful these days what you read and what you believe ⚡️

#womenwithoutkids #childfree #4b #chillessbychoice #childlessbycircumstance #childlessnotbychoice #birthstrike

In the Sober Curious Facebook group this morning (

In the Sober Curious Facebook group this morning (for whoever needs to hear it here) 🍁

Also, keeping comments off for now 🙏

When I got my U.S. citizenship in 2020 people kept

When I got my U.S. citizenship in 2020 people kept asking me: why??

The previous four years had seen overt racism, sexism, and xenophobia become normalized, as this country veered into extreme polarization and social unrest under the Trump presidency.

By the time I was sworn in, in October 2020, the BLM protests and Covid mask/vax wars were raging, and the Q-Anon conspiracy was peaking. It felt like the country was in the grips of literal insanity, all of which would come to a head with the January 6 insurrection.

Why, indeed, would I choose to swear allegiance to a country in the grips of what seemed like the mother of all existential crises?

Because I could not continue to live in the United States, and to benefit from the freedom and the opportunities that I had found here - freedom and opportunities, which, for better and for worse, have brought people here for centuries - and not participate fully in this democracy.

Yesterday, I voted early to try to ease my election anxiety. A vote for sanity and for humanity 🙏

Comments off because #electionanxiety - please just go and vote 👀

Fun game: try substituting “child” for “acti

Fun game: try substituting “child” for “active social media presence”; “wife” for “personal assistant” 😂

But seriously, hats off to the moms who are still making their art, doing their work, on the side 🙄

It’s shocking, how many more books, mainly novels (it’s always been mainly novels) I’ve been reading while on my “content diet” (read that post in my bio). How inspired and human and alive this has made me feel 🦋

With or without kids, everybody should read this one ⚡️

#booksbooksbooks #womenwithoutkids #contentdiet

Last week I got to participate in a World Health O

Last week I got to participate in a World Health Organization Europe campaign to REDEFINE ALCOHOL.

You can tune in here to watch it live at 9am ET / 3pm CET tomorrow on the @whoeurope YouTube channel.

So many of the experts interviewed spoke about the need for a societal shift in how alcohol is viewed and consumed - similar to what we saw with cigarettes in the early 2000s.

And well, sober curious is it!

I got so emotional listening to the testimonies of people who had stepped away from using booze as their default way to relax, destress, and socialize - and the massive shifts they had seen in their physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing as a result.

The verdict: sobriety is not just for “alcoholics.” Everyone can benefit from being sober curious 🦋

#sobercurious #sobercuriousmovement #redefinealcohol #lessalcohol #evidaction

It’s official: GETTING SOBER CURIOUS WILL CHANGE

It’s official: GETTING SOBER CURIOUS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

It changed mine.

Thanks wondermind (and @tawnymlara for flagging!)

My next Sober Curious retreat will be @kripalu in January 2025. More details to come soon.

🌈🌈🌈

#sobercurious #sobercuriousmovement #soberseptember #soberoctober #dryjanuary #quitlit

Still landing after hosting last weekend’s retre

Still landing after hosting last weekend’s retreat to CELEBRATE BEING CHILDFREE with @rachel.cargle @kripalucenter 🦋

The biggest thanks goes to our incredible participants - who showed up and then some both IRL and via livestream from as far afield as Nairobi!

Thank you for your stories, your laughter, your tears, your sisterhood.

I’ve heard the same sentiments time and again hosting live events for Women Without Kids:

“I didn’t know we were allowed to have this conversation.”

“I didn’t know how much I NEEDED this conversation.”

“Where have these women been all my life?!”

“I finally feel like I belong.”

Thank you thank you thank you 💕💕💕

Stay tuned for more on this subject from Rachel and me! 💫

#womenwithoutkids #childfree #childfreebychoice #childfreebycircumstance #childfreeafterinfertility #childlessnotbychoice #nonmom #nonparents #retreatyourself #reparenting

@rachel.cargle and I recorded a special bonus epis

@rachel.cargle and I recorded a special bonus episode of the Women Without Kids podcast 🙏

Listen up to get a taster of the kinds of conversations we’ll be having on our Celebrate Being Childfree retreat Sept 12-15 @kripalucenter - links to pod + retreat are all in my bio!

In this episode we discuss:

-How Rachel’s early childhood influences helped expand her vision for her life path

-The tools we develop to survive when we are young – and why we need to update them as we mature

-The factors that informed Rachel’s (current!) decision not to become a parent

-Ways to build community and chosen family as women without kids

-The origin story of Rachel’s childfree platform @richauntiesupreme

-The significance of the role of “auntie” in Black and indigenous communities

-Claiming the “childfree” identity as being central to who we are

-How Rachel’s queer, non-monogamous identity intersects with her childfree status

I love Rachel and I loved this conversation 💕 Pls share, rate, and review if you enjoy it too! 🙏

And come join us on retreat. You can attend in person or via livestream ☀️

#womenwithoutkids #childfree #childfreebychoice #childfreebycircumstance #childfreenotbychoice #childfreeafterinfertility #motherhoodspectrum #richauntyvibes

#sobercurious c’est tres chic 🇫🇷 AND WE W

#sobercurious c’est tres chic 🇫🇷

AND WE WON’T SHUT UP ABOUT IT 😂

Thanks to my fellow childfree cat lady (or dog in

Thanks to my fellow childfree cat lady (or dog in this instance, I think?) @laurabelgray for passing this along 🙌

Scroll for the closeup 👉

And for more on the political ramifications of the childfree conversation, please see also:

Birth Strike by Jenny Brown @pmpress

Nurturing Our Humanity by Riane Eisler @partnership_systems

Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich

Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici

#womenwithoutkids #childfree #childfreebychoice #childfreebycircumstance #childfreenotbychoice #childfreeafterinfertility #catladiesforkamala

My five cents’ worth, from chapter 5 of Women Wi

My five cents’ worth, from chapter 5 of Women Without Kids, titled “Enough!”, in which I:

chronicle the impossibility of having/doing “it all”; champion the power of knowing your strengths and your weaknesses and claiming your lane in life accordingly; explain how the human right to self-actualization has become just another product/privilege in our capitalistic/consumerist/survival-of-the-fittest world/economy; etc.

If you’re interested in what else I have to say about why reproductive justice at the heart of the fight between conservatism and a more progressive and equitable world (or even, conservatism and evolution) then please read my book, and/or attend my upcoming retreat with @rachel.cargle where we’ll be discussing what we want our childfree/childless legacies to be! 🌈

#womenwithoutkids #childfree #childfreebycircumstance #childfreeafterinfertility #reproductivejustice #reproductiverights

For anybody seeking childfree sisterhood, solidari

For anybody seeking childfree sisterhood, solidarity, celebration, and support - join me and @rachel.cargle @kripalucenter for our upcoming retreat, September 12-15 ☀️

Whether childfree by choice, by circumstance, or not by choice, this can be a lonely, alienating, and stigmatized path - and something SO POWERFUL happens when we gather in community!

Feel seen. Feel valorized. Feel understood.

Connect deeply with others and gain empathy for all the different paths that childfree women walk.

And reimagine what your childfree life can be, beyond the stigma and the stereotypes!

Are you ready to join the unsung sisterhood? Participants can join us in person OR via livestream - links to register for both options are in my bio 🙏🦋🙏

#childfree #childfreebychoice #childfreeafterinfertility #childfreebycircumstance #womenwithoutkids

Me to my husband just the other day: “The only

Me to my husband just the other day:

“The only way to increase the birth rate is to roll back women’s rights. The right to safe, legal abortion; the right to education; the right to financial independence; the right to marry whom and if they choose.”

The post-patriarchy we have been living in since the 1960s is so new and fragile still. Sitting here menstruating and feeling simultaneously so grateful for the life I have been able to choose - and so fearful for what the future could hold 😥

Please do not forget what is at stake in this election.

#womenwithoutkids #unsungsisterhood #childfree #childfreebycircumstance #childfreeafterinfertility #childlessnotbychoice #childfreecommunity

Quoted in this week’s @stylistmagazine cover sto

Quoted in this week’s @stylistmagazine cover story by @ellencscott “I Feel Like I Have to Achieve More Because I Don’t Want a Baby” 🌈🌈🌈 #womenwithoutkids

Writing buddy 😻

Writing buddy 😻

Following a very (intentionally) quiet and introsp

Following a very (intentionally) quiet and introspective summer, I have lots of in-person and online workshops coming this fall!

Links to all in my bio. I’ll be sharing more specific details on each as the dates get closer - but feel free to drop me a DM with any Qs 🙏💕💫🦋🌈

I put this on my newsletter (not a Substack, just

I put this on my newsletter (not a Substack, just the same old newsletter I’ve been sending in different formats and with varying degrees of regularity since 2013) and the passionate, outsized response told me I am not alone in these thoughts.

So I made it into a blog post and put it on my website where anyone can read it. Scroll for outtakes, link to full post in my bio 🌈

It was one of those pieces I wrote in my notes app, and then deleted, and eventually decided to share when it sort of just flowed onto the screen in its current form.

Still feel pretty conflicted about it all, but that it sort of the point. Curious what people here think. If anybody even sees this 🤗

Hopping on to say HAPPY PUB DAY to my friend and b

Hopping on to say HAPPY PUB DAY to my friend and book doula client @bunnymichael 🎉

Bunny had a crystal clear vision for what they wanted their book to be from the beginning: a collection of modern parables for how to access a “higher self perspective” in every area of life, from Creativity, Friendship, and Family, to Money, Sex, and Mental Health 💕💕💕

If you know Bunny’s IG art you will know how wise and comforting their work is - and this translates beautifully to the book. Sample (on Politics & Activism) -

Me: Why should I believe humanity can ever change?
Higher Self: Because you have.

🌈🦋🌈🦋🌈🦋🌈

#hellohigherself #bookdoula #authorsofinstagram #authorlife #creativitymatters

Happy Mothers Day 💫 To all the ones who never

Happy Mothers Day 💫

To all the ones who never had the option not to have kids 🦋

To all the ones who wanted to be mothers and for whom it didn’t work out 💜

To all the ones who are wondering why it never happened for them 🌸

To all the ones who have chosen to put their mental health first 💫

To all the ones waiting for the right person to coparent with 🐣

To all the ones finding their fulfillment in their careers, their friendships, their art, and their found families🦄

To all the ones who just never wanted to have kids 💕

#prochoice #womensupportingwomen #motherhoodspectrum #womenwithoutkids

Women Without Kids is now out in paperback! You sh

Women Without Kids is now out in paperback! You should be able to find it wherever books are sold online 🙏

Personally, I am a paperback girl. They are more transportable and more affordable, and so I’m thrilled that this edition is now available.

I also made a few revisions to the manuscript for this printing, most substantially to a chapter titled “Sexual Evolution,” the thesis of which can be summed up thusly:

“Male sexual entitlement has its roots in the underlying dogma of heteropatriarchy: male entitlement to female bodies as the means of reproduction.”

It is the edgiest chapter in the book and has been the hardest to get right, and I’m grateful to my publisher for giving me the opportunity to take another pass at it. I’m also giving you the option to download the chapter for FREE at the link in my bio 🐣

If you like what you read, and you haven’t already, then please consider supporting my work by buying a copy of the book.

And thanks FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART to everybody who has read and reviewed so far 💜

You can also join me and @rachel.cargle —either in person or via livestream!—for a weekend retreat to Celebrate Being Childfree September 12-15. Link also in bio 🌈🌈🌈

#womenwithoutkids #childfree #childfreebycircumstance #childfreebychoice #childfreeafterinfertility #childfreeforlife #childfreenotbychoice #childlessmillennial #childlesslife #childfreewomen

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