Super Happy Fun America’s recent “straight pride” parade in Boston has come and gone—but the ideology that inspired it lingers, and it is not limited to the parade’s homophobia.
Author: Amy Blackstone
Amy Blackstone is professor in Sociology at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, where she studies the childfree choice, civic engagement and workplace harassment. Her book Childfree by Choice comes out in June.
More Children Won’t Make America Great—But Feminist Policies Supporting Families Will
What to do about a declining birth rate? Banning abortion, doing away with sex ed, and making birth control difficult to access is one approach. But stripping women of their reproductive autonomy is the very worst response to population concerns.
What Choice Means to Childfree Women
Women, children and communities thrive when parenthood is a choice that is made freely, and not forcibly.
Magnifying Heather Heyer
Shortly after her murder, Heyer was heinously criticized on a neo-Nazi site as a childless waste of life. Here, fellow childless and childfree women mourn Heather’s loss with the hope of magnifying her message against injustice and celebrating her heroism.
Honoring the Childfree Auntie
15 percent of women in the U.S. will reach their 40th birthdays without ever having given birth—but they have given to the children in their lives in significant ways.
It’s Politics. What Does Motherhood Have To Do With It?
For women in politics, motherhood is too often used as an indicator of compassion and concern for the future. These are laudable qualities, but motherhood is not a necessary condition for inhabiting them—and when we assume that it is, everybody loses.