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🗓️ 14 September 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Jody Day (the founder of The Gateway Foundation) and I discuss her journey to being childless, the ideology of pronatalism, how the festishism of motherhood serves no woman, and 50 reasons why a woman may not be a mother (they aren’t what you might expect).Â
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Gateway’s WebsiteÂ
Gateway Meetup GroupsÂ
Motherhood: Is It For Me? Your Step-by-step Guide To Clarity by Ann DavidmanÂ
Not Mom SummitÂ
It’s Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You’re Single by Sara EckelÂ
Life Without Baby
Yellow Curry RecipeÂ
One Part Plant Cookbook
More One Part Podcast Episodes Exploring The Idea of Motherhood:Â
Doing Your Dharma + Questioning The Definition of Motherhood with Ruby WarringtonÂ
Surrogacy, A Pigeon, and Redefining The Traditional Family with Mariah Naella Â
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