Letters to Our Unborn Children: The Seeker

This episode introduces the next of 12 letters from their collaborative visual arts project “Letters to Our Unborn Children: An Exploration of a Woman’s Decision to Remain Child-Free by Choice.” They discuss the “Seeker” archetype behind the Letter, and share their research and insights around the themes in the letter. They also interview Orna Donath, author of “Regretting Motherhood: A Study.”

Orna Donath is an Israeli sociologist, lecturer, writer and feminist activist. She teaches at Tel Aviv University, Ben Gurr-Yawn University, and the Academic College of Tel Aviv Yeah-Fo. Her field of study focuses on the social expectations projected on women, both those who are mothers and those who are not, especially by choice. Her first book, published in Hebrew in 2011, is about Israeli women and men who do not want to be parents. Her second book, Regretting Motherhood, is a first-of-its kind study, published in several languages in 2016, is the result of a series of interviews with Israeli women.

Recorded on Nov 17, 2024

Additional Links:
Regretting Motherhood on Bookshop:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/regretti...
Orna Donath on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orna_Do...

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Hosts Sarah Saturday and Tarri Driver are artists and longtime friends who are both child-free by choice. In late 2023, they began collaborating on a visual arts project with a unique perspective on this taboo topic: If child-free women had the chance to explain their choice not to have children to the potential children they had decided not to have, what would they say to them? Through an anonymous survey and private chat group, they have connected with nearly 100 child-free women, and realized that there are not many safe spaces for child-free people to share about this complex and difficult decision. Tune in to learn about the “Letters to Our Unborn Children” project, and hear from women about the path they have taken toward deciding to remain child-free by choice.

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