Sunday, 3PM PST
Los Angeles
As a childfree community we are well versed in the challenges and issues we face. Most content is focused on these conversations within our childfree community, but it needs to extend much further afield. To get real change, we need to be having bigger conversations outside the childfree community.
Our panel of childfree advocates will be discussing practical ways the childfree community can create these bigger conversations within our own communities addressing topics around:
As a childfree community we are well versed in the challenges and issues we face. Most content is focused on these conversations within our childfree community, but it needs to extend much further afield. To get real change, we need to be having bigger conversations outside the childfree community.
Our panel of childfree advocates will be discussing practical ways the childfree community can create these bigger conversations within our own communities addressing topics around:
Issues in the workplace
Educating girls and the next generation
Having respectful conversations with parents
Influencing change in policies
Finding opportunities to have a positive influence in the media, church and government
Issues in the workplace
Educating girls and the next generation
Having respectful conversations with parents
Influencing change in policies
Finding opportunities to have a positive influence in the media, church and government
The conversation promises to be juicy, perhaps somewhat controversial at times, and filled with practical takeaways that the childfree community can use daily to create real change for our childfree choice.
The conversation promises to be juicy, perhaps somewhat controversial at times, and filled with practical takeaways that the childfree community can use daily to create real change for our childfree choice.
MEET THE PANELISTS
Tanya Williams
Tanya is the author of Amazon’s #1 best-selling book A Childfree Happily Ever After, founder of Childfree Magazine, and is pioneering education programs and workshops to support the childfree community. She is a passionate advocate for choice and is proactively growing a global Choice Movement. Her mission is to change the dialogue in society from judgment and criticism to support and acceptance for all childfree people around the world. She has been featured in national media and is a regular guest blogger for various female-focused websites & groups. Join her global childfree community here: https://childfreehappilyeverafter.com.au/
Laura Carroll
Laura has been an internationally known expert on the childfree choice for more than 20 years. Her books include The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World, Families of Two: Interviews with Happily Married Couples Without Children by Choice, and Voluntary and Involuntary Childlessness: The Joys of Otherhood? (Contributor). Laura has been featured in a wide range of major media, including The Early Show, Good Morning America, NPR, Canadian CBC, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The Guardian, Women’s Health (UK & South Africa). She is also the founder of International Childfree Day. Learn more about her books, research, and library of childfree writings at https://lauracarroll.com.
Amy Blackstone
Dr. Amy Blackstone is Professor of Sociology and the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, USA. Her book Childfree by Choice (Dutton, 2019) offers a definitive investigation into the history and current growing movement of adults choosing to forgo parenthood: what it means for our society, economy, environment, perceived gender roles, and legacies. Dr. Blackstone’s research on the childfree choice has been featured in New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, CNN, The Atlantic, BBC, Al Jazeera, TODAY, Good Morning America, National Public Radio, and other national and international outlets. You can learn more about this work at werenothavingababy.com. When not writing about the childfree choice, you’re most likely to find Amy scuba diving, skiing, or cross-stitching something sassy.
Raphaele Wagner
A married bird mom, Raphie is the host of ‘not a momma life’ podcast for uplifting childfree humans with positive and empowering episodes.
Her mission is to empower childfree humans to use their voices and take control of their own narratives whilst exploring childfree voices in diverse and underserved populations and communities.
When she is not recording episodes she loves hanging out in her community on Instagram @notamomma. She is very passionate about childfree voices being heard through podcasting and helps do this through her work as a certified podcast coach. Check out the podcast www.notamommalife.com
Therese Shechter
Therese Shechter is a filmmaker, speaker and activist, and the creator of the documentary ‘My So-Called Selfish Life,’ coming out later this year. Her work focuses on the social forces that make motherhood seem inevitable – even mandatory – in ways we don’t even notice. Find the film here: myselfishlife.com and follow Trixie Films on socials.
Marcia Drut-Davis
Marcia Drut-Davis is an awarded septuagenarian pioneer in the childfree lifestyle. She has written two books: Confessions of a Childfree Woman and What? You don’t want children. Both available on Amazon and considered must reads. Her delight is reaching hearts in need of her support and hosting childfree group cruises.
Margaret O’Connor
Margaret O’Connor is a counsellor and psychotherapist in Ireland. She runs the ‘Are Kids For Me’ specialist service for people who need support making the decision to have children or not, and to live their best childfree life. She also creates the ‘Are Kids For Me’ podcast to share stories of people’s experience of answering this question. Please see www.arekidsforme.ie for more information.
THIS IS A VIRTUAL EVENT
AUG 1
Sunday, 3PM PST
Los Angeles
AUG 1
Sunday, 6PM EDT
New York / Toronto
AUG 1
Sunday, 11PM BST
Dublin / London
AUG 2
Monday, 8AM AEST
Australia
Estimated time for panel discussion 90 minutes – 2 hours
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