Current Issue: Fall 2024 Child Free
Editor’s Note: Child Free
This issue’s theme, “Child Free,” is very meaningful to me and I hoped it would be a great...
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Nurturing My Nature
By Mandi Maxwell I’m unsure about a lot of things in life, but two things I am absolutely sure...
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Childfree Bisexual
By Anna Kochetkova I had no idea I was bisexual even as I was making out with beautiful same-sex humans—I just wasn’t aware that there was a word for it. On the other hand, I have always known that my life was going to be free...
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AROUND THE WORLD: Dajana Bakić, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Interviewed by Robyn Ochs Dajana Bakić was born in Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) in 1986....
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Sapphic Solace
Artist Statement: “Sapphic Solace” by Nicole Miyashiro, (2024, mixed media collage) incorporates...
Read MoreNo Regrets: My Favorite Birth Control
By Ellyn Ruthstrom I’ve heard so many women in my life say something like, “The one thing I always knew I wanted to be is a mother.” And I could say pretty much the same thing from the opposite perspective: I’ve always known I...
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Unexpected transmissions from brain to body
By Neda Dallal You are blood, muscle, viscera Stretchy ligament and gristled marrow Behold the...
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Giving Birth to Myself
By Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti All eight of us were born at home, yet I have never ever witnessed a...
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Article and Artwork by Miriam Rice-Rodríguez
The Right to Choose…Again By Miriam Rice-Rodríguez I missed my bus stop and wound up at a...
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Bi+ At the White House
On June 26th, the Bidens hosted a Pride reception on the South Lawn of the White House. Bi+...
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Choosing Freedom
By KimtheBwordPoet I always knew I was going to have children. That’s just what girls did when we...
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Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood, by Ruby Warrington, Sounds True Press, 2023.
Review by Ellyn Ruthstrom I heard Ruby Warrington on the podcast We Can Do Hard Things back in...
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A Special Sisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women from History Who Never Had Children, by Laura Carroll, LiveTrue Books, 2023.
Review by Ellyn Ruthstrom If you need any proof that women without children have accomplished...
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Why Don’t You Have Children?
By Amber Ballweg Why do people feel like they are owed this information? What are they hoping to...
Read MoreWhy Being Childless Can Be Childfree
By VeronicaOfOsea When I was 18, I was told that I was too young to know that I didn’t really want children, that I would have just to wait for the right person to come along. The argument didn’t change during my twenties just...
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Martine Mussies Artwork, “Cat Lady”
Artwork by Martine Mussies, Cat Lady. Martine Mussies is an artistic researcher and autisic...
Read MorePack Dynamics
By Tea Campbell In lion prides, lionesses take care of each other’s cubs as if they were their own. In orca pods, grandmothers play a crucial role in caring for the calves, so that their mothers can hunt. A friend’s mum sees us...
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Even Though
By Bailey Merlin In another universe, I am a good mother; in this one, my mother doesn’t ask me,...
Read MoreUnintentional Mother Figure
By Becca Downs I’ve grown strong in a universe confident in the art of targeted cruelty to show me a boy tugging on my hem and asking for mommy mistaking my dress for hers in headlights running off scarlet-chested when I’ve long...
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My Childfree Life
By Sharon Gonsalves It all started in the late 1970s when I was in high school and the women’s...
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Childfree Middle-Aged Millennial
By FEMILY Artist Statement: I love posting about being “childfree and proud of it,” because each...
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Why Books Are Better Than Children
By Finocchietta Selvatica I’m 31 now, and since the age of 16, I’ve understood my desire to remain...
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Coming of Age
By Flare Henry Tieszen You have great childbearing hips The church women told me at thirteen...
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Bitch On Board
By Lexine Sage The sign caught my eye while I wandered around a gift shop in a Vegas hotel six...
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Motherhood Is Not My Cup of Tea
By Valerie Tendai Chatindo I don’t hate kids! Let me start off by getting that one little...
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Tara Madison Avery Cartoon
Tara Madison Avery is a cartoonist, publisher of Stacked Deck Press, and a board member of Prism...
Read MoreSalpingectomy
By H. Roth I could easily exhaust myself arguing all the finely mapped out reasons I do not want to be a mother Ranging from the hazy hard to pin down and defend I do not want to through the agonies and...
Read MoreI Reject Your Idea of Womanhood and Substitute My Own
By Elisabeth Smith The first time I told my mother I didn’t want to be a mom I was four years old. I told her that when I grew up, I didn’t want to be the mom; I wanted to be the dad. My mom, wonderful person that she is, told...
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Meet BWQ’s New Assistant Editors
After a search which drew more than 40 applicants, we have hired not one, but TWO new Assistant...
Read MoreMindful Conversations with Women Without Children
By Fennel Having kids or not can be a potentially fraught issue for some women. There are myriad reasons why someone may be in this situation. Some of them include: miscarriage, couldn’t find a partner and didn’t want to do it...
Read MoreNo, I Have Not Changed My Mind
By Karen D. You don’t have children? Did you just never meet anyone?” These questions came from a woman I’d known for less than five minutes. It was the latest in a long list of “ugh” comments I have encountered over the past...
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This Is Mine
By Heidi Bruins Green I always knew that I would have children. Everyone knew it. I was the one...
Read MoreBi+BIPOC: Reflections on the First SAMHSA LGBTQIA+ Behavioral Health Summit
By Casira Copes, President, Bisexual Resource Center For years now, research has reflected a little-known truth: bisexuals make up the largest swath of the queer community. Recent data also reflects the reality of being an...
Read MoreResearch Corner: Child Free
Much is Unknown Still: Parenting and Being Childfree Among Bi+ People By Jessamyn Moxie July’s release of the updated report on LGBTQ+ Parents from UCLA’s Williams Institute points to numerous ways bi+ cisgender women stand...
Read More2023-2024: Bisexual representation in the media
By Tessa Stayton GLAAD, the media advocacy organization, recently released their annual report detailing the representation rates of LGBTQ+ characters in the media (entitled “Where We Are on TV”) for the 2023-2024 season....
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Fall 2024 Calendar
Also: The BECAUSE Conference is Saturday October 5th, in person in Minneapolis/St. Paul,...
Read MoreNews Briefs: Child Free
Compiled by Dylan Fee “Nearly one-in-five American women ends her childbearing years without having borne a child, compared with one-in-ten in the 1970s. While childlessness has risen for all racial and ethnic groups, and most...
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