I started researching childlessness because I have a direct experience of it. My husband and I were, a few years ago, diagnosed with unexplained infertility. For those who are not familiar with this condition, it means that while the medical tests of both of us are totally fine, we do not get pregnant and medicine does not know why.
Read moreWalk In Our Shoes competition winner
We have our first competition winner!
Read moreMeriel Whale
One aspect of my loss is not being able to share my favourite books with my child
Read moreTrilogy Of Grief (28-30 June 2018) by Cristina Archetti
The set of poems I am contributing to “Childlessness & the Arts” as part of World Childless Week is about grief. It is difficult to explain the loss of a person who neither died nor lived to someone who has never experienced it.
Read moreDates I wish to forget
5th August 1981. I first held my cousin in my arms when I was ten years old. As an adult, I understand that ten years is a long time to wait for the arrival of a child.
Read moreEmbodied by Cristina Archetti
This performance lecture about involuntary childlessness deals with the questions: What does it mean not to have children in a society that is organized around families? How do we uncover the stories that are silenced? How to tell the stories that are written in our bodies? How to communicate what cannot be conveyed by words?
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