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“I’ve never wanted to marry, I’ve never wanted children — I was born without that gene.” Patricia Clarkson #childfree

"Everything was designed for this one thing: I wanted to write." Ann Patchett childfreehistory.com/exhibitions/co…

I feel the same, Amy Tan 🗒✍🏼

Today is #InternationalChildfreeDay. In celebration, here are 3 TV series about women without children: 1) Fleabag 2) Killing Eve 3) Cunk on Earth

This week, I've made public a list with +100 #books about childlessness, reproductive rights, and ft. #childless & #childfree protagonists, curated over the 14 years dedicated to researching and writing Others Like Me📙⬆️ Here is the link: goodreads.com/review/list/14…

4 favorite books by writers without children 📚 1) Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (村田沙耶香 Sayaka Murata) 2) Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Bernardine Evaristo) 3) Paradise, Piece by Piece by Molly Peacock (Molly Peacock) 4) A house of my own by Sandra Cisneros

🎙️Margaret (Margaret O Connor) and I had a blast talking about the lives of women without children on her podcast Are Kids For Me? 🎧You can listen to our chat here: arekidsforme.ie/post/new-podca…

I notice that in discussions of women’s childbearing or childlessness, the choice not to have a child is always framed as a pursuit of professional success—often characterized in sneering, judgmental terms as “girlboss”-style ambition. But there are other things women might want.

📙It’s been 2 months since Others Like Me rocketed out of my computer and landed in the world, and it feels both like it was yesterday and as if a lot of time has passed. Thank you to all of you who took the time to buy and read it. And even more time to tell me how it felt💌

One of my favourite poems ever & introduced to it via the wonders of Twitter …

UK, here I come! 📙🗓️ Next month, I'll be in London, Chester and Bristol, talking to Dr Dawn Llewellyn and Rose Diell 📚✍️ about the lives of women without children. Come and join us. Details and tickets here: linktr.ee/nicolelouie

DELIGHTED to be talking all about 'Others Like Me' with Nicole Louie as part of #StoryhouseChildless Storyhouse Come and join us! storyhouse.com/seasons/storyh… #ChildlessByChoice #ChildlessNotByChoice #Childfree #NoKids

Hmm I wonder which is better, either a man having a minimally invasive 20 min vasectomy under local anaesthetic that comes with a recovery time of 1 day or a woman having major abdominal surgery under general anaesthetic that takes a month to recover from. Impossible to say!

Without warning 📖 'I don't want to have babies,' I say. 'I don't want them to unravel me.' That's it, everyone. That's all of it. Thank you, @[email protected], for putting my feelings into words and doing so without warning.

20 Great Books to Pack for Summer Holiday Reading 🌞 Thrilled to see Others Like Me: The Lives of Women Without Children in this summery round-up! 😎 Thank you, TheGlossMag and EDEL COFFEY 👩🏼‍💻 💛 thegloss.ie/best-books-for…

This is a step beyond making women in Afghanistan invisible. It makes them inaudible. "Women’s voices are also deemed to be potential instruments of vice and so will not be allowed to be heard in public under the new restrictions." theguardian.com/global-develop…

Join us for a special discussion on 24 September about childlessness and the many considerations a woman may weigh when deciding whether to have children, including external factors and individual choice. We’re delighted to be joined by Nicole Louie and Rose Diell 📚✍️.

The evening will be hosted by Monica Cardenas author of the Bad Mothers Substack. Full info through our website and ticket link here wegottickets.com/event/631589

August companion 📗 Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. Butler never married nor had children.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797). 232 years since its publication and here we are. Still fighting for those very basic rights.