Changes, Confusions and Connections
Does How You Identify Change Over Time?
Event details
Life is not linear, straightforward nor clear-cut. This panel will unpick the complexities of our identities around not having children and how this can oscillate over time. On the surface, our identities fit neatly into labels and boxes but, when we examine our individual experiences and the uniqueness of our hearts, things may be more confusing than they first appear. We can be childfree and simultaneously feel sadness for what we may miss out on, and we can be childless and feel shards of momentary relief – because we are human. These conflicting feelings don’t undermine our desire to have or not have children. And how we identify can spin around and turn upside down. Perhaps life without children is more of a journey than we even realise.
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The Panel
Ali Hall She/Her
Ali is a freelance writer and is passionate about bridging the gap between parents, the childfree and the childless. She is the founder of Life Without Children, a place for stories on life without children, whether by choice or circumstances. Ali will chair this panel. She is childfree
Jody Day She/Her
Jody Day is a psychotherapist, author and the founder of Gateway Women and the Gateway Elderwomen project www.gateway-women.com
Mark Briggs van Leeuwen He/Him
Mark is the owner of a small independent travel business based in the UK and The Netherlands. Mark has been an audience member at Storyhouse Childless in 2022 and 2023. His main interests are travel (obviously), outdoor sports, mycology, Science/physics and psychology. Childless not by choice, but not always sure where on the spectrum between “childless” and “child free” he sits – and how life like that should look in this society.
Rosa Lennox They/Them
Actor musician, childcarer and sustainable chef
Rosa is in their late twenties, and feels the best way to to describe them is ‘childfree by infliction and circumstance’. They are polyamorous by orientation, and advocate the practice ‘Relationship Anarchy’ (RA). Rosa decided not to have biological children a few years ago due to multiple reasons, but primarily the climate crisis.