Sun 29 September 2024 • 1pm
The Lives of Women without Children
Storyhouse Childless
Event details
Nicole Louie, author of ‘Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children’ will be interviewed by Dawn Llewellyn.
‘Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children’ is a deeply personal exploration of childless and childfree women in their own words.
Others Like Me is the story of fourteen women around the world, from different walks of life, who don’t have children. It’s also the story of why Nicole Louie had to find them and what they taught her.
Part memoir, part exploration of childlessness through candid conversations, this book showcases the many ways in which people find fulfilment outside of parenthood. And because the social expectation to procreate weighs the most on women, Louie focuses solely on them, their experiences and how they flourish outside of motherhood.
In doing so, she upends the stereotypes that diminish women who are not mothers and offers reassurance and companionship on a path less known.
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About the Speakers
Nicole Louie she/her
Nicole is a writer and translator based in Ireland. A former content strategist and creative writer for virtual assistants, she holds a BA in advertising and postgraduate diplomas in literature and translation. When not writing, she is reading about the lives of women without children. Her essays have appeared in Oh Reader and Childfree Magazine and her curated collections of books, movies and podcasts about women who are not mothers by choice, infertility, circumstance or ambivalence can be found on Twitter and Instagram: @bynicolelouie.
Dawn Llewellyn she/her
Dawn is an Associate Professor of Religion and Gender at the University of Chester. She’s been researching, publishing, and speaking publicly about pronatalism for over 12 years and her current book project examines how Christian women understand and manage their reproductive agency and choice. Dawn co-founded the festival in 2019. Although labels are tricky things, she usually moves between childless by choice/childfree/not a parent/Dawn.