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Podcast: The Fertile Feminist
Episode: Is it a burden or a blessing?
Description: Our body, our fertility and our choices--all of these are feminist issues. Swimming in the sea of patriarchy, our choices are plagued by judgement, condemnation, guilt and confusing. Whether we have one child, no children, or ten children, how we make decisions about our physical fertility is a burden. From the mystery of our cycles to the political control of the womb, the mental atmosphere around fertility is so clouded it can be hard to even see ourselves, let alone what's true. But knowing our preciousness and seeing our physical fertility as neither burden nor miracle, liberates us to...