Do you have children? As a midwife, it’s a question mothers-to-be regularly ask me. I sense the right answer is yes; there is an unspoken assumption that those without children can’t possibly do the job as well as those who have them.
But when you are in the middle of your own heartbreaking battle to conceive, that straightforward question is particularly challenging.
Never was it more difficult to answer, though, than in the weeks and months after I lost my
A professor in the United Kingdom suggested that people may find a “perverse joy” in celebrating the “queerness” of birds incapable of reproduction because of pollution.
The Free Press last week highlighted research conducted by Anne Pollock, the head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London, who wrote that “posing intersex characteristics” as a metric of an environment’s health is a move “steeped in heteronormativity.”
“I want to suggest that we depathologize queer animals,
