AstroMancer5G (she/her)

#Capitalists don't want you to have #kids.

They don't want you leaving #work to take care of a #baby. They don't want you demanding enough of a #wage to pay for #food and #water for someone too #young to work.

You're not "expanding the #workforce" either, since #machines can do most #jobs more productively anyway (not higher quality, but for more #profit and they don't #unionize). And most capitalists are #old and don't expect to be alive when a baby born today is old enough to work.

Apr 10 at 12:14pmWeb
Show threadAstroMancer5G (she/her)1d ago

It's not a #queer badge of #honor to be #childfree either, at least it shouldn't be.

Equating queerness with not having kids is doing the work of eugenicists for them. #Eugenics has always wanted to stop queer people from having kids.

This #article is about the #impact on #lesbian #couples.

https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a32815040/queer-lesbian-fertility-care/

‘This Isn’t How Straight Couples Are Treated’

Four queer women share what they experienced while trying to conceive, including being offered unnecessary fertility treatments and facing discrimination.

Women's Health
Show threadAstroMancer5G (she/her)1d ago

I also like the work the #TransFertility #Collective does. #Trans people shouldn't have to worry about being forced to #sacrifice #future kids for our #gender affirmation. That's an impossible #choice, and the collective is working toward nobody having to make it again.

https://transfertility.co/

Trans Fertility Co.

Trans Fertility Co.
Show threadJacqueline1d ago
@AstroMancer5G I want a kid but I'm probably never going to have that for multiple reasons
Show threadfoundseed1d ago
@AstroMancer5G I think coming from a queer perspective this is true, but we are dealing with multiple huge laws being repealed to ensure women are kept pregnant. Pregnancy and child rearing has always been used to control people born with the ability to make people, and while your take is completely correct, there is another front to this battle that some child free women are trying to fight in the other direction. It can be both!
Show threadAstroMancer5G (she/her)1d ago
@foundseed
Sure, but most people talking about reproductive justice give all their attention to childfree people and act like everyone who does want children is privileged, encouraged, and supported in doing so. Part of this is the superiority complex a lot of childfree people have about being childfree, and the limited imagination many have of oppression beyond their own experience.
Show threadbenazirs_blog_1d ago
@AstroMancer5G exactly and they are disgusting