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Billionaires Like Elon Musk Want to Save Civilization By Having Tons of Genetically Superior Kids.

by Seyward Darby November 17, 2022November 22, 2022

“Inside the movement to take ‘control of human evolution.'”

Posted inQuote Posts

‘Exposed as the Mother Who Cannot Weave’: Grace Loh Prasad on Family and Community

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 9, 2022November 11, 2022

In a recent essay, Grace Loh Prasad muses on motherhood, the bond of family, and finding community.

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The Orca and the Spider: On Motherhood, Loss, and Community

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 7, 2022November 11, 2022

“Try as I might, there is no material stronger than kinship.”

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4 Dead Infants, a Convicted Mother, and a Genetic Mystery

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 13, 2021October 19, 2022

“Kathleen Folbigg was found guilty of killing her babies. One scientist suspected the real culprit was mutant DNA—and went on a tireless quest to prove it.”

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Ungrown

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 7, 2021October 19, 2022

“Here it is: Women are the gravity stopping humanity from drifting off aimlessly into the void. We mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, grandmothers — women — are the backbone of the world.”

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The Abortion I Didn’t Have

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 2, 2021October 19, 2022

“I would never give my son back, for anything, but I would certainly give him a different mother.”

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First Passage

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 30, 2021October 19, 2022

“A journey toward motherhood in the age of glacial loss.”

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My Mother’s Other World

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 7, 2021October 19, 2022

“Motherhood had always been her path. In exchange for it, however, the woman before me had surrendered her keys to the world.”

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My Trans Mother, Myself

by Seyward Darby April 8, 2021October 19, 2022

“Trans women imparting knowledge to each other is really, really crucial to survival, but it’s also incredibly fraught.”

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Britney Spears Was a New Mom and No One Tried to Help Her

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 15, 2021October 19, 2022

“I’ve never met a woman who did not at some point, in those first early weeks of motherhood, break down.”

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