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Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance [ENCORE] /284

For The Wild

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Do You Think Everybody Should Procreate?

i'm hoping you can share some of your thinking about biological reproduction and what forms of bonding and kinship await outside the dominant nuclear family structure. Now, i'd like to acknowledge the inherent protonatalism that is built into the church and state's advocacy for monogamous marriage. You often speak frankly and quite candidly, of the sort of oppressive force of the settler family structure. I think there are some i just don't think everybody should biologically procreate. And i think the pressure on us, especially as women, to bear children,. The way this identity of mother is forced on to us as something that we should aspire to or there's something wrong with us, so violent

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