Cressida, Berlin

“At some point, I was just like: fuck it, I am different.”

PORTRAITS

“If there is something I regret, it is the fact that for so many years, I just didn’t know who I was.”

Lydia, Greece

“I’m really, really living for the first time.”

Kate, Germany

“I couldn’t have lived the hundred lives I’ve lived if I had a family.”

Blair, London

“Now I’m postmenopausal, it really is like I’m back to being 12 years old.”

Caroline, Montfort

“Don’t stress about biology so much.”

Jana, Berlin

“I feel that if I truly want to be happy, there's no space in my life for kids.”

Georgina, Berlin

“The way I provide value to society is through comedy, not children.”

Kat, Berlin

“Having so much time on my hands for myself was a dream I never thought I would have.”

Devi, Berlin

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SHORT STORIES

“My best childfree life consists of a beautiful polyam/open relationship with my anchor person.”

Mich, 37, Germany

“I don't regret having a bilateral salpingectomy. I call my incisions freedom scars.”

Lauren, 31, USA

“I had my tubes removed, and the freedom this affords is immeasurable.”

Baylie, 33, USA

“My sterilisation brought me grief and brought me peace.”

Grace, 24, USA

“I just never felt the desire.”

Karen, 66, Mexico

“I was gigantically relieved. I felt I'd been given a blessed reprieve.”

Anne, 70, USA

“I have lived a full life of service to my community.”

Tammi, 64, USA

“I’m 73. I decided to be ‘childfree’ before it was even a word!”

Deborah, 73, USA

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