Thread by @monaeltahawy

I have never wondered what it would have been like to have children. I say that because we often hear “you’ll regret it when it’s too late.” Well, here I am on the other side -- it is “too late” -- and I am here to say: I do not regret it. On being childfree by choice 👇🏽

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1391375123102502913

So threatening is the rejection of heterosexual sex, marriage, and child-rearing--an idea known as 6B4T-- that Chinese feminist groups who have espoused those things were abruptly kicked offline. See this by @LetaHong
politico.com/newsletters/po…

6B4T originated with South Korea’s radical feminist movement tribuneindia.com/news/archive/w…

That drive to draft wombs into the service of producing workers is especially sharp in the USA and China, each vying for global leadership and each reeling from population decline and plummeting birth rates. feministgiant.com/p/unmothering #Childfree

It is taboo to say I own my body and that you will not enlist my womb for capitalism. You will be called “deficient” and “incomplete.” theguardian.com/world/2016/jun… #childfree

We are more than walking wombs for capitalist patriarchy.
And sometimes the patriarchy will say the quiet part out loud--HAVE BABIES FOR THE ECONOMY... washingtonpost.com/opinions/paul-…

...while ignoring what many who do indeed want to have babies have long been saying out loud—YOUR ECONOMIC POLICIES HAVE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO TO HAVE BABIES TO BOOST AN ECONOMY THAT BENEFITS VERY FEW OF US. apnews.com/article/birth-… #childfree

“6B4T is a passive way of resistance and self-protection under the current gender equality situation in East Asia."

These Chinese Women Vow Never to Marry or Have Sex With Men. Then Censors Stepped In.
vice.com/en/article/epn… #childfree

Notably, it is the decline in white babies in the United States and Han Chinese babies in China especially that worry the powers that be.

We are more than walking incubators for ethno-supremacist patriarchy. feministgiant.com/p/unmothering #childfree

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