How is the Nuclear Family Failing You?
It's time for another LIVE thread 💃💃
Hello, hello! Our last thread was a fury-fueled delight. Thank you all for sharing the mind-blowingly asinine, inappropriate, rude, and asshole-ish things people said to you during your pregnancies. It was a pleasure to rage with you!
Today’s LIVE THREAD starts promptly at 12 (EST) and ends at 1PM, but you can always access the discussion after the fact.
In last week’s podcast ep, we talked to
about the stigmatization of single motherhood, alternative kinship structures, and the cult of the nuclear family. And Virginia and I both considered how our relationships to the nuclear family have showed up in our own lives. I was going to follow up that sentence by saying “for better or worse,” but what that conversation illuminated was that it’s MOSTLY for worse. So today, we really want to explore all the ways the white picket fence ideal of family life is negatively impacting individuals, communities, AND families. So let’s get into it!How is the nuclear family failing you?
PS. Quick reminder that the whole point of this pod is to get away from toxicity and judgment, so let’s keep this a generally supportive space. (And if we’re talking about bodies, please don’t use numbers (weight or calories) because this is a diet culture- free zone. 💃 💃)