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Childlessness is a palette, not a spectrum According to mainstream society, we can use several labels to describe our parental status. We can be childless; usually not a choice and as a result of circumstance or infertility. We can be childfree; usually a choice or often described as a default

Before I found the childless community in 2021, a couple of years after making the decision to stop trying to have a baby, I didn’t know there were words for women like me. I didn’t know that my grief was disenfranchised. A grief not recognised by wider society

It was my first (adult) failure as a writer. I started Beth Kempton’s free Winter Writing Sanctuary course and quit after the first day. But it was a failure that would change the trajectory of my writing life. Winter 2022: My dad had died the year before and I