Denise talks about parenthood and tells us of the questions she usually get asked around her choice. Denise has been living in Turkey for 25 years and she claims her right to choose not to have children. Vuoi ascoltare e…
Alia Sellami, a Tunisian soprano and performer with multiethnic origins, reflects upon the definitions and judgements directed to women with no children, something that led her to conceive a dedicated performance. Her testimony also introduces us to her personal story…
Sam, a young US student with Greek-Italian origins, tells us the reasons behind her desire not to have children and she reflects upon how her choices are more or less welcomed within her friends and family circles and on a…
Kim, from Malaysia, has been living in Vienna for several years. She tells about the personal and professional reasons behind her choice not to have children. In her testimony, she delves deeper on women’s condition in Asia with regard to…
Chiara, young researcher living in Vienna, already an activist back in Italy, tells us her thoughts as a 30-something woman regarding motherhood, that she sees as an experience that could potentially prevent her to dedicate herself to other more socially…
Following the screening of the film “Lunàdigas, or Concerning childfree women”, at Essen, in Germany, Malik tells us about the condition suffered by women with no children in Burkina Faso, his homeland: treated as witches or prostitutes, women are marginalized…
Antonella, a woman from Ecuador with an Italian father, tells us what it means being a 32 year-old woman with no children nor a partner, and she reasons around the pressure perceived at a social level, also regarding inheritance. She…
Amongst the international series of testimonies for the Lunàdigas Archive, collected in Washingtin DC during a conference on motherhood, Giulia, a cinema expert, tells us her story pointing out a greater open-mindedness in the US compared to Italy towards themes…
