Introducing the #Nomos (the not-mothers)
Talk + Q&A with Gateway Women Founder, Jody Day
Thursday 8th March 2012: 17:00-17:45
HubWestminster, 80 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4TE
Places are free but numbers are limited.
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SPINSTER OLD MAID SELFISH WEIRDO
1 in 5 women are now reaching the menopause without having children – the largest cohort of childless women in the UK since the ‘man drought’ following World War I. Yet our culture’s idea of what these women ‘are for’ is similarly stuck in the past…
Whether a woman has chosen to be ‘childfree’ or finds herself ‘childless by circumstance’, she often finds herself marginalised, misunderstood and misreprensented in our culture.
There have probably never been so many liberated, educated, healthy, intelligent and self-aware 40 and 50 year old women alive at one time and free from bringing up children. One of Gateway Women’s missions is to encourage this powerful group of women to embrace their new identity as #nomos (not-mothers) and as a tribe to act together to make the world a better place for everyone’s children to inherit!
We may not be mums, but we’re here, we care, we count, and we ROCK!
Jody Day (47) is the Founder of Gateway Women. A writer and communications consultant, she holds a certificate in integrative counselling and is a trainee integrative psychotherapist. She spent 15 years hoping for a baby and is a Godmother and Aunt many times over but not a Mother. Now happily post-fertile, and having made the bumpy transition from childless to ‘childfree by circumstance’ she’s created the term #nomos (not-mothers) to identify and celebrate this new tribe of 21st Century women.
Thursday 8 March, 2012: 17:00-17:45
Hub Westminster, First Floor, New Zealand House, 80 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4TE
020 7148 6720 hello@hubwestminster.net www.hubwestminster.net @hubwestminster
Tubes: Picadilly (2 mins); Charing Cross (5 mins) Leicester Square (5 mins)
Bad typing. I pads are not all they are cracked up to be. My diagnosis was premature ovarian failure. The doctors handled it badly, my husband handled it by ignoring my pain and he left me with no choice but to leave. I will never forgive him for his shocking behaviour and hurtful words to me.
I wish so much that I could attend! What a wonderful event. And as one of the women whom the interview whizzed by, I agree, this will help a lot of people to realise that they are in very good company.
Thanks Olivia. I love your website and I hope you’ve noticed that you’re already on the Gateway Women blogroll 🙂
Hooray! I feel very honoured. Thank you Jody!
If I lived there…I’d be there for sure! Sounds like an awesome event. Hope you have a wonderful turnout and that you reach many!!!
Thanks CiCi
Recent interview with me is whizzing round the world so lots of new women who thought “it was only them” now know they are not alone.
Sending you a hug from England
Jody x