Here is an extended version of my contribution to the book Otherhood – Essays on being childless, childfree and child adjacent, edited by Alie Benge, Lil O’Brien and Kathryn Van Beek and published May 2024 by Massey University Press. This version has the addition of my interrogation into the concept of ‘the Other’ both from my art theory background and in light of the topic of the book.
“My life is not enhanced by little wriggling ‘bundles of joy’, that are emblems of hope and a future, yet it most definitely is not defined, or lacking, by being without them.“
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Bice Grace Lapin 