New Legacy Institute (NLI)

New Legacy Institute was created as a platform for all people without children. The number of people in the world who do not have children for any reason is a massive and growing demographic. Prioritizing and privileging some lives and devaluing others based on deeply intimate, diverse, and circumstantially based reproductive and relationship experiences is nonsensical at best, and dehumanizing at its core. Policies intended to fragment the acceptance or not of our whole beings and bodies, and seek to control women's autonomy in any way, are harmful, violent, and deadly. Given all that is at stake in the upcoming US election and beyond, we must transcend real and perceived differences in our understanding of each other and concerning the identifying terms we use to describe individual experiences of not having children. The truth of our experiences lives on a continuum. It is time to bring undeniable visibility to our demographic and lived experiences. There is nothing to wait for. We can build a credible platform to take collective, forward action, that positively impacts and improves the experiences of people without children across present and future generations. Together we are grand. Divided we are small.* *Adaptation of the popular quote attributed to Greek storyteller Aesop.

New Legacy Institute advocates for the rights of people without children (pwoc), and an end to discrimination across all reproductive and relationship experiences. Our demographic holds unrecognized influence globally and comprises a strategic voting bloc in the upcoming US election. If you are a qualified voter, we want to ensure you have access to everything you need to participate in this election! Over the next several days, we will share more about how you can register to vote and check your registration status. We will also share opportunities to actively participate and support NLI's election process & policy agenda for people without children! Please reach out here or on any of our platforms with questions! #PWOCVote #LetsGetVisible #PeopleWithoutChildren #ReproductiveRights #EqualRights #WomensRights #BodilyAutonomy #ReproductiveHealthcareAccess #HumanRights #PolicyWithoutPatriarchy #PolicyWithoutPronatalism #EndReproductiveDiscrimination #EndReproductiveInequality #EndRelationshipInequality #EndUnmarriedDiscrimination #HonorTheContinuum #LeadFromLivedExperience #Childfree #Childless #AskUs #AskPWOC #AskPWOCAdvocates #SupportPWOCAdvocates #SupportPWOCAdvocacy

Thank you, LeNora Faye and Cody Hetzel for all you have invested and the work you have done to make the Childfree Convention possible for 4 years! I am grateful to have been part of this amazing panel of people who create content, community, and beyond, as we discuss what is next for people without children.

New Legacy Radio is honored to be joined by Author Nicole Louie today! She is the author of the recently released book "Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children", published by Dialogue Books. The book was released in hardback, eBook, and audio in all English-speaking countries except North America on June 13th. Others Like Me will launch in North America on November 5th, published by House of Anansi. "Others Like Me" is the story of fourteen women around the world, from different walks of life, who don't have children. It's also the story of why Nicole Louie had to find them and what they taught her. Tune in here https://lnkd.in/g9rWs_F7 for this special episode, "The Lives of Women without Children in Their Own Words" at 10 AM PDT/1 PM EDT/6 PM BST!

The 3rd International Singles Studies Conference will be held on 5 July 2024! The conference will have three presentation streams and is free to attend. The hybrid conference will be held at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, in Boston, Massachusetts USA, and via Zoom. Conference Co-chairs: Dr. Geoff MacDonald, Dr. Ketaki Chowkhani, and Dr. Elyakim Kislev. Register for the Conference Here: https://lnkd.in/gsVWD77t International Singles Studies Association

Today on New Legacy Radio at 10:00 PDT & 24/7 On-Demand Single Studies: Global Dimensions & Interdisciplinary Discourse The emergence of Single Studies as a discipline is both a welcome advancement in education and research and an acknowledgment of the millions of circumstantially single people and those who are single by choice. Joining the show today to discuss these matters and more, are Dr. Geoff MacDonald, Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, and Dr. Elyakim, senior lecturer in the School of Public Policy and Governance at the Hebrew University, specializing in relationships, technology, loneliness, and singles studies. We will also share details of the 3rd International Singles Studies Conference, which will be held in person in Boston and virtually via Zoom on July 5, 2024, which they co-chair with Dr. Ketaki Chowkhani. Tune in to this in-depth conversation to learn more about the work of Dr. MacDonald and Dr. Kislev, and the upcoming conference! https://lnkd.in/gnSQGFWG

Tune in live! 10 am PDT/1 pm EDT/6 pm BST On today's episode of New Legacy Radio, we will be joined by Jane van Dis, MD. Dr. van Dis is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Rochester and lectures internationally on the intersection of the climate crisis and women's maternal health. Dr. van Dis will share her breadth of knowledge and experience, in this conversation on the climate crisis and the carbon footprint of medicine, the presence and impact of microplastics, and ecological and population overshoot. We will discuss the current state and impact of national and global crises, the changes required to disrupt these exponential realities, and why dismantling patriarchy is imperative for urgent, forward movement toward resolving the climate crisis. Tune in live to learn more! https://lnkd.in/g-TrUq27 VoiceAmerica

I appreciated the opportunity to discuss the need and opportunity to recognize people without children in the financial services sector. Thank you to Michael Hartzman, CFP, and @David Walker of Lebenthal Financial Services, Inc. for recognizing the need to expand and bridge this important conversation, and for your excellent questions!

Pronatalism influences us all in ways that can be so deeply internalized, we do not even recognize the ways it drives us in everyday ways, from our words and choices, to significant personal decisions, which exponentially impact others. Pronatalism has permeated cultures, education, economic models and perpetual growth idealization that disregards access to basic universal human needs, the extinction of sentient species and other permanent loss through extractive environmental practices. Further, children are often defined as political pawns, future consumers and solutionists before they exist. These expectations are most often void of acknowledgment or analysis of the real-world impact of pronatalist entitlement on the current and predicted outcomes regarding the well-being, rights and autonomy of children. It is imperative we learn to recognize and discern pro-population agendas cloaked in eugenics and white nationalism, and disregard for reproductive autonomy, and the basic needs, rights and safeguarding of all children. (C. Erickson, NLI) *From the Guardian by Jenny Kleeman 25 May 2024: America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ "Elon Musk (father of 11) supports their cause. Thousands follow their ideology. Malcolm and Simone Collins are on a mission to make it easier for everyone to have multiple children. But are they really model parents?" "The “number one pronatalist policy position,” he tells me, is for governments to make it easier for women to work from home and have flexible hours. The Collinses believe in childcare, but not maternity leave: Simone has never taken any. " https://lnkd.in/gXN-A8CC

Today on New Legacy Radio, we will discuss the growing epidemic of professional burnout. We are honored to be joined by Adaira Landry, MD MEd and Resa E Lewiss MD, authors of the recently released book, "MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact." Dr. Landry and Dr. Lewiss bring a fresh approach to navigating career and workplace stress and share their experiences as emergency medicine physicians. Tune in live today, May 21, at 10am PST/1pm EST/6pm GMT! https://lnkd.in/gVBEVmP4 VoiceAmerica #MicroSkills #SelfCare #BurnoutEpidemic #EmergencyMedicinePhysicians