I Don’t Need Children To Have a Stake in Our Collective Future

I am a queer, Jewish, childless woman with a stake in the future of our country. My spouse and I just celebrated our 31st anniversary.

Contrary to what some folks are saying, diversity, not sameness, is America’s greatest strength.

Real Americans don’t have children.
Real Americans use IVF technology and adopt.
Real Americans are stepparents and have blended families.

Real Americans live in single-parent households.
Real Americans use birth control and have abortions.
Real Americans are queer and transgender.

Real Americans are people of the global majority.
Real Americans are immigrants.
Real Americans are not Christian.

JD Vance’s weird comments about childless cat ladies are not so weird in the context of his deeply reactionary pro-natalist politics.

Senator Vance's denigration of the families of Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a dog whistle for the Great Replacement Theory.

The Great Replacement Theory asserts that immigrants and people like me are “poisoning the blood of our country” (Donald Trump, 2023) and plotting to exterminate or "replace" white Christians.

Remember neo-Nazis chanting “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville in 2017? That’s the subtext here.

If you believe that we ALL belong, please share this post and discuss these topics with your friends and neighbors.

This shouldn't be a partisan issue. It's simply about respecting people who may look, act, or think differently than you do.

Belonging begins with us.