In this episode, Denée and Sean talk about birth: birth rates, anxieties about having children, supports for parents (or lack thereof), and how the medical industrial complex has turned birthing into something it never should have been. We also talk about having kids as a material bet on the future, and creating the future we want out of love.

Read “The Parenting Panic” in Boston Review by Aaron Bady https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/the-parenting-panic

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A Tender Riot is a podcast about abolition, socialism, and relating to each other as whole human beings.