Biologic Dissonance

This series was an in depth look into the experience of being a childfree woman. Having decided to focus on the fecundity of my mind rather than my body, I felt power in the ability and agency of deciding this.

I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, and told that the decision not to have children was a biological one rather than just a conscious one. This made me feel less like I had made a decision and like the decision had been made for me, much like a lot of a woman’s relationship to her body is not built on her own foundation and her own expectations.

The reclamation of my cycle as that of a source of power than a source of shame has been deeply healing. I have through this work begun to think of my body as a vessel for creation that is not limited to biological creation.