Reproductive Justice in a Changing Climate: Climate Baby Dilemma screening

Cambridge Reproduction

Special screening of the CBS documentary 'The Climate Baby Dilemma'  with a panel discussion and Q&amp;A

Old Divinity School, St John's College

<h3>Part of our Reproductive Justice in a Changing Climate series.</h3> Deciding whether to have a child is an emotionally fraught and deeply personal process. Deciding amid increasingly dire warnings for the planet makes it even more paralysing. "The Climate Baby Dilemma" explores the state of what to expect when you're expecting... climate change. With the future promising to be increasingly unstable and insecure, conversations about parenthood are heating up.Over the course of three years, the film follows prominent science writer Britt Wray, as she delves further into this complex issue - hosting workshops, giving talks, and speaking to activists, psychologists, parents and prospective parents. The film also meets many youth at the centre of the climate moment. A growing number of Gen-Z and millennials are either refusing to bring a child into an increasingly unstable world or struggling with the question of whether they should. Those deciding to have children, while being very climate aware - like activists Sarain Fox and Severn Suzuki - offer perspectives and lessons for raising children in the climate crisis. Through her research, Britt considers how one can transform climate anxiety and grief into transformative action. For many, the best antidote to feeling powerless is activism - and that can take many forms, including the decision not to have a child. <h3>Joining our panel:</h3><ul><li><a href="https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/davenport/" title="https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/davenport/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Romola Davenport</a> (Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Department of Geography)</li><li><a href="https://www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/people/profiles/mcmullen-heather.html" title="https://www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/people/profiles/mcmullen-heather.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Heather McMullen</a> (Social scientist in the Global Public Health Unit in the Centre for Public Health and Policy, Wolfson Institute of Population Health)</li><li><a href="https://angryrobotbooks.com/book_author/calder-szewczak/" title="https://angryrobotbooks.com/book_author/calder-szewczak/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Emma Szewczak</a> (Author of The Offset and The Stitch-up)</li><li><a href="https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/gwm23" title="https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/gwm23" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Geoff Maguire</a> (Department of Modern and Medieval Languages &amp; Linguistics)</li></ul>This event has been organised by <a href="https://www.repro.cam.ac.uk" title="https://www.repro.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cambridge Reproduction</a>Join us for our other event as part of this programme for Cambridge Festival <ul><li>Screening of feature film, ‘The End we Start From’ (2023) feature film, starring Jodie Comer – 1 April 2025, introduced by Helen Charman, Director of Studies in English at Clare College</li></ul>

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