[IRL] Deciding Whether To Be A Biological Parent?

This workshop/support group is designed to help you feel into your ambivalence, express your thoughts in a safe space, and learn from others who have navigated similar questions with intentionality.

For this 90-minute event, Brynn Rubinstein (human who is a parent) and Virgie Tovar (human who is child-free) share about their journeys to their respective decisions on parenting, share their visions and strategies for a world where all decisions are equally valid and celebrated, and open up the floor for an intimate discussion with attendees led by 3 questions:

• Question 1: Where and how does this question live in your body?
• Question 2: What are your stories about motherhood/parenthood - both your childhood and the stories you have now?
• Question 3: What do you need to hear/do that would assist in making this decision?

This in-person event is capped at 20 participants in hopes of making this conversation intimate.

We recognize that every person’s reproductive life journey is unique, and this conversation is geared towards people struggling with the if rather than the how of becoming a parent.

About Brynn Rubinstein

Brynn Rubinstein is a maternal child health expert who has worked in all parts of the public health and health care system. She is also an avid dilettante of creative writing, ceramics, hiking, and on occasion, meditation.

About Virgie Tovar

Virgie Tovar is a fat feminist, Taurus, podcaster and journalist. She’s written You Have the Right to Remain Fat and The Body Positive Journal. Her forthcoming book is a memoir on her

decision to go no-contact with her family and the implications that has for the Latinx daughter of immigrants.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Ruby SF, 23rd Street and Bryant Street, San Francisco, United States