Family Planning in a Changing Climate

Feb 16, 2024

The decision to have a child is a personal one yet is sometimes seen as politically fraught in a time of climate change. Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli, who run an organization called , lead conversations around the country to make space for people to talk about family planning and climate change without judgment.

Guest-hosting a conversation on 猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali ,猫咪社区! Senior Editor Breanna Draxler spoke with Kallman and Ferorelli about the new book they have co-authored, called . 猫咪社区! ran an excerpt of the book here.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined 猫咪社区! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.