Pallavi Gogoi
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She told me she had been in a long and serious relationship with a guy who didn't want children.
Eventually, they broke up and she found a sperm donor.
When she got pregnant, she felt really lucky and grateful.
But there were also all these really conflicting emotions that she felt.
Yeah, those little beings.
Aisha, she had twins, Cyrus and Leila, who are almost two now.
And she's leaned on her parents to fill that void.
Mm-hmm.
So true.
I heard that from a lot of women, too.
Yes.
You know, Aisha, the word stigma, that kept popping up in my inbox.
And it was mostly from Black single mothers who wrote to me.
For a long time for me, um,
I sat with the shame that society projects onto you and you end up internalizing because you're a single mom.
This is Danielle Townsend.
She's a 36-year-old mom in Philadelphia.
Her son is Caleb, who's seven now.
She is part of this new generation of Black single women who reject that stigma.
And they're really pushing back against that narrative.