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Blythe Pepino is a singer-songwriter and composer based in England. She performs as Blythe and Blythe Insta, and offers music production and vocal coaching services.
- What Was Birthstrike?
- Sounding The Alarm
- An Epiphany?
- Losing Control of The Message
- Whose Reproduction Is Newsworthy?
- Burnout: The End of Birthstrike
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BirthStrike was founded by Pepino in the UK, but was open to people around the world. Pepino is a singer-songwriter who has experienced popularity and acclaim as part of the band Vaults, whose music appeared on the soundtracks of the film Fifty Shades of Grey and a John Lewis Christmas advert. She now fronts the band Mesadorm. Birthstrike sought to...
We first met Pepino in 2019 and have interviewed her several times since. We have found her to be an intelligent and articulate person who thinks seriously about issues, but also has a keen sense of fun. Drinking coffee in the sunny kitchen of her rented house in east London during the summer of 2021, we asked her to reflect on the story of BirthSt...
At one point in his interview, Carlson suggested Pepino had had something akin to a religious conversion, and in some ways it is an apt comparison. The story she tells of her awakening to the existential threats of climate change does sound like an epiphany – it was a point of no return where she could no longer un-see the realities of the climate ...
While Pepino and other spokespeople for BirthStrike consistently emphasised that they had no intention to tell people what to do, this was often how their message was interpreted. Pepino told us how the media “ended up talking about population numbers a lot” and “constantly referring to fertility rates” which she felt undermined their call for syst...
Importantly, the critique of BirthStrike didn’t only come from the right. When we have told people about our researchon this movement, those on the left sometimes dismiss those involved in BirthStrike and groups like it as just being “privileged” white, middle-class women who are demonstrating a sense of entitlement. In other words, why should anyo...
Ultimately, in the summer of 2021, the leadership of BirthStrike decided to disband the campaign and propose rerouting members towards a private group in which they could share their feelings and gain support, instead of an explicitly political campaign. During 2020 and 2021, Pepino had conversations with her partner about the “political danger”, a...
Blythe Pepino, singer-songwriter and founder of BirthStrike, a group of people who fear having children in the climate crisis, shares her story of media attention, personal struggle and political message. Learn how she started the campaign, why she ended it and what insights it offers into public conversations about the future of humanity.
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Oct 2, 2019 · Features. 'This is a life or death situation': meet the BirthStrike founder sacrificing motherhood for mother earth. Blythe Pepino, 33, is the woman behind BirthStrike, an environmental...
Blythe Pepino is a singer, a songwriter, a front woman, an activist and a choir leader. She fronts the band Mesadorm – an alt acoustic-electro indie band which has been hailed on BBC Radio 6 and whose debut album was marked as one of the best alternative albums of 2018 by the Guardian.
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Jan 21, 2003 · 354. 11K views 3 years ago. Faced with the stark reality of the climate crisis, a growing movement of people are deciding not to have children. We spoke with Blythe Pepino, the founder of...
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