Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos
Author of 'Silent Sorority: A Barren Woman Gets Busy, Angry, Lost and Found'
Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos (Sig-din-us) is an author, blogger and infertility survivor.
In her first book, Silent Sorority, Pamela shares with naked candor, humor and poignancy the intense and, at times, absurd experience of living barren in an era of designer babies and helicopter parents. She wrote Silent Sorority to give voice to the large but little known population of women left to confront the often unpredictable and lasting impact of failed fertility treatments. Relationships and identity are among the casualties. With raw honesty Pamela draws from her experience to explore the stigma associated with infertility and the complex effects of living involuntarily childless.
She first dealt with the confusion and weirdness of infertility in isolation. This was a time not so long ago (pre-"Dr Google") when most information on the topic was available via the library, book store or the U.S. Postal Service. It was only after she and her husband decided they were done being human lab experiments that she began to realize that overcoming infertility is about much more than making a baby. It’s about coming to terms, when nature and science find their limits, with a life different than one so often taken for granted.
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At the same time she was writing Silent Sorority she started her blog Coming2Terms, which allowed her to connect with women around the world also looking reconcile the challenges of living in societies that devalue those without children. Her international readership includes those who have never stepped foot in a fertility clinic, those pursuing fertility treatment, those who became mothers after treatment or adoption, and those, who like her, are building lives without once sought after children. Pamela and her blog were profiled last year in The New York Times. Her writing has been featured in a variety of online outlets including Fertility Authority, Open Salon, MORE magazine and BlogHer, just to name a few. She earned a B.A. in English Literature at the University of Michigan and an M.A. in Organizational Communication at Wayne State University in Detroit. After ten memorable years working in the auto industry, she now lives and works in Silicon Valley. When she’s not writing she enjoys travel and discussing history, Indie films, documentaries, politics, current events and literature with her husband and friends. |
Pamela on Big Blend Radio
Discussing 'Silent Sorority' and how to deal with infertility during the holidays, Pamela will be a featured guest on Big Blend Radio's popular online 'Champagne Sundays' variety show which airs live on Dec. 6, from 11am PT / 2pm ET. To meet the rest of the guests and listen to the entire show, Click Here!
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Check out Pamela's Blog at www.Coming2Terms.com
