Re: South Korea's No-Birth Generation (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:59:39 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > glad to see they emphasize that this is Korean women's response to 
 > patriarchy

This is in our queue, but don't know when we'll get to listen to it.
We're pretty far behind in our queue.

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