Misconceptions: A Card Deck for Fertility Conversations

(Mis)Conceptions is an eighteen-month Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project exploring the cultural history of fertility health and especially pregnancy ambiguity: the common experience of not knowing whether a pregnancy is established or viable. engagement element uses history and art to open broader questions about trying for parenthood today. To accomplish this the project is creating a deck of conversation cards using the western tarot as a structuring device, whilst foregrounding questions, themes and images that explore people’s experiences of trying to become parents today, whether biologically or otherwise.