Natal Conference

Official Twitter account of Natal Conference. The future belongs to those who show up.

[Natal Conference @natalismorg]

NatalCon 2025 Replays

We will release the replays 4 at a time, once a week until our demands are met

Replays also available on Youtube, published Wednesday mornings at 9AM CT (@NatalConference on YT)

[polo @markooo]

My favorite talk from @natalismorg NatalCon 2025 by @costofglory https://t.co/Ki8K0RENk0

[Natal Conference @natalismorg]

Malcolm & Simone Collins (@SimoneHCollins) are the founders of Pronatalist[dot]org, authors of The Rationalist Guide series of books & the Based Camp podcast, & sponsors of Natal Conference 2025

Their talk: "Sex Drive Doesn't Fix Pronatalism"

[Natal Conference @natalismorg]

NatalCon 2025 Replays

We will release the replays 4 at a time, once a week until our demands are met

Replays also available on Youtube, published Wednesday mornings at 9AM CT (@NatalConference on YT)

[Natal Conference @natalismorg]

Jess Flanigan is professor of ethics at the University of Richmond, & author of the forthcoming book, The Ethics of Expecting

Her talk: "the Pronatalist Case for Reproductive Freedom"

[Madeleine Kearns @madeleinekearns]

My dispatch from @natalismorg for @TheFP!

[Bob and Alice @fruitfulfuture_]

The @natalismorg conference made me (Alice) pronatalist. Prior to the event, I had a laissez-faire attitude towards natalism. After the Covid tyranny escapade, I had become convinced that the overwhelming majority are instinctively hostile to perspectives that challenge strongly held and/or common beliefs. When given a counterargument, they are incapable of changing their minds even if they are unable to find any flaw in the opposing statement. Sadly, even if they agree with it but fear backlash from adopting a counterculture belief, they will act as if their encounter never happened. It appears that the truth of a statement is irrelevant; what matters is how people feel about it, or even about something tangential that they mistake for your statement. Since feelings are beyond rationalization, I concluded that there is no feasible path for rational discussion to change opinions.

Even at the beginning of Natal Con 2025, my skepticism in people’s ability to separate emotion from reason persisted. Outside of one of the conference buildings was a handful of protesters. They were all masked and most of them were white males. I could identify only 1 female, also white. They were screaming, voice cracking, what sounded like crying, and cursing at us, telling us while I was holding my baby, to die and that we were neo-Nazis, raising neo-Nazis. A white male singled me out and called me a Nazi b****. It was clear they had no real definition of Nazi, and no real desire to make change but instead to bully, which unfortunately is the default human standard. Shortly after, CNN reporters tried to ask me about my experience as a racial minority. I explained that a group of white male protesters told my baby and I, both racial minorities, to die, and they simply showed disinterest over this set of facts and walked away. In contrast, no one inside Natal Con wished my baby dead.

However, my perspective on dialogue’s effectiveness changed at Natal Con when Malcolm Collins (@SimoneHCollins), a pronatalism pioneer, showed rare excitement after I shared my story—which I’ll discuss in future articles—of why I had children sooner than expected and what encouraged fertility in my life. He passionately stated that sharing my experience, which he already has on multiple occasions, would likely help another woman like me. His conviction, dedication, and the movement’s momentum helped me envision a future where sharing my story enables a woman to grow, nurse, and hold a new life that might not have otherwise existed. Children are a blessing, and this moment made me realize it would be a privilege to help another woman’s life be transformed and her motherhood ambitions fulfilled.

The world needs people who aren't indifferent to worldwide population collapse, not only because of the future consequences but because many of the factors driving population collapse are deeply hurting people today, which in turn discourage the desire to continue on in the future. For instance, our society was designed to abandon and extort the younger generation. Therefore, we will be exploring issues that affect fertility like immoral social customs from a psychological perspective and the economy, and providing our take on how to adapt. In addition, our goal is to foster joy in humanity's progression thus far, spread hope that the future is even more free, and to encourage others to act on this joy and hope by having kids. In the end, regardless of what you want to call me, e.g. pronatalist, neo-Nazi, etc., my hope is that you experience the love of having kids or rearing kids, and that you feel immeasurably valued and privileged for participating in defining the future.

[Terry Schilling 🇺🇸 @Schilling1776]

🚨FIRST EPISODE: @JackPosobiec slams liberal attacks on masculinity and we talk about Gen Z's huge shift to President Trump and the conservative movement.

[Nathan Worcester @nnworcester]

"We're in a spiritual crisis." - @Babygravy9

At @natalismorg, the tech right and trads confronted falling birth rates in the West and across the world.

None of them saw easy solutions. Some didn't even see a problem in need of solving.

[meena hart duerson @meenasaurus]

No, they didn't charge $10,000 and have on-the-spot weddings, as some reports suggest.

But NatalCon 2025 had plenty of excitement.

Our report from inside the Elon-adjacent conference focused on boosting the birth rate is up on @CNN -- and it's a fun one: https://t.co/weaoWR1GKx

[The Texas Horn @thetexashorn]

Last weekend, The Texas Horn attended what @guardian called a 'Eugenics Conference': NatalCon 2025 (@natalismorg). Check out our article below, where we break down the event and cover talks by @JackPosobiec, @Babygravy9, @extradeadjcb, @cremieuxrecueil, and speak with @L0m3z ⬇️

[The Texas Horn @thetexashorn]

"Young men really do have a hard time, that's why someone like Jordan Peterson is very popular."

Check out our interview with Raw Egg Nationalist (@Babygravy9) at Natal Con 2025 (@natalismorg)
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[Scott Yenor @scottyenor]

The left's coverage of @natalismorg was truly unhinged. What they consider "far-right" is just normal. Normal people wanting normal things like families and children and willing to talk about what has always been necessary to bring form marriages and have children.

[B.P. Majors 🐍🗽🔯 @MajorsBruc34400]

The corporate mainstream media from @Wired on down smeared this weekend's @natalismorg Natal-Con with partisan thoughtless coverage.

Here's a more independent assessment by @bryan_caplan https://t.co/bkFoQIeaIE?

[Lomez @L0m3z]

My speech from Natal Con is up. I explain why the Natal Conference should be disbanded, why you need to care less about your kids, and why I am NOT a Pro-Natalist™.

Despite the topic, I think it went over well.

Thanks to @extradeadjcb and @natalismorg for the great weekend.

[Josh Centers @jcenters]

Reading mainstream coverage of @natalismorg and I think the journalists confused it with some other event.

It wasn’t a “matchmaking weekend.” There was an event for singles, but it wasn’t the focus.

It didn’t cost $10,000 except for a handful of last-minute tickets. A typical ticket was $1,000, which was expensive enough.

No talk of anything like eugenics. Almost all of the discussion was around how to make it easier to date, marry, and raise children, which I think is good?

Other than nonpartisan policy discussion, not really a political event at all. Even abortion was barely mentioned.