Minibabble: Shaped by Motherhood
How does becoming a mother—or choosing not to—shape women’s lives? Time and again, mothering is fundamental to how women do their work. Whether women choose to be mothers or not,….
Category: Parenting
A Spell to Keep Us Human: In conversation with Enid Baxter Ryce
Enid Baxter Ryce is an artist who is a writer, she’s a professor who tells her students to put the computers away, she’s a mom who asks her kids to go dig a hole. In this wide-ranging conversation, we learn how Enid moved from a “feral” childhood to a life of the mind, never forgetting to keep her hands in the dirt and her self open to possibility.
Fighting for a Better Online World with Cindy Cohn
Cindy Cohn’s new book, Privacy’s Defender, focuses on three legal cases that formed the basis for privacy and freedom of speech on the Internet. But it’s also a memoir, framing the issues raised by legal battles through personal choices and life events both mundane and momentous. In this unusual conversation, we leave the big legal questions behind and focus instead on our modern lives on the internet. What do women get from privacy and freedom of speech when men so often use their own privacy and freedom of speech to restrict women’s online behavior? How does the internet mirror the real world when it comes to harassment and bullying of women? How would proposed fixes to the internet’s free speech woes restrict women’s speech even further?
Minibabble: The way of the doula
In praise of natural birth In this mini version of the full episode, “Trusting our Survival Mechanisms with Doula Anne Wallen,” we focus on doula Anne Wallen’s trust in the….
Trusting our Survival Mechanisms with Doula Anne Wallen
Anne Wallen now trains women in the art of the doula. How a teen mom evolved into a proponent of natural childbirth is a quietly stunning American love story.
Minibabble: Motherhood changes the environment
From Babblery host, Suki Wessling: On my radio show, the Babblery, I talk to women of all ages and backgrounds about their work and life experiences and how those experiences….
Listening to Children: In Conversation with Linguist Eve Clark
Dr. Eve V. Clark has spent a career in academia pursuing one seemingly simple question: How do children learn to talk? The theory in vogue at the beginning of her….
Minibabble: Carol Fisher Saller on Inclusivity in Children’s Fiction
In this mini-episode, we focus on a change that has both energized and confused writers: the push for representation and the elimination of cultural appropriation. Author Carol Fisher Saller speaks with refreshing candor about the difficulties she faces as a white writer who genuinely wants to write representative, inclusive kidlit. She talks about the myths and misperceptions, as well as the challenges, as she tries to make her way in a changed industry.
Minibabble: Brooke Berman, Director at Midlife
Brooke Berman is a first-time film director. She’s also a middle-aged woman, a mom, and a wife with a full writing career under her belt. In this mini-episode, we explore what she learned from directing her film, Ramona at Midlife.
Filmmaker at Midlife: In conversation with Brooke Berman
Brooke Berman is a first-time film director. She’s also a middle-aged woman, a mom, and a wife with a full writing career under her belt. In this episode of The Babblery Radio Show & Podcast, we explore how she got to the point of directing her film, Ramona at Midlife, and what she learned in the process.