Just me talking to you: What is a woman?
A Minibabble: Pondering what the experiences of transgender theorist Sandy Stone tell us about being a woman.
Category: Health
Her Most Authentic Self: Women in Comedy
This episode features two amazing funny women, Karin Babbitt and Leah Rogers, speaking from the heart. For them, and for all comedians of their ilk, comedy is about bringing their….
“A perfectly good body”—a conversation about transmasculine pregnancy
What can the pregnancy and birth experiences of transgender men tell us about our cultural views of women? In this podcast, host Suki Wessling interviews researcher Vann Jones and features the words of three transgender men who became parents.
“If you were a landscape”: Women walking, creating, and becoming
I love talking to writer and teacher Patrice Vecchione about pretty much anything. So when I invited her to an interview on The Babblery, we had to decide on a….
Foundational Women of Wine
Most histories of the region would feature their husbands as the winemakers and thus the center of attention, but like all histories that leave out the women, that history would be incomplete. This podcast with Prudy Foxx, Valerie Ahlgren, and June Smith explores the role of women in the early years of an industry.
Women of Cannabis
CBD is the non-intoxicating chemical cannabidiol that is the less-regulated partner to THC, the chemical that produces euphoria. I was curious about the cannabis business, and also about being a woman in that business.
Religious views of abortion: more nuanced than you might think
Recently a friend of one of my adult children said to me, “So I hear you hate Catholicism.” I explained that this was a rather large mischaracterization about my feelings….
Women’s bodily autonomy in the post-Roe era
In this podcast, Suki Wessling and Christine Barrington interview two pioneers in the movement for legal midwifery and home birth. Kate Bowland and Raven Lang provide inspiration for women to continue to fight for the legal right to bodily autonomy.
Red state doctors: Come to California. We’ll let you practice medicine without politics.
Doctors: Sick of politics telling you how to practice medicine? Come to California! We’ll appreciate you.
Abortion stigma: the root of healthcare confusion
This podcast presents a special Independence Day panel discussion about abortion and California’s status as an Abortion Sanctuary State. We discuss the roots of abortion stigma, and how stigma manifests itself everywhere from conversations between friends to communications between healthcare providers. We also discuss California’s status as a sanctuary station for abortion seekers, and what that will mean for our healthcare system.