What happens when women’s fight for long-delayed justice collides with our legal tenet of due process? In this Minibabble, host Suki Wessling speaks with retired judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell about the #MeToo movement and how she reacted when she heard some women insist that we should “believe all women.”
This month’s guest on the Babblery podcast is retired judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell. I first interviewed LaDoris about her work with the African American Composer Initiative. In both interviews, she gives a passionate defense of what she calls today’s “dirty word”—DEI. In this Minibabble, producer Suki Wessling reflects on what it means to hold the door open for others.
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An Audio Montage I walked around my local No Kings 2026 Rally and asked people to do dramatic readings of their signs. Some are more dramatic than others, but all….
What leads radical feminists to exclude transgender women from their gatherings? What happens whentrauma and expectations meet the need for community and acceptance? Every woman has a story. Listen to….
BABBLERY.com: What does it take for an independent filmmaker to shoot a film in a country that lacks a functional government? Haitian filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin speaks about the difficulty of shooting her short film, N Ap Boule, which is a fictional exploration of the crisis of maternity care in Haiti.
Early in the 20th century, in which has been named the Great Migration, millions of Black southerners moved North, looking for opportunity and an escape from Jim Crow. The vibrant….
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….
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….
This morning, a man shot up a Catholic mass full of children. Usually, I don’t write about current events that haven’t been resolved in any way. But as I listened….
How are the Trump Administration’s cuts affecting the global science system? Dr. Heather Ford is an American climate scientist working in London. In this mini-episode, she explains how scientific research….
