Two Strange Moments with Writer Joan Gelfand
BABBLERY.com: Writer Joan Gelfand’s career has been bookended by two “strange moments,” with the power of the 70s women’s movement at one end and the fight against authoritarianism on the other.
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Taking Care of Ourselves with Filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin
BABBLERY.com: Haitian filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin is on a mission to make films that tell important stories for her people. But how can she help a country where she can no longer live?
The Chicago Connection: Black composers of the early 20th century
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….
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….
Academic Freedom Under Fire with Scholar Bettina Aptheker
In a speech on academic freedom and the freedom of speech, feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the parallels between her student years and early career and the growing suppression of freedoms in 2025.
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: What we gain from ‘woke’ science
In conversation with Dr. Heather Ford We hear a lot about the idea of getting ‘woke’ out of science, but what does that mean? In this mini-episode based on a….
Scientist Navigates a Changing Climate: In Conversation with Dr. Heather Ford
On April 5, 2025 Dr. Heather Ford joined other scientists around the United States to protest the Trump Administration’s witch hunt against his imagined “woke science agenda.” Since World War….
Minibabble: My battle gear tells you I’m Generation X
Reflections by Babblery host Suki Wessling about generations in American culture, the hippie ethic, Gen X battle gear, and the value of sowing oneself in the fertile soil of community….