“This dysfunctional town square” with TV producer Stephanie Jacobs
Stephanie Jacobs has had a long career covering elections for CBS News. But it wasn’t until she moved to California and became a California girl that politics became personal.
Category: Sex and Gender
Minibabble: Brenda Laurel on Girls and Games
Writer, researcher, designer and entrepreneur Brenda Laurel started in theater, moved to videogames and then virtual reality, and ended up as an academic. This mini-episode, based on the full-length interview….
Play Like a Girl (or not) with Brenda Laurel
In this conversation with Brenda Laurel, we explore how girls play and what that means for women and game designers. We talk about the relationship between theater and gaming, and how the gaming world grew to change the way children live and develop. We talk about the importance of teaching. But most of all, we talk about what it means to be a creator in this world, someone who asks others to entrust their minds to our work.
Minibabble: In which I say things that are true and also not true
This is a Minibabble, just me talking to you. I’m struggling this week. As a woman. As a person who values decency. As a mother. As an educated person. As….
Minibabble: Vote for women’s health
I was driving in my car to a rehearsal. Michelle Obama’s speech had been playing on the radio when I started the car and so I kept listening. It was….
Wiring the Mind for Love: Melding science and faith with neuroscientist Nicole Tetreault
“Every time I danced, I thought about the gratitude I had to move my body when simultaneously my mother was bound to a wheelchair. It shifted my perspective on the gift of life.”….
Minibabble: Tapping that Well of Goodwill with Karin Tamerius
How do we talk to people on the other side of the political divide? It used to be commonplace—Americans lived, worked, and went to school with people from a mixture….
A Deep Well of Goodwill: Political Conversation with Karin Tamerius
How do you talk to people you don’t agree with so that you can continue the conversation? Karin Tamerius was passionate about politics as a young person, but she also….
MINIBABBLE: Opening doors for gifted girls and women
In this “quick bite” episode of The Babblery, seven women talk about their lives as gifted girls and their work helping other gifted girls and women thrive.
“Women bring something different”: The intense world of gifted women
Giftedness touches every area of gifted women’s external lives: treatment by parents, teachers, and peers; life options presented to them; sexist assumptions based on their looks and clothing. But giftedness also touches these women’s internal lives. In this episode, we explore the many ways that giftedness influences the lived experiences of gifted women.