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.
Category: Sex and Gender
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….
A grandmother’s legacy: Sharon Sewell-Fairman finds her voice
Women Creating Change CEO and President Sharon Sewell-Fairman talks about her path from rural Jamaica to leading a NYC nonprofit that works to increase civic engagement amongst women in New York City.
Minibabble: Dystopian novels – Warning, not blueprint.
Some thoughts from Babblery host Suki Wessling about how we should read and act upon dystopian literature. It seems that reasonable people take these novels as warnings, many people seem to take them as blueprints for how we should mold our future.
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.