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.
Category: Society
Minibabble: On the Set with Filmmaker Alexandrine Benjamin
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.
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….
Not Forgotten Anymore: The African American Composer Initiative
Sometimes all it takes is one question to spur a revelation that inspires a movement. The African American Composer Initiative started with a question and has become a thriving nonprofit, discovering, performing, and recording underappreciated concert music by Black composers.
Minibabble: The way of the doula
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….
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.
Minibabble: Americans, vote with your eyeballs
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….