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.
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….
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….
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.
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.
In this short episode, host Suki Wessling reflects on the experience of having the full glamour treatment at the studio of w Jana Marcus.
Women’s relationship with money isn’t developed in a vacuum. “It’s historic,” says Janine Firpo. “It’s baked into how we have been acculturated as women.” In this short episode based on….
Janine Firpo literally went to the other side of the world to learn how her money represented her values. In this episode, listeners learn about impact investing and hear the stories of four women who have transformed the way they view the role of their money in the world.
What do women see when we look at our culture looking at women? This sounds circular, but it is the way that many mature women see ourselves. When we look in a mirror, we don’t see light bouncing off our faces and bodies and reflecting back from a smooth surface. We see the cultural experience of seeing ourselves as women. In this Minibabble, women talk about the experience of being looked at as they look at themselves.
There are many wonderful things about modern communication, including the fact that you could find this text and read it! Social media in particular has been instrumental in creating awareness….
