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: The Babblery
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….
Finding Community in Environmental Justice with Shilpi Chhotray
Shilpi Chhotray is a storyteller with a purpose. An environmentalist from an early age, her perspective has developed and deepened during her career. Having found inspiration in the social justice….
Minibabble: Mansplaining muzzles free speech
Like all citizens, women in the United States are guaranteed freedom of speech and academic freedom. But in practice, mansplaining and other unquestioned male dominant behaviors curtail women’s freedoms more….
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….
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: How US cuts will devastate global science
How are the Trump Administration’s cuts affecting the global science system? Dr. Heather Ford is an American climate scientist working in London. In this mini-episode, she explains how scientific research….
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….
Minibabble: Wading downstream of the poisonous stew
All of us are standing by a stream, experiencing the downstream effects of decisions made in Washington. This week, I felt those decisions acutely. Visit Substack to read the text,….