On being a storyteller in an infinite village
Near the end of my recent interview with Brenda Laurel, she talks about the responsibility of content creators in our current world. “What we can do, what I hope we….
Podcast: The Babblery
The Babblery features conversations about who we are and how we got this way. Modern humans can seem like the ancients building the Biblical Tower of Babel, cursed by God/nature never to understand each other. As Visiting Translators at the Tower of Babble, our guests delve into their work, their research, and their own experiences to try to explain the bits they’ve learned about Earth’s most perplexing species. Though we all speak different languages, here at The Babblery we aim to promote understanding, one conversation at a time.
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.
Minibabble: What do I look like?
In this short episode, host Suki Wessling reflects on the experience of having the full glamour treatment at the studio of w Jana Marcus.