Tag: women

A Spell to Keep Us Human: In conversation with Enid Baxter Ryce

Enid Baxter Ryce is an artist who is a writer, she’s a professor who tells her students to put the computers away, she’s a mom who asks her kids to go dig a hole. In this wide-ranging conversation, we learn how Enid moved from a “feral” childhood to a life of the mind, never forgetting to keep her hands in the dirt and her self open to possibility.

Rooted in Service with Human Rights Commissioner Denise Miranda

Denise Miranda is New York State’s top civil rights official, the head of an agency that is charged with monitoring and promoting civil rights in the state. She’s also a proud native of the Bronx, daughter of Puerto Rican-born parents, and a mother. On the Babblery, we discuss the passion for justice and rights for all that drives her work.

Women of Cannabis

CBD is the non-intoxicating chemical cannabidiol that is the less-regulated partner to THC, the chemical that produces euphoria. I was curious about the cannabis business, and also about being a woman in that business.

Women’s bodily autonomy in the post-Roe era

In this podcast, Suki Wessling and Christine Barrington interview two pioneers in the movement for legal midwifery and home birth. Kate Bowland and Raven Lang provide inspiration for women to continue to fight for the legal right to bodily autonomy.