Ruby Warrington joins us to discuss the often overlooked experiences of women who do not have children - by choice or circumstance.
How the deeply ingrained belief that womanhood is synonymous with motherhood can be a tool to suppress women's sexuality and autonomy.
The reasons women may choose to be child-free – and the myriad ways women can define their ... Show More
Mar 17
Tracee Ellis Ross: Holding On to Joy In Hard Times
In this deeply moving — and one of our all-time favorite — conversations, we take a beautiful, funny, honest dive inside the “wonderful, dangerous” mind of Tracee Ellis Ross. As the world asks us to stay engaged without burning out, Tracee offers a powerful model for how to show ... Show More
1h 6m
Mar 10
What to Do With Rage: Meggan Watterson
Meggan Watterson joins Glennon and Abby for an urgent, unfiltered conversation about how to stay human in infuriating times. They discuss sacred rage as a form of love, why trusting our inner knowing matters more than ever, and what it means to stop waiting for institutions—or me ... Show More
59m 20s
Feb 2023
The State of American Motherhood
“I thought I had already failed at motherhood, and I did not even have a child yet,” says Jessica Grose, New York Times opinion writer and author of Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood. Today, the parenting columnist joins Erica Chidi to share wha ... Show More
42m 8s
Oct 2021
What Does Mothering Look Like?
“We all share the universal experience of having been born,” says design historian Amber Winick and co-author of Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births. In the book, Winick and co-author Michelle Fisher explore how designs, from the menstrual cup to the breas ... Show More
38m 36s
Nov 2022
Thriving Moms, Thriving Families: Jill Koziol of Motherly
The expectations put upon parents, and mothers, specifically, have changed a lot over the years, but one thing is certain: it’s never been easy. Whether we’re washing clothes in a river with a baby tied to our backs, or managing quarterly reports while soothing a crying child, wo ... Show More
39m 9s
Oct 2019
Canaries in the Mine: Latham Thomas on Doula Work and Maternal Mortality Rates in the U.S.
We are a country built upon a foundation of slavery, and the truth is that that has affected every aspect of our culture. We live in an era of #blacklivesmatter and #metoo, spurred by the need to, once and for all, stare down the face of inequality, of institutionalized racism, s ... Show More
40m 16s
Nov 2023
The Risk It Takes To Bloom (Raquel Willis)
<p>“Well, the interesting thing is, I guess some of this came from writing the book too, but all of those versions of me live inside of me, right? Even the kid that was, you know, forced to kind of navigate the world as a boy and all of these different things, like that kid is st ... Show More
41m 21s
Jun 2020
#267 Candice Brathwaite: Motherhood, Business & Taking Up Space
My guest today is the brilliant Candice Brathwaite, Sunday Times Bestselling author of I Am Not Your Baby Mother. The book has been called 'an urgent part-memoir, part-manifesto about Black British motherhood' in Red magazine. When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the mothe ... Show More
29m 50s
Feb 2021
How Can We Honor Black Motherhood? with Anna Malaika Tubbs
This week on Getting Curious, we’re learning about three women who shaped the movement for civil rights in the United States—Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin—but whose stories have too often been footnotes in books about their famous sons.
The writer and schola ... Show More
58m 23s