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The Babblery

The Babblery features conversations with and about women in the 21st century. In each episode, my guests and I explore their experiences as women, discussing how our physical and social gender informs our experiences at work, at home, and in the wider world. Rather than focusing on issues, we focus on lives: working, parenting, playing, voting, advocating, and creating as women. Learn more at www.Babblery.com.

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Trusting our Survival Mechanisms with Doula Anne Wallen

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2025/11/24

American women are so entrenched in our system of birth that it’s hard to see other possibilities, but doula Anne Wallen and the women she works with and trains are evangelical about how different it could be. In this conversation, Anne explores the ‘typical’ doctor-led birth, then describes the births she assists. The contrasts could […]

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Finding Community in Environmental Justice with...

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2025/10/27

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 movement, she and her production team are now embarking on a project to tell stories about environmental justice through “A People’s Climate.” The new podcast […]

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Doing Democracy in Santa Cruz at the No Kings Rally

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2025/10/18

From Suki Wessling: Reporting from the October 18 No Kings Rally in Downtown Santa Cruz today, I heard a clear message: What’s happening in this country is not OK. People from all walks of life came together with a message of unity and hope. Although there was anger, there was a distinct lack of partisanship […]

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Academic Freedom Under Fire with Scholar Bettina...

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2025/09/22

In feminist scholar Dr. Bettina Aptheker’s early years, she found herself front and center in the 1960s controversy over free speech. As a young academic, she found herself mired in a legal dispute over freedom of association. And throughout her career, she has been able to push boundaries due to academic freedom. Recently Bettina gave […]

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Listening to Children: In Conversation with Linguist...

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2025/08/25

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 career was advanced by Noam Chomsky, whose theory of Universal Grammar was all the rage amongst linguists. As a woman outnumbered by men, Eve pursued […]

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Scientist Navigates a Changing Climate: In...

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2025/07/28

On April 5, 2025 Dr. Heather Ford stood at the steps of the Santa Cruz County Building, joining other scientists around the United States to protest the Trump Administration’s witch hunt against his imagined “woke science agenda.” Since World War II, the US has seen a broadly bipartisan support for the federal funding of science, […]

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Proud to be American in coastal California

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2025/07/04

Why are you proud to be American? In these interviews at an Independence Day parade on Coastal California, residents talk about reaching for their pride at a time when our political landscape is so fraught.

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Holding the Inner Flame: On Creativity

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2025/06/23

with Joanne Foster and Patrice Vecchione What is creativity, how can we nurture it, and what can it do for us? In this conversation we speak about creativity from two directions: Dr. Joanne Foster researches and writes about creativity in education, and Patrice Vecchione teaches and practices creativity in her writing and visual art. Interviewed […]

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A grandmother’s legacy: Sharon Sewell-Fairman finds...

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2025/05/26

Sharon Sewell-Fairman’s path to become CEO and President of New York City-based nonprofit Women Creating Change was hardly set at birth. She started life in a rural area of Jamaica, her only advantage being her family’s emphasis on the importance of education. Sharon pins her success on the support of women: her grandmother and mother […]

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Writing into the Future of Kidlit with Carol Fisher...

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2025/04/28

Carol Fisher Saller moved from her career as an editor to a writer of children’s books not knowing that she was witnessing the end of an era. Her first books were published by traditional, mainstream publishers who were running their businesses the way they had been run for decades. Then Carol, along with many other […]

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Hands Off in Santa Cruz, April 2025

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2025/04/06

On-the-street interviews by Suki Wessling: On April 5, 2025, people across the United States took to the streets for rallies branded “Hands Off.” I particularly appreciated that theme once I arrived at our local rally in Santa Cruz, CA. Why? Because we’ve got to stop this us and them thing. All of us depend on […]

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Filmmaker at Midlife: In conversation with Brooke Berman

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2025/03/25

Brooke Berman is a first-time film director. She’s also a middle-aged woman, a mom, and a wife with a full writing career under her belt. In this conversation, we explore how she got to the point of directing her film, Ramona at Midlife, and what she learned in the process. Brooke’s film is not autobiographical, […]

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In Defense of Liberals: A Walk Through Santa Cruz

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2025/02/24

A special edition of the Babblery in recognition of Black History Month. I was ambivalent about going anywhere on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, this year otherwise known as Inauguration Day. It seemed like the two events were canceling each other out in my brain, creating a longing for pure nothingness. But a path to […]

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Bodies making music: composer Anne Hege

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2025/01/27

Composer Anne Hege talks about music and the body, using technology in music, and the life of working musicians.

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“This dysfunctional town square” with TV producer...

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2024/12/23

After a long career at CBS as a TV and online content producer, Stephanie Jacobs and her wife came west for a warmer climate, good wine, and proximity to family. She initially connected to the Babblery to speak about her career and her broad experience in American politics, but this conversation took an unexpected turn. […]

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Play like a girl (or not) with Brenda Laurel

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2024/11/25

In this conversation, host Suki Wessling speaks with writer, researcher, designer and entrepreneur Brenda Laurel about 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 […]

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Wiring the Mind for Love: Melding science and faith...

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2024/10/31

“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.” – Nicole Tetreault In this wide-ranging interview, we explore how neuroscientist, author, and meditation teacher Nicole Tetreault managed to step across what was once a […]

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A Deep Well of Goodwill: Political Conversation with...

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2024/09/23

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 noticed that her arguments with family didn’t go anywhere. Eventually, Karin melded her early political career with training in psychiatry to create a method of […]

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New from The Babblery: The intense world of gifted women

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2024/08/25

Warning: This episode invokes “the G-word,” and by that we mean gifted. It’s the term used by educators, psychologists, and parents, despite the fact that everyone knows it evokes a whiff of elitism and implies that others have no gifts. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. In this episode, host Suki Wessling […]

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Women invest their values with Janine Firpo

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2024/07/22

“In the next six years, one of the biggest wealth transfers this country has ever seen is happening. And by 2030, women are going to control $30 trillion in this economy.” Janine Firpo Many of us find trips to new places inspiring. For Janine Firpo, what started with a getaway led to a career change […]

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