Episodios

  • Minibabble: Blessed relief – two stories of birth

    Minibabble: Blessed relief – two stories of birth
    Dec 3 2025
    Interviewing a doula about natural childbirth was an intensely personal experience for Babblery host Suki Wessling. She’d planned on natural birth—twice. But the American system of birth isn’t set up....
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    15 m
  • Minibabble: The way of the doula

    Minibabble: The way of the doula
    Dec 2 2025
    In praise of natural birth In this mini version of the full episode, “Trusting our Survival Mechanisms with Doula Anne Wallen,” we focus on doula Anne Wallen’s trust in the....
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    13 m
  • Trusting our Survival Mechanisms with Doula Anne Wallen

    Trusting our Survival Mechanisms with Doula Anne Wallen
    Nov 19 2025
    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.
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    57 m
  • Minibabble: Motherhood changes the environment

    Minibabble: Motherhood changes the environment
    Nov 6 2025
    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....
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    10 m
  • Finding Community in Environmental Justice with Shilpi Chhotray

    Finding Community in Environmental Justice with Shilpi Chhotray
    Oct 21 2025
    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....
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    57 m
  • Minibabble: Mansplaining muzzles free speech

    Minibabble: Mansplaining muzzles free speech
    Sep 26 2025
    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....
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    12 m
  • Academic Freedom Under Fire with Scholar Bettina Aptheker

    Academic Freedom Under Fire with Scholar Bettina Aptheker
    Sep 10 2025
    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.
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    57 m
  • Minibabble: Americans, vote with your eyeballs

    Minibabble: Americans, vote with your eyeballs
    Aug 27 2025
    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....
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    8 m