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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.
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Minibabble: Nora Germain is a player AND a person (opens the original)
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At the end of my interview with jazz violinist Nora Germain, I realized that I had forgotten to ask her an important question spurred by her book. Why did she choose to write only one important sentence about her experience as a woman in the jazz industry? "After many years of being underestimated, discarded, harassed, assaulted, fired, groped, robbed, propositioned, and abused, after looking over my shoulder and clarifying my comments, being put down, intimidated and assaulted, insulted, he at
“The Giving Mindset” with violinist Nora Germain (opens the original)
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Jazz violinist Nora Germain has been playing her instrument for 30 years, yet she describes herself as a beginner. Attracted to improvisational music from a young age, Nora knew that she wouldn't follow her family's classical music tradition. With no plan other than to leave home, she became the first jazz violinist trained at the top boarding school for performing arts, Idyllwild, then the first violinist to graduate from University of Southern California with a degree in jazz. In this emotiona
Minibabble: Shaped by Motherhood (opens the original)
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How does becoming a mother—or choosing not to—shape women's lives? Time and again, mothering is fundamental to how women do their work. Whether women choose to be mothers or not, the choice affects their lives deeply. Having children often changes or postpones career choices, but mothering also informs how women do their work outside the home. In this interview, you will hear how mothering or choosing not to mother fundamentally changed the lives of twelve women: Retired judge LaDoris Cordell, S
Minibabble: “I screamed at Gloria Steinem” (opens the original)
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"I think most people will gasp when I tell you that I screamed—yelled at Gloria at one point. But you know, that's, we thought those differences were life altering, basically. And she just laughed." This week we lost a towering figure of second wave feminism, Gloria Steinem. I find myself not at all sad because I can't imagine a life better spent. Gloria saw the trajectory of her life change in a church basement full of women telling their abortion stories. She never stopped being a journalist,
Minibabble: “We didn’t know how to listen” (opens the original)
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Abortion, race, and the second wave History records that Black women felt excluded from Second Wave Feminism. In this short piece, historian Barbara Winslow reflects on the issue through her experience as a radical feminist activist in Seattle. She traces the movement's roots to the anti-war and Civil Rights movements, but Barbara argues that there were complications that led to Black women's voices being stifled. While the media played a large role in ignoring the leadership of Black women, she
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