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This hour on Disrupted, we're challenging long-held assumptions about parents and caregivers. First, Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, explains how care workers are undervalued. She touches on the way the early days of the pandemic spotlighted issues in caregiving and why the legacy of American colonialism in the Philippines influenced both her family history and the disproportionate number of Filipinx nurses who died from COVID. Then, UConn professor Kari Adamsons talks about her research on fathers and the problem with the way many people think about "traditional families." GUESTS: Angela Garbes: author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change Kari Adamsons: Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Connecticut This episode originally aired on February 15, 2023.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Government-backed guarantees, from bailouts to bankruptcy protection, help keep the private sector in business in our nation's economic system. What if the same were true not only for businesses but for individuals as well?  In her new book The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy, Natalie Foster, co-founder and president of the Economic Security Project, invites readers to envision a future where things like housing, health care, higher education, family care, inheritance, and an income floor are not only attainable for everyone but guaranteed by our government. The book blends economics, business, public policy, and social justice and calls for a shift from unchecked capitalism to a country that serves all of its people. The Guarantee examines the changes in government guarantees over the past decade, from student debt relief to the child tax credit expansion. Foster's vision for a new American Guarantee draws from real-life experiences as well as collaborations with activists and visionaries. The Guarantee argues not only that new policies are possible, but that they are ready to implement in twenty-first-century America. Natalie Foster is a leading architect of the movement to build an inclusive and resilient economy. She is the president and co-founder of Economic Security Project and an Aspen Institute Fellow, and her work and writing have appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, Time, Business Insider, CNN, and The Guardian. Natalie speaks regularly on economic security, the future of work, and the new political economy. Natalie previously founded the sharing economy community Peers and co-founded Rebuild the Dream with Van Jones, and served as Digital Director for President Obama's Organizing for America — a leading partner in winning transformative healthcare reform. A daughter of a preacher from Kansas, Natalie draws on the values of community, dignity, and optimism to build a better America. The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy is her first book. Angela Garbes is the author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, called “a landmark and a lightning storm” by the New Yorker. Essential Labor was named a Best Book of 2022 by both the New Yorker and NPR. Her first book, Like a Mother, was also an NPR Best Book of the Year. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, New York Magazine, and featured on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Fresh Air with Terry Gross. A first-generation Filipina American, Garbes lives with her family on Beacon Hill. Buy the Book The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy Third Place Books

This hour on Disrupted, we're challenging long-held assumptions about parents and caregivers. First, Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, explains how care workers are undervalued. She touches on the way the early days of the pandemic spotlighted issues in caregiving and why the legacy of American colonialism in the Philippines influenced both her family history and the disproportionate number of Filipinx nurses who died from COVID. Then, UConn professor Kari Adamsons talks about her research on fathers and the problem with the way many people think about "traditional families." GUESTS: Angela Garbes: author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change Kari Adamsons: Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Connecticut This episode originally aired on February 15, 2023. Disrupted is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Miranda and Sarah welcome Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change and Like A Mother, to the show this week to talk about drinking, sobriety, and the fuzzy, fine lines that we trace around substance use in motherhood. Though it feels like sober curiosity — or full on sobriety — is on-trend, a recent CDC study indicated that more women than ever are binge drinking and dying from alcohol-related diseases. How should we think about drinking and self-care? What does my choice say about your choice? With holiday gatherings looming, Angela — and a few brilliant listeners — helps us think deeply about how to manage it all with or without drinking to help (or hinder) us. Links: Angela's Substack Angela's Washington Post piece about her sobriety  CDC Study about women and alcohol-related mortality Atlantic Article on Wine Moms  Virginia Sole-Smith on Sugar Highs Sophie Lucido Johnson on Instagram Monday N/A Gin Studio Null N/A Bubble Join our Patreon!

This hour on Disrupted, we're challenging long-held assumptions about parents and caregivers. First, Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, explains how care workers are undervalued. She touches on the way the early days of the pandemic spotlighted issues in caregiving and why the legacy of American colonialism in the Philippines influenced both her family history and the disproportionate number of Filipinx nurses who died from COVID. Then, UConn professor Kari Adamsons talks about her research on fathers and the problem with the way many people think about "traditional families." GUESTS: Angela Garbes: author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change Kari Adamsons: Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Connecticut This episode originally aired on February 15, 2023.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author Angela Garbes joins the pod today to dive deep into her book “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change” and discusses the economic, political and ideological systems that have shaped the way our society sees care work. She shares: Why care work and mothering is so undervalued in American society. How lack of compensation for care workers is a uniquely American problem. Mothering as a verb instead of a noun How the majority of Americans believe in more support for domestic workers/why our government does not represent us any longer. How both the wealth of our country and our views on care workers comes from slavery.  The surprising median wage that nannies in America make and why we need to look at our own biases when it comes to paying them. Why being a care worker is life changing work. Why mothering is the earliest public health intervention we could have. How to remain hopeful when it comes to making changes to the system. If she thinks we will ever see paid family leave in America and what we have to do to get there. Follow Angela: https://www.instagram.com/angelagarbes/ Buy Angela's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Labor-Mothering-Social-Change/dp/0062937367 Thank you to today's podcast partners!  OUAI: 15% off site wide when you use the code: PRETTYSMART Cozy Earth: Up to 35% off site wide when you use the code PRETTYSMART

Minna Dubin (she/her) is a writer, mother, and educator. She graduated from the Transformative Language Arts program at Goddard where she tackled hard subjects that people aren't supposed to talk about, from sex, race, identity to interracial relationships. Now, as a leading feminist voice on mother rage, Minna writes about mothers and what society expects of them, from career shifts to emotional calm and reserve, and how these expectations can breed a crisis of loneliness and yes, rage, in mothers.    Her forthcoming book, MOM RAGE: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood will be published in September by Seal Press and is available for preorder now anywhere books are sold.    Pre-order from the publisher: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/minna-dubin/mom-rage/9781541601307/?lens=seal-press Pre-order from Amazon: https://a.co/d/26F8Tzr   Read more of Minna's work: “The Rage Mothers Don't Talk About”: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/parenting/mother-rage.html “I Am Going to Physically Explode: Mom Rage in a Pandemic”: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/parenting/mom-rage-pandemic.html MomLists: https://momlists.tumblr.com/   Take a workshop with Minna: Writing the Home Workshop: https://www.amandamontei.com/store/p/writinghome   Keep up with Minna: Instagram: @minnadubin Website: minnadubin.com   Other Recommendations: Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change: https://bookshop.org/p/books/essential-labor-mothering-as-social-change-angela-garbes/17364605?ean=9780062937360 Raised Pinay, the 5th Generation - Raising up the Mother: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/raised-pinay-2023-a-benefit-production-for-roots-of-health-tickets-608992943287   Get involved with Season 4!  Be our guest: https://forms.gle/A9XRF4ynvKK3uCqV9 Join the team: https://forms.gle/LXfxKC28cMDBeoUj6

This hour on Disrupted, we're challenging long-held assumptions about parents and caregivers. First, Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, explains how care workers are undervalued. She touches on the way the early days of the pandemic spotlighted issues in caregiving and why the legacy of American colonialism in the Philippines influenced both her family history and the disproportionate number of Filipinx nurses who died from COVID. Then, UConn professor Kari Adamsons talks about her research on fathers and the problem with the way many people think about "traditional families." GUESTS: Angela Garbes: author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change Kari Adamsons: Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Connecticut See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The holiday season means schools go on break, and most kids will be at home for an extended period of time. The time off means a greater need for child care, but right now, child care and day care services are unaffordable for up to sixty percent of American families. As part of our ongoing series on caregiving, Erica Schwiegershausen, senior news editor for The Cut and author of the recent article, "Day Care is Broken," and Angela Garbes, author of the book, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, join to discuss the state of child care today, and take calls from parents.

“I'm still trying to make sense of a culture of caregiving that ‘good mothers' are good caregivers…A ‘good mother' is someone who doesn't question or resist caregiving, whereas men are never socialized into that narrative.”Namrata Poddar Namrata Poddar writes fiction and non-fiction, is an editor for Kweli journal and teaches literature and writing at UCLA. Her work has appeared in several publications including Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Longreads, The Kenyon Review, and The Best Asian Short Stories. Her debut novel, Border Less, was a finalist for Feminist Press's Louise Meriwether Prize, and is longlisted for The Center of Fiction First Novel Prize. Namrata joined Kaitlin in this episode to talk about: Her book, Border Less - a novel about the migratory journal of Dia Mittal,an airline call center agent in Mumbai who is searching for a better life. Becoming a Mother-Writer: Notes on Reconciling the Personal, the Professional, and the Political - an essay she wrote for Poets & Writers. How she experiences her mothering identity as a feminist living in a patriarchal society. More about Namrata Poddar: Website:http://www.namratapoddar.com/ (http://www.namratapoddar.com/) Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/writerpoddar/ (https://www.instagram.com/writerpoddar/) Related Resources: Find out more about Border Less -https://bookshop.org/a/86159/9781736176788 (https://bookshop.org/a/86159/9781736176788) Namrata's essay, Becoming a Mother-Writer | Poets & Writers: https://www.pw.org/content/becoming_a_motherwriter_notes_on_reconciling_the_personal_the_professional_and_the_political (https://www.pw.org/content/becoming_a_motherwriter_notes_on_reconciling_the_personal_the_professional_and_the_political) Camille T. Dungy's 2017 nonfiction book, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys Into Race, Motherhood, and History - https://bookshop.org/a/86159/9780393356083 (https://bookshop.org/a/86159/9780393356083) Angela Garbes new book, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change - https://bookshop.org/a/86159/9780062937360 (https://bookshop.org/a/86159/9780062937360) Sylvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero: https://bookshop.org/a/86159/9781629637976 (https://bookshop.org/a/86159/9781629637976) Please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and give us a rating. This will help us reach more listeners like you who are navigating the joys and pitfalls of artistic and parenting identities. For regular updates: Visit our website:http://postpartumproduction.com/ ( postpartumproduction.com) Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/postpartumproductionpodcast/ (@postpartumproductionpodcast) Subscribe to our podcast newsletter on Substack:https://postpartumproduction.substack.com/ ( https://postpartumproduction.substack.com)

Parents and caregivers are undervalued in the US. The pandemic made that painfully clear. But it doesn't have to be this way. In today's episode, Dr. Becky talks to author Angela Garbes about how parents can lead a revolution to change how caregivers are valued and supported in our society. Upcoming Live Event: https://lp.goodinside.com/podcast-live-event/ Good Inside Membership: https://bit.ly/3cqgG2A Follow Dr. Becky on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbeckyatgoodinside Sign up for our weekly email, Good Insider: https://www.goodinside.com/newsletter Order Dr. Becky's book, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, at goodinside.com/book or wherever you order your books. Today's episode is brought to you by the following sponsor: Frida Cold & Flu. Bedtime and sleep can be such a struggle. Then, add in a cold or a week of the flu... and all bets are off. That's where Frida Baby comes in - they know what it's like to be up all night with a sick kid. They have so many solutions to help you dodge the all-nighters this cold and flu season. Like the Frida Baby 3-in-1 Humidifier, Diffuser and Nightlight. Stock up on all of Frida Baby's cold and flu solutions, including the all-in-one Sick Day Prep Kit by using the code DRBECKY and get 20% off your first order at Fridababy.com

On the radio show this week we cover how (and why) to #RestoreRoe; where one fair wage & raising the minimum wage is on the ballot on the ways you can help; hear about a terrific new book, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change; and we also cover the new report,The Blame Game: How Political Rhetoric Inflames Anti-Asian Scapegoating.   *Special guests include: Kelley Robinson, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, @PPact; Saru Jayaraman, One Fair Wage, @onefairwage; Angela Garbes, award-winning author of Like a Mother and also Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, @agarbes; and Cynthia Choi, Chinese for Affirmative Action, @CAAsanfrancisco 

On today's “Post Reports,” a conversation with author Angela Garbes about her new book, “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change.” Read more:In 2020, author Angela Garbes found herself at home taking care of her two daughters, clinically depressed and unable to write. It was a time when people were told to stay home, unless you were an essential worker. “But I remember sitting there being like, ‘What about me?' ” Garbes told “Post Reports” editor Lexie Diao. “What about parents? What about mothers? Like, what we are doing is nothing less than essential. … The pandemic has exposed that without care, we're lost.”Garbes's new book is called “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change.” The book examines the history of caregiving in America through the lens of the author's own Filipinx identity, and makes the case that caregiving is an undervalued and overlooked labor that disproportionately relies on women of color.

We rightly celebrated people like health care workers, teachers, and grocery store employees during the heart of the pandemic as the essential workers who kept our country going. But Angela Garbes, author of “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change,” tells Gloria that we need to think of parents, and especially mothers, as essential workers, too. They get into why we devalue the labor of mothers and caregivers, how we are in a pivotal moment right now with regards to care in America, and what it'll take to create the social change we need. Plus, Angela lays out the ways in which the overturning of Roe v. Wade will further stress the already threadbare care system in this country.   Show Notes This podcast is presented by Neighborhood Villages, and is brought to you with generous support from Imaginable Futures, Care For All Children by the David and Laura Merage Foundation, and Spring Point Partners.   Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium.    Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/.   Laugh, cry, be outraged, and hear solutions! Join our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nooneiscomingtosaveus.    Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.    For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our guest today is Angela Garbes. Angela is the author of the national bestseller Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change. Her first book, Like a Mother was an NPR Best Book of 2018. Angela's writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Cut, New York, Bon Appétit, and featured on Fresh Air and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. You can follow Angela Garbes on Instagram here.Don't forget: We have a Patreon! Sign up for invites to special events, exclusive content, and bonus EIF episodes: patreon.com/everythingisfine Our show's Instagram is @eifpodcast. We're also on Twitter @theeifpodcast and Facebook. you can find Kim on her blog Girls of a Certain Age. You can find Jenn at Here Are Some Things. If you like the show, please rate or review it and don't forget to share it with your favorite 40+ friends. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today we celebrate abundance and balance as we traverse paths paved with prosciutto armed with sabers, lasers and chastity. Between moans and groans, Molly discovers a hard truth about Matthew before deciding that we're gonna need a bigger platter.   Molly's Now but Wow! - Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, by Angela Garbes Listen to our spinoff show Dire Desires Join our reddit See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Angela Garbes, the acclaimed author of Like a Mother, reflects on the state of caregiving in America. In her new book Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is and can be. She places mothering in a global context to critically examine her perspectives of the complicated relationship to care work as a first-generation Filipino-American. Despite the mentally and physically demanding work mothers must endure in the absence of a social safety net to support them, she reframes caregiving as an opportunity to find meaning, to nurture a more profound sense of self, pleasure and belonging. Join Angela Garbes and Jenny Odell for a powerful conversation on mothering as social change and how the act of caregiving offers the potential to create a more equitable society. NOTES This program is part of The Commonwealth Club's Good Lit series, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation.  SPEAKERS Angela Garbes Author, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change; Twitter  Show editorially warning @agarbes In Conversation with Jenny Odell Multi Disciplinary Artist; Writer; Twitter @the_jennitaur In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on June 1st, 2022 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mothering is work. It's creative, it's exhausting, it can be financially crushing, and it is immeasurably rewarding. But always, it is work. Our guest this week is Angela Garbes, bestselling author of Like a Mother. Her new book, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change is now available. About Essential Labor From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change. The Covid-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is among the only essential work humans do. In response to the increasing weight placed on mothers and caregivers—and the lack of a social safety net to support them—writer Angela Garbes found herself pondering a vital question: How, under our current circumstances that leave us lonely, exhausted, and financially strained, might we demand more from American family life? In Essential Labor, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family's complicated relationship to care work, placing mothering in a global context—the invisible economic engine that has been historically demanded of women of color. Garbes contends that while the labor of raising children is devalued in America, the act of mothering offers the radical potential to create a more equitable society. In Essential Labor, Garbes reframes the physically and mentally draining work of meeting a child's bodily and emotional needs as opportunities to find meaning, to nurture a deeper sense of self, pleasure, and belonging. This is highly skilled labor, work that impacts society at its most foundational level. Part galvanizing manifesto, part poignant narrative, Essential Labor is a beautifully rendered reflection on care that reminds us of the irrefutable power and beauty of mothering. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alyssa-milano-sorry-not-sorry/message

Raising kids is among the most essential work humans do, and yet it's rarely valued as labor. Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, guides us through a shift in mindset to help give mothering the value it deserves.

Raising kids is among the most essential work humans do, and yet it's rarely valued as labor. Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, guides us through a shift in mindset to help give mothering the value it deserves.

SEASON 2 PREMIERE! Today we are talking with award-winning author Angela Garbes, of LIKE A MOTHER: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, and the just-released ESSENTIAL LABOR: Mothering as Social Change.  Her latest book reads like a manifesto for the kind of world we aspire to have for mothers and women and all caregivers, and  it asks the question, what if we built a system that lets us care for the people that actually care for us? How do we, in a society that is so detached from our bodies create a world where we value bodies, the human experience, and our right to pleasure? We talk with Angela about:how to establish a strong foundational understanding for our children that their bodies are worthy of love, and good care the responsibility parents hold for teaching our kids to respect all kinds of bodies, and that all bodies are differenthow to navigate talking about difficult topics (like bodies, sex, scary news) with our childrenthe benefits of intergenerational living, and caring for eldersreframing sex and pleasure for ourselves and our kidshow to reconnect sexually with a partner during/after periods of low libidoLIKE A MOTHER, is out now. Grab this must-read book via pre-order here.24/7 on-demand text access to doulas, midwives, and nurses.

During the pandemic, women here in the United States lost more than five million jobs. Now, of course, many people faced layoffs and have since been re-employed but those who are back to “business as usual” are mostly men. Women became the ones to quit their careers in order to care for their families while schools and daycares around the country shuttered, and many haven't been able to return.The pandemic uncovered a pretty heinous underbelly of our government and systemic structure. It turns out that women are expected to do it all with very little support and the value that we place on working people all but disintegrates if it's not wrapped up in a revenue-producing bow. Which leads me to wonder, what kind of world do we live in if the people who are bearing and raising the next generation of changemakers don't really count? Here on the show with us today is Angela Garbes, author of the brand-new book Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change.  Essential Labor is one of those books that activate your brain in ways you never thought possible, bringing to light a multitude of social injustices faced by mothers and caregivers and especially those of color. Angela asks so many questions about how we value the most essential role on the planet and how much different our society and our culture would be if we supported people in roles of caregiving. From mental health and managing relationships to raising changemakers and advocating for support, freemom is a podcast dedicated to ensuring that every mom feels heard. You can find us on the gram at @freemomcast or on the web at www.freemomcast.com. You can also support the show and help fund production with a sweet little five-dollar donation right here. Thanks for listening!

Social activist Angela Garbes, author of the upcoming book ESSENTIAL LABOR: Mothering as Social Change, joins Jessi to discuss the essential work of caretaking. Caring for a child, a parent, or a spouse while keeping up a career was a challenge even before the pandemic. But now? It's a crisis. So many caretakers, especially women, have dropped out of the workforce because it's just too much. Angela shares her own journey, talks about how her life has been changed by her "pandemic pod," and offers insights she's gained throughout the last few years. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn Visit Angela Garbes on the web Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the newsletter, and join the Hello Monday Office Hours conversation on the LinkedIn News page, Wednesdays at 3p ET. 

The Double Shift podcast launched three years ago to share the real stories of motherhood in America, and radically explore the social forces that make being a mom so challenging.  We've brought you stories from inside brothels and a 24-hour childcare center; we've confronted capitalism, patriarchy, and the idealized myth of nuclear family; we opened up conversations about mental health and its stigma and amplified the voices of people often left out of conversations about motherhood; and we've gone deep on the experiences of moms and caregivers during the pandemic.  Along the way we've reframed the conversation about motherhood and built a community of folks who aren't only listening, but also supporting each other and taking action to make their communities better.  While the podcast in this format will be on indefinite hiatus, our work is just getting started. We'll be investing time and energy into our free weekly newsletter, led by Katherine, about the forces that shape family life in America, filled with reporting and storytelling. Sign up here: thedoubleshift.com/newsletter We're also nourishing our robust member community with hangouts, audio newsletters, and more. Please join us and support our ongoing mission! It starts at $5/mo. Go to thedoubleshift.com/join. THANK YOU with our whole hearts for being part of The Double Shift.   In case you'd like to go down memory lane, here's a playlist of some of our favorite episodes over the last 3 years.  Pre-order Angela's book, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change. THANKS To learn more about how Cohousing ABQ can become your village, go to www.cohousingabq.org/thedoubleshift.