Mother is a Question Podcast
1) Show spotlight: Rock that Doesn't Roll
If you listen all the way to our episodes' end credits (which we hope you do), you know the only way we've been able to make this show is because of something called the Big Questions Project. Well, t...Show More
2) Show spotlight: How to Survive the End of the World
This week we're sharing the loving and playful podcast, "How to Survive the End of the World" hosted by Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown. In this episode, "Loving as Family Practice," the Brown s...Show More
3) Grandmother is a Question (Asha & Isis)
To wrap up Season 2 we have a love story about a grandmother and her granddaughter - how they came to know themselves through each other, and how they’ve saved each other’s lives, again and again. It...Show More
4) Mother is a Song
This episode, we’re traveling to a place and time when mama was the muse–back when musicians in the U.S. were constantly singing about “the one who’s always true,” as one of these songs goes. One hund...Show More
5) A Mother’s Tripped-Out Trip to Guilt, Self-Doubt, Ego Death… and Back (Negin Farsad)
Comedian and mother, Negin Farsad, got a strange assignment - one that sent her on an unexpected trip– a trippy trip– a hero’s quest– into the depths of her unconscious mind... where it turned out, al...Show More
6) Should I Mother in a Melting World? (Elizabeth)
Elizabeth Rush has spent her career writing about climate change--her book Rising was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2019. Before Liz made her decision of whether to become a mother, she felt like ...Show More
7) A Motherful World (Alexis Pauline Gumbs)
What if humans could evolve into our most nurturing and creative selves? What if society were organized around care instead of extraction and destruction? What if we followed the leadership of those...Show More
8) Mothering between Life and Death (Katherine)
Katherine is a farmer. She always thought of herself as in control, someone who could plan for any situation. But when her son died after birth, that old her died too. "The world" she says, "is out...Show More
9) Why Can't a Mother Think That? (Anne, Pt. 2)
We pick up with the story of Anne, a day after she told her kids that she was so unhappy, so lost that to figure things out, she had to get on a plane and put five thousand miles between herself and h...Show More
10) Why Can't a Mother Think That? (Anne, Pt. 1)
We open our season with a story that came to us through a listener. “Can you imagine leaving your child?” Anne asks, “No, of course not. Because none of us do. Nor did I, until four days before I did...Show More