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LST FAVES: The Mortality of Motherhood
Episode 19
NPR’s Kelly McEvers compares and contrasts childbirth vs being a war correspondent.
⭐️ This episode originally ran on July 25, 2013, with an update o…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
It's a Real Mother, Part 6: We've Solved It, Right?
Episode 235
Eight years after It’s a Real Mother, our series on discrimination against working moms, Brigid Schulte returns to share how we’ve conquered the moth…
7 months ago
LST FAVES: It's A Real Mother, Part 2: Ideal Worker
Episode 142
Why do stock images of working moms look frazzled, while stock images of working dads just look like... guys at work? Author Brigid Schulte gets to t…
7 months, 1 week ago
Katz BACK in the Cradle
Episode 231
Eight years ago, Matt Katz came on the show after nervously revealing to his 5-year-old daughter that the man she thought was his biological father w…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
LST FAVES: Katz in the Cradle
Episode 127
Matt Katz is known for his fearless reporting on New Jersey governor Chris Christie. But when it comes to telling his 5-year-old daughter the truth a…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
A Very Vaginal Voyage with Rachel Gross
Episode 233
Join us for a deep (and delightfully nerdy) dive into the misunderstood world of vaginas, where we’ll learn about orgasm-chasing royalty, clitoral wi…
8 months ago
LST FAVES: Mama Don't Understand
Episode 59
A game of got-yer-nose turns racial and a 6-year-old raps to her white mom about not getting her Blackness. Two stories of biracial kids schooling th…
8 months, 1 week ago
Adoption, but Make It a Horror-RomCom
Episode 232
Brian Crano and David Joseph Craig knew starting a family would be hard — but they didn’t expect the twists and scares that inspired them to write a …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
LST FAVES: The True History of a Child Chef & His Mom
Episode 95
Judah is 12. He makes a mean beef Wellington. Hear how he became a child chef, and how his mom had him when she was just a kid herself.
⭐️ This episo…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
A Tech Writer's Eerie Bond with Her Fertility App
Episode 231
Amanda Hess writes about the internet for a living. So she didn’t expect to form an emotional bond with a fertility app during her pregnancy. But whe…
8 months, 4 weeks ago