Ep. 71 Mothering and Social Justice with Dani McClain
Dani McClain is an author and journalist, who's new book We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood is an examination of parenting, community, and social justice. Today we discuss advocating for one's self as a privilege, how non-parents can aid in the work of parenting, and about what books we would and wouldn't teaching in school.
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Everything we talk about on today's episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
We Live for the We by Dani McClain
Revolutionary Mothering edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Mai'a Williams
Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Joy Luck Club y Amy Tan
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Stiff by Mary Roach
The Mothers by Britt Bennett
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Buddha by Karen Armstrong
Paradise by Toni Morrison
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
A Separate Piece by John Knowles
Enders Game by Orson Scott Card
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander
I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
The Chicana Motherwork Anthology by Cecilia Caballero,Yvette Martínez-Vu, Judith Pérez-Torres, Michelle Téllez, and Christine Vega
Waiting in the Wings by Cherrie Moraga
Some Assembly Required by Anne LaMott
Bird by Bird by Anne LaMott
Something Like Beautiful by asha bandele
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Another Country by James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Heavy by Kiese Laymon
How We Fight for our Lives by Saeed Jones
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Sula by Toni Morrison
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing by DaMaris B. Hill
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Just Kids by Patti Smith
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Ava Gardner by Lee Server
Wrapped in Rainbows by Valerie Boyd
Baby Love by Rebecca Walker
Hammer and Hoe by Robin D. G. Kelley
"Serena Williams on Motherhood, Marriage, and Making Her Comeback" (Rob Haskell, Vogue)
"I Was Pregnant and in Crisis. All the Doctors and Nurses Saw Was an Incompetent Black Woman" (Tressie McMillan Cottom, Time)
Monica Simpson (SisterSong)
"What It’s Like to Be Black and Pregnant When You Know How Dangerous That Can Be" (Dani McClain, The Nation)
"Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis" (Linda Villarosa, The New York Times)
"Lost Mothers: Maternal Mortality In The U.S." (NPR Series)
Death, Sex & Money (WYNC Studios)
"Tayari Jones on Frills and Freedom" (Death, Sex & Money, WNYC Studios)
"Tayari Jones & Carrie Mae Weems: What's It Like Up There?" (Death, Sex & Money, WNYC Studios)
The Daily (The New York Times)
"Can Elizabeth Warren Win It All?" (Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker)
Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Cincinnati, OH)
Shake it Records (Cincinnati, OH)
"Ep. 6 Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin -- The Stacks Book Club (Chris Maddox)" (The Stacks)
"Damon Young & Kiese Laymon: The "Good Dude" Closet" (Death, Sex & Money, WNYC Studios)
"The Short Stacks 12: Damon Young//What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker" (The Stacks)
"Ep. 34 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison -- The Stacks Book Club (Renée Hicks)" (The Stacks)
"Ep. 60 Beloved by Toni Morrison -- The Stacks Book Club (DaMaris B. Hill)" (The Stacks)
"Michelle Obama's Favorite Book Of 2015 Is 'The Light Of The World'" (Kristian Wilson, Bustle)
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