The kitten had a little cold, nothing serious for her, but my older cat caught it and became scarily ill (better now, thanks). Visit our website: postpartumproduction.Just as I started reading Angela Garbes’ remarkable new book, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change, a new kitten came into my life.
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Sylvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero: Dungy’s 2017 nonfiction book, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys Into Race, Motherhood, and History - Īngela Garbes new book, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change. Namrata’s essay, Becoming a Mother-Writer | Poets & Writers: Ĭamille T. How she experiences her mothering identity as a feminist living in a patriarchal society. 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.īecoming a Mother-Writer: Notes on Reconciling the Personal, the Professional, and the Political - an essay she wrote for Poets & Writers. Namrata joined Kaitlin in this episode to talk about:
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. Her work has appeared in several publications including Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Longreads, The Kenyon Review, and The Best Asian Short Stories. Namrata Poddar writes fiction and non-fiction, is an editor for Kweli journal and teaches literature and writing at UCLA.
“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.”
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