EPISODE 62: Having an American Baby with Leslie Tai

Feb 26, 2024

Filmmaker Leslie Tai’s How To Have an American Baby is streaming on PBS through March 10, 2024. The POV documentary is an intimate look at the shadow economy that caters to Chinese parents who travel to the US to give birth for citizenship. We discuss the film, the commodification of American motherhood, the...

EPISODE 61: Planting Willow with Mary Lauren Fraser

Nov 1, 2023

This episode is an enlightening conversation with basket weaver and green burial expert Mary Lauren Fraser. Content warning: Mary weaves urns and coffins. We talk a lot about death and dying in this episode.

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Mary Lauren Fraser Baskets

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EPISODE 59: Navigating Survival with Erin M. Riley

Sep 20, 2022

Erin M. Riley makes narrative, painterly weavings that give voice to complex stories of domestic abuse and intimacy. We talk trauma, healing, self-splintering, and weaving.

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MINI EPISODE with NYC Crit Club

Aug 3, 2022

NYC Crit Club is a misleading name for the collaborative learning program that Catherine Haggarty and Hilary Doyle founded five years ago. A) You can take classes with them from anywhere in the world B) it's super inclusive (affordable!)- less a club, more a gathering. I'm teaching there in the spring and Mira...

EPISODE 58: Sleep Training with Didier William

May 31, 2022

Didier and I talk Miami, Haiti, immigrant experiences, concepts of home, and painting (of course). Also: how to not sleep train a baby.

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