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S4 Ep7: Why Therapy So Often Causes Harm: Diana Fox Tilson

October 21, 2026 · 52 min

“Therapists can only go as deep with their clients as they’ve gone with themselves.” — Diana Fox TilsonWhy does therapy so often replicate and intensify the harm people experience in their exploitative relationships? Therapy, in theory, is…
S4 Ep6: Lessons From the Witch Trials: Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi

October 14, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

The witch trials did not target women—at least not explicitly. Yet somehow it was almost all women being executed and abused. This includes little girls. The witch trials are a case study in how the law can be gender-neutral, while still…
S4 Ep5: Ushma Upadhyay: What Abortion Research Teaches Us

October 7, 2026 · 36 min

Right wing opponents of women’s rights and bodily autonomy cannot win on the facts, so they’ve decided to create a fact-free world. And sadly, they’re winning the battle. Even media coverage of abortion often contains errors, and many of…
S4 Ep4: Anna Louie Sussman: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty

September 30, 2026 · 57 min

Why is having a child so increasingly out of reach, economically, socially, and emotionally? And for those who choose to have children, why does the burden feel so massive? Political realities influence our most intimate of choices…
S4 Ep3: Wylin Wilson: Womanist Bioethics

September 23, 2026 · 47 min

For centuries, our ethics—and especially our bioethics—have left out the most marginalized, treating white men and other powerful groups as the default and the norm. Wylin Wilson, a chaplain, former death doula, and ethics professor at…

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S4 Ep2: Jess Calarco: How Women Became the Social Safety net

September 16, 2026 · 56 min

When women are overloaded with the endless burdens of household labor, we tell them to go on strike or lower their expectations. But this advice pretends that women are arbitrarily creating work for ourselves, and that if we just hung…
S4 Ep1: Gemma Hartley: No One Loves an Angry Woman

September 9, 2026 · 49 min

Welcome to season four of the Liberating Motherhood podcast! You can expect to see an episode every Wednesday, except for periodic days off. This first episode is with one of my favorite writers and thinkers, Gemma Hartley, who came on…
S3 Ep21: Angela Saini: Who Benefits From Convincing Us Oppression is Natural?

August 5, 2026 · 56 min

Supremacy culture wants to convince us all that it is inevitable. If oppression is natural, it’s hardly worth fighting, after all. Racism, sexism, and other systems of oppression have always weaponized science—and too many scientists have…
S3 Ep20: Angela Jones: Sex as a Political Act

July 22, 2026 · 54 min

No matter how much we try to relegate sexuality to the most private corner of our lives, it inevitably escapes. Sex is not really a private act. It’s a political one, which both influences and is influenced by our culture, politics…
S3 Ep19: The myth of misandry--and why hating men is not morally equivalent to hating women

July 15, 2026 · 55 min

Rather than taking the summer entirely off, I’m reducing my podcasting frequency to every other week, and posting reruns of some of my favorite episodes during the off weeks. I’ll be back to full-time in the fall. Do I hate men? Should…
S3 Ep18: Valena Beety: The Criminalization of Mothers and Motherhood

July 8, 2026 · 47 min

Two weeks ago, I interviewed Justine van der Leun about criminalized survival, and why women so often end up in prison for “crimes” of self-defense. The truth is that women often end up in prison for behaviors that aren’t criminal at…
S3 Ep17: Justine van der Leun: Criminalized Survival

June 24, 2026 · 1 hr 0 min

In patriarchy, there is no sure escape from violent relationships. The courts and police may not help. Friends and family may turn their backs. And even when a woman’s life is in danger, she does not have the same right to self-defense as…

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About the show

Mothers are tired of anti-mother misogyny, household labor inequality, and a culture that expects mothers to bear the burdens of its many shortcomings--all without complaint. Mothers are vital to feminism, and have been neglected in feminist discourse for far too long. Mothers are constantly told that political problems are personal--that if we communicate better, mother better, behave better, things will improve. The only path to change is through widespread political change. That's what this podcast is about. Maternal feminism is an important prong of social justice work, and all people interested in a just world should care about what happens to mothers, families, and children.