The Babblery

Arts & Culture Podcasts

The Babblery features conversations about who we are and how we got this way. Modern humans can seem like the ancients building the Biblical Tower of Babel, cursed by God/nature never to understand each other. As Visiting Translators at the Tower of Babel, our guests delve into their work, their research, and their own experiences to try to explain the bits they've learned about Earth's most perplexing species. Though we all speak different languages, here at The Babblery we aim to promote understanding, one conversation at a time.

Location:

United States

Genres:

Arts & Culture Podcasts

Description:

The Babblery features conversations about who we are and how we got this way. Modern humans can seem like the ancients building the Biblical Tower of Babel, cursed by God/nature never to understand each other. As Visiting Translators at the Tower of Babel, our guests delve into their work, their research, and their own experiences to try to explain the bits they've learned about Earth's most perplexing species. Though we all speak different languages, here at The Babblery we aim to promote understanding, one conversation at a time.

Twitter:

@sukiwessling

Language:

English

Website:

https://babblery.com/

Episodes

Minibabble: Blessed relief – two stories of birth

12/3/2025

Interviewing a doula about natural childbirth was an intensely personal experience for Babblery host Suki Wessling. She’d planned on natural birth—twice. But the American system of birth isn’t set up....

Duration:00:15:24

Minibabble: The way of the doula

12/2/2025

In praise of natural birth In this mini version of the full episode, “Trusting our Survival Mechanisms with Doula Anne Wallen,” we focus on doula Anne Wallen’s trust in the....

Duration:00:12:55

Trusting our Survival Mechanisms with Doula Anne Wallen

11/18/2025

Anne Wallen now trains women in the art of the doula. How a teen mom evolved into a proponent of natural childbirth is a quietly stunning American love story.

Duration:00:57:00

Minibabble: Motherhood changes the environment

11/6/2025

From Babblery host, Suki Wessling: On my radio show, the Babblery, I talk to women of all ages and backgrounds about their work and life experiences and how those experiences....

Duration:00:10:28

Finding Community in Environmental Justice with Shilpi Chhotray

10/21/2025

Shilpi Chhotray is a storyteller with a purpose. An environmentalist from an early age, her perspective has developed and deepened during her career. Having found inspiration in the social justice....

Duration:00:57:00

Minibabble: Mansplaining muzzles free speech

9/25/2025

Like all citizens, women in the United States are guaranteed freedom of speech and academic freedom. But in practice, mansplaining and other unquestioned male dominant behaviors curtail women’s freedoms more....

Duration:00:12:06

Academic Freedom Under Fire with Scholar Bettina Aptheker

9/10/2025

In a speech on academic freedom and the freedom of speech, feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the parallels between her student years and early career and the growing suppression of freedoms in 2025.

Duration:00:57:00

Minibabble: Americans, vote with your eyeballs

8/27/2025

This morning, a man shot up a Catholic mass full of children. Usually, I don’t write about current events that haven’t been resolved in any way. But as I listened....

Duration:00:08:10

Listening to Children: In Conversation with Linguist Eve Clark

8/24/2025

Dr. Eve V. Clark has spent a career in academia pursuing one seemingly simple question: How do children learn to talk? The theory in vogue at the beginning of her....

Duration:00:57:02

Minibabble: How US cuts will devastate global science

8/12/2025

How are the Trump Administration’s cuts affecting the global science system? Dr. Heather Ford is an American climate scientist working in London. In this mini-episode, she explains how scientific research....

Duration:00:14:20