This is our pilot episode :-)

We talk about the creation of our podcast, our inspiration, waffle on about some other stuff, and talk about what we hope to achieve with ‘Welcome to Otherhood’.

And just to reassure you - we have bought decent equipment by Episode 2!

References

Donath, O. (2017) Regretting Motherhood: A Study. North Atlantic Books.

Heti, S. (2018) Motherhood. Penguin Random House.

Warrington, R. (2023) Women without Kids. Orion Spring.

The colonisation of imagination (Referenced in Orna Donath’s work) - Diana Tietjens Meyers, “The Rush to Motherhood: Pronatalist Discourse and Women’s Autonomy,” signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 26, no. 3 (2001): 735-773.