The Double Shift

It’s been a dark year, so Angela and Katherine wanted to end the season with glimmers of hope for a more just future. We invited author and activist Mia Birdsong on the show to blow our (and your) minds wide open with a conversation about deservedness, the American Dream, and how guaranteed income could help us build a more feminist society.  

Read Mia Birdsong’s Book, How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship and Community. 

Listen to her podcast, More Than Enough, made in partnership with The Nation, about guaranteed income.

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“If we survive this, and I think we’re going to survive, it’s not because anyone came to save us. It’s because we helped each other.”

Author Dani McClain is an unpartnered parent to a 4 year-old. She has spent years researching and reporting on networks of support around raising children in community, grounded in the experience of Black mothers. Dani, Katherine and Angela have an honest, probing, and at times hilarious, conversation about what it means to create community and connect through collective activism during an era of isolation and division.

This is an episode about surviving uncertainty, tapping into resilience and finding hope.

Dani is the author of “We Live for The We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood.”

Read Dani’s friend William Winters’ guide to creating pod, co-authored with Jeremy Adam Smith.

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If you are looking for a thought-provoking listen that’s NOT about the election (It’s about feminism and porn!) check out this episode of the new podcast, Embodied, from Double Shift editor Anita Rao and WUNC. This show is an invitation to have conversations that most people consider impolite. Anita believes that pushing past our discomfort with talking about taboo topics will ultimately help us build more empathy and understanding for others…and decrease shame about sex, relationships and personal health. 

Today we’re sharing a full episode from the show -- Anita investigates the question about whether as a feminist she could find a way to enjoy porn without shame. 

If you like what you hear, Listen and subscribe to Embodied wherever you get your pods. To find out more, go to www.wunc.org/term/embodied-podcast

The childcare industry in America is facing a huge crisis right now, and we can’t just blame COVID for its near collapse. We explore the attitudes and policies that led to how things got so bad, talk to Angie Garcia, a childcare provider on the ground, and report on an exciting initiative in Portland, OR, that shows us how local communities can begin to meaningfully address this massive systemic problem. 

Read more about the UPNOW Portland campaign

Special thanks to Lydia Kiesling and Sahar Muranovic.

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Anyone else been feeling rage these past months? Host Katherine Goldstein and co-host Angela Garbes lay out a vision for Season 3 of the Double Shift, and make a case for why it’s more important than ever to be putting mothers at the center of the story during this extraordinary time.

Show notes:

Double Shifters, we want to hear from you. Has your career or earnings gone through a big change since the pandemic started? How are you adjusting to that personally or financially? Is it affecting your self esteem or identity? Write us or send us a voice memo about this. Please include your first name, your location, and your story and we may use it for an upcoming episode. You can record a message using the voice memo app on your phone and email it to [email protected].

Angela discusses the book Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong.

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It’s never been more important to hear from mothers. The Double Shift is back for a new season challenging the status quo of working motherhood in America, pandemic-style. Creator and Host Katherine Goldstein is joined by a new co-host, author Angela Garbes to talk about childcare, race and protest, money, and even matriarchy with a series of wonderful guests. 

Be sure you are subscribed. First episode out Oct 14th. 

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While we’re hard at work on Season 3, check out this great new show, Labor: The social science on work, women, and motherhood. Journalists Elise Hu and Amy Westervelt dive into the research to help us understand how we got here and how we're gonna get out. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts: podlink.to/labor If you are missing The Double Shift, become a member! We’re releasing members-only bonus episodes about working mom Covid-life. Go to thedoubleshift.com/join.

The Double Shift is still on hiatus, but while we dream big about Season 3, check out this new show from Planet Money creator, Adam Davidson, who sits down with people who’ve channeled their unique passions and interests into successful businesses. If you miss the Double Shift, consider membership! It starts at $5/mo. Right now, Katherine and producer Rachel McCarthy are talking about life with kids in the Covid era. To get access to this and other exclusive content, go to thedoubleshift.com/join.

Host Katherine Goldstein is joined live on stage at Betabrand in San Francisco by Inflection Point’s Lauren Schiller and Hana Baba from The Stoop podcast. We discuss the mental load, cross cultural pressures on mothers, and of course saying “F*ck it” to mom guilt.

Motherhood in America is not a game anyone is set up to win.

For our season finale, we talk to author Angela Garbes about the root of the deep pressures mothers feel in our society.

Resource: Like a Mother: A Feminist Guide to the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, by Angela Garbes. www.angelagarbes.com

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