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Wedge LIVE!Deborah no longer shops at TargetHarrowing Personal Story: Up until last week, Deborah was the author of a popular local substack called "Deborah Copperud Shops at Target." Then her whole world got turned upside down. The Target corporation surrendered to Donald Trump's whims and dropped their diversity initiatives. We talk about Deborah's attempt to vote with her family's dollars, whether you should ever buy into the PR-driven goodness of a corporation, and if there's such a thing as ethical consumption under Trumpism.
Read Deborah's story in HuffPost: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/target-dei-shopping_n_679a4ef1e4b04f0f44d5637b
2025-02-0415 min
Freelance Writing Direct with Estelle: Conversations with authors, journalists, agents, novelists, memoirists, niche writers, publishers, writing teachers, assigning editors and media experts.#115 Coaching Episode: Estelle's Edge on Crafting Notable NarrativesDeborah Copperud is a freelance writer, independent podcast producer, and former reference librarian. Her writing has been published in Glamour, Racket, Defenestration, Great River Review, Potomac Review, Door Is A Jar, Another Chicago Magazine, and Blue Earth Review, and her Substack newsletter Deborah Copperud Shops at Target. Her work is forthcoming in The Rumpus and Good Tape. She co-hosts the It's My Screen Time Too and Spock Talk podcasts and teaches podcasting for Minneapolis Community Education. Copperud is currently at work on an essay collection about volunteering, a subject she's uniquely qualified to cover, having volunteered as a preschool...
2024-11-2827 min
Wedge LIVE!A Harrowing DFL Convention ExperienceToday, we're talking about people who think Roberts Rules is an acceptable form of bullying. It turns out, shouting "Point of order! Point of order!" over and over again is not an excuse to get up in a parliamentarian's personal space. Our conversation is inspired by Deborah Copperud's recent experience at the Minneapolis DFL City Convention. We talk about what's wrong with the DFL process, some potential solutions, and importantly, why those fixes will never happen. In a surprising twist, we agree the current deeply flawed process is still better than a primary.
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2024-05-0147 min
Wedge LIVE!Thanksgiving Cooking SegmentIt's Thanksgiving week on the Wedge LIVE podcast and that can mean only one thing: a cooking segment featuring Minneapolis Ward 7 Council Member Lisa Goodman's sweet noodle kugel. My guest and co-chef for this episode is Deborah Copperud of the DFL Senate District 61 fundraising committee, who has helped to put together a cookbook full of delicious recipes, including one from your host John Edwards.
The Taste the Trifecta DFL cookbook is available via this order form for $35. All proceeds will help elect Democrats in Minnesota.
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2023-11-2122 min
Spock Talk: A Parenting Advice PodcastLike Parenting History? Try the Your Grandparents Did What? Podcast!If you liked Spock Talk, you'll like Your Grandparents Did What? It's a comedy podcast about the history of parenting. Listen to the trailer now, then subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. The new season of Your Grandparents Did What? premiers on October 31! Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar.Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler
2023-10-2401 minSpock Talk: A Parenting Advice PodcastNow that We're SpockologistsThis is our “Behind the Podcast” episode in which we talk about history crushes, library lessons, social media, influencer culture, information source evaluation, and obsolete audio technology.Listeners! Leave a review and let us know how Spock Talk compares to other conversational podcasts.ReferencesDeMott, Benjamin. “The Future of Children.” The Atlantic, April 1974. Kozlowska, Hanna. “Why Are We So Obsessed with Momfluencers?” Elle. 27 April 2023. Maier, Thomas. Dr. Spock: An American Life. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.Needleman, Robert and Benjamin Spock. Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, 10th edition. Gallery Books, 2018. Pickert, Kate. “The Man Who Remade...
2023-07-1131 minSpock Talk: A Parenting Advice PodcastSuch an American Story: Lessons in Dr. Benjamin Spock-onomics, Internet History, and Venture CapitalWe discuss Dr. Benjamin Spock’s personal finances and the venture capitalists that brought Baby and Child Care to the World Wide Web.ReferencesAssociated Press. “Dr. Spock’s Advice - 60 Years Later.” The Canadian Press. 25 Oct. 2004. Carvajal, Doreen. “Dr. Spock, Old and Infirm, Needs Money, Wife Says.” The New York Times. 28 Feb. 1998, p. A6.“Digital Health and Human Rights Symposium.” Eventbrowse. Dinzeo, Maria. “Dr. Spock’s Widow Says Website Owes Her $84K.” Courthouse News. 28 July 2010. “The Dr. Spock Company Appoints New Members to Board of Directors.” Business Wire. 9 May 2001.“The Dr. Spock Company Launches in Parenting Media Mar...
2023-07-0429 minSpock Talk: A Parenting Advice PodcastSpock, Oprah; Oprah, Spock: Celebrity Culture in the 20th CenturyWe explore Spock in the spotlight. Did he have an irresistible, outsized personality? Or was he attention-seeking and fame-hungry?Public domain archival audio courtesy of the Iowa State University Archives.ReferencesBloom, Lynn. Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.: 1972.Levey, Jane. “‘Spock, I Love Him.’” Colby Quarterly, v. 36, n. 4, December 2000, pp. 273-294.Maier, Thomas. Dr. Spock: An American Life. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.“Malcolm Gladwell on Dr. Spock.” Significant Others: A History Podcast. 7 Sept. 2022. Massie, Robert K. “‘Not the Dr. Spock!’” Saturday Evening Post, vol. 239, no. 10, May 1966, pp. 80–86.Needleman, Robert and B...
2023-06-2729 minSpock Talk: A Parenting Advice PodcastSpocked Or Spanked?We explore Dr. Benjamin Spock’s political activism: Was he a hip protester? Or an anti-establishment pariah? Public domain archival audio courtesy of John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.ReferencesBates, Richard. “Democratic Babies? Francoise Dolto, Benjamin Spock and the Ideology of Post-ware Parenting Advice.” Journal of Political Ideologies vol. 24, no. 2, 2019, pp. 201-219.Bloom, Lynn. Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1972.“IFP:135-F-142-5M Jacqueline Kennedy Talks to Dr. Spock.” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. 13 Jul. 2010. Maier, Thomas. Dr. Spock: An American Life. Harco...
2023-06-2030 minSpock Talk: A Parenting Advice PodcastSpock's Women's Group: Sisters, Wives, and Daughters-in-lawWe explore Dr. Benjamin Spock’s personal relationships with women: sisters, co-workers, dance partners, mentors, wives, and daughters-in-law.Spock recording used with permission from WNYC Archive Collections.Listeners! Let us know your favorite piece of parenting advice. Leave it in a review or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com!ReferencesCooper, D. “Dr. Benjamin Spock.” WNYC. 1 October 1973. Goddard, Joanna. “Motherhood Mondays: Sleeping in Denmark (This Made My Jaw Drop!).” Cup of Jo, 19 September 2011. “Jane Cheney Spock.” Significant Others: A History Podcast. 6 Sept. 2022. Klemesrud, Judy. “The Spocks: Bittersweet. Recognition in a Revised Classic.” Ne...
2023-06-1332 minSpock Talk: A Parenting Advice PodcastSupposing the Baby is a Girl: Sexism in Dr. Benjamin Spock's Written WorksWe explore Dr. Benjamin Spock’s treatment of women in his books and magazine columns.Listeners! Let us know your favorite parenting advice book or website. Leave it in a review!Spock recordings used with permission from WNYC Archive Collections and Minnesota Public Radio.ReferencesAtkinson, V. Sue. “Shifting Sands: Professional Advice to Mothers in the First Half of the Twentieth Century.” Journal of Family History vol. 42, no. 2, 2017, pp. 128-146.Bloom, Lynn. Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1972.Broder, Sherri. “Child Care or Child Neglect? Baby Far...
2023-06-0630 minSpock Talk: A Parenting Advice PodcastFemLibs and FreudAs the first baby doctor to blend pediatrics with psychology, Dr. Benjamin Spock infused The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care with Freudian psychoanalytic theory.Spock recording used with permission from WNYC Archive Collections.References“Add-Ons to Baby and Child Care: Page 285 Sterilizing Bottles.” www.drspock.com/page-285-sterilizing-bottles.Bernstein, Joseph. “Back to the Couch with Freud.” The New York Times. 26 March 2023.Cooper, D. “Dr. Benjamin Spock.” WNYC. 1 October 1973.Ehrenreich, Barbara and Deirdre English. For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women. Doubleday, New York, 1978.Gilman, Richard. “The FemLib Case...
2023-05-3030 minSpock Talk: A Parenting Advice PodcastMen Not MomsWhat was Dr. Benjamin Spock’s role in the professionalization of the domestic sphere (i.e. the patriarchy’s long game)?Spock audio courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.ReferencesAtkinson, V. Sue. “Shifting Sands: Professional Advice to Mothers in the First Half of the Twentieth Century.” Journal of Family History vol. 42, no. 2, 2017, pp. 128-146.Backer, Kellen. Personal Correspondence. 21 April 2023.Beers, Carole. “Dr. Rothenberg was UW Innovator, Helped Dr. Spock and Mr. Rogers.” Seattle Times. 22 Jan. 2000.Bloom, Lynn. Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1972.Cooper, D. “Dr. Benjamin S...
2023-05-2331 minSpock Talk: A Parenting Advice PodcastSilver Spoon, Outdoor School, and Blue Striped Suits: How Nepo Privilege Created the Ultimate Parenting InfluencerDid a privileged upbringing, Yale legacy admission, and dapper fashion sense establish Dr. Benjamin Spock as a trustworthy authority on child rearing?Spock recording used with permission from WNYC Archive Collections.ReferencesBloom, Lynn. Doctor Spock: Biography of a Conservative Radical. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1972.Cooper, D. “Dr. Benjamin Spock.” WNYC. 1 October 1973. Kaye, Judith. The Life of Benjamin Spock. Twenty-First Century Books, 1993.Maier, Thomas. Dr. Spock: An American Life. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.Needleman, Robert and Benjamin Spock. Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, 10th edition. Gallery Books, 2018.“Scroll and Key.” Wikipedia. Accessed 21 April 2023.S...
2023-05-2332 minSpock Talk: A Parenting Advice PodcastHalf a Banana, Two Baked Beans, and Zero Kisses: Parenting Advice in the Early Twentieth CenturyWas Dr. Benjamin Spock’s bestseller The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care popular because early twentieth century parenting guides were awful and harsh? Spock recording used with permission from WNYC Archive Collections.ReferencesAtkinson, V. Sue. “Shifting Sands: Professional Advice to Mothers in the First Half of the Twentieth Century.” Journal of Family History vol. 42, no. 2, 2017, pp. 128-146.Cooper, D. “Dr. Benjamin Spock.” WNYC. 1 October 1973. Maier, Thomas. Dr. Spock: An American Life. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.Needleman, Robert and Benjamin Spock. Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, 10th edition. Gallery Books...
2023-05-2330 minSpock Talk: A Parenting Advice PodcastIntroducing Spock Talk, A Podcast About the History of Parenting AdviceSpock Talk is a new conversational podcast about the history of parenting advice. Over ten episodes, we'll cover the life and legacy of Dr. Benjamin Spock, exploring his predecessors, privilege, medical training, written works, activism, and personal finances, as we try to answer: just who gets to tell parents how to parent?Like Spock Talk? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email us at spocktalkpodcast@gmail.com. And listen to our other podcast, It's My Screen Time Too! Logo design by Creative Cookie Jar.Copyright 2023 Deborah Copperud + Katie Curler
2023-05-1800 min
Wedge LIVE!DFL Caucus 2022!John is joined by Senate District 61 Vice Chair Deborah Copperud and Minneapolis DFL digital maestro Conrad Zbikowski for a conversation about the upcoming DFL caucuses (register today!). There's a number of local and state races on the ballot this year: Hennepin County's top prosecutor, sheriff, county commissioner, school board, state house and senate. This year, like last year, is easier than a traditional caucus: take five minutes to fill out a form, check those delegate and alternate boxes, and give yourself a voice in who gets the DFL endorsement. There's also the option to show up to a caucus...
2022-01-2634 min
Weird MomEp. 3.9: Screen Time & Pandemic Parenting feat. Deborah Copperud and Katie Curler from It's My Screen Time TooHow much screen time does your child get each day? This is a question seen often in the mom groups around the interwebs. While the amount of time is up for debate, it doesn't have to all be letting your child sit like a zombie in front of the screen. On this episode I talk with Deborah Copperud and Katie Curler who host a podcast called "It's My Screen Time Too" where they watch children's programming and rate it on "watchability" for grown-ups. While quantity of screen time does come up in our conversation, Deborah and Katie really hone...
2020-12-0935 min