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Postpartum ProductionReclaiming Birth, Motherhood, and the Left: A Conversation with Sarah MenkedickWe've wanted to talk to writer Sarah Menkedick for a long time, but we weren’t sure how we could make our conversation fit into this season's focus on childbirth- until she wrote the essay Why the Left Must Reclaim Birth on her Substack, Terms of Endearment, in late 2024. In her essay, which Kaitlin and Sarah explore in their conversation we share with you today, Sarah posits that, in order to make progress in our patriarchal society, the feminist left must embrace motherhood and the experiences of women who cherish identities and lives that have typically been co-opted by th...
2025-02-0543 min
The Mother Of It AllMovie Club: Home Alone with Nancy ReddyThe lovely writer Nancy Reddy joins Miranda and Sarah to talk (and cry a little bit) about the infamous John Hughes Christmas movie extraordinaire, Home Alone. We get into the weeds of Kate McAllister’s power-mom parenting choices, realizing that this bananas plot line actually feels pretty relatable, WTF a “hyper mom” might be, and the gray areas of our collective nostalgia for all things ‘90s.The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood edited by Nancy Reddy and Emily PerezOrdinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America by Sarah MenkedickW...
2023-12-151h 02
The Feminist Mom PodcastIdentity Transitions and Rights of Passage in Motherhood with Jessie HarroldIn this episode I talk to Jessie Harrold about matrescence, identity transitions, and rights of passage in motherhood.Jessie Harrold, B.Sc., MA a coach and doula who has been supporting women through radical life transformations and other rites of passage for over a decade. She works one-on-one with women and mothers, facilitates mentorship programs, women’s circles and rituals, and hosts retreats and wilderness quests. Jessie is also the author of Project Body Love: My Quest to Love My Body and the Surprising Truth I Found Instead, as well as the fort...
2023-09-2650 min
Book Club of OneEpisode 39: PlottingFeatured Books
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by Ronald Blythe, with an Introduction by Matt Weiland
Another World: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture by Patricia Mainardi
Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America by Sarah Menkedick
Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration by Hasia R. Diner
Ayoade on Top by Richard Ayoade
2021 Cumulative Featured Books via Good Reads
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2021-07-1218 min
Book Public'Ordinary Insanity': Sarah Menkedick Examines Motherhood And The Anxiety EpidemicWhen Sarah Menkedick was a new mother, she openly shared the expected details of her life about sleepless nights or day-care waiting lists. The only taboo topic was the fear that consumed her waking life.
2020-09-0424 min
Young Honest Mother: The Podcast057: Exposing the Ordinary Insanity within MotherhoodOverwhelming anxiety seems to go hand-in-hand with the expectations placed on American mothers. And perinatal mood disorders like Postpartum Anxiety (PPA) are on the rise as women struggle to reconcile their shift in identities with a culture that reinforces extreme hyper vigilance. After navigating through her own experience with PPA, author Sarah Menkedick set out on a quest to uncover more about this condition. She wrote “Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America” as a compilation of her personal reflections, comprehensive research, historical contexts and accounts from 8 other women who lived with PPA. And I...
2020-08-1243 min
This Is the AuthorS5 E27: Bethany Saltman, Sarah Menkedick, and Kelsey PatelS5 E27: In this episode, meet Bethany Saltman, Sarah Menkedick, and Kelsey Patel. In each of these authors’ audiobooks, they guide listeners through tricky life moments, whether it’s the anxiety of new motherhood or struggling with personal burnout. Discover what each woman learned about herself in their respective recording sessions -- and hear which author listens to audiobooks to help her get through 10 mile runs.
Strange Situation by Bethany Saltman: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/553712/strange-situation/
Ordinary Insanity by Sarah Menkedick: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/589989/ordinary-insanity/
Burning Bright by Kelsey J. Patel: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/622572/burning-bright/
2020-05-1915 min
Kenyon Review Out LoudNonfiction from Nov-Dec 2018Nonfiction from Sarah Menkedick and Erika T. Wurth
2018-11-0755 min
MomTalkRadio's PodcastDebunking The BumpThis week on Mom Talk Radio, Lynn Brunelle, author of Turn This Book Into a Beehive, shares the importance of bees to our environment. Spotlight on Moms features Crystal Stine of CrystalStine.me. Jillian Parsons and Allison Baerken, author of Say No to Placenta Pics, share how their partnership began. Sarah Menkedick, author of Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm, shares her newest book. Daphne Adler, author of Debunking the Bump: What the Data Really Says About Pregnancy’s 165 Biggest Risks and Myths, shares how researching for her book impacted her own pregnancy.
2018-05-0740 min
Mom Talk Radio w Maria BaileyDEBUNKING THE BUMPGuests:Lynn Brunelle, Author "TURN THIS BOOK INTO A BEEHIVE"Crystal Stine "SpotLoight on Moms"Jillian Parsons and Allison Baerken, Authors "Say No to Placenta Pics"Sarah Menkedick, author "HOMING INSTINCTS: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm"Daphne Adler, authoir "Debunking the Bump"
2018-05-0639 min
Pregnancy, Parenting & Politics#73: Women, Writing and MotherhoodJeanne talks with writer Sarah Menkedick about her new book, Homing Instincts and about why women's literature and books about motherhood aren't taken seriously and how books like Sarah's and Common Sense Pregnancy are changing the narrative.
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2017-05-0655 min
Escape To The Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook Now, Curious Minds!Homing Instincts by Sarah MenkedickPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/236573to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Homing Instincts
Author: Sarah Menkedick
Narrator: Sarah Menkedick
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
Release date: 05-02-17
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 4 ratings
Genres: Ecology
Publisher's Summary:
2017-05-027h 11
Unlock Top Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsHoming Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm by Sarah MenkedickPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/292279 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm Author: Sarah Menkedick Narrator: Sarah Menkedick Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: May 2, 2017 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Sarah Menkedick spent her twenties trekking alone across South America, teaching English to recalcitrant teenagers on Réunion Island, picking grapes in France and camping on the Mongolian grasslands; for her, meaning and purpose were to be found on the road, in flight from the ordinary. Yet the biggest and most transformative adventure of her life might be one she never a...
2017-05-0203 min
LongformEpisode 242: Sarah MenkedickSarah Menkedick is a freelance writer and the founder of Vela. Her upcoming book is Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm.
“I’d been rejected a ton of times—I had that 400-page thing that never became a book. So there were plenty of epic rejections that felt catastrophic. And I’d sort of arrived at this point where I was like: I’m living in my parents' cabin, and I’m pregnant, so whatever. Fuck it. I’m gonna write whatever I want to write.”
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2017-04-2635 min
The Nonfiction PodcastEpisode 19: "The Making of a Mexican-American Dream" by Sarah Menkedick “The Making of a Mexican-American Dream” looks at how one young woman faces the challenges of assimilation, identity, and acceptance in modern American culture. In this episode, I talk with author Sarah Menkedick about her story and what it says about America in 2017. Sarah Menkedick's writing has been featured in Harper's, Pacific Standard, Oxford American, Aeon, The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, Amazon's Kindle Singles, and elsewhere. She is the founder of Vela, an online magazine of nonfiction writing by women. Her first book, Homing Instincts, is forthcoming from Pantheon on May 2nd.
2017-03-2430 min
Travel with Amateur Traveler PodcastAT#174 - Travel to Oaxaca, MexicoThe Amateur Traveler talks to Sarah Menkedick about her adopted home town of Oaxaca Mexico. Sarah talks about her love for this sunny tropical city with both colonial and pre-columbian roots. Oaxaca has recovered from its political troubles but tourism is still down so this may be the perfect time to explore its markets, sample its food, marvel at its ruins, and relax in its public square. Sarah's top three reasons to come to Oaxaca are all food: mescal, mole and chile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2009-02-2128 min
Travel with Amateur Traveler PodcastTravel to Oaxaca, MexicoThe Amateur Traveler talks to Sarah Menkedick about her adopted home town of Oaxaca Mexico. Sarah talks about her love for this sunny tropical city with both colonial and pre-columbian roots. Oaxaca has recovered from its political troubles but tourism is still down so this may be the perfect time to explore its markets, sample its food, marvel at its ruins, and relax in its public square. Sarah's top three reasons to come to Oaxaca are all food: mescal, mole and chile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2009-02-2129 min