Fresh Take: Jessica Slice on Parenting While Disabled

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.6 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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How does disability affect parenting, and what can disabled parents teach us all about parenthood? Jessica Slice, author of the new book UNFIT PARENT, discusses her journey as a disabled parent and the incredible joy she's found along the way. Jessica Slice is a disabled author, speaker, and essayist. She has been published in Modern Love, The New York Times and The Washington Post among many others. Jessica and Margaret discuss: Her journey towards accepting her disabled status How her disability prepared her for parenthood in an unexpected way How disabled parents are stigmatized and targeted by society Here's where you can find Jessica: www.jessicaslice.com @jessicaslice on IG Buy UNFIT PARENT: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9780807013243 Rachel Fairbank for National Geographic: "What Is POTS? This Strange Disorder Has Doubled Since the Pandemic" We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson. mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, parental stress, disability, disability awareness, disabled parenting, disabled parent, parenting while disabled #jessicaslice #unfitparent #disabledparenting #booksbydisabledauthors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.1	Hello and welcome to Fresh Take from What Fresh Hell Laughing in the Face of Motherhood.
0:36.5	This is Margaret. And today I am
0:38.3	talking to Jessica Slice. Jessica is a disabled author, speaker, and essayist. Her new book,
0:45.2	Unfit Parent, A Disabled Mother Challenges, An Inaccessible World, was shortlisted for the J. Anthony
0:51.4	Lucas Prize. She is the co-author of Datable, Swiping Right,
0:56.1	Hooking Up and Settling Down. And this is how we play. She has been published in Modern
1:01.8	Love, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among many others. She lives in Toronto
1:07.4	with her family. Welcome, Jessica. Hi. Thank you so much for having me. I'm thrilled to be here.
1:12.7	First of all, I want to say to our listeners, this is a book about disabled parenting, but there is so
1:18.2	much in this book if you're listening and thinking, well, I can turn this off. I'm not a disabled
1:22.2	parent, nor do I know a disabled parent. First of all, I would suggest you're probably wrong about that.
1:27.2	And second of all, there are suggest you're probably wrong about that. And second of all,
1:28.2	there are so many lessons in this book for everyone listening right now. So stay tuned, as they say.
1:35.6	Let's talk Jessica first about this title, which really jumps out at you, unfit parent. What made you choose
1:42.4	that title? It's obviously very evocative. Yeah. I mean, I chose it because in 22 states
1:49.9	in the U.S., it is legal to remove a child because the parent is disabled by CPS. That is a shocking
1:58.3	thing I learned in this book. Say it one more time for people in 22 states.
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