Motherhood
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Before we even know who we are and what we want out of life, women are expected to mother, to ultimately be mothers. And for women of color? There are added financial and cultural pressures as well as legacies of historical trauma and present-day racism that we are often up against.
How do all these forces impact the choice to be a mother? And how might we reimagine what it even means to be a mother? In this episode of Truth Be Told, we talk with Audrey Galo, founder of AG Voiced, Tanya Menendez, entrepreneur, and Jennifer Devere Brody, scholar– all women at various stages of life– about the choice to have children.
Why The World tarot card?
The World card signifies the feeling of success and achievement after working hard to create something. This sense of celebratory completion can manifest in the birth of a child, a major career achievement or creative project– it isn’t prescriptive, it’s just joyous. Since this episode on motherhood explores the different ways we can choose to nurture and create, we couldn’t think of a more fitting card to represent “Motherhood” than The World.
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| 0:00.0 | From K-QED. |
| 0:02.0 | Do you remember the first time someone asked you when you were going to have kids? |
| 0:09.0 | I think the first time I was asked that was probably when I was like five or six. |
| 0:15.8 | What? |
| 0:16.8 | Yeah, I mean like when you're a kid, aren't you ask that as a kid? |
| 0:19.6 | Before we even know who we are and what we want out of life. Women are expected to mother, |
| 0:25.6 | to ultimately be mothers. And for women of color, there's all these added pressures, |
| 0:30.8 | like the financial. How are we going to do this and who's gonna pay for everything the cultural the pressure is a Latina from my extended family and historical trauma you couldn't be a mother if you were a slave. |
| 0:44.8 | In this episode of truth be told, |
| 0:46.6 | we're taking on a decision everybody's got an opinion about. |
| 0:51.1 | As a woman of color, should I become a mother? |
| 0:54.0 | These gorgeous black babies. |
| 0:59.0 | I don't have children, but I was a child. |
| 1:01.0 | Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Tanya Mosley. |
| 1:06.0 | Welcome to Truth Be Told. |
| 1:07.0 | Dear truth be told. |
| 1:08.0 | Dear truth be told. |
| 1:09.0 | Truth be told. |
| 1:10.0 | I need your help. Our question this week comes from a woman we're calling should I be a |
| 1:18.7 | mother. She feels like everyone around her is pushing her to have children. |
| 1:23.2 | I remember this feeling. |
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