Parenting Is Political (with Julie Kohler and Kate Duffy)

The Suburban Women Problem

Red Wine & Blue

News, Kids & Family, Politics, Parenting, Government

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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On today's episode, we're celebrating Women's History Month! Of course we celebrate women every single week on the pod, but this week, we wanted to take a closer look at the political power of moms. We’re joined by North Carolina organizer Tonya Martin, who’s filling in for Jasmine this week while she’s hard at work in the Georgia legislature. We’re joined by Kate Duffy, a mom in Wisconsin who started a group to support Mandela Barnes called Moms For Mandela. And after the election, Kate turn...

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0:00.0	I used to love the show Fixer Upper on HGTV, and our political system is a fixer
0:11.7	upper.
0:12.7	Throw in a little paid parental leave, a little universal child care, and man, we could start
0:17.5	making this thing look good.
0:20.1	We got to address the suburban women problem because it's real.
0:26.0	Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast from red, wine, and blue.
0:33.2	Hi, everyone. Thanks for listening. I'm Amanda Weinstein. I'm Rachel Vindman.
0:38.4	Hi, I'm Tanya Morton, and I'm filling in for Jasmine Clark. Tanya, thank you so much for joining us today.
0:43.1	And thank you so much for having me. So Tanya is an organizer with red, wine, and blue, and she has
0:48.0	been a troublemaker. So we are excited to have her on and hear all about what's going on in
0:53.7	North Carolina. We didn't get a
0:55.9	chance to celebrate the start of women's history month last week because we were in crisis mode,
1:00.7	again, with the abortion pill case in Texas. So this week, we're celebrating the power of moms.
1:06.7	I got a chance to chat about motherhood and politics with Julie Kohler from the podcast
1:11.0	White Pickett Fence.
1:12.6	And before that, we'll be joined by Wisconsin mom, Kate Duffy, who started a group called
1:16.7	Motherhood for Good.
1:18.2	But before we get to any of that, Rachel and Tanya, what's going on right now?
1:24.4	We had an interesting, I don't know if that's the right word.
1:27.9	Running?
1:28.5	Weekend, yes.
1:31.2	So my husband, you know, someone got a hold of something and used it for disingenuous purposes.
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