Memos from Motherhood (Or, I Gave Birth During a Pandemic?!)
Misa Dayson, Veena Hampapur
9 episodes
6 months ago
Memos from Motherhood (Or, I Gave Birth During a Pandemic?!) is a podcast that documents and unpacks the personal and political nuances of becoming parents amidst both a global pandemic, and seismic political, cultural, and environmental change.
It features two friends: Misa, a Black American woman from NYC, and Veena, a South Asian American woman from LA. Trained as anthropologists, they process pandemic parenthood holistically and intersectionally through intimate conversations and voice memos.
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Memos from Motherhood (Or, I Gave Birth During a Pandemic?!) is a podcast that documents and unpacks the personal and political nuances of becoming parents amidst both a global pandemic, and seismic political, cultural, and environmental change.
It features two friends: Misa, a Black American woman from NYC, and Veena, a South Asian American woman from LA. Trained as anthropologists, they process pandemic parenthood holistically and intersectionally through intimate conversations and voice memos.
Memos from Motherhood (Or, I Gave Birth During a Pandemic?!)
42 minutes 3 seconds
3 years ago
Second Trimester: Opinions and Expectations
During the second trimester, it might start to really sink in that you're going to have a baby. You might start making plans, including fun ones, to mark this transition into parenthood. For Veena, most of this was true. For Misa, though, it wasn’t just the baby that was becoming more real. During her second trimester COVID-19 became understood as a real threat in the US.
In this episode we discuss our contrasting experiences in our second trimesters of pregnancy. We reflect on (and maybe roll our eyes at) the strong opinions others had about our birth plans. And we marvel, in hindsight, at the experimental living arrangements and the strange and fun last moments of in-person gatherings we experienced before the safer-at-home orders changed life completely.
Memos from Motherhood (Or, I Gave Birth During a Pandemic?!)
Memos from Motherhood (Or, I Gave Birth During a Pandemic?!) is a podcast that documents and unpacks the personal and political nuances of becoming parents amidst both a global pandemic, and seismic political, cultural, and environmental change.
It features two friends: Misa, a Black American woman from NYC, and Veena, a South Asian American woman from LA. Trained as anthropologists, they process pandemic parenthood holistically and intersectionally through intimate conversations and voice memos.
