The Longest Shortest Time

Comedian Negin Farsad on esoteric allergies, the power of fire hydrants, and growing up Muslim... all in this edition of Kids' Unanswerable Questions.

⭐️ This episode originally ran on February 1, 2017 and is a favorite from the archives. Since then, Negin has become a mom — and next week we’ll be back with a new episode where she talks about how she navigates her own daughter’s unanswerable questions!

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Episode resources

• Kid-friendly versions of Negin’s answers are on our website.

• Negin Farsad’s podcast: Fake the Nation

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Kate Casey grew up in a chaotic home, and as a child she struggled to understand the strange — and sometimes unsettling —choices her parents made. When it came time to start her own family, Kate decided to trade the bad kind of chaos for the good kind.

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Recommendations from the archive

• Want more family drama? Listen to Dani Shapiro’s Family Secret.

• Does Family Size Matter? An only child explains why she wanted a large family.

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Episode resources

• Kate’s podcast: Reality Life With Kate Casey

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We pick up where we left off with Kiely, Jenna, and their sperm donor Dominick. This time it's Jenna's turn to get pregnant. And, unlike last time, things do not go according to plan.

⭐️ This episode originally ran on November 30, 2016 and is a favorite from the archives. We hope you enjoy, and we’ll be back next week with a brand new episode.

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Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone proudly share their abortion stories, which led one of them to realize she wanted to be a mom and confirmed for the other that she didn’t. Plus: the problematic ways we talk about "readiness" for parenthood… and sex after abortion.

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Recommendations from the archive

• Listen to The Scarlet A, about one of the rare OBGYNs who provides abortions (and needed one herself)

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More from Renee and Regina

• Book: Liberating Abortion

• Podcast: The A Files

• Website: liberatingabortion.org

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Get involved

Renee and Regina say there’s a lot you can do to help improve abortion access in your community. Start by contacting your local clinic, abortion fund, or doula collective. These places are always looking for volunteers with a wide range of skills.

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Renee and Regina’s recommended reading list

• The Abortion Companion by Becca Rea-Tucker

• Killers of Roe by Nancy Littlefield

• Expecting Inequity by Khiara M. Bridges

• Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

• Relinquished by Gretchen Sission

• A book about bodies for kids: Boobies by Nancy Vo

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How do you make a baby when you’ve got a uterus and your partner does, too? We hear how one family did it, in this two-parter. And how some of their plans… don’t go according to plan.

⭐️ This episode originally ran on November 23, 2016 and is a favorite from the archives. We hope you enjoy, and we’ll be back next week with a brand new episode. (And tune in the following week for the second part of this episode!)

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