Mom Jeans Media

01/19/2018

Hello friends, I have temporarily disbanded Mom Jeans Media. The links all still work and the site doesn't look that different, but the branding is now all for the Two Broads Talking Politics Podcast. MJM wasn't getting much use for anything other than TBTP episodes, and it made more sense for podcast listeners to have that branding and those social media links on the site. If there is interest in the future MJM could be revived in some form, and in the meantime, I am still happy to take occasional writing submissions to post on the podcast site, even if they're not politics-related.

01/17/2018

Two Broads Talking Politics, Episode 28: The Politics of Ohio

In the first segment, Sophy and Kelly speak with a panel of Ohioans (Mark Gavin, Lorraine Wilburn, and Eli Kalil) about the politics of Ohio, the important races of 2018, gerrymandering and voter purges, the opioid epidemic, and Ohio's economy. In the second segment, they talk to Jen House of Ohio Y

01/15/2018

Coming soon!!

01/14/2018

Two Broads Talking Politics, Episode 27: The Bard Prison Initiative

In this episode, Kelly speaks with Jessica Neptune, the Associate Director of National Programs of the Bard Prison Initiative and Director of BPI’s Chicago office, about the history of BPI and Bard College's success in educating students in prisons in the liberal arts model and placing them into a...

01/11/2018

In the first segment Sophy and Kelly speak with Kim Smith from the University of Chicago Crime Lab the work of the Crime Lab, 2017 gun crime statistics in Chicago, data driven policing, and the urban gun market. In the second segment they speak with Khary Penebaker, a DNC Representative for Wisconsi

01/05/2018

Two Broads Talking Politics, Episode 25: Wake, Rise, Resist

In this episode, Kelly interviews Joanna Spathis and Kerri Kennedy about their friendship, their trip to the Women's March in DC, and their book, Wake, Rise, Resist: The Progressive Teen’s Guide to Fighting Tyrants and A-holes. Be sure to check out the Wake, Rise, Resist blog for a giveaway! Wake,...

01/03/2018

Two Broads Talking Politics, Episode 24: The Politics of Wisconsin

In the first segment, Sophy and Kelly speak with Matt Lowe, the Chairman of the Waukesha County Democratic Party, Robert Hansen, the former Chair of the Democratic Party of Milwaukee County, and Beth Alleman, the Social Media Organizer of Indivisible Madison, about Wisconsin politics, including gerr

12/22/2017

Two Broads Talking Politics, Episode 22: Little Lobbyists

Kelly speaks with Austin and Ben from the group Little Lobbyists about their work educating congresspeople and the public about children with complex medical needs and advocating for legislation that will protect their children's access to affordable, quality healthcare. Join Little Lobbyists on Fac

12/21/2017

Work by Cheryl

I Should Really Stop Listening to the Radio While Driving On November 9, 2016 I sat in my car in a parking lot, sobbing, listening to Hillary Clinton’s concession speech and texting with my similarly undone sister-in-law. It wasn’t just losing an election. It was a former Secretary of State and ...

12/20/2017

Two Broads Talking Politics, Episode 21: On the Campaign Trail: Focus on the Issues

In the first segment, Kelly and Sophy speak with Sarah Scanlon, who served as the National Director of Outreach for the LGBT Community and the Arkansas State Director for Bernie 2016 and who was the State Director for the Arkansas Voter Registration Project (AVRP), about the ways in which technology

12/19/2017

On Regaining a Sense of Self after Becoming a Mom by Kelly Therese Po***ck

I am mom to the two greatest kids in the world (not the best behaved, mind you, but the greatest anyway). I never meant for that to be all I was, but for a time I lost a sense of who else I was, and I started to accept that as just the way things were. It took treatment for anxiety, but also my kids

12/16/2017

Two Broads Talking Politics, Episode 20: Donna Bowman and the Pussyhat Project

In this episode, Kelly and Sophy talk with Donna Bowman, Professor of Religious Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies in the Schedler Honors College at the University of Central Arkansas, about the Pussyhat Project, the Women's March, feminism, white Southern Evangelicalism, abortion, and the future