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Babes in Bookland: Your Women's Memoir Podcast
Women have always written extraordinary memoirs. We just haven't always talked about them loudly enough — until now. Babes in Bookland is a podcast dedicated entirely to memoirs by women, for women who are hungry for honest storytelling, big feelings, and real lives on the page. Each episode is part book discussion, part cultural conversation, and entirely unapologetic about centering women's experiences. Think of us as your most well-read friend who always knows exactly which book you need next.
Babes in Bookland: Your Women's Memoir Podcast
When Dreams Turn into Nightmares // Carmen Maria Machado's "In the Dream House"
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Do you accept the love you deserve?
My friend, Priscilla, and I chat about the incredibly unique and moving memoir In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. Carmen illuminates and writes about her own experience with domestic abuse within her same-sex relationship—bringing her story and those like it out of the shadows and into the conversation. Priscilla and I reflect on the ways we resonated with Carmen and the ways she helped open our minds and hearts.
Listener discretion advised: this episode contains adult language, discussion about abuse and domestic violence
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Link to this episode’s book:
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Other ways to support/connect with Carmen Maria Machado
Instagram
Link to Domestic Violence in the LGTBQ+ community statistics
Ways to support survivors of Domestic Violence
https://www.asafeplace.org/
https://www.1736fcc.org/
https://www.sfaws.org/
National Domestic Violence Hotline
800-799-SAFE(7233)
Text BEGIN to 88788
https://www.womenslaw.org/
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This episode is produced, recorded, and edited by me.
Theme song by Devin Kennedy
Special thanks (again!) to my dear friend, Priscilla. Best friends for over TWENTY YEARS!!! (We don’t talk about sophomore year).
Xx, Alex
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