What Made Our Boomer Moms... Like This?
We love our boomer moms. And our boomer moms are complicated . When Tracy Clark-Flory first told me about her memoir — in which she discovers the half-sister her mother had at age 19, and was forced to give up for adoption — I immediately thought about how so many of our boomer moms' choices were limited in ways we struggle to imagine. No matter how feminist their current politics may be, it doesn't change the fact that so many of them grew up (and became adults) in deeply patriarchal, racist, r...
Jun 24, 2026•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 131