Scratch That: Parenting & ReParenting Off Script 🎙️ Not Being Afraid to Look at It All with Tyler Feder
If you've listened to this podcast for three minutes, you know that we are big-time, long-time fans of author/illustrator Tyler Feder (Bodies Are Cool, Are You Mad At Me?, and Dancing At the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir). Tyler has a unique ability of finding the simplest, sturdiest revision to break open the one-dimensional world in which we often live. Today, we talk with her about how she came to rewrite scripts around bodies and grief. (And! We get a sneak peek at a future script she might like to dismantle and rewrite.) We are still basking in the glow of this conversation✨
Tune In to Hear Us Talk About:
🫀 How Tyler ended up writing the picture book that all of us needed.
💀 The weird similarities in the ways people respond to disability and death.
🎭 How Tyler became the kind of person who can hold onto grief and laughter at the same time.
😬 The weird things people said around Tyler after her mom died and a peek at alternate scripts.
⏳ A cultural script Tyler would like to revise.
🎀 The 3 questions Rebekah's kid really wanted to ask Tyler, and her answers.
🕺 A dash of Myers Briggs/Enneagram chitter-chatter.
Mentioned In Today's Episode:
Tyler's books Bodies Are Cool, Are You Mad At Me?, and Dancing At the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
Tyler's addition to the Scratch That Spotify playlist of songs that have held us – "Kind of Girl" by MUNA
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