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The Mother Of It All

The Wisdom of Disabled Parenting 2.0 with Jessica Slice

Apr 7, 2025
01:27:10

We reunite with author and parent Jessica's Slice ahead of the release of her tremendous book, Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World, to learn how her life with a second child has taught her to throw out the milestones and ask for help (even when it involves a dead possum!). Then, you get to listen to Sarah’s initial interview with Jessica, which remains one of our all time favorites and touches on parenting perfectionism, disability justice, and parenting neurodivergent kids.

Links:

* Order Unfit Parent

* Jessica’s website and Substack newsletter:

Jessica Slice writes about disability, poems, and waterfowl

* Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong

* Lucy Webster’s The View From Down Here

* Andrew Leland’s The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

* We've Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents, edited by Eliza Hull



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