About this episode
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Gretchen Sisson and Jim Pilgrim about adoption, motherhood, and the emotional complexities involved.
This episode of The Anna Jinja Show brings together two powerful voices for a conversation that will stay with listeners long after they press pause. Dr. Gretchen Sisson, author of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood, shares a decade of research revealing the constrained choices and unacknowledged grief of mothers who relinquish children. Paired with her work is songwriter Jim Pilgrim, whose original folk-and-blues song “Down Here ...
People in this episode
Host: Anna Jinja
Guests: Dr. Gretchen Sisson, Jim Pilgrim
Topics covered
- adoption
- motherhood
- grief
- music
- society
- personal stories
Keywords
- adoption
- motherhood
- grief
- folk music
- interview
- society
- personal stories
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
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