Postpartum Production

"When I think about my work in particular, I fall on creative journey. I really think about my creativity and what I wanna be making and what ideas excite me. But I also think about - what are the daily moments that are around us? What are we capturing as creatives? As writers, we are kind of historians of our time. We are dictating what is happening around us all the time. We are the people on th...

“If you try to balance your writing career against your parenting as though it's on a scale, like, ‘I'm balancing my life like a scales of justice scale, and there's only these two things and one goes up and the other goes down’--If you try to do that, you are guaranteed to be miserable because whenever your parenting is going great, you will think that your writing is going badly. And when your w...

“Motherhood makes us all so insecure and vulnerable as it is. It's just an innately vulnerable experience that's just rife for feeling bad about yourself or feeling unsure about your choices. We're just ‘onslaughted’ with so many people—most of them strangers—that we're just constantly consuming other people's renditions of motherhood. And it's dizzying in terms of feeling comfortable and solid wi...

“How fun would it be to have a space where the kids could be kids and we could mother them, but we could also do our creative work with each other?! I don't know what that would look like, but it sounds like a world that I would love to inhabit.”  ~ Heather Powell In this episode, Kaitlin talks with Heather Powell about the guilt that comes to surface when balancing motherhood and more specif...

“Becoming a mother gave me this drive and confidence. I felt like I had a voice and that I felt ready to be that person that was at the front of the room, having those ideas, using my imagination, and attempting to communicate that to a whole room of dancers.” ~ Dani Rowe  Kaitlin talks with Choreographer and filmmaker, Dani Rowe about her transition to motherhood and how that impacted her career...

As writers, we are always bringing so much into the work that is not just that time that you're sitting at your desk, or wherever it is that you work. Join us as Kaitlin talks with Vanessa Hua, an award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and the author of the national bestseller A River of Stars ( https://www.amazon.com/River-Stars-Novel-Vanessa-Hua/dp/0399178783 ). She wrote, and...

In this episode, Kaitlin talks with K. Lorraine Graham about the process—versus the production—of art, and the unfinished work of art and parenting. They also delve into what it means to be forever in postpartum. Lorraine makes poems and texts that sometimes manifest as drawings, games and performances. She is the author of The Rest Is Censored , Terminal Humming and a recent chaplet of new work f...

"I didn't know that I would learn so much about who I am by being a mother, figuring out how to mother somebody who's just like me in the ways that I wish I were better. He mirrors the hard parts; mirrors the parts that have been really difficult for me to manage my whole life.” ~ Katherine Duclos In part 2 of this 2-part episode with Katherine Duclos, Kaitlin and Katherine talk about Katherine’s...

In this episode, Kaitlin talks with Katherine Duclos. A New England native that Kaitlin has known since their high-school days, Katherine is a prolific artist who received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute - Brooklyn, NY in 2012. She then moved with her family from New York City to Vancouver, BC where she maintains an active multi-media studio practice delving into concepts of m...

"I've heard the expression that people are cracked open when they give birth, and for me, I think I just felt so jarred by this birth that happened in a way that I didn't understand and wanted to make sense of. I felt like there were a lot of things that happened in my personal life at the time that were a lot for me to hold inside. And since I was a young child and could write, that's been the wa...

"I put so much pressure on myself to produce when I was pregnant. Just because there was that end date of Ooh, baby will finally come out into the world but also like this end of a chapter in my life where I would be able to produce as widely or as efficiently before I actually had the baby. So that was probably my biggest challenge during pregnancy." ~ Sarah Chaves In this episode, Kaitlin is joi...

"Postpartum is really about a constant period of identity transformation, and exploring every challenge and possibility that comes with that massive life transition.” ~ Kaitlin Solimine Welcome to our corner of the world. This is the Postpartum Production Podcast. In this podcast, you’ll hear from artists like novelists, painters, filmmakers, choreographers, and more who are mothers and caregivers...