PRESS
The New Yorker Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion? In Essential Labor, Angela Garbes argues that care work should be public and universal
The New York Review of Books Angela Garbes considers the emotional and political fallout of pregnancy and motherhood
Fresh Air with Terry Gross Rethinking The 'Essential Labor' Of Raising Children
City Arts & Lectures A Conversation about Essential Labor with Shereen Marisol Meraji
Cup of Jo My Beauty Uniform
TELEVISION
ABC News Live with Linsey Davis: Mothering Is Also a Verb
MSNBC’s American Voices with Alicia Menendez: Why Abortion Access Is Part of Respecting Moms
REVIEWS
Slate: Angela Garbes' Essential Labor takes parenting advice to the next level
Public Books: Can Motherhood Bend Towards Justice?
Washington Post: How Mothers Can Be Changemakers, at Home and in the Community
Los Angeles Review of Books: Activist Mothering
PRINT & ONLINE
Essential Labor excerpt in The Atlantic: The Devaluation of Care Work Is by Design
Essential Labor excerpt on Literary Hub: On Taking Pleasure in the Sensual Side of Mothering
Culture Study interview with Anne Helen Petersen: ”Raising children is not an individual responsibility. It is a social one.”
Vogue: Angela Garbes’s New Book Asks: Why Don’t We Value Mothering as Care Work?
The Nation: Angela Garbes on Mothering for the World We Want
The Examined Family interview with Courtney Martin: “The Matrilineal feast of my dreams”
Electric Literature: Mothering as a Radical Path Towards Social Change
Self: Essential Labor Author Angela Garbes on the Undervaluing of Caregivers
PODCAST & AUDIO INTERVIEWS
Washington Post Reports: The Essential Labor of Care Work
NPR Life Kit with Asma Khalid: How to give mothering the value it deserves
Slate’s The Waves with Brigid Schulte: The Caregiver Crisis
Keep Calm and Cook On with Julia Turshen: On Appetites
Everything is Fine: A Podcast for Women Over Forty: Essential Labor & Midlife with Angela Garbes
Burnt Toast with Virginia Sole-Smith: Essential Labor and Essential Pleasure
Soundside on KUOW: Motherhood and Domestic Labor: How the pandemic showed women are 'still in a condition of servitude'
From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy: A Conversation with Angela Garbes
No One Is Coming to Save Us: Mothers Are Essential Workers Too
Hello Monday on LinkedIn News: Angela Garbes on essential labor: “Care is the real work of humans,”
Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen: Understanding Essential Labor
LIKE A MOTHER
“You don't have to be a mother or even a woman to be fascinated by the science and physiology that she writes about.”
—Terry Gross, Fresh Air
“Like A Mother is the evidence-based, open-minded book that U.S. pregnancy culture needs. . .In this fraught climate, Garbes’ book is a true feminist accomplishment that puts trust and agency back with women and parents.”
—Rewire.news
“An empowering resource…Throughout this thoughtful book, she speaks to her readers as peers, providing affirmation that their experiences are important and that they are not alone.”
—Publishers Weekly