235: Stephanie Land on Motherhood and Poverty

It's my delight to be able to bring you a remarkable and important story today. I'm joined by author Stephanie Land, who has become known for her unflinching writing on poverty and motherhood. Stephanie writes about her years seeking out an existence for herself and her daughter through her work as a housekeeper. She writes about her struggle to make ends meet, her reluctance use of food stamps and the bigotry she encountered for needing to access social services. But she also chronicles her efforts to keep alive her dream of going to university and becoming a writer something she nurtured in blog posts about her life with her daughter and getting by in those years. Since then her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vox, Salon and elsewhere. Her book Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother's Will to Survive is already a New York Times bestsller that's been met with all kinds of critical acclaim. Although her circumstances have now changed, Stephanie remains active in fighting to change the stigma surrounding people in poverty, especially single mothers. Stephanie lives in Montana but while in Toronto to give in a talk she visited me in my small home studio. Show Notes Love our work? Please check out our Patreon Campaign! Become a patron of the show for as little as $1 per month

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235: Stephanie Land on Motherhood and Poverty is an episode from The New Family Podcast by Award-winning editor Brandie Weikle of thenewfamily.com and the 1,000 Families Project talks to the.

This episode is 34:10 long.

This episode was published on May 27, 2019.

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