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Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club series featured a complex cast of characters and touched on an impressive range of issues that were underrepresented at the time: divorce, adoption, childhood illness, class division, and racism, to name a few. In We Are the Baby-Sitters Club, writers from the original BSC generation will reflect on the enduring legacy of Ann M. Martin’s beloved series, 35 years later - celebrating the BSC’s profound cultural influence.

Dr Carole Quigley and Seán Ferrick are delighted to bring you this podcast that aims to open up discourse over Rape Culture, to allow a better understanding of both what it is, and how we can combat it. This is an open forum for discussion. A content warning is in place as there will be open and frank discussion of sexual violence, rape, and domestic violence. Listener discretion is advised.

Two grown women discuss The Baby-sitters Club series, one book at a time, with the seriousness it deserves and the humor that you need. In each episode, Brooke Suchomel and Kaykay Brady explore both the text and subtext of Ann M. Martin's work and what it says about growing up female in America in the 1980s and 1990s -- and how these messages affect us today.

Don’t Tell the Babysitter Mom’s Dead is a grief podcast by Brittany Ashley. Each episode includes a conversation with a fellow member of the Dead Mom’s Club, as well as an exploration into pop culture’s representation of TV & film characters who have lost their mother.