We are Miranda Rake and Sarah Wheeler, two friends, mothers and professional writers on the parenting beat. Mother Culture is our place to go deep into the culture of modern motherhood and have the conversations that truly challenge, feed and excite us. Expect warmth, humor and over-considered takes on hot topics, fresh takes on old ones, expert guests and good times. We're diving into the grey areas beyond the tropes — the wine moms, the rage moms, the anything moms — and instead spending real time with the ideas that help us grow as mothers and people in this cultural moment.
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Meet the Hosts
Sarah Wheeler
Sarah Wheeler is a writer and educational psychologist whose work has been published in Romper, The Cut, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost, Deadspin, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and more. Sarah writes about parenting, motherhood, ADHD, disability and neurodiversity, basketball, and many other things. Her newsletter, Momspreading, is a Substack Bestseller. You can read her anti-parenting-advice parenting-advice column, Good Enough Parent, on Romper.
Sarah has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a dissertation fellowship from the Greater Good Science Center. She has worked with teachers, parents, and neurodivergent children for almost two decades, and frequently consults with parents and schools. She is the co-founder of the public school equity organization, Get Schooled Oakland, and a humble loyalist to integrated, public schools.
Originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sarah lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and two kids, only cleans to ear-splittingly loud R&B, and always orders dessert. She is a proud “ADHDer,” and writes about her later-in-life ADHD diagnosis here and here.
For more of Sarah’s writing, go here. Connect with her on LinkedIn here.
Miranda Rake
Miranda is a staff writer at Romper, where she examines parenthood from every angle, with a particular interest in maternal mental health. She explores everything from moms who use psychedelic mushrooms to why so many American moms are on antidepressants, and from using ritual to create meaning without religion to how (unfortunately) great it is to drink a whole lot less. Before joining Romper, she worked for more than a decade as a food & drinks writer at publications like Imbibe, Food52, Food & Wine, and The Modern Proper. she holds a master's degree in food studies from new york university, as well as a bachelors degree in comparative religion & ethics.
She lives in Portland with her husband and little kids, and is passionate about all of the usual stuff, like how her children are sleeping and swimming in the warm sea. she doesn’t like leaf blowers or writing in the third person. For four years, she ran a small-batch jam company, as is typical for a Portland-based millennial like herself. You can learn more about Miranda here.
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