About
Parenting is Political is a project founded by Jasmine (she/her) and Mo (they/them) that is fiscally sponsored by Generation Common Good
Our Beginning | Our Story
Parenting is Political began with a simple but profound belief: how we raise children has never been separate from politics.
What started as a podcast has grown into a broader cultural project dedicated to changing the way we think and talk about families, parenting, and the systems that shape our lives. Through conversations with organizers, scholars, artists, parents, caregivers, and movement leaders, we discovered that the challenges families face are not simply personal struggles—they are deeply connected to public policy, economic systems, culture, and power.
Parenting is Political exists to shift the stories our society tells about families.
For generations, the so-called "traditional" or "nuclear" family has been presented as the universal ideal. In reality, that narrative has often been used to reinforce structural inequality by defining some families as worthy of support while marginalizing, stigmatizing, or policing others. Single-parent families, queer families, multigenerational households, chosen families, immigrant families, disabled parents, kinship caregivers, and many others have long built loving, resilient communities despite systems designed to exclude them.
We reject the myth that there is only one legitimate way to build a family.
Instead, we celebrate the extraordinary diversity of how people love, care for, and raise one another. We believe every family deserves dignity, safety, belonging, and the resources needed to thrive—not because they conform to a particular model, but because caring for one another is fundamental to a just society.
Today, Parenting is Political is more than a podcast. It is a growing platform for political education, narrative change, and community building. Through our podcast, digital storytelling, educational resources, public conversations, and organizing initiatives, we help people understand that parenting is not just a private responsibility—it is a public and collective concern.
We explore questions that are often left out of mainstream parenting conversations:
How do racism, economic inequality, ableism, sexism, colonialism, and environmental injustice shape family life?
What would it look like to organize society around care instead of profit?
How do we build communities where every child and every caregiver can flourish?
What can parents, caregivers, and community members do to build a more democratic, compassionate, and liberated future?
