White Picket Fence
Julie is the co-creator and host of White Picket Fence, a podcast about a society evolving, those who are threatened by the ways that traditional structures are being upended, and those who advance change. Through narrative storytelling that highlights the voices of organizers, advocates, academics, and other changemakers, White Picket Fence unpacks the ways that an intersecting set of beliefs – about race, gender, families, and the economy – work to maintain an unjust status quo and block progress on policy solutions that would help us all.
Winner of 2025 Webby Award for Best News & Politics (Limited Series & Special) Podcast.
Winner of 2024 Signal Award for Best News & Politics Show.
In Season Five, host Julie Kohler investigates the institution of marriage to uncover what’s behind this latest push for the return of a traditional family structure. Join us as we go beyond the rosy sheen of love and commitment and expose the darker side to all of this marriage talk — one that we have to pay attention to, if we want to maintain our social progress in this country.
Season Four explores mothers as a political force—how motherhood has been used for political gain and why the identity of "mother" remains so politically potent. Join us in exploring where we have fallen short and what we can do to create a better future.
In honor of Women's History Month, we launched a special crossover season of White Picket Fence, in partnership with our sister podcast, Women Belong in the House. Join Jenny Kaplan and me to learn more about the legislative champions who are working to make publicly supported child care, universal preK, paid family and medical leave, and the expanded child tax credit a reality.
Season Two examined the care crisis and the ideologies -- about race, gender, families, the economy, and yes, white women -- that have led us to a point where so many of us are cracking...and why it doesn't have to be this way.
Season One examined the fractured—and often frustrating—politics of white women and the role we all can play in building a more just and equitable nation.
