The New York Times Narrated

The Cost of Performing Childhood for Your Parent’s Art

Episode Summary

It’s not quite #MeToo, but a spate of new memoirs is forcing a reckoning on what consent means when your parent is the artist. To read the full story, please visit: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/magazine/child-subjects-art-abuse-sally-mann-molly-jong-fast-ruby-franke.html By Parul Sehgal Read by Kirsten Potter Narration produced by Tanya Pérez Engineered by Zak Mouton

Episode Notes

It’s not quite #MeToo, but a spate of new memoirs is forcing a reckoning on what consent means when your parent is the artist.

To read the full story, please visit: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/magazine/child-subjects-art-abuse-sally-mann-molly-jong-fast-ruby-franke.html

By Parul Sehgal
Read by Kirsten Potter
Narration produced by Tanya Pérez
Engineered by Zak Mouton