# Tradwives x Eugenics

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Podcast: [Material Girls](https://stenobird.com/podcast/material-girls-46568)
Published: 2026-06-02T14:19:37+00:00
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Dust off your aprons and heat up your cast iron because it’s finally time for one of our most requested episodes yet! In this episode, Hannah and Marcelle dig deep into the tradwife phenomenon. Using the viral tradwife influencer Ballerina Farm as a case study, Hannah leads us through a discussion about eugenics, replacement theory, and clean living movements. They also get into influencer culture, the performance of farm life, and…milk. Whew! That’s a lot, and it’s ALL relevant. This episode is for those of you who love to hate tradwives, are curious about their meteoric rise in popularity over the last few years, or have never even heard of them! Related listening: 9 to 5 x Labour Feminism with Zena Sharman Get Out x Horrifying Whiteness Witch, Please: Book 7, Ep. 6 | Eugenics Works Cited: Agnew, Megan. “Meet the queen of the ‘trad wives’ (and her eight children.” The Times 20 July 2024: https://archive.ph/YHB08 .  “Clean living movement.” Wikipedia . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_living_movement . Accessed 14 May 2026.  Elster, N., Parsi, K., & Caplan, A. Guest editorial. “Laundering Public Health: Using Autism to Revive Eugenics.” The American Journal of Bioethics (2026): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2026.2659519 .  “Eugenics and Scientific Racism.” National Human Genome Research Institute 18 May 2022. https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Eugenics-and-Scientific-Racism . Accessed 14 May 2026.  Luse, Brittany. “Mormon Moms: Unpacking a national obsession.” It’s Been A Minute (NPR) 12 November 2024: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1212541651 .  Moskin, Julia. “Tycoon or Tradwife? The Woman Behind Ballerina Farm Makes Her Own Path.” The New York Times 3 December 2024: https://archive.ph/Q9j2J#selection-489.0-489…

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