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On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, guest host Pamela Shelden interviews Pam Munter, author of Fading Fame: Women of a Certain Age in Hollywood. Their conversation explores Pam’s book and its themes of the systemic misogyny that has dominated Hollywood throughout its history. They also address how women on the screen, victimized in a variety of ways, from predatory men on casting couches, to the process of aging itself, continue to be victimized today and how we as viewers can recognize those patterns and stop the cycle. Pamela Shelden, a member of the Engendered Collective, holds a Ph.D. in English/American literature. She has taught both at the university level (including Brooklyn College, City University of New York) and the high school level (including Stuyvesant High School). Today, she continues teaching through her business, College Counseling and Tutoring Services (CATS), while also mentoring young people to advocate for issues, particularly those affecting the lives of women and children. Dr. Shelden also serves on the Board of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Peninsula Section, where she coordinates several advocacy programs, including a popular advocacy-focused film series. During our conversation, both Pams referenced the following resources: --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, guest host Kerri Holt speaks with Lizzy Hershberger and Molly Maeve Eagan to discuss their book Behind Blue Curtains, A True Crime Memoir of an Amish Woman’s Survival, Escape and Pursuit of Justice. Their conversation will explore Lizzy’s struggle to survive the abuse, support herself, marry and raise her own family, and seek justice. Themes covered also include the role of religion and community in the survivor’s life, its role in shaping gender norms and expectations, with particular emphasis on enabling, excusing, or permitting men’s violence over women and the survivors’ healing from trauma. Kerri Holt, a member of the Engendered Collective, is a Domestic Violence Victim Advocate for a community-based non-profit (and a Credentialed Advocate through NOVA (National Organization for Victim Assistance).) Kerri answers calls on a 24/7 hotline with survivors and police with the goal of survivors attaining safety from a current or former partner. She also provides survivor-centered advocacy in a non-crisis capacity through community prevention and education programming. During our conversation, Kerri, Lizzy and Molly referenced the following resources: --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of en(gender)ed, guest host Roman James interviews feminist lawyer, human rights activist, political philosopher, columnist and author, Rafia Zakaria about her newly released book, Against White Feminism, Notes on Disruption. Roman speaks with Rafia about the historic domination of the feminist lexicon by upper middle-class white women, the de-centering of Black and Brown voices, and the role that patriarchy plays in perpetuating white supremacist, capitalist, imperialist feminism which often subjugates the very populations it asserts to be empowering. Roman James is mama to the most wonderful, generous, and intelligent light being she ever met. Additionally, she serves as an activist and resistor of the violence imposed on women and children in the archaic American family court system having been radicalized by the institutional betrayal of the legal system. Her purpose is to thrive in her self-possession, rise above the systemic failures and leave everyone she comes in contact with better off for having met her. During our conversation, Roman and Rafia referenced the following resources: Rafia’s journey to becoming a feminist.Rafia’s perspective on women being tasked to be disrupters.1893 World’s Fair’s showcase of the “White City” and the exclusion of Black people and communitiesThe controversy behind ESPN reporter Maria Taylor and Rachel NicolsThe double standard and racism behind “culturally-coded crimes” --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Dr. Karen WIlliams, a psychiatrist based in Australia, with an interest In PTSD and cPTSD , social justice and public health. Karen is the Founder of Doctors Against Violence Towards Women, a group of 700 plus doctors from across Australia and New Zealand committed to combating domestic abuse against women, in all of its forms. We speak with Karen today about her work, her organization’s mission, and its advocacy to reform the health care system including lobbying the government to provide better, evidence-based support for the domestic violence sector and coordinating with other advocacy groups in the child welfare, education, and/or legal sectors. During our conversation, Karen and I referenced the following resources: How Karen came to found Doctors Against Violence Towards WomenThe gendered difference in how society and the medical industry treats men with trauma versus women with traumaThe pathologization of women’s traumaThe Dirty John Netflix seriesThe abuser disinformation tactic of “PAS” or responding to victims’ claims of abuse by counterclaiming “Parental Alienation”The lack of regulation of forensic evaluators not just in Australia, but all over the English-speaking world (Listen to our interview withNancy Ericksonfor more on this crisis) --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Roz Davidson, Director of The Positive Parenting Company Ltd and a National Consultant and Trainer in the UK implementing "CODA" a 12-week therapeutic program for women and children recovering from domestic abuse which focuses on providing skills to the Mother to support the child, and addresses self-blame, attachment, what abuse is, and emotional regulation across themed sessions. We speak with Roz today about coercive control, its signs, impact, and what she and other advocates in Britain are doing to ensure that domestic abuse is taken seriously and perpetrators are held to account. Roz is currently enrolled in a program to receive her Masters in Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence at Goldsmiths University. During our conversation, Roz and I referenced the following resources: Roz Davidson’s interviewEpisode 133: Domestic Violence Awareness Month Community Conversation on Domestic Abuse and Child AbuseHow Roz uses “CODA” to help children exposed to domestic abuse by addressing their behavior instead of the cause.Britain’s “Domestic Abuse Bill”Safety planningObjectives of the CODA programThe “Timekeeper” PSA and training tool on coercive control of children Roz served as an advisor onThe “Freedome” Program, “Caring Dads” ProgramsDomestic abuse is and as coercive control and intimate partner terrorismTimekeeper’s “Grounding” techniques and trauma-informed content --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

Greetings Podcast listeners…I’m your host, Teri Yuan. You’ve probably been wondering why the podcast has been on pause for the past several months. Well, rather unexpectedly, I had to deal with some personal stuff and more importantly, members of the Engendered Collective rallied to organize and plan the first International Coercive Control Conference. We will be launching tomorrow this all virtual two-day event that will feature luminaries from around the world, from a variety of sectors ranging from health and medicine, academia, law, advocacy, and government, to name a few. This conference was entirely conceived and executed by our tireless members and our awesome intern, Abbie. There is still time to sign up. If you can’t make all the sessions, register anyway and access the recordings later. We will also be publishing the sessions as future podcast episodes. Use the code “PODCAST2021” when you check out to get a 40% discount. In the meantime, we are working with a great intern, Linda, to help us launch our podcast episodes. If there are any listeners out there who want to volunteer to edit the podcast and help us keep to a regular publishing schedule, please reach out to me at engenderedpodcast@gmail.com. Stay tuned for a whole bunch of new episodes and guest hosts interviews coming out soon. In the meantime, see you at the conference!

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Wendy Murphy, a former child abuse and sex crimes prosecutor who teaches at New England Law School in Boston and heads the Women’s and Children’s Advocacy Project under the Center for Law and Social Responsibility. Wendy specializes in the representation of crime victims, especially women and children. She also writes and lectures widely on victims' rights and criminal justice policy, and published an expose of the American legal system, And Justice For Some, in 2007. We speak with Wendy today about the ERA, its implication for women, especially with respect to Title IX, and the need for a feminist revolution in public policy, law, and in our collective consciousness. During our conversation, Wendy and I referenced the following resources: Big Love'sDawn Wilcox's --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Christine Cocchiola, a licensed Clinical Social Worker and a tenured professor at a Connecticut community college, teaching in the Pre-Social Work Program for over 18 years. Christine began her career in social work as Certified Domestic Violence Sexual Assault Counselor for Safe Haven of Greater Waterbury at the age of 19 where she remains a volunteer today. She is currently a doctorate candidate in Clinical Social Work at NYU studying coercive control. We speak with Christine today about her research on coercive control, the impact that this abuse has on adult and child victims, and the advocacy and systems reform that she supports in order to generate greater accountability for abuse. During our conversation, Christine and I referenced the following resources: Not to People Like Us: Hidden Abuse in Upscale Marriagesgunman kills ex-girlfriend for allegedly not getting an invite to birthday partytestimony in support of "Jennifer's Law" --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Elle Kamihira, a multi-disciplinary director whose work has focused on using storytelling as a tool to spark conversation about women’s lives and gender inequality. We speak with Elle today about one of her current projects, Jennifer 42, an animated documentary that takes a close look at the role of coercive control in the true story of the murder of Jennifer Magnano and Elle’s advocacy work supporting “Jennifer’s Law,” a related proposed legislation under consideration by the Connecticut legislature. During our conversation, Elle and I referenced the following resources: blames women for everythingA Million Little Thingspublic hearing for "Jennifer's Law" --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Rachel Landis, a National Policy Director at Generation Ratify, the young people’s feminist movement. The organization is a youth-led movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and advance gender equality in the United States of America. We speak with Rachel today about her work, the Equal Rights Amendment, and how we can and must build a coalition of young people across the country to lead an intersectional feminist revolution. During our conversation, Rachel and I referenced the following resources: ERAEqual Means Equalthe healthcare industry is sexistsexist and racist history of gynecologyletter to the Attorney General --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

In this "Reflections" episode Part 2, Teri and Michael reflect back on episodes in the "Mirrors and Windows" theme: Episode 141: Sonya Renee Taylor on “The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love,” Episode 142: #SurvivorStories Series with Karen Gosbee on her memoir, “A Perfect Nightmare: My Glittering Marriage and How It Almost Cost Me My Life,” and Episode 144: Hillary Levey Friedman on her book, “Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of The Beauty Pageant in America.” During our conversation, Michael and I touched upon the following resources in our conversation: The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind ControlSeduced: Inside the NXIVM Cultfired for not helpingepisode on beauty pageant --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Hilary Levey Friedman, a Brown University Sociology professor, a leading researcher on pageantry, and President of the Rhode Island Chapter of the National Organization for Women. We speak with Hilary today about her book, Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of The Beauty Pageant in America which is inspired by her childhood growing up the daughter of Miss America 1970, her interests in examining the culture of beauty, and her role as a former mentor to Miss America 2018, Cara Mund. Our conversation explores themes of pageantry and its historical role in shaping definitions of femininity, beauty, and its connection and/or opposition to feminist liberation. During our conversation, Hilary and I referenced the following resources: comparison of parents of child beauty pageant contestants with parents of Kumon kids --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

In this "Reflections" episode Part 1, Teri and Michael reflect back on episodes in the "Mirrors and Windows" theme: Episode 138: Caitlin Garvey on navigating grief through “The Mourning Report,” Episode 139: Kenya Hunt on her book, “Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic,” and Episode 140: Shu Matsuo Post on his memoir, “I Took Her Name: Lessons From My Journey Into Vulnerability, Authenticity, and Feminism.” During our conversation, Michael and I touched upon the following resources in our conversation: current statusEqual Rights AmendmentStorycorps --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this #SurvivorStories series episode, our guest is Karen Gosbee, domestic abuse, coercive control survivor, advocate for policy and system reform, and author of her memoir, A Perfect Nightmare: My Glittering Marriage and How It Almost Cost Me My Life. The book chronicles Karen’s journey to consciousness about her abuse, the roles her family and friends played in her life, and the ways in which society and culture shaped her views and definitions of herself, her worth, and relationships. Throughout our conversation, we ask Karen to share #abusertactics, #signsofabuse, and #upstandertips. During our conversation, Karen and I referenced the following resources and topics: See What You Made Me Do: The Dangers of Domestic Abuse That We Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to See --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Sonya Renee Taylor, activist, poet, and author of the NYT bestselling book, The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love. We speak with Sonya today about her book, her philosophy of radical self-love, and she shares specific tools, actions, and resources for confronting some of our most challenging systems of oppression. During our conversation, Sonya and I referenced the following resources: Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook: Tools for Living RadicalCommunion: The Female Search for Love --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of en(gender)ed our guest is Shu Matsuo Post, feminist advocate and author of his memoir, “I Took Her Name: Lessons From My Journey Into Vulnerability, Authenticity, and Feminism,” which chronicles his journey as a Japanese man who took white American wife’s surname when they got married. Our conversation explores how this experience informed Shu’s journey to becomes a feminist, the perspective his dual identity played in both revealing and shaping his views on gender and women in society, and how and why others, especially men, can benefit from and embrace feminism as a path towards authentic liberation from gender norms and gender equality. During our conversation, Shu and I referenced the following resources: The "Baader-Meinhof" phenomenon --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Kenya Hunt, award-winning writer, and author of her new book, an essay collection, entitled Girl, Gurl, Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic. Our conversation explores the lives of Black women and cultural differences within the Black community, the trials and tribulations of being a mother, especially a mother to Black children, and the meaning of #BlackGirlMagic and what it really stands for. In short, we examine themes of belonging, connection, resilience, and identity. During our conversation, Kenya and I referenced the following resources: When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It DownBlack Girl Magic"mirrors and windows --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Caitlin Garvey, author of The Mourning Report, a memoir of her “grief journey” interviewing six people involved in her mother’s dying process. Following her mother’s death from breast cancer at the age twenty, Caitlin suffered major depression and anxiety. Through these conversations, Caitlin learns about memory, reflections, and the ways in which our experiences are interpreted and filtered through others' eyes. We also explore the themes of freedom, agency, and authenticity. --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

We are back from our hiatus and hope your year is off to a good start. During our break, we’ve been thinking, resting, recuperating, and taking a much needed time off from the non-stop chaos of the past four and a half years. To kick off our podcast in 2021, we are excited to bring you a series of episodes focused on the theme “mirrors and windows.” Throughout the year, we will be exploring timely topics around the intersection of sex, gender, race, and its cultural, social, and political implications. If you’d like an opportunity to engage in deeper conversations and strengthen your feminist practice, please join us in the Engendered Collective, our community of survivors, advocates and pro-feminist allies. If you would like to volunteer to help us manage our social media engagement, our podcast, and/or our advocacy work, please reach out and email us at engenderedpodcast@gmail.com. As always, we appreciate listener feedback and welcome your suggestions for ideas, guests, and events or celebrations for us to share. With that, let’s get to the first episode in our series. --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!

In this "Reflections" episode Part 2, Teri and Michael reflect back on episodes on our series of community conversations for Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Episode 130: Domestic Violence Awareness Month Community Conversation on Systems Change, Episode 131: Domestic Violence Awareness Month Community Conversation on Police Violence, Episode 132: Domestic Violence Awareness Month Community Conversation on Domestic Abuse and Communities of Color, Episode 133: Domestic Violence Awareness Month Community Conversation on Domestic Abuse and Child Abuse, and Episode 134: Domestic Violence Awareness Month Community Conversation on Domestic Abuse and the Church. During our conversation, Michael and I touched upon the following resources in our conversation: Angie Riversgender parity in policingDefund the Police“restorative justice” approaches to address accountability in domestic violencepost on the cultural history of “PAS” or “Parental Alienation Syndrome” as an abuser disinformation tactic to discredit victims’ legitimate claims of abuseWhat Doesn’t Kill Me, --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Join our feminist community of survivors, advocates and allies! Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show!