QAnon is Right to Be Afraid for Children — but Not in the Way You Think
How family court has become complicit in child trafficking For all the talk about child trafficking the conspiracy group QAnon does, you would think they would do a little research and use their platform to actually help children. No, there are no child sex dungeons in the basement of pizzerias. Democrats are not running child...
This Country Doesn’t Really Care About Children
To do so, we must first care about women I’ve not been watching the confirmation hearings because I’ve had my share of it back in the 1990s when I was first exposed to the double excoriation of Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearings, where Senate Republicans weaponized both race and gender against her to secure...
Tonight’s Debate Illustrates How Abusers Use Coercive Control: Why We Must Build an Accountability Culture
One hour before Tuesday’s Presidential Debate, my phone started pinging with texts in anticipation. It didn’t take long before these exchanges started making me feel anxious and agitated — the same feeling of dread that I get when I know I will be seeing my abuser — during one of his visits with our son or the night before...
Top Podcasts Lists!
It was such a delight to discover that en(gender)ed appeared on not one, but two best podcast recommendations list this week! Feminist, sustainability, and environmental justice organization, WEN, recommended en(gender)ed as a “COVID-19 top podcast“ along with other familiar sister podcasts, including Amanda Laird’s Heavy Flow Podcast. We did a podcast swap back in 2018...
Coercive Control as Post-Separation Abuse in Family Court
If you’re familiar with our podcast episodes, you know that we featured many survivors and advocates working in the protective mothers’ movement to end sexism and gender bias in family court. Abusers who engage in coercive control often continue their tactics when a survivor expresses a desire to leave. Often this can manifest threatening a...
Here’s How We Stop the Next Jeffrey Epstein
Did I get your attention? That’s a start. By actually taking the time to read this piece, you’re taking the first step. I just finished watching the Netflix documentary, Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich. It took a while because I knew it would be triggering so I waited to watch with a friend and made sure to...
