Please find below links to articles and other readings that were discussed on our shows.
- Nicholson v. Williams
- Summary Article on Coercive Control by Evan Stark
- A Research Paper by Lauren Bennett Cataneo titled “Evan Stark, Coercive Control–Revitalizing a Movement“
- An article on England’s first conviction for coercive control under its new law
- Here is an article on Ireland’s repeal of their Eighth Amendment which banned abortion
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
- LA Times headline for the Santa Fe Shooting
- Here is the letter that Ruth wrote to Sarah Palin when her son, Track, was arrested on domestic violence charges and Ms. Palin blamed President Obama and mental illness as the reason for his behavior.
- “Enough Is Enough” Law, NY Education Law Title 129-B, and the guidance the law offers
- Title IX
- Department of Education’s interim guidelines under Secretary of Education, Betsy Devos
- “Dear Colleague Letter” that the Department of Education issued in September 2017
- Post by a woman who wrote about her date gone wrong with Aziz Ansari
- Myths and actual rates of false reporting in sexual violence cases and the original research paper from a 10-year study by David Lisak et al.
- CUNY’s Sexual Violence Campus Climate Survey, including rates at which intimate partner violence negatively impacts student persistence and success
- Finding your local NYS community rape crisis center, the NYS Office of Campus Safety, and the full audit result from the audit of 440 NYS universities (Note: You can search by school name to see if your school was compliant)
- Gender Bias in the Family Courts and the epidemic of courts giving custody of at least 58,000 children a year to abusers
- ProPublica article on the Lack of Oversight of Child Custody Evaluators
- ProPublica article on how NY parents fight lack of right to see ‘expert’ custody reports
- The Brooke SB v Elizabeth CC case
- “Mapping Gender: Shedding Empirical Light on Family Courts’ Treatment of Cases Involving Abuse and Alienation.”
- H. Con. Res. 72, a child safety resolution
- Joan’s article in the Huffington Post called “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” which addressed the…
- …The Wilcox and Wilson OpEd, citing marriage as a solution to end violence against women
- The Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect that Joan cited to debunk the Wilcox and Wilson OpEd
- And a powerpoint of the initial results of Joan’s Family Outcomes Project: Empirical Analysis of Custody Cases Involving Abuse and Alienation
- Joan recently gave a talk about her research findings which can be found in YouTube
- The NYC Administration for Children’s Services new protocol for Investigative Consultants to help “identify and intervene” in domestic violence cases
- U.S. divorce and child murder statistics to inform media oversight and education efforts
- The California Protective Parents Association
- The California Bill, AB-2044, which requires the court to consider domestic violence in making custody determinations
- Article by journalist, Laurie Udetsky, on “Custody in crisis: How family courts nationwide put children in danger“
- The Judge Aaron Persky Recall
- Cordelia Fine who writes about the “gender binary”
- Friedrich Nietzsche and his characterization of heterosexual relationship dynamics, also featured prominently in Kate Millet’s Theory of Sexual Politics
- Hillary Clinton’s Beijing Speech on Women’s Rights in 1995
- Scholar Gail Dines and her work on “gonzo porn”
- The Twitter Clown Face-Painting incident and how the impact gender stereotypes have on future male violence and parenting as a form of advocacy
- The J Crew “I am a feminist too” t-shirt for boys
- How we can integrate religion and our spiritual practices and beliefs in a post-2016 election world
- Michael Kimmel
- An article reflecting on Andrea Dworkin’s contribution to feminism
- Carolyn Osiek’s Beyond Anger: On Being a Feminist in the Church
- Barbara Ehrenreich’s books
- The Bechtel Test for women in movies
- Michelle Goldberg’s NYT Opinion: Want More Babies? You Need Less Patriarchy
- An article addressing the “Nordic Model” of sex work
- Gail Dines’ website on pornography
- Catherine McKinnon’s work and research on feminism and on pornography
- The Sojourners’ website and Jim Wallis
- The Little House on the Prairie books and TV series
- The concept of books as “mirrors” and “windows” as coined by Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop
- Dr. Tann, in the Little House Series and the controversy about how race is represented in the series
- A description of Dr. Alfred Tatum’s concept of the “textual lineage” of a teacher to teach tolerance
- W.E.B DuBois’ The Brownies’ Books
- The work of Geneva Gay and Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings in influencing Dr. Leslie work in culturally responsible pedagogy
- The Doll Test (original) and the CNN retest
- Abby Wambach’s commencement speech at Barnard College this May 2018 (transcript available here)
- The College Board’s proposed changes to the AP World History course and its subsequent reversal adding 250 more years
- Chris Fabricant’s work at the Innocence Project on Eyewitness Testimony
- NPR’s episode on Innocence Deniers and Kym Worthy’s work on the Davontae Sanford case in Michigan
- Jon Freeman’s psychology and neuroscience lab at NYU and his Mouse Tracker software
- Dartmouth study on how more “feminine” looking female politicians are more likely to win elections
- Estimating the economic costs of gender-based violence ($500 billion annually correction, not million, as shared in the recording)
- The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study and its origin as an obesity study and its subsequent findings and connection with childhood incest
- Jeffrey Tambor’s harassment of Jessica Walters on Arrested Development, and subsequent harassment claims on the show Transparent
- Backlash to Scarlett Johansson’s acceptance of a role as a transgender man in the new film, Rub and Tub, and her subsequent withdrawal from the role. Since the recording of this episode, Autumn has read more about the casting decision and no longer thinks that Scarlett Johansson should have been cast in the Rub and Tub role.
- A link to an article describing the term “LGTBQIA” and the differences between “gender identity,” “gender expression,” “biological sex” and whom you are “attracted to” and the more updated and complete list which is included in the “gender unicorn,” including “sex assigned at birth” which replaces “biological sex” and breaks out the former “attracted to” into two further categories–“physically attracted to” and “emotionally attracted to.”
- Why you should always use “transgender” instead of “transgendered
- Sanctuary for Families’ Vacation Cutting Bill that makes it illegal to send your child out of the country to get female genital mutilation (FGM) procedures
- The need for future laws to make it illegal to send your child outside of the country for forced marriage
- Current child marriage laws in NYS and across the country
- Sanctuary for Families’ current advocacy efforts with regard to child marriage, FGM, trafficking, strangulation, etc.
- How they use Jackie Campbell’s “Danger Assessment” for safety planning of victims
- The various Power and Control Wheels used for psycho-education of the survivor to help her understand the dynamics of abuse, including the post-separation power and control wheel and the abuse of children wheel
- Their guiding framework of crisis to stabilization to self-sufficiency
- My reference to the Deborah Epstein resignation from the NFL as a domestic violence consultant and her interview with NPR sharing examples of how the NFL cultivates a culture of misogyny
- The problems with Kelly and Johnson’s Typology of Domestic Violence which fail to take into account the history and pattern of coercive control
- The research of Kathleen Kendall-Tackett on how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) from trauma and domestic violence puts children at greater risk of adult illness
- Gender bias in family courts and the task forces that attempted to study it. Legal Momentum has a guide for establishing them.
- Family court gender bias studies from the Voices of Women Organizing Project and from the Wellesley’s Center for Women and its report
- The work of Dr. Kathleen Faller and of Viola Vaughn-Eden on how child welfare workers and other professionals should assess child sexual abuse
- Daniel Saunders’ study published for the National Institute of Justice/DOJ, entitled, “Child Custody Evaluators’ Beliefs About Domestic Abuse Allegations: Their Relationship to Evaluator Demographics, Background, Domestic Violence Knowledge and Custody-Visitation Recommendations“
- National Center for Women and Policing’s “Police Family Violence Fact Sheet“
- An Atlantic article entitled, “Police Have a Much Bigger Domestic-Abuse Problem than the NFL Does“
- The “Abuse of Power” website which has resources about police domestic violence for survivors and families
- A HuffPo article entitled “The Super Predators: When the Man Who Abuses You is also a Cop“
- A research article estimating the rate of domestic violence perpetrated by law enforcement
- A USA Today article entitled, “Domestic abusers: Dangerous for women and lethal for cops.”
Institute in Basic Life Principles, established by Bill Gothard (a ministry that was popular with the TLC Duggar Family of 19 Kids and Counting)
- Whiteness on the TV show, Friends, and its absence of race
- The diversity on the children show, Captain Planet and the Planeteers
- Crazy Rich Asians’ significance in its representation of Asian-Americans in mainstream Hollywood
- Symbolic Annihililation from lack of diversity in the media, texts, etc.
- Burma Task Force’s website which provides information on the Rohingya and other minority groups
- How migration and climate change impacts women
- The impact of climate change and migration on sex trafficking
- Blockchain 101–for beginners
- The Global Impact Investment Network’s (GIIN) Impact Reporting and Investment Standards or IRIS–the catalog of generally accepted performance metrics used by impact investors
- The “Impact Continuum“
- An article by CoinTelegraph on gender inequality in blockchain and crypto
- CoinDance’s estimates on gender participation distribution in the crypto community
- Reddit survey on MyEther users by gender
- Elizabeth Stark’s tweet about “women in crypto”
- Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche: Regulation of Gender-Expressive Choices by Men
- Is Eco-Friendly Unmanly? The Green-Feminine Stereotype and Its Effect on Sustainable Consumption
- Men Resist Green Behavior as Unmanly
- Obama and the Arugula Scandal
- The Black Masculinities of Barack Obama: Some Implications for African American Men
- Fade To Black: On Obama’s Performance of Black Masculinity
- The impact of Nadia’s work to hold University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, accountable for their Title IX violations
- The Federal Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights
- “Emily Doe” letter to Judge Persky about Brock Turner rape
- Summary of the Brock Turner rape case as reported in this Guardian article
- Brock Turner’s father’s controversial letter defending his son
- Why the Stanford Judge Gave Brock Turner Six Months
- Rape Conviction Rates and statistics about perpetrators of sexual violence from RAINN
- Maria and Nadia’s hashtags including #BoysWillBeBetter, #UseTheRightWords
- Judge Aaron Persky’s recall, led by Michele Dauber
- Judge Archie Simonson’s recall in 1977 in Wisconsin
- UNC Chapel Hill Professor Zeynep Tufekci’s research on social movements and technology
- Brock Turner failed appeal and its reasoning
- Lili Loufbourow’s article, “The Female Price of Male Pleasure”
- CUNY, School of Public Health, Professor Spring Cooper’s research on Sexual Agency
- Teri’s Blog Post on Senator McCain’s passing and the normalization of abuse, sexism and bad behavior
- The media’s characterization of Hugh Hefner as feminist icon instead of exploitation masking as sex positivity
- Former Uber employee and whistleblower, Susan Fowler’s blog post about her experience at Uber
- Forbes article: Uber Whistleblower Susan Fowler On What Every Company Should Do To Stop Harassment
- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that protected against workplace discrimination
- The Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Supreme Court Decision that decided that employers couldn’t be sued if he claims were made more than 180 days from the date of hire
- President Obama’s resetting of the 180 day statute of limitations in the Ledbetter v. Goodyear et al. ruling with each new pay check, in the Lilly Ledbetter’s Fair Pay Act of 2009
- Trump Revoked Crucial Protections For Women Workers The Week Prior To Equal Pay Day
- Why Trump suspended an Obama administration wage gap initiative
- The Cost of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
- 11 Types of Workplace Harassment and How to Stop Them
- Futures Without Violence’s resources on “Workplace Safety and Equity” and Project Include’s website, which supports diversity and inclusion in the tech industry
- BetterBrave partners’ Equal Rights Advocates and the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund
- The EEOC’s most recent lawsuit against seven organizations for harassment
- Vox article that addresses the industries with the most sexual harassment claims
- More about the movement for “One Fair Wage” for restaurant workers
- Study: Lingering illnesses can trouble women for years after assault, workplace harassment
- The Dallas Mayor’s personal experience with domestic violence and his commitment taking guns away from abusers
- Dallas Domestic Violence Task Force Annual Report 2016-2017
- An update on Dallas’ gun retrieval program from domestic violence offenders: Failure to seize guns from domestic abusers ‘unacceptable,’ Dallas officials say
- The “It’s Normal to be Normal” child sexual abuse study
- The passing of House Congressional Resolution 72 which places child safety as a priority in child custody cases
- The Holt v. Holt case in Maryland where the abusive Air Force Colonel father won custody over the children and ignored evidence of abuse
- An illustration of Child Justice’s phrase: “It’s Worse to Accuse than to Abuse” in the Holt case: Failure To Protect: Air Force Handling Of Colonel’s Child Sex Assault Charges Raises Questions
- The Nicholas Bala study that shows that the rate of father’s reporting false abuse is 16x higher than mothers
- Joan Meier’s (of DV LEAP) research on how courts view allegations of domestic abuse, child abuse or child sexual abuse
- The use of “junk science” or “Parental Alienation” theories by abusers as a defense against allegations of domestic violence or child abuse
- Resources that address how “Parental Alienation“ is used to discredit allegations of abuse in custody cases
- The use of the Frye/Daubert standards to challenge the admissibility of “parental alienation” in courts as an attack against abuse allegations
- Dr. Daniel Saunders’ DOJ report on Child Custody Evaluators’ Beliefs About Domestic Abuse Allegations: Their Relationship
to Evaluator Demographics, Background, Domestic Violence Knowledge and Custody Visitation Recommendations - Deborah Epstein’s research on how judges misunderstood survivors in court in her paper: “Discounting Credibility: Doubting the Testimony and Dismissing the Experiences of Domestic Violence Survivors and Other Women“
- ACEs” or Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma impacts on children
- The “Cinderella myth” and its harms
- The Deborah Epstein interview with NPR about the NFL’s culture of misogyny
- The Hunting Ground documentary of campus sexual assault and rape
- Excerpts from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
- The concept of “coverture” and how women were considered the “property” or chattel of their husband
- Eve Ensler’s post: “A Letter to White Women Who Support Brett Kavanaugh”
- Lady Gaga’s comments on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert about trauma from sexual assault in reference to the Kavanaugh Hearings
- How CAN they say I abducted my own daughter? Heartbreak of British mothers forced to send their children abroad… to foreign fathers exploiting international child abduction laws in custody battles
- BBC World interview, October 12, 2017
- The link to the non-profit Anita co-founded–Global Action on Relocation and Return with Kids (Global Arrk)
- The arrest and conviction of Chris Watts for the murder of his pregnant wife and two kids
- The Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzalez Supreme Court Case which effectively interpreted restraining orders are not mandatory to enforce
- The organization, Peace Over Violence, that provided services to Caitlin
- Why domestic violence advocates find presumptive shared parenting dangerous for survivors, and a more detailed analysis by the Battered Women’s Justice Project
- Joint custody presumptions and domestic violence exceptions, by state
- Joan Meier’s study on how court view domestic violence and child abuse claims
- News article titled, “Law was meant to let American Indians prosecute violence; is it working?“
- The Radiolab episode on consent: “In the No: Part 1“
- The share of female CEOs in Fortune 500 companies
- Why men don’t want “pink-collar” women done mostly by women and how their wives are partly to blame, and how employers can make their job ads less “feminine-sounding” to appeal more to men
Episode 35: #SurvivorStories Series with Maria Santiago on the impact of childhood domestic violence
- NYS’s Statute of Limitations (SOL) on Child Sexual Abuse. Since the interview, NYS has passed the Child Victim’s Act, extending the SOL on child sexual abuse crimes to age 28 in criminal cases, and 50 in civil cases. Under the previous law, once a sex abuse victim turns 18, he or she has five years to report the crime to law enforcement officials.
- Eve Ensler’s “A Letter to White Women Who Support Brett Kavanaugh” on her own child sexual abuse
- “The startling toll on children who witness domestic violence is just now being understood” in USA Today
- The work of Dr. Doug Drossman on the link between chronic pain and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- “Violence against women and the perinatal period: The impact of lifetime violence and abuse on pregnancy, postpartum, and breastfeeding.” Trauma, Violence and Abuse,” 8(3), 344-353, by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, 2007.
- American Academy of Pediatric’s Guidelines on Breastfeeding
- “The bottle-feeding culture is alive and well: Lessons from stock photo sites,” Clinical Lactation, 7(2), 45-47, by Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, 2016.
- “The health effects of childhood abuse: Four pathways by which abuse can influence health,” Child Abuse & Neglect, 6/7, 715-730, 2002.
- The origins of the Adverse Childhood Experiences study and the connection between child sexual abuse and obesity
- Trevor Noah on Getting Pulled Over in America versus honking at a police officer in South Africa
- Frequency of child sexual abuse through RAINN
- Vox article on whether and if you can separate the artist from the art titled, “What do we do when the art we love was created by a monster?“
- Backlash on Terry Crews for his sexual abuse claims
- Teri’s post about an apology video from women to men titled, “It’s Authentic Gaslighting–Not Authentic Love“
- Teri’s blog post on the spectrum of abuse and accountability
- New York Times article titled, “No Time for Bullies: Baboons Retool Their Culture” about the effects of an accidental matriarchal culture on the society of baboons