On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Dawn Elizabeth Wilcox, a domestic violence survivor, activist and educator. Dawn has been working as a registered nurse for 23 years and runs Women Count USA, a national database that compiles data on femicides in the United States. Â Dawn began this project in 2017 out of her…
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Todayâs guest is Dorchen Leidholdt, the Legal Director of the NYC domestic violence agency, Sanctuary for Families. Â In her main role, Dorchen heads the agencyâs legal services for survivors of gender-based violence, including providing support for obtaining orders of protection, immigration, sex trafficking. In addition to this important work, Dorchen also leads the âIncarcerated Gender…
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A therapist friend recently shared the below video with me. While I was watching with her, I couldnât help but pepper my viewing with angry interruptions to correct, challenge and/or contextualize their broad brush strokes that essentially rendered women responsible for patriarchal oppression against men. From Authentic Love Berlin For those of us who…
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On this #SurvivorStories series episode, our guest is Sarah Strong, a protective parent and survivor of domestic violence and coercive control, a fitness instructor, a power lifter, and a health advocate. Â Sarah talks about her whirlwind romance with her ex-husband whom she met in March 2016, married three months later in June 2016, and divorced…
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Iâm a fan of TV family dramas, from Parenthood, to Party of Five, to Little House and to, of course, NBCâs This is Us. On yesterdayâs episode of This is Us, fans of the show got an in depth look at one of the main characterâs childhood back storyâââPhylicia Rashad make her debut as Bethâs mother, a story line that foreshadows…
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