coercive control

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…

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Episode 119: #SurvivorStories Series with “Sophia” on navigating the intersection of gender and race in healthcare

On this en(gender)ed #SurvivorStories series episode, our guest is Sophia, an African-American woman and public school teacher.  Sophia shares with us today her experiences as a woman of color navigating the health care industry, one which we discussed in Episode 117 with Jennifer Block, treats symptoms of illness, often they create through inadequate treatment, rather…

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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…

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Episode 108: Feminism in the Age of COVID-19 Conference on Domestic Violence

On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, we broadcast the recorded panel between Jillian Foster, Fariba Nawa, and Teri Yuan on feminism and domestic violence during COVID.  The episode was recorded live on June 12, 2020 for the Feminism in the Age of COVID Conference series and is co-produced by the Continuum Collective, the Engendered…

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Episode 106: en(gender)ed Reflections Anniversary Episode

In this “Reflections” episode,Teri and Michael reflect back on two years and 100 episodes of en(gender)ed–a feminist podcast, a domestic violence and domestic abuse podcast, and a gender-based violence podcast.  We look back on what we’ve learned, what questions remain, and how we’d like to get there.

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