On todayâs episode, our guest is TatĂ© Walker, a Lakota citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota. They are a banner-waving Two Spirit feminist, Indigenous rights activist, and a published and award-winning storyteller for outlets like Everyday Feminism, Feminist Humanist Alliance, Native Peoples magazine, and Indian Country Today. TatĂ© uses their 15…
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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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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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This is the fifth “Reflections” episode where I examine a series of interviews with my friend, Michael. He joins me as we reflect back on episodes 25 (âBrock Turner for Prisonâ Facebook Group Founders on Rape Culture & #MeToo), 26 (Tammy Cho, Co-Founder of Better Brave on Workplace Harassment and Discrimination),  27 (Council Member Jennifer Gates on…
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On this episode of en(gender)ed, we have two guests, Maria Mayo and Nadia Dawisha, co-founders of the online group called âBrock Turner for Prison.â Â Maria is a survivor of rape and domestic violence as well as a practicing attorney who proposed a class on âSexual Violence and the Law” when she attended law school). Â Nadia…
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