On today’s episode, our guest is Taté 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. Taté uses their 15…
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Today’s guest is Dorchen Leidholdt, the Legal Director of the NYC domestic violence agency, Sanctuary for Families. In her main role, Dorchen heads the agency’s 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 “Incarcerated Gender…
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I’m a fan of TV family dramas, from Parenthood, to Party of Five, to Little House and to, of course, NBC’s This is Us. On yesterday’s episode of This is Us, fans of the show got an in depth look at one of the main character’s childhood back story — Phylicia Rashad make her debut as Beth’s 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 (“Brock Turner for Prison” 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 “Brock Turner for Prison.” Maria is a survivor of rape and domestic violence as well as a practicing attorney who proposed a class on “Sexual Violence and the Law” when she attended law school). Nadia…
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