womens rights

QAnon is Right to Be Afraid for Children — but Not in the Way You Think

How family court has become complicit in child trafficking For all the talk about child trafficking the conspiracy group QAnon does, you would think they would do a little research and use their platform to actually help children. No, there are no child sex dungeons in the basement of pizzerias. Democrats are not running child…

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This Country Doesn’t Really Care About Children

To do so, we must first care about women I’ve not been watching the confirmation hearings because I’ve had my share of it back in the 1990s when I was first exposed to the double excoriation of Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearings, where Senate Republicans weaponized both race and gender against her to secure…

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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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Top Podcasts Lists!

It was such a delight to discover that en(gender)ed appeared on not one, but two best podcast recommendations list this week! Feminist, sustainability, and environmental justice organization, WEN, recommended en(gender)ed as a “COVID-19 top podcast“ along with other familiar sister podcasts, including Amanda Laird’s Heavy Flow Podcast.  We did a podcast swap back in 2018…

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Episode 81: #SurvivorStories Series with Aneri Shah–on gender roles and how her Indian-American identity impacted her #MeToo experience

On this #SurvivorStories series episode, our guest is Aneri Shah, founder of the Matriarchy,an organization that envisions that all genders can come together to discuss gender-based violence, its causes and its impact, in order to effect positive policy change.  Aneri speaks with us today about growing up first generation American, gender roles, and how her…

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