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3 Women 3 Ways radio shows feature world recognized experts and researchers to deliver current, objective and engaging information to raise awareness of social justice issues especially gendered violence and equality.
More than 100 indiginous people are missing in Washington State; other states are also plagued with high numbers. The Washington State Patrol has created a task force specifically to help locate and get answers to the epidemic of missing men and women.More than 100 indiginous people are missing in Washington State; other states are also plagued with high numbers. The Washington State Patrol has created a task force specifically to help locate and get answers to the epidemic of missing men and women.
Join us as members of the task force describe the problems, the obstacles and the stories of the efforts to locate the many missing.
Available online at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways. Available on demand after 04/01/2022.
Women make up 51% of the US population, yet only 31% of elected officials are women. So why the disparity?
Well, as any woman who has run for office can tell you, there are a number of barriers and obstacles standing in the way for women who throw their hats in the ring. Money, support, personal obligations, campaigning, exposure...the list goes on and on. A number of organizations have formed in the last couple of years to help One of them is League of Our Own Washington.
Executive Director Kaitlin Vintertun heads up the relatively new League based just north of Seattle, WA. She explains the supports the group offers women who not only want to run now, but who are contemplating it in the future. During their first year they had 70 potential candidates participate in trainings, coaching sessions, and educational programs with supporters and experienced candidates, with most running for school boards, city councils, an dother critical local positions. Most educational experiences are provided by volunteer coaches, former candidates and supporters from speech experts to empathetic listeners to someone to just cook a dinner for the candidate as she goes through the experience.
Join us as we talk about women in government and what is to be learned and gained from running for office .
TEN MEN: A RHODE ISLAND ENGAGEMENT GROUP
The domestic violence movement has grown and changed over the last 30 years, and perhaps one of the more interesting developments over that time, has been the efforts to engage men in the fight against the violence. The Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RIADV) has found one way to encourage this is to annually recruit men in the community to advocate for the Coalition and against domestic violence. The Ten Men program combines education, media, and ongoing engagement to create a continually growing, dedicated cadre of men.
Krista D'Amico is the Director of Prevention at the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV), and Lucy Rios, is deputy director there. D’Amico coordinates initiatives to prevent intimate partner violence before it starts while Rios coordinates prevention-focused strategies funded through various iterations of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention DELTA Programs, creating notable initiatives to mobilize bystanders such as Ten Men.
Join us as both women talk about the Ten Men program and the success it has achieved in Rhode Island.
WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH PERPETRATOR TREATMENT?
After a domestic violence arrest, perpetrators are often ordered into treatment by the courts. Treatment? That implies there is a cure. Or does it? Turns out treatment is not the panacea we would hope it is, but it may do some good.
The discussion around the effectiveness of intimate partner abuser treatment is one that has been going on for a while. Does treatment help or not? The answer isn’t so simple.
Just as there are different types of perpetrators, there are also different types of and approaches to treatment. Christopher Murphy, PhD, psychology professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County, and director of a counselling program for domestic violence offenders, has spent most of his career studying perpetrators and the strategies and programs used to treat them.
Join us as we discuss the benefits and failures of treatment, who goes to treatment, and some of the innovative approaches to treating these perpetrators.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, March 20, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
HOW ONE POLICE DEPARTMENT RESPONDS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
You’ve seen it on the news, perhaps heard of friends or even experienced it yourself – the domestic incident call to police. We know bits and pieces, but chances are, unless you’ve experienced it personally, you don’t really know what happens after that call.
What happens when police arrive? Is it really as dangerous as they say? How do the police figure out what really happened in the midst of “he-said-she-said?”
Jennifer Bartak is a police sergeant for the Town of Deerfield, Massachusetts who specializes in sexual assault investigations. She is the liaison to the High-Risk Domestic Violence Offender Team with the Northwestern District Attorney’s office. She holds a BA degree in Social-Services in Criminal Justice from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
She knows very intimately what goes on when the police arrive. She shares with us, step by step, the actions, the questions and the concerns of police who handle domestic violence calls.
Join us as we talk about the police response to intimate partner violence.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, March 13, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
COERCIVE CONTROL: NO BROKEN BONES BUT VIOLENCE, NEVERTHELESS
Isolation, entrapment, stalking, mind games, withholding, degrading…all are the strategies and the weapons of the perpetrator in debilitating and controlling relationships. The coercive control the abuser uses can create as much damage and victimization as the physical assaults often experienced in domestic violence.
Lisa Aronson Fontes PhD is a senior lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is published in PsychologyToday.com and DomesticShelters.org. She is the author of four popular books including one on coercive control: “Invisible Chains, Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship.”
Join us as she describes the types of coercive control, the severity and frequency of its use, and why abusers inflict this type of violence on victims.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, March 6, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
MURDER CHARGES AFTER A STILL BIRTH: A FIGHT ON BEHALF OF WOMEN
How terrible to deliver a still born, full term baby. Imagine the grief. Now imagine that immediately after, police arrest you and you spend the next 15 months jailed and charged with murder of that child.
That is what happened to a California woman, and she isn’t the first who has been persecuted for losing a child. Women all across the country are facing such a threat, and one organization, the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, is working to provide legal advocacy for them.
Samantha Lee is a staff attorney for the NAPW. She earned a degree in International Human rights and then graduated from NYU law school, served as a public defender representing parents accused of neglect or abuse and his working on cases like that of the California women.
Join us as we discuss particular cases, what motivates a prosecutor to pursue such charges, and what the implications are for not only pregnant women, but for all of us.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, February 27, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
When a victime has to leave a domestic violence situation, that departure is often hindered because of abusers' threats to animals, or because the victim doesn't want to leave pets behind. It's a real problem. But one organization, Redrover, is working with that problem and creating safe solutions all across the US and Canada.
Nicole Forsyth is President and CEO of RedRover, a nonprofit that helps bring animals from crisis to care, including in domestic violence cases. The three main programs of RedRover help people and animals in crisis, whether that is a natural disaster or a DV problem. This includes working with shelters to learn how to accommodate animals and the humans who need help. The organization also has a program for children designed to reinforce the human-animal bond and emotions. The group also helps with resources for animal medical care.
Forsythe authored an interactive digital book and game as part of the RedRover Readers program. She has a Master of Science in Animal Biology and Welfaree, and another masters in Communication and she shares he experience helping animals and their people in this episode of 3 Women 3 Ways.
SEXUAL ASSAULT ADVOCACY AND EDUCATION OVER DECADES
COVID is causing upswings in domestic violence and sexual assault. True or false? How has the response to sexual assault changed? How do we view prevention and what does that mean today?
Mary Ellen Stone, Executive Director who has headed Washington State’s King County Sexual Assault Resource Center has worked as a leader in changing the landscape of sexual assault prevention, education and victim advocacy for nearly 40 years. Who better to talk about effective and innovative services for victims of sexual and domestic assault?
Join us as we look at how perceptions of sexual assault and advocacy have changed and where they are headed in the future. And learn whether COVID has played a part in that change.
Join us as we talk family courts, abusers, child custody and the reality of domestic violence and the courts. Airing for the first time, Saturday, November 7, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
The horror stories about domestic violence, divorce, child custody and the too- often devastating decisions handed down in family court abound. This week's show features a retired judge who advocates and teaches about how abusers use the court system, and many of his insignts and experiences shed some light on what happens in courts when abusers use the courts to further abuse their victims.
Judge Eugene Hyman served 20 years on the Superior court in the Criminal, Family, Juvenile, and Probate divisions of the Court. The Juvenile Domestic and Family Violence Court began in 1999 and is believed to be the first such court in the US. It received the United Nations Public Service Award in 2008. Assitionally, he has taught Domestic Violence related subjects in Canada, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, besides in the US.
Join us as we talk family courts, abusers, child custody and the reality of domestic violence and the courts.
Human trafficking is a problem affecting women and girls throughout the world, but it is a woman right here in the United States who shares her experiences, her trauma and, significantly, her recovery.
Siobhan Bennett has been CEO of a national political advancement organization, is the former head of a Washington DC organization working to get women elected to office and is currently chief strategic officer for a legal defense and education nonprofit. That’s her professional background. Her personal background includes having been trafficked, getting out of that experience, and her life-long recovery. She sees her role today as one of educating and giving hope to others
Join us as we look at human trafficking, its prevalence, and its repercussions.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FROM A POLICE PERSPECTIVE
We hear from lawyers, judges, victims, advocates and even ministers about domestic violence, but how often do we hear from police officers about their understanding of domestic violence, it's perpetrators and victims, and its prosecution?
Lt. Mark Wynn (ret), a former police officer and member of a SWAT team for 15 years, author of police Officer Standards and Training curriculum, and key creator of the largest police domestic violence investigative unit in the US joiins us to talk about the history of police response in the US, how current dissatisfaction with police culture in general may affect domestic violence response, whether changes will impact women of color more negatively, and how US police treatment of domestic violence compares with responses in other countries. Wynn, a Fulbright Specialist for the Department of State and a survivor of DV himself, has spent the last 20 years teaching police forces around the world about handling DV and he has done so with personal experience, sensitivity, enthusiasm and the support of researchers, advocates and founders of the battered women's movement.
ABUSED MOTHERS AND CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
It is no surprise that children suffer in intimate partner abuse situations. Neither is it a surprise that some of those children are taken into care by child protective services. One group of researchers decided to take a look at the mothers in some of these situations and compare those who had children taken away, either temporarily or permanently, with those who did not. The results were revealing, to say the least.
Leslie M. Tutty, PhD, professor emerita from the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary, shares some of the findings from the study that looked at more than 600 women over four years and discovered some commonalities when children were taken away. Dr. Tutty has done extensive research into services for domestic violence, not only for abused women, but also treatment for adult and child victims of sexual abuse, and even groups for men who are perpetrators. She is widely published and has authored and edited textbooks for social workers as well as journal articles.
Join us as we look at abused mothers’ mental health, how they protect their children, and what stands out among those who have had their children taken into care by CPS.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, June 20, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
CYBER VIOLENCE: MANY WAYS, MANY MOTIVES
We have all heard of cyber bullying, but that is just one way trolls, misogynists, criminals and crazies can use the internet to target, harass, threaten, shame and terrorize their unfortunate victims.
Who are the perpetrators and who do they target? What are the negative effects of these assaults? And what are we doing about it?
Emma Louise Backe is a PhD candidate at George Washington University who is doing research into the politics and nature of care and justice for survivors. She has been a rape crisis advocate and community educator, and she is a gender consultant in the international community.
Join us as we discuss the research into cyber violence, the reactions to it, and the impacts on victims and society.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, May 23, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
VICTIMS’ ADVOCATES: WHO, WHERE AND WHAT?
Relatively unnoticed by the general population during the pandemic news and focus was the April observation of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. Among those who paid attention to the event were crime victim advocates, especially Anne Seymour, an advocate for 36 years.
So what does a crime victim advocate do? And when did that become a thing, anyway?
Seymour, who practically invented the job, started by becoming involved at a grass roots level with Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, and when she found herself in the White House watching then President Regan as he began the focus on victim’s rights, she decided this was the path she would take. And taken it she has. She Director of the Fairness, Dignity And Respect for Crime Victims and Survivors Project and is the consultant to the Pew Charitable Trusts Public Safety Performance Project. She’s developed training and assistance programs, authored books and studies and even helped develop curricula for training advocates.
Join us as we discuss the concept of victims’ rights, the creation of task forces and agencies to help those affected by crime, the implementation of policy at all levels to see such help is available, and the people who have stepped forward to assist such victims.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, May 6, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
“SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH HER” IS A RED FLAG FOR BRAIN DAMAGE
Those who work with intimate partner violence victims know how frequently strangulation shows up as an issue. What has not been as well known is how often that strangulation results in long-term brain damage.
A recent study by researchers at Ohio State University revealed the prevalence of such brain damage, how often that damage is not recognized, and how frequently the results are interpreted as unrelated mental health issues.
Rachel Ramirez, founder and director of The Center on Partner Inflicted Brain Injury, talks about the study and what it means for providing help for victims of domestic violence. Ramirez co-authored “Trauma-Informed Approaches: Promising Practices and Protocols for Ohio’s Domestic Violence Programs,” as well as several academic journal articles. She is a bilingual licensed independent social worker with graduate degrees and is a registered advocate with senior standing in Ohio.
Join us as we discuss the prevalence and long-term brain damage resulting from domestic violence.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, May 9, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
A SURVIVOR, A MOTHER, AND A WOMEN’S COALITION
Cindy Dumas and her son Damon went through hell when Damon was court ordered into the custody of his father who was sexually abusing him. After fighting for years, Damon finally was able to gain his emancipation at age 16. But that didn’t end the fight for either Cindy or Damon. They have continued the battle to save kids from bad court decisions. They have created the Women’s Coalition International.
The Coalition educates and lobbies about the conditions for children in US family courts, and is working to enact the Child Custody Act.
Join us as we discuss courts, custody, how we got this way and how a new system needs to provide due process for parents as well as uphold the best interests of children.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, April 18, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
WHAT’S A SHELTER TO DO? HELPING DURING A HEALTH CRISIS
Everyone is inconvenienced by the restrictions due to the COVID-19 situation but there’s inconvenience and then there’s danger. When abuse is already there, confinement with an abuser escalates all danger and trauma. DC Safe, a Washington, DC service for abuse victims, has had to ratchet up support, create new ways to help and do it all with limited funds and challenged staff.
So how are they, and hundreds of other organizations, helping victims?
Kylie Hogan, Crisis Intervention Team Director, supervises a staff of 11 including response line and on call programming. She also covers the Lethality Assessment Project. Over the last few weeks, she and her staff have had to adapt to new demands, remote counseling, and serving even more people than they were serving before.
Join us as Kylie discusses how she and her 11 staff members are coping, how things have changed, and how they are making it work despite pandemics and cancelled fundraisers.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, April 11, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
GENDERED VIOLENCE IN THE TIME OF PANDEMIC
Intimate partner violence and abuse are bad enough but made so much worse by the world-wide pandemic and the restrictions everyone faces now. What is going on and how are we coping?
Seattle’s Susan Segall, director of New Beginnings, a multi-service organization dedicated to helping survivors, explains what’d different now for victims and survivors, and how her organization is working to help those in need despite viruses and restrictions. Segall has more than 35 years of experience in organizations that focus on gender-based violence, reproductive rights, peace and social justice.
Join us as we talk about the effect of COVID-19 on isolation, custody and court issues, support services and more.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, April 4, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
UC DENVER’S PROGRAM ON GENDERED VIOLENCE
Once upon a time, a small group of women had a vision about how to change the world to make women safe from domestic violence so they got a grant and they set about convincing a university that such a course of study was worthy and necessary. It wasn’t easy, but they did it. And this year the program that developed from that vision celebrates 20 years and dozens of graduates and developing programs to fit an even broader vision.
Join originator and Director of the Center on Domestic Violence at the School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver, Barbara Paradiso, as we talk about the beginnings of the innovative department, it’s progression over two decades, and what lays ahead for the program and its graduates, and its mission to serve victims and survivors of gender-based violence by supporting solid leadership, advancing innovative research, and nurturing community collaboration.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, February 8, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
REFORMING FAMILY COURTS
There are too many stories about dangerous and ridiculous custody determinations that occur in America’s family courts. From children who are sent to live with abusers to children who are killed because the courts determine their killer should not be kept from seeing the child—the stories abound. So what are we doing about it? And who is doing it?
Meet Danielle Pollack, Ambasador, Child USA, Family Court Reform, author of Kayden’s Law, and tireless worker to change what happens to children in family court, and Marcie Hamilton, CEO of Child USA, attorney, and constitutional law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Whether drafting and promoting new laws in states, to educating judges, to speaking out about legal and systemic changes that are necessary in courts, Pollack is dedicated to making things safer for kids.
Join us as Pollack details cases and potential laws, shares the latest thinking about educating judges and other decision makers, and advocates for protective mothers.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, January 25, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
KAYDEN’S LAW: EFFORTS TO STOP CUSTODY DECISION DEATHS
Seven-year-old Kayden died at her father’s hands because a judge disregarded the father’s threats of violence against her mother. As is the case too many times, the justice system failed this child because the judge created a false equivalency between parents, one of whom was violent.
And Kayden paid the price of that. So where is the uproar and public demand that the legal system get smarter?
Efforts in Pennsylvania are centered around Kayden’s Law- proposed legislation that would prohibit custody decisions likely to lead to tragic outcomes like Kayden’s.
Melanie Blow, with the Stop Abuse Campaign, joins us to explain what Kayden’s Law would mean, how it will improve custody decisions, and how similar efforts are going on all around the country.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, December 28, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
DOES THE U.S. JUSTICE SYSTEM FAVOR OF RAPISTS?
According to a recent article being widely circulated on the internet, all signs point to the US response to sexual abuse as being dramatically leaning in favor of sex offenders.
That is according to Barry Goldstein, advocate, author, and champion of fighting gender bias in the courts.
Goldstein reports in www.stopabusecampaign.org that the flawed practices of the US justice system result in that justice treating victims unfairly and allowing privilege to perpetrators. He argues that the requirement for corroboration, the mistaken idea that women falsely report sexual crimes, and lack of using expert witnesses, among other problems, creates injustice, bias and contributes to the great and escalating costs of sexual crimes to our society.
Join Barry as we discuss gendered crimes, prosecutor misconceptions and more that lead to a system that favors rapists.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, December 7, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
CALIFORNIA PROTECTIVE PARENTS ASSOCIATION: EDUCATING AND ADVOCATING FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
What started as a park bench conversation about protective parents losing their children to abusers in family courts has evolved into an organization that is making nationally renowned progress in working to eliminate the problem.
Catherine Campbell is the Executive Director of the California Protective Parent Association (CPPA), a group which has created awareness through research and education and is holding court officials accountable for decisions and behaviors that are harming children.
As a protective parent with a marketing & communications background Campbell is at the forefront of the movement. She has worked with congressional members on both sides of the aisles to help pass this child safety resolution in 2018 in the U.S. House of Representatives. In California she has helped build awareness to see the passing of Piqui’s Resolution (HR113), worked with Center for Judicial Excellence to bring an audit forward for the California Commission on Judicial Performance which is the first ever audit in their nearly 60 year history and meet with CA legislatures to update laws for DV and child safety. Join us as Campbell explains the organization, what necessitated its development, and how it is making an impact across the country.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, November 9, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
SAFE AND TOGETHER INSTITUTE:
The intersection of domestic violence and child maltreatment is easy to see for anyone who works with families, yet often judges or child protective services seem to ignore the connections.
But not the Safe and Together Institute.
The organization is dedicated to educating agencies about the creating domestic-violence informed child welfare systems and agencies, all to support the safety and well-being of survivors. And a crucial component of the program is being specific about abusive behaviors and perpetrators.
Find out how judges, family courts, and child protection organizations react to such education, and how it may be changing the way courts operate all across the United States. Join Heidi Rankin, an Associate Director with the Safe & Together Institute, as we examine how this approach could be helping all victims.
Airing for the first time, Saturday, November 2, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
GUNS AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: THE FACTS
A million women alive today have been shot or shot at in intimate partner violence situations.
Gun ownership, gun rights, gun violence…all are different when we are talking domestic violence.
Rachel Graber, Director of Public Policy for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, shares the statistics, the research, and the background about guns and DV. Laws vary from state to state about gun confiscation, criminal background checks, and protective orders, but the facts are staggering: more than four million women have been threatened by guns by abusers. An equally staggering number of women and children have been killed.
Join us for the conversation about gun violence and DV.
Airing Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 11 AM Pacific time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
When a mother flees her homeland for another country trying to escape abuse and ensure safety, the journey is not easy. Amid the pain of escaping home, friends, family and hopefully, danger, is the fear of the unknown, the uncertainty of the future, and in many cases, the discovery and further victimization the mother was trying to get away from.
In a return interview, Suzanne Lichau gives an update on her daughter and grandson who fled the US after family courts here refused to protect the child from the father. The two sought asylum in Costa Rica, and although they were granted asylum, and the courts there took the sexual assault accusations seriously, they are still dragging their feet on the case. And worst of all, mother and child have been separated for months.
Join us as we get an update of this case and the safety of the child.
COERCIVE CONTROL: ONE WOMAN’S JOURNEY
We hear the term “coercive control” but how many of us really understand what it means? How pervasive is it? How damaging is it to the victims?
Min Grob is a resident of Bristol, England, and she not only lived with coercive control, she also came to understand it, escape it, and develop programs to educate about it and fight it. But she still struggles with the residue of the experience even as she works to do something positive about the problem.
Join us as we talk about one woman’s journey through this insidious form of intimate partner abuse.
Airing for the first time Saturday, August 17 at 11 AM Pacific time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
ABUSIVE DADS: HOW THEY PERCEIVE THEIR FATHERING
When we talk about abusive dads, we talk about them in relation to how they treat their partners, how they make excuses, how the courts treat them. Rarely do we talk about how they actually perceive themselves as fathers.
Turns out there are some real twists there.
Henning Mohaupt, clinical psychologist, researcher, and PhD Candidate at Oslo University, did a study of physically abusive men and how they think of themselves as dads. You might be surprised at what Mohaupt found out, not only about how they see themselves, but also about how they come to think that way.
Join us as we discuss how men who abuse experience their parenting.
GENDER AND THE LAW
Do you think of women and law only when it comes to family law, reproductive rights, domestic violence and employment? Most folks always have thought that these are the only areas of law of particular interest to women. But Katherine Bartlett, professor of law at Duke, thinks otherwise.
She says that genderedness affects all areas of the law, and that the way it is structured legitimatizes inequality and oppression.
Bartlett teaches family law, employment discrimination law, gender and law, and contracts; and publishes widely in the fields of family law, gender theory, employment law, theories of social change, and legal education. She is coauthor of the leading casebook in the area of gender law.
Find out what she has to say about the law, where it’s been, where it is going, and what gender has to do with it all.
JUDGE ORDERS BOY INTO FATHER'S CUSTODY DESPITE "PENIS GAMES"
If you were the one making the decision, would you order a small boy who told authorities that daddy played the “penis game” with him, and who then went on to sexually act out with is playmates and school friends, to live with his abuser?
Because it happens a lot. And in the case of Suzanne Lichau’s grandson, it led to her daughter’s fleeing to another country with the child. But that can’t even guarantee safety. What’s going on here?
Join Suzanne and domestic violence expert and advocate Barry Goldstein as we discuss her grandson’s specific case, and the system that allows this to happen.
Airing for the first time Saturday, July 13 at 11 AM Pacific time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT, ONE IDIOT FAMILY, AND ONE WOMAN WHO TOLD THE TALE
Kathy Picard was pleased when her step father started showing her some special attention – until that attention became twisted and threatening. She lived with a nightmare with no help from the family members she told, no relief from the burden of what was happening to her. Even when she grew up and got away, there was no relief to be had from the law, because the statute of limitations was up.
So she fought to change they law. Then she fought to get justice. And then she wrote a book about it.
Picard is the author of “Life with My Idiot Family: A True Story of Survival, Courage and Justice over Childhood Sexual Abuse,” and she tells her story with grace, humor, and a conviction that it all led to a good life today.
Join us as we talk with Kathy about the book, her life, the law and the way she turned a horrific experience into a story of strength, hope and happiness.
Airing Saturday, June 29, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
GUNS AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: THE FACTS
A million women alive today have been shot or shot at in intimate partner violence situations.
Gun ownership, gun rights, gun violence…all are different when we are talking domestic violence.
Rachel Graber, Director of Public Policy for the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, shares the statistics, the research, and the background about guns and DV. Laws vary from state to state about gun confiscation, criminal background checks, and protective orders, but the facts are staggering: more than four million women have been threatened by guns by abusers. An equally staggering number of women and children have been killed.
Join us for the conversation about gun violence and DV.
Airing for the first time Saturday, June 22 at 11 AM Pacific time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
Guns are evil and should be heavily controlled. US citizens have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Young people’s greatest fears right now are school shootings. No one needs a gun. Domestic violence perpetrators must have their guns confiscated for safety of the victims.
All the arguments, all the laws, all the rhetoric. Is it possible to have a rational, unbiased conversation about guns?
Dave Workman, writer, journalist and advocate for several guns rights organizations, including the Second Amendment Foundation, joins us as we discuss litigation, education, misconceptions and the state of the world in general.
Airing for the first time Saturday, June 1 at 11 AM Pacific time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
SAY SHE’S CRAZY AND WATCH THE COURTS IGNORE VIOLENCE AGAINST HER
“She’s crazy, delusional, mentally ill (now that she’s divorcing me, but before she was just fine).”
Funny how that seems to be the song abusers, judges, psychologists and other experts sing in divorce and custody battles. What’s with the gendered language, the pop psychology and, yes, let’s call it like it is – the ridiculous sexism that rears their ugly heads with regularity in our family courts? And why are so many people buying it?
Suzanne Zaccour is a feminist author, activist and researcher doing a PhD in law at Oxford University. Her research interests include family law, rape law, domestic violence and non-sexist language. Her latest book, La fabrique du viol (Leméac 2019) tackles the social and political issues with rape culture after #MeToo.
She’s made it her business to look at the language and the prejudices in the language that is used in family courts, and she joins us to discuss how language is used to discredit, vilify, and penalize women in divorce and custody cases.
WHY DO PEOPLE BLAME THE VICTIM?
We hear the expression. “blaming the victim,” but do we really know what that means? Or why we do it?
Sherry Hamby, PhD, has made it her business to study victim blaming. Hamby is Director of the Life Paths Research Center and founder of ResilienceCon. She’s also a professor of Psychology at the University of the South, and has written more than 200 articles and books. Her research into poly-victimization, measuring violence and resilience earned her the 2017 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Science of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association.
Join us as we discuss blaming the victim.
Airing for the first time Saturday, May 4, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
A CRITIQUE OF CNN COVERAGE OF FAMILY COURT
What’s worse than judges and guardians ad litem who don’t understand domestic violence and child custody? How about a major national media reporter who purports to cover custody and abuse issues without ever doing an investigation into both sides of the issue?
When CNN features a show about fathers and custody, how can they ignore the experts, the research and the real victims and instead broadcast a show that perpetrates myths, misleads millions, and potentially damages children and protective parents?
That’s the issue Barry Goldstein, author and former attorney, and Maralee Mclean, author and victim advocate hash out on this latest show. Join us as we discuss journalism, objectivity, reliable research, court trends and supposedly objective reporting that is anything buy.
Airing Saturday, April 27, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
WORKPLACE PESTS: IDIOPATHIC MUTUAL IRRITANTS
You probably know about those pesky people at work, but do you know about Idiopathic Mutual Irritation.
Louise Penberthy does, and she can give advice to all of us on how to deal with both.
Penberthy started mediating in 2002, and over the years since then, she's observed many things about people, their needs, what gets them into conflict, and what helps get them out. Sometimes there's no obvious reason why two people don't get along; sometimes, it's what she calls Idiopathic Mutual Irritation, which is the subject and jumping off point for this podcast. Since 2018, Louise has been working as a program coordinator at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle. She's also a speaker and software developer.
Airing for the first time Saturday, February 2, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
FAMILY COURT FROM A SUPREME COURT CANDIDATE’S VIEW
So how do family courts work and why are they often such a mess? What constitutional issues do they raise? Who’s to blame when the system runs roughshod over the best interests of children? Who knows? Well, long-term attorney and candidate for the Louisiana Supreme Court Richard Ducote has a pretty good idea.
Ducote has dedicated his professional and his personal life to advocating for women and children who have been abused by domestic violence and sexual assault, and then been further abused by the courts. Listen as this legal veteran discusses what’s wrong with family courts, what we can do about it, and how a position on the Supreme Court of Louisiana could effect improvement in the system.
Airing for the first time Saturday, March 30, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
THE TRUTHS ABOUT CUSTODY AND FATHERS’ RIGHTS
What are the truths about child custody, fathers’ rights, and how did we get here?
Guest Doreen Ludwig, author, advocate and researcher, focuses on the impact of federal fatherhood initiatives on custody determinations. Has the situation changed from past decades, and if so, how? And Why? And where did the funding come from?
So many questions, but research is available and Ludwig shares it with us.
Learn about the money, the studies, the government actions that have led to custody outcomes in family courts around the country. You might be surprised.
Airing for the first time Saturday, March 16, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT, ONE IDIOT FAMILY, AND ONE WOMAN WHO TOLD THE TALE
Kathy Picard was pleased when her step father started showing her some special attention – until that attention became twisted and threatening. She lived with a nightmare with no help from the family members she told, no relief from the burden of what was happening to her. Even when she grew up and got away, there was no relief to be had from the law, because the statute of limitations was up.
So she fought to change they law. Then she fought to get justice. And then she wrote a book about it.
Picard is the author of “Life with My Idiot Family: A True Story of Survival, Courage and Justice over Childhood Sexual Abuse,” and she tells her story with grace, humor, and a conviction that it all led to a good life today.
Join us as we talk with Kathy about the book, her life, the law and the way she turned a horrific experience into a story of strength, hope and happiness.
Airing for the first time Saturday, March 9, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
AMBITIOUS OR TRAUMATIZED: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN OVERWORK AND PAST TRAUMA
Experiencing trauma can lead to all sorts of negative consequences but did you realize that it might lead to work addiction?
Research is sparse, but anecdotal evidence is there, and some therapists see a connection. Could a workaholic – someone who overworks to the detriment of all other areas of life – really be self-medicating to deal with the bad stuff he or she has lived with?
Tanya Paperny is a writer, artist, and editor living in Washington, D.C., and she explored that connection in an article that appeared in the Atlantic. Her work also appears in The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, The Literary Review, VICE, PANK, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Public Pool, Pacific Standard, and elsewhere. Tanya is the recipient of fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Vermont Studio Center, and OMI International Arts Center. She is at work on a collection about violence, trauma, and resilience.
Join us as we talk about what she discovered in writing the article, “Do Some Trauma Survivors Cope by Overworking?”
Airing Saturday, January 5, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
RESEARCH, GOEGRAPHY AND IPV
Research is important, but so is perfecting research. Especially in the areas of Intimate Partner Violence.
We usually see geographic differences (if addressed at all) as reflecting urban, suburban and rural areas. But two IPV researchers started seeing some problems with that and decided to get to the bottom of it.
They sifted through the National Crime Victimization Survey data to better understand how settlement types impacts the type of violence against women. What they found is that using three geographic designations only gives a very imperfect reflection of violence against women.
Kathryn DuBois is an Associate Professor at Washington State University Vancouver. Beginning with research toward a Ph.D. in Criminology from Simon Fraser University on alcohol and violence among the Inuit of the eastern Canadian arctic, and has developed expertise in several areas including victimology, violence against women, rural violence, and public health approaches to alcohol regulation.
Callie Marie Rennison earned her Ph.D. in 1997 in political science from the University of Houston, University Park, where she also received a B.S. in psychology, M.A. in sociology, and M.A. in political science. In 2016, she was awarded the Bonnie S. Fisher Victimology Career Award from the Division of Victimology in the American Society of Criminology. She has also served on a National Academies Committee examining domestic sex trafficking of minors in the United States and was a Senior Researcher at the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Join us as Rennison and DuBois share the findings from their research and how those findings can change our understanding of violence against women.
WORKPLACE PESTS: IDIOPATHIC MUTUAL IRRITANTS
You probably know about those pesky people at work, but do you know about Idiopathic Mutual Irritation?
Louise Penberthy does, and she can give advice to all of us on how to deal with both.
Penberthy started mediating in 2002, and over the years since then, she's observed many things about people, their needs, what gets them into conflict, and what helps get them out. Sometimes there's no obvious reason why two people don't get along; sometimes, it's what she calls Idiopathic Mutual Irritation, which is the subject and jumping off point for this podcast. Since 2018, Louise has been working as a program coordinator at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle. She's also a speaker and software developer.
Airing for the first time Saturday, February 2, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
ZEN TALK AND TRAUMA: DOES IT HELP?
Is Buddhism a philosophy? A religion? A way of life? Well, yes and no. But the bigger question is, does it have anything to offer victims of traumatic life events? And if it’s supposed to be so peaceful and Zen, why is it called the Warrior’s Path?
Guest Mark Winwood is a Buddhist teacher, student and practitioner in rural Washington State who has traveled the world pursuing his peace and knowledge. For 15 years he has worked to perfect his understanding and his instruction as everything from college professor to grief counsellor. He helps explain what the tenets mean, who they may benefit, and how we can find out.
Join us as we explore how we can react to life’s events and scars, and whether beliefs and practices
Airing for the first time Saturday, January 26, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
RURAL WOMEN AND VIOLENCE
Is there a difference between the violence women in urban areas suffer and the violence that rural women encounter? Well, in a nutshell, Yes. There is a difference. Rural women are victims more often, of more depth of violence, and with fewer resources and ways to get help.
Emerging research, although sparse, shows that country women are at risk, that funding and support are less for them, and that resources are harder to some by for rural victims.
Dr. Walter DeKeseredy, professor of Sociology at West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV, has focused his research on the plight of rural females compared to their urban and suburban counterparts, and has found some shocking information.
Join us as we discuss the causes of violence against women, the problems with rural victims, and even the role of male support systems and ography when it comes to women victimized by intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and even separation and divorce.
Airing for the first time Saturday, January19, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
EXPERT WITNESSES: HOW BIAS AND UNRELIABILITY CAN AFFECT YOUR COURT CASE
Anyone who watches TV, or goes through a custody battle, or knows someone who has tangled with the courts, knows what an expert witness is. Called forensic experts, they are the ones who tell the court the deep-seated truth about the parties, right? Well, turns out they disagree, can be biased, and are generally unreliable, according to a recent study of psychologists.
Lucy Guarnera, ABD, is one author of the research that found that training and standards are lacking, and bias toward the side that is paying them is a serious problem. Guarnera is a PhD candidate at University of Virginia, and has received grants from the American Psychology-Law Association, The American Academy of Forensic Psychology, The National Science Foundation and others to conduct her research.
Join us as we talk about expert witnesses and the courts.
First airing Saturday, September 2, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
AMBITIOUS OR TRAUMATIZED: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN OVERWORK AND PAST TRAUMA
Experiencing trauma can lead to all sorts of negative consequences but did you realize that it might lead to work addiction?
Research is sparse, but anecdotal evidence is there, and some therapists see a connection. Could a workaholic – someone who overworks to the detriment of all other areas of life – really be self-medicating to deal with the bad stuff he or she has lived with?
Tanya Paperny is a writer, artist, and editor living in Washington, D.C., and she explored that connection in an article that appeared in the Atlantic. Her work also appears in The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, The Literary Review, VICE, PANK, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Public Pool, Pacific Standard, and elsewhere. Tanya is the recipient of fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Vermont Studio Center, and OMI International Arts Center. She is at work on a collection about violence, trauma, and resilience.
Join us as we talk about what she discovered in writing the article, “Do Some Trauma Survivors Cope by Overworking?”
Airing Saturday, January 5, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
HOPE: WHAT IS IT AND HOW DO YOU MEASURE IT?
If you hope the weather is better tomorrow, is it really hope? Or is it wishful thinking? What really makes hope what it is, and what makes up hope?
Casey Gwinn, former long term prosecutor and founder of Camp HOPE America, and advocate, speaker and educator for victims of violence, particularly domestic violence. He has authored numerous books about children and trauma. His latest, Hope Rising: How the Science of Hope Can Change Your Life takes a look at not only what hope is, but how it can be measured and how it can impact the future of victims.
Join us as we discuss hope, trauma, resilience, and motivation and what it means for all of us.
Airing for the first time Saturday, December 22, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
HOPE: WHAT IS IT AND HOW DO YOU MEASURE IT?
If you hope the weather is better tomorrow, is it really hope? Or is it wishful thinking? What really makes hope what it is, and what makes up hope?
Casey Gwinn, former long term prosecutor and founder of Camp HOPE America, and advocate, speaker and educator for victims of violence, particularly domestic violence. He has authored numerous books about children and trauma. His latest, Hope Rising: How the Science of Hope Can Change Your Life takes a look at not only what hope is, but how it can be measured and how it can impact the future of victims.
Join us as we discuss hope, trauma, resilience, and motivation and what it means for all of us.
STRENGTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
What keeps us strong as we go through life? What influences those factors, and is there anything we can do to promote strength?
External influences, internal views, jobs, family, friends...all CAN give us stength, but all can take it away as well. So what really keeps us strong and able to face our lives productively, as happily as possible, and is there anything we can do about all the factors that buffet us?
And, by the way, do therapy dogs help?
Dr, Rhea Owens is a researcher and assistant professor at the University of North Dakota, and she found out some things about our life time capacity to be strong and deal with life. Join us as we talk lost strength, external demands and influences and what it means to be strong across the lifespan.
Airing for the first time Saturday, December 15, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
This special episode is being repreated in honor of Dr. Karin Huffer, friend, teacher, scholar, author, and tireless advocate for those who suffer at the hands of the courts. Thank you, Karin. Rest in peace.
PTSD, DISABILITIES AND THE COURTS: EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL?
Did you know that as many as 85% of women who experience Intimate Partner Violence have PTSD? Some studies say a little less, but no matter which study you read, the numbers are alarming.
Did you know that in courts a person with PTSD or other disability is often accused of being “crazy,” or lying to manipulate the court rather than being recognized as a person with a disability?
Just because some disabilities are not visible doesn’t mean they are not included under federal regulations. People with PTSD may qualify for taking breaks in the proceedings, may be able to get extensions on deadlines, may be able to testify in court from a safe room or even on the phone. Courts are mandated to accommodate to ensure equal access to the justice system, but how can we get them to do it?
Dr. Karin Huffer is doing something about that.
Dr. Huffer is an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, and knows plenty about the law, disability accommodation, and domestic violence. She is starting a program at John Jay to teach people how to be advocates for those whose disabilities are exploited and not accommodated in court, even when those people are representing themselves.
Learn more about what an Equal Access Advocate can do, how to learn to be one and get one, and find how this whole thing can work to help women deal with and get their rights in courts. Join us Saturday with Dr. Karin Huffer and information about equal access and the courts.
A CRITIQUE OF CNN COVERAGE OF FAMILY COURT
What’s worse than judges and guardians ad litem who don’t understand domestic violence and child custody? How about a major national media reporter who purports to cover custody and abuse issues without ever doing an investigation into both sides of the issue?
When CNN features a show about fathers and custody, how can they ignore the experts, the research and the real victims and instead broadcast a show that perpetrates myths, misleads millions, and potentially damages children and protective parents?
That’s the issue Barry Goldstein, author and former attorney, and Maralee Mclean, author and victim advocate hash out on this latest show. Join us as we discuss journalism, objectivity, reliable research, court trends and supposedly objective reporting that is anything buy.
Airing for the first time Saturday, December 1, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT
Did you know that as many as one in four women on American college campuses report unwanted sexual contact on campus? That includes everything from the annoying to the threatening to rape. Sounds like an unbelievably high number, doesn’t it? So what are we doing about it?
Victoria Banyard, PhD, has dedicated her academic career to finding better ways to help communities prevent and respond to interpersonal violence and she has conducted a lot of research on campuses. Banyard has worked to help shape policy at the national, state and local levels. Her research includes how to improve those statistics, the implications of campus assault and what others can do about it. She is a professor in the School of Social Work at Rutgers.
Join us as we talk about the problem of campus sexual assault, the consequences for students and society, and what we can all do about it.
COURT SECRECY AND RECALLS
Do you know what a court of record is? Do you know how few family courts keep any record of what happens there? Or that many courts don’t allow recording of proceedings? Why the secrecy? And what can people do about it?
Kristie Karkanen is a contributing volunteer to the Contra Costa County 3 Judge Recall Campaign, and she shares the situation in that California County and what is being done about it. She has worked as an analyst and consultant for policymakers and C-level officers, and has also led successful marketing and communications campaigns in locally and globally.
Join us as we talk recalls, funding, and outrage in the court system.
Airing for the first time Saturday, November 3, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
We see it all too often in the news - dad (once in awhile it's mom), goes nuts and kills mom, the kids, anyone who happens to be in the way, and then, often, himself. What is going on here? The media stories often say something just snapped for dad. Domestic violence experts look at it as an extreme form of control that erupts when an abused women tries to leave. But what is really going on, and why on earth does the perpetrator kill the poor kids?
Sharon Maillous, PhD did a research study into just this phenomenon, and she shares with us her knowledge about not only familicide but why children are targeted in these cases.
COURTS, CUSTODY, KIDS, TRAUMA: THE TRAGEDY OF FAMILY COURTS
What happens when an infant is shuffled from one care giver to another? Research is pretty clear that kids without a stable primary caregiver have problems with focus, attention, attachment, even sleep. Yet family courts are routinely dividing residential child custody more and more and with younger and younger children. Don’t they see the research? Why would courts do this when the science is so clear?
Lisa Fischel-Wolovick, attorney and social worker looked at the studies and culled the information to find out exactly what is happening. Her book, “Traumatic Divorce and Separation,” and a new article in Family and Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly, look at Traumatic Exposure in Children During Custody Litigation, and found a shocking truth: kids are being severely harmed in abusive situations and the courts.
Find out more about her research, the reasons this is happening, and what might be done to correct the situation. Join us for a discussion about abuse, kids, custody and the science.
Airing for the first time Saturday, October 20, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN A NOT-SO INTIMATE WORKPLACE
It’s no secret to those who experience or work with intimate partner violence, that the violence often creeps (or crashes) into the workplace, either directly or indirectly by affecting the environment, the interactions, and the well-being of workers. But what do we do about it? Especially employers?
Workplaces Respond helps. It was created by Futures Without Violence, and helps with resources, education, and technical assistance to employers, survivors, co-workers and advocates to help create safer work places. Attorney Linda Seabrook, formerly with the U.S. Department of Justice, leads a number of legal programs and initiatives for Futures Without Violence, and she will join us to talk about creating safer workplaces free from domestic and sexual violence and stalking.
WHAT’S IN A NAME – WHEN IT’S HERS?
For decades women, scholars, sociologists and feminists have been debating and advocating one way or the other for women to either take their husbands’ last names when they marry or hang on to the name they had. A generation of women took a stand one way or the other and everyone wanted to know their reasons and the effects of the decisions. But did anyone ask how it affected the men?
Finally there is a study that looked at people’s perceptions of the husbands of women who kept their own names. And you might just be surprised at what it means for the men.
Rachael Robnett is an assistant professor at UNLV Department of Psychology where she focuses her research on adolescence and emerging adulthood. Specific areas of study include students’ academic and career trajectories, links between peers and identity, and gender-role ideologies. She teaches courses pertaining to adolescent development and the psychology of gender.
She joins us to talk about what she learned from her study of the impact of women keeping their own names after marriage on the way their husbands are viewed.
Airing for the first time Saturday, September 29, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: JUSTICE ON 18 WHEELS
What do truck drivers know that you don’t? Probably a lot of things, but one thing for sure- they know how to spot suspicious trafficking and what to do about it. And it’s all thanks to one woman and her daughters.
Public relations professional Lyn Leeburg learned about the tragedy of human trafficking more than ten years ago, and immediately sat down with her four daughters to figure out how they could help. They came up with the notion that truckers are on the road, are trained to be observant, and could tackle the problem in a big way.
That spark of activism has turned into a comprehensive program that trains CDL drivers, partners with truck manufacturers, training schools, law enforcement…even bus drivers to create a program to fight sex trafficking all across the country.
Join us as Lyn Leeburg talks about how Truckers Against Trafficking started, how it’s grown, and exactly how they help.
Airing for the first time Saturday, September 15, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
THE HIGH COST OF FIGHTING FOR YOUR CHILD
Imagine you have been the primary care taker for your child. You make sure they are clean and groomed, their homework gets done, they have all the right doctors’ appointments, they are eating right. You are highly tuned to sense any problems, or adjustment issues, and you make sure your child is getting what he or she needs from you. Now imagine you have been cut out of their lives. Imagine the high cost of fighting for your child.
You risk financial ruin, and emotional costs that anyone in your situation cannot begin to understand. Sometimes you even risk your freedom.
Jon Moseley, Virginia attorney, Michael Volpe, author and reporter, and Natalia, a woman who was jailed for talking to her son’s doctor, come on the show to talk about the risks and costs, and the injustice of these situations when courts can seemingly arbitrarily, take away custody, visitation, even freedom, in cases where there are custody disputes.
Join us as an attorney, a victim and a mother share one story that is repeated much too often in courts across the country.
Airing for the first time Saturday, September 1, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
ELECTRONIC ABUSE AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
Most of us are aware of the lack of privacy and possible criminal activity our myriad electronic devices can lead to. And many of us know about abusers using these computers and phones to stalk and harass victims. But did you know it’s not just computers and phones? Your Alexa, your Fitbit, your thermostat …all those and more can be used to further abuse and create havoc and threat in our lives.
Eva Galperin, Director of Cyber Security for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization dedicated to defending people against abusive threats in a digital world, has worked for years to fight illegal surveillance, and she shares stories and strategies we all should know.
From recording murders inadvertently, to tracking whereabouts and activities, these devices we rely on can be helpful and amazing, but also dangerous, particularly in domestic violence situations.
Join us as Eva Galperin shares some warnings, but also some tools to help educate and protect us in a time when our lives can be open books to the person who holds the digital password.
Airing for the first time Saturday, August 25, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
WASHINGTON’S PROTECTIVE LEAVE LAW
How often do we hear of a victim of intimate partner violence (or stalking or sexual assault) who loses her job because of the harassment, or because of taking too much time off to deal with court or trauma? Several states have enacted legislation to help those victims, but none of those laws are as generous and comprehensive as Washington State’s Protective Leave Law.
Cindy Sparks, Protective Leave Specialist for the state Department of Labor and Industries, deals with the law every day, and she explains the scope of the law (all employers are obligated to follow it, not just larger employers), what it means for victims, and what happens when an employer does not grant reasonable leave to someone dealing with IPV and sexual assault. She shares the latest updates to the law, and how it impacts potential civil suits for violators.
Join us as we talk about Washington State’s Protected Leave Law aimed at helping victims of intimate partner violence, stalking and sexual assault to keep their jobs.
Airing for the first time Saturday, August 18, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
AMBITIOUS OR TRAUMATIZED: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN OVERWORK AND PAST TRAUMA
Experiencing trauma can lead to all sorts of negative consequences but did you realize that it might lead to work addiction?
Research is sparse, but anecdotal evidence is there, and some therapists see a connection. Could a workaholic – someone who overworks to the detriment of all other areas of life – really be self-medicating to deal with the bad stuff he or she has lived with?
Tanya Paperny is a writer, artist, and editor living in Washington, D.C., and she explored that connection in an article that appeared in the Atlantic. Her work also appears in The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, The Literary Review, VICE, PANK, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Public Pool, Pacific Standard, and elsewhere. Tanya is the recipient of fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Vermont Studio Center, and OMI International Arts Center. She is at work on a collection about violence, trauma, and resilience.
Join us as we talk about what she discovered in writing the article, “Do Some Trauma Survivors Cope by Overworking?”
Airing on Saturday, August 11, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
PROSECUTED BUT NOT SILENCED: THE DIRTY LITTLE SECRET
In Prosecuted but not Silenced, Maralee McLean exposes the dirty secret that most of the public is blissfully unaware of. The secret is that our custody court system routinely fails to protect children from dangerous abusers and especially sexual predators. Research shows that mothers make deliberate false allegations of abuse less than 2% of the time, 85% of child abuse allegations result in custody to the alleged abuser. That means the courts are sentencing many children to a childhood living with their rapists.
Maralee McLean is an author, public speaker and child advocate and she wrote “Prosecuted but Not Silenced” to help the public learn what frequently happens in child custody courts and to help dispel the myth that such cases are rare. This book is a personal story placed in the context of scientific research.
Join us as we talk about “Prosecuted but Not Silenced,” a true and shameful story of the child custody court system.
THE CONSEQUENCES OF IPV IN THE WORKPLACE
It’s no secret that women who have experienced Intimate Partner Violence experience numerous problems because of it, from financial difficulties, to health issues, to social issues. But we don’t often talk about the mental health consequences of IPV that get carried into the workplace.
Some advocates are reluctant to talk about the mental health problems, lest people blame the victim for whatever befell her. But the fact is, there are typically a number of problems that follow IPV, including PTSD, depression, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)m all of which can have some significant consequences for the victim as she tries to rebuild her life and livelihood following abuse.
J. Gayle Beck, PhD, is with the Department of Psychology at the University of Memphis, and she joins us to talk the research about and the burden of the fallout from experiencing abuse. Join us as we talk about IPV, PTSD, GAD, resulting from abuse and how these conditions affect functioning for survivors.
Airing for the first time Saturday, July 28, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
TRAUMA, RECOVERY AND MASSAGE
Trauma is tough, and recovery is hard, but massage? What’s that got to do with anything? Turns out, it can play a big part in the process of getting back to normal – or better.
Melissa Enter teaches massage but not in the way most of us think about massage. She instructs it from the standpoint of the need for healthy touch. She teaches it with the Massage in Schools Program, which goes into schools and community groups, to instruct healthy, peer to peer massage. The routine is a simplified seated chair massage, done over clothing, without oils. It uses fun strokes like bunny hops in the hand or drawing hearts on a friend's back. The routine is used to transition the children into the classroom and prepare them to be ready to learn, and it is perfect for people who have experienced trauma.
Join us as we talk about trauma, touch, recovery and massage.
FEMINIST COUNSELING: THE WAY THE GIRLS DO IT
Freud probably wouldn’t have seen a need for feminist psychology, but Robin Tracy (and quite a few other men and women) do.
Robin Tracy is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor who practices Feminist Multicultural Therapy. So what exactly does that mean? A lot of things, it seems.
One of the basic things feminist therapy stands for is the relationship between therapist and patient or client. No more paternalistic, the doctor knows best approach to help. This approach looks at counseling as a collaborative effort – and that effort recognizes the way the world looks at the client and how the client must operate in that world.
Robin specializes in helping people with depression, anxiety, LGBTQ-related topics, trauma, and difficulty identifying emotions/connecting head and heart. She has been a Mental Health Counselor since 2007 and has worked in social services since 1993.
Join us as we talk about therapy and counseling from a feminist, multicultural approach.
CUSTODY COURTS: INTENTIONAL BIAS?
Study after study is showing perfectly good mothers losing custody of their kids, often to fathers who have been abusive or who don’t want to pay child support. Some advocates and experts say it’s a problem with educating judges. But what if it’s more intentional than that?
One group believes these custody nightmares are happening on purpose and that something must be done now. The Women’s Coalition International thinks the problems would be eased by requiring child custody cases to be heard by juries.
Cindy Dumas is the founder and Executive Director of The Women’s Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness and ending the epidemic of women’s children being taken away from. Her son, Damon Dumas, was sexually abused by his father for years, and when the Family Court system wouldn't hear his cries for help, he started a decade-long struggle to free himself from his father's control. He is now the Communications Director of The Women's Coalition and is a recipient of the Courageous Kids Network Medal of Courage
Patricia Barry is a former attorney who practiced for 41-1/2 years in California courts and in numerous federal courts throughout the country. She argued and won a sexual harassment case which ended up as the first sexual harassment case in the U. S. Supreme Court. She represented protective mothers losing custody to abusive fathers in family courts.
All three join us to talk about the custody problems and their suggestions for a solution.
Airing for the first time Saturday, June 30, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
BREAST CANCER: What’s the up side?
You’ve seen the pink ribbons (and mixers, and baseball bats, and on and on...), you’ve seen the fundraisers. You’ve heard the horror stories, and you’ve feared the worst. But what if breast cancer isn’t the worst? What if, mixed up with the fear and discomfort there is actually some humor, insight, and something positive you never even knew you could experience?
Join Navy veteran, mother, wife, cheesy movie fan, and cancer survivor Heidi Wallace as we talk medicine, reconstruction, ordeals, survival and the unexpected and amusing about the disease the pink ribbon sometimes covers up. Wallace is a Seattle native who collects comic books, hangs out with her dogs and makes as many jokes as she can about the Big C.
It’s a perspective you haven’t heard and probably never thought of.
Airing for the first time Saturday, June 23, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
DIGITAL FEMINISM
The first wave of feminists marched, got arrested and staged hunger strikes for the right to vote in the 1920’s. The second wave demonstrated, allegedly burned their bras, and staged housework strikes. Today, the third wave (or is it the fourth?) of feminists are not taking to the streets, they are sitting at their computers to advocate for social change. It is the era of digital feminism.
High-profile or hidden and quiet, the computer is now a tool that has helped define feminism.
Cultural sociologist Dr Kaitlynn Mendes is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leicester in the UK, and has written and researched widely around representations of feminism in the media, and feminists’ use of social media to challenge rape culture. She has authored or edited of five books including the award winning SlutWalk: Feminism, activism and media, and the forthcoming book Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture
Join us as we social media has changed and continued feminism around the world.
Airing for the first time Saturday, June 16, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
COMPLEX TRAUMA AND ADOPTION
Why does no one talk about kids who are traumatized being raised by parents who are traumatized? And if that’s not complicated enough, what if the kids are adopted? Who can possibly sort out those issues, and who can help the folks (and there are more of them than you think) who are dealing with all those issues? AND how does all that impact the rest of us?
Robyn Gobbel, LCSW, RPT-S specializes in complex trauma, attachment, and adoption and she joins us to talk about such convoluted problems. Robyn’s diverse clinical training includes EMDR (including EMDR adapted for children with attachment trauma), Somatic Experiencing, DEEP Experiential Therapy, and Theraplay. She is a Trust Based Relational Intervention® Educator and a Circle of Security Parent Educator. Robyn is a dedicated student of attachment theory and Interpersonal Neurobiology.
Join us as we talk about the trauma, the kids, the parents and the neuroscience of healing children and families. Airing for the first time Saturday, June 2, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
You know you’ve at least wanted to – the swift swat on the bottom or a smack on the hand for that child who is just being awful! Surely that’s not going to cause life-long trauma like some sort of beating, right? Well…maybe.
Robbyn Peters Bennett is a psychotherapist, educator, and child rights activist. She is an expert on the relationship between harsh discipline, child development and long-term health and she says the research shows that quick smack may, in fact, inflict brain changes, a sense of threat, and life long impact. She argues that corporal punishment can affect a child’s sense of safety, put their body and brain into a state of defensiveness, and disrupt the bond between parent and child.
Join us as we talk corporal punishment, the laws, the long-term impact and operant conditioning with mother, grandmother and psychotherapist Robbyn Peters Bennett.
Airing for the first time on Saturday, May 26, at 11 AM Pacific time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
HASHTAG ME TOO: WHERE IT’S GOING, WHAT IT’S FROM
It’s all over the news, and whether it has you cheering or tearing your hair out, there is no doubt that the “hashtag me too” movement is changing lives.
What exactly is this movement, when and where did it start, and who is it helping? And why are some people, including actor Alec Baldwin, saying the movement has gone too far?
Join us as we talk with Jennifer Hunt, M.A., an Education and Outreach Specialist with the Sexual Assault Resource Center in Bryan, TX. She focuses on primary prevention education and community outreach and specializes in crisis intervention advocacy and case management work with women in low-income and immigrant populations.
Listen as we explore the benefits, possible drawbacks and the future of the #Me Too phenomenon.
First airing on Saturday, May 19, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
AMBITIOUS OR TRAUMATIZED: THE CONNECTION BETWEEN OVERWORK AND PAST TRAUMA
Experiencing trauma can lead to all sorts of negative consequences but did you realize that it might lead to work addiction?
Research is sparse, but anecdotal evidence is there, and some therapists see a connection. Could a workaholic – someone who overworks to the detriment of all other areas of life – really be self-medicating to deal with the bad stuff he or she has lived with?
Tanya Paperny is a writer, artist, and editor living in Washington, D.C., and she explored that connection in an article that appeared in the Atlantic. Her work also appears in The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, The Literary Review, VICE, PANK, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Public Pool, Pacific Standard, and elsewhere. Tanya is the recipient of fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Vermont Studio Center, and OMI International Arts Center. She is at work on a collection about violence, trauma, and resilience.
Join us as we talk about what she discovered in writing the article, “Do Some Trauma Survivors Cope by Overworking?”
First airing on Saturday, May 12, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN A NOT-SO INTIMATE WORKPLACE
It’s no secret to those who experience or work with intimate partner violence, that the violence often creeps (or crashes) into the workplace, either directly or indirectly by affecting the environment, the interactions, and the well-being of workers. But what do we do about it? Especially employers?
Workplaces Respond helps. It was created by Futures Without Violence, and helps with resources, education, and technical assistance to employers, survivors, co-workers and advocates to help create safer work places. Attorney Linda Seabrook, formerly with the U.S. Department of Justice, leads a number of legal programs and initiatives for Futures Without Violence, and she will join us to talk about creating safer workplaces free from domestic and sexual violence and stalking.
First airing Saturday, October 7, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: DIVORCE, COURTS, AND CONTROL
You’ve heard of doctor shopping, but have you heard of court shopping? How about finding a judge or venue that is likely to be sympathetic to your side when you take someone to court? What if the courts seem to overlook or excuse things they shouldn’t? What if a person is having a medical emergency but the judge won’t stop the proceedings? What happens in a divorce case when things are spinning out of control?
Tanya Hathaway is a certified crisis counsellor who experienced all those things and more as she continues to deal with an ongoing divorce in a state she’s never lived in. Investigative journalist Michael Volpe has been recognized as a leading figure in exposing judicial abuse and corruption, and he reported the Hathaway situation in an article in The Provocateur in March. Hathaway’s four-month marriage and subsequent four year divorce is an example of what can happen to anyone.
Join Volpe and Hathaway as we explore some of the intricacies and outrages of divorce, courts and control.
First airing on Saturday, April 28, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
HEALTH CARE RESPONSE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
Advocates and responders have been talking for years about the need for health care professionals to help screen patients for domestic violence. Programs and education seminars have been offered, but still only a small number of women are even asked about whether they are being hurt by a partner. And even if they are, what’s the medical office supposed to do?
Dr. L. Kevin Hamberger, Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin has spent a couple of decades learning about IPV, its prevalence and what we can do about it. A study he and some colleagues put together discovered that while people have been training health professionals about IPV, that frequently does not change the delivery of their care. He and his cohorts identified a few reasons why and set out to do something about that problem.
HELPING ABUSE VICTIMS THE D.A.D WAY
“Get a lawyer!” “Call the police!” “Just leave!” All reasonable advice for a woman who is living with abuse, but it’s usually a lot harder than it sounds. Since some of the hallmarks of intimate partner abuse are isolation, intimidation, coercion and financial dependency, women who are trying to get away and get safe often find themselves all alone and powerless in the face of their abusers. And that means they are often in danger, or that they must stay or go back to the abusive man.
One ex-cop and process server saw his share of these scenarios and decided to help. Now there is a core group of men in Virginia who make themselves ready, willing and able to provide physical support for the women who find themselves alone and afraid. Trey Gregory was a police officer in the US Air Force as well as in the Roanoke City Police Department and is a graduate of the Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy, USAF. He started Domestic Abuse Disruption, Inc., an organization that helps abuse victims relocate, assists with stalker situations, provides escorts to court and is certified to assess the lethality of an abuse situation.
That’s a lot of help for women who think they are alone. Join us as Trey talks about DAD, the folks who volunteer to help abuse victims, and how this and similar organizations are helping those who feel helpless.
First airing on Saturday, April14, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
THE STRUGGLE TO PASS LEGISLATION ON SEXUAL ASSAULT
State laws regarding sexual assault matters are often a real help to victims and survivors. But why is it sometimes a real struggle to pass them?
Washington State just ended its annual legislative session, and two State Representatives who proposed legislation to alleviate aspects of sexual assault found that despite their best efforts and lots of support, their bills went nowhere. Rep. Dan Griffey was trying to eliminate the statute of limitations on criminal rape and assault, so perpetrators could always be held accountable no matter how long ago the crime was committed. Rep Michelle Caldier proposed a bill that would require notification about sexual assault kits for victims who went to the police or the hospital.
Join us as the representatives talk about how bills get passed (or not), why sexual assault bills were just not a priority for this state’s legislative body, and what’s down the road for such laws.
First airing on Saturday, April 7, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
PALLIATIVE CARE: WHY IT MATTERS TO WOMEN
Palliative care has to do with treating the suffering of seriously ill patients. It involves the illness or old age, the patient, the medical folks and the caregiver. So who are most of these folks? Well, a sizable percentage of the patients and the caregivers are women. And that’s when palliative care becomes a particularly women’s issue.
Emily Chai, M.D., is Assistant Attending physician at the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She’s also an Associate Professor at Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine there and was named among US News top doctors and Mew York Magazine’s best doctors, among other awards and honors. She joins us to talk about the work of caregiving, the challenges of uncompensated caregiving, and how women take care.
First airing on Saturday, March 31, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
CRISIS HOTLINES: WHO, WHAT AND WHY?
Who calls a hotline? Maybe a better question is who doesn’t? Those phone numbers have offered advice, comfort, resources and a willing ear to untold numbers of callers for decades. Turns out a lot of people call or chat with these help numbers but what do they really offer and who exactly uses them? And do they really help?
Rena Fitzgerald is the Senior Program Manager for Crisis Services at Volunteers of America of Western Washington, and she’s been doing crisis intervention for 15 years. She knows who calls, and why. She also knows who answers the phone, the training they have and the reason they do it. For an inside look at crisis help lines, suicide prevention hot lines, domestic violence hot lines, and all the other free crisis intervention services out there, join as we first air this discussion about crisis phone and chat help lines.
First airing on Saturday, March 24, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
TRAUMATIC DIVORCE
Everyone who has gone through a divorce thinks theirs is the divorce from hell, and of course, not divorce is easy. But some are harder than others. In fact, some are truly traumatic, especially when intimate partner abuse, untreated mental illness, or substance abuse are involved.
Lisa Fischel-Wolovick, former nurse, domestic violence advocate and current attorney with extensive experience in family court, has written a book titled, “Traumatic Divorce and Separation: The Impact of Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse in Custody and Divorce.” She shares her experiences with what is sometimes called high conflict divorce, with gender bias in the courts, and talks about what we might be able to do about it.
Join us as we first air this discussion about traumatic divorce, the difficulty of divorce when abuse, untreated mental illness and substance abuse are involved.
First airing on Saturday, March 17, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
HEALTH CARE RESPONSE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
Advocates and responders have been talking for years about the need for health care professionals to help screen patients for domestic violence. Programs and education seminars have been offered, but still only a small number of women are even asked about whether they are being hurt by a partner. And even if they are, what’s the medical office supposed to do?
Dr. L. Kevin Hamberger, Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin has spent a couple of decades learning about IPV, its prevalence and what we can do about it. A study he and some colleagues put together discovered that while people have been training health professionals about IPV, that frequently does not change the delivery of their care. He and his cohorts identified a few reasons why and set out to do something about that problem.
Join us as we first air this discussion about how health care systems can change in order to respond to those experiencing partner violence and where the model is working.
First airing on Saturday, March 10, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
COURAGEOUS KIDS: KIDS TAKEN AWAY FROM PARENTS BY COURTS
You’ve seen news articles about it- the child being ripped out of mom’s arms after a court has decided to give custody to someone else. It hurts to watch that sobbing little boy or girl, but in a moment the news moves on to another image, another story. But what happens to those kids? And why are they in that position in the first place?
Jennifer Collins was one of those children, when in 1992, she was torn from her mother’s arms and handed over kicking and screaming to the father who had abused her. She and her brother had to live with their father based upon faulty science and a family court that didn’t believe their mother and that didn’t want to listen to the kids.
Today, kids are still in the position of being taken away from loving arms, and courts still often don’t want to listen. But today there is an organization of adults who were once those kids. And they want to make it better for everyone. Courageous Kids Network and Jennifer Collins are determined to change this situation, and to offer a voice to those who have none.
Join us as we first air this discussion about Courageous Kids, child custody, junk science, and children who grow up victims of the courts.
First airing on Saturday, March 3, at 11 AM Pacific Time, and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMILIATION
Think you know what humiliation is? Well, prepare for some enlightenment. Humiliation is not only personal, but also global. Consequences are huge, and it can affect not only kids in school, but even countries societies. So what exactly is the psychology of humiliation and what does it mean?
Experts Evelin G. Lindner and Linda M. Hartling are waging a two-woman campaign to study, recognize and counter humiliation. They will explain all about what humiliation is, the responses to it, the consequences of it, and what we can do about it. Lindner is a medical doctor and a psychologist with a PhD, in each field. She is co-founder of the World Dignity University Initiative and a nominee for the Nobel Peace Price for the last three years running. Hartling is Director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies and co-founder of the World Dignity University Initiative and Dignity Press. She has a PhD in clinical and community psychology and is past Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College.
Join us as we talk about humiliation, what it means and how it manifests.
We all know trauma can be bad, but do you know how bad and for how long? Turns out the emotional aftermath of those bad things happening to us can change our lives.
J. Gayle Beck, PhD., is a professor at the University of Memphis, and she’s made it her focus to investigate the assessment and treatment of adult anxiety-based disorders with an emphasis on post-trauma responses. She’s published widely on panic, anxiety, PTSD, and the processing of psychological distress. She heads up the Athena Project ot U of M, a research clinic that provides free assessment and treatment to women who have experienced Intimate Partner Violence and abuse.
Who better to clue us in as to the impact of trauma on survivors?
Join us on Saturday, February 10, at 11 AM Pacific Time as we first air this discussion about the effect of trauma. Available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
DOCTORS, ACES AND TRAUMA INFORMED MEDICAL CARE
Doctors know medicine, but do they know people? More specifically, do they know that childhood trauma can create a difficult patient, or a high-risk patient, or patient who appears not to follow directions? Do doctors need to know about trauma-informed care and is anyone doing anything about it?
Andrew Seaman is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Oregon Health & Sciences University, and he’s created a program to help medical residents get hands on experience and understanding of ACEs – the Adverse Childhood Experiences study that is reshaping how we look at the bad things that happen to people as children.
Seaman is an educator, addiction medicine and hepatitis C researcher, and a healthcare for the homeless clinician. His research passions center around issues surrounding drug use, but extend to the implementation of trauma-informed care practices into healthcare systems. His program at OHSU includes trained mentors and role playing to help future doctors recognize and work with those whose childhood trauma impacts their health and behaviors today.
Join us as we talk adverse childhood experiences, trauma informed medical care, and how we can help the medical community learn how to help us all.
First airing Saturday, February 3, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
HOW FAMILY COURTS TREAT ABUSE AND ACCUSATIONS OF ALIENATION
Some divorcing fathers say family courts are prejudiced against them when it comes to deciding child custody. Some divorcing mothers say they are punished when they reveal violence and sexual abuse, especially of the children. Judges say they are fair and equitable always. But are they?
Some research has been revealing evidence that should make us all leery of custody decisions. One brand new study found some astounding information, and one of the authors will let us in on what she discovered.
Joan S. Meier is a professor of Clinical Law at George Washington University Law School, and Founder and Legal Director of the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP). She is a nationally recognized expert on domestic violence and the law, appellate litigation, and clinical law teaching and has founded programs to provide legal representation, advocacy, and counseling to victims of domestic violence. Professor Meier has co-written several significant pieces of federal and state legislation, and frequently delivers presentations and trainings to attorneys, judges, and professional organizations.
Join us as she talks about what her hot-off-the-presses research study reveals about how judges in family court made decisions about child custody when there are allegations of abuse and alienation.
Go to the website at 11 AM Pacific Time, to hear the show as it first airs, and go anytime to listen this or all our archived programs at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMILIATION
Think you know what humiliation is? Well, prepare for some enlightenment. Humiliation is not only personal, but also global. Consequences are huge, and it can affect not only kids in school, but even countries societies. So what exactly is the psychology of humiliation and what does it mean?
Experts Evelin G. Lindner and Linda M. Hartling are waging a two-woman campaign to study, recognize and counter humiliation. They will explain all about what humiliation is, the responses to it, the consequences of it, and what we can do about it. Lindner is a medical doctor and a psychologist with a PhD, in each field. She is co-founder of the World Dignity University Initiative and a nominee for the Nobel Peace Price for the last three years running. Hartling is Director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies and co-founder of the World Dignity University Initiative and Dignity Press. She has a PhD in clinical and community psychology and is past Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College.
Join us as we talk about humiliation, what it means and how it manifests.
First airing Saturday, December 23, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
THOSE UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS
Whether it’s politics or religion, global warming or world peace, we’ve all encountered conversations that seem destined to drive people to shouting and hard feelings. What can we do to avoid the arguments, or convince the other folks that we have right on our side?
Gleb Tsipursky has what he thinks is the answer to that question and he shares his ideas with us.
Tsipursky, Assistant Professor at the Decision Sciences Collaborative and History Department at Ohio State University, describes himself as an activist for truth and disaster avoidance, and he’s come up with some strategies for handling those uncomfortable conversations. He is author of The Truth Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide and also of Find Your Purpose Using Science, and is president and co-founder of Intentional Insights, a non-profit advocating rational thinking and wise decision making.
Join us as we talk about truth, science, lies and public discourse, and how you can avoid those nasty conversational stand-offs that happen to us all. First airing Saturday, January 6, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH
There’s a topic most people who work in the field of domestic violence don’t like to talk about too much, and perpetrators love to bring up. The connection between mental health and substance abuse is a very easy way to blame the victim in DV situations. But it is a topic that we need to understand.
Dr. Carole Warshaw, MD, Director, National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health, knows the subject and understands what is really going on in the areas of mental health and substance abuse when it comes to gendered violence. She explains not only the numbers and the types of problems, but also the latest research, including the NCDVTMH/National Domestic Violence Hotline Surveys on Mental Health and Substance Abuse Coercion. That study indicates the very high percentage of women whose mental health conditions are being used against them or who are being pushed into substance abuse by perpetrators.
Most importantly, Dr. Warshaw explains the implications of these findings.
Join us as we talk about Domestic Violence, mental health and substance abuse. First airing Saturday, December 30, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMILIATION
Think you know what humiliation is? Well, prepare for some enlightenment. Humiliation is not only personal, but also global. Consequences are huge, and it can affect not only kids in school, but even countries societies. So what exactly is the psychology of humiliation and what does it mean?
Experts Evelin G. Lindner and Linda M. Hartling are waging a two-woman campaign to study, recognize and counter humiliation. They will explain all about what humiliation is, the responses to it, the consequences of it, and what we can do about it. Lindner is a medical doctor and a psychologist with a PhD, in each field. She is co-founder of the World Dignity University Initiative and a nominee for the Nobel Peace Price for the last three years running. Hartling is Director of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies and co-founder of the World Dignity University Initiative and Dignity Press. She has a PhD in clinical and community psychology and is past Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College.
Join us as we talk about humiliation, what it means and how it manifests.
First airing Saturday, December 23, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
CHOKING? STRANGULATION? WHATEVER YOU CALL IT, IT HAPPENS
Victims often say, “he choked me,” but experts call it strangulation. But whatever you call it, it happens way too often, and it has really disastrous long-term consequences. Can we treat it? Can we prevent it?
Gael B. Strack is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder for Alliance for HOPE International, and she will join us to talk about what strangulation means, why it’s often overlooked by victims and health professionals alike, and what can be done about it.
Programs of the Alliance include: National Family Justice Center Alliance, Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention, Camp HOPE America, Justice Legal Network and VOICES Survivor Network.
First airing Saturday, December16, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
TRAUMA, THE BRAIN, THE COURTS, AND THE PROBLEMS
What’s the connection between complex trauma, ACEs study, neurobiology and family courts? It’s complicated, but that connection is there, and it’s devastating to families, kids, and adults across the country.
Shannon Tyson-Poletti, M.D. is a neurobiologist with the Jefferson Center for Mental Health who understands what trauma does to the human brain, from changing size and shape, to organizing and retaining memories. Maralee Mclean is a child advocate, domestic violence expert, author and educator who sees how brain and behavior changes from trauma are misinterpreted by experts and the legal system. Both are knowledgeable about the effects of trauma. Both want to do something about it.
Join us as we discuss complex trauma, betrayal trauma, brain changes, a trauma informed legal system.
First airing Saturday, December 9, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
WHAT HELPS KIDS EXPOSED TO TRAUMA? HOPE HELPS.
We’re learning more and more about how trauma in childhood impacts just about everything in adulthood. But it’s pretty much impossible to get through childhood without experiencing some sort of trauma. So what do we do to help ensure healthy people, a stable society, and a good future?
Alliance for HOPE International has focused intensively on the correlations between witnessing domestic violence as a child and juvenile delinquency as well as adult illness, disease, and criminality. They developed Camp Hope for kids who witness domestic violence. And they have a new program, supported by solid research, to give hope to children of trauma.
Casey Gwinn, president of Alliance for Hope, author, former San Diego City Attorney and a leader in a presidential initiative to create national family justice centers, joins us to talk about the program, it’s results, and why it could reshape the future for kids exposed to trauma.
First airing Saturday, December 3, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
Would you be surprised to know that there is no law that says a judge must make a kid's health and safety the first priority when determining custody in a divorce?
Every day judges decide where a child will live when the parents divorce. Often they get it wrong, with disastrous results, and those children may be forced to live with someone who has abused or even seuxally assaulted them. Because judges, guardians ad litem, psychologists and other advisors to the courts, don't get it or think the protective parent is lying. It's a tragedy that leaved kids in horrible situations and can set them up for life-long repercussions.
The Safe Child Act could change that.
Andrew Willis, founder of the Stop Abuse Campaign, and Barry Goldstein, nationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate, will discuss the Safe Child Act, being considered in several state legislatures as a requirement for child custody decisions. Join us as we talk about how this act could help protective parents, dependent children and the social justice system.
WHAT’S NEW ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?
Is it domestic violence, or intimate partner violence, or gendered violence? Or is it domestic abuse? Is it just between partners or in sexual relationships? What about when parents or relatives are abused? What IS it anyway? And why do the names keep changing? Are we still talking about the same thing? What have we learned and how have we changed when broaching the topic of domestic violence?
Ivonne Ortiz from the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence joins us for a conversation about names, understandings, and what we know and see differently about domestic violence as we’ve worked to eliminate it over the last 25 years. Does the name matter? Does our definition change as the names change? And even with a different name, does domestic violence still feel the same for victims and survivors.
It’s a good conversation, and a good way to get back to basics about a topic that affects all of us in one way or another.
First airing Saturday, November11, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
GENDER AND THE LAW
Do you think of women and law only when it comes to family law, reproductive rights, domestic violence and employment? Most folks always have thought that these are the only areas of law of particular interest to women. But Katherine Bartlett, professor of law at Duke, thinks otherwise.
She says that genderedness affects all areas of the law, and that the way it is structured legitimatizes inequality and oppression.
Bartlett teaches family law, employment discrimination law, gender and law, and contracts; and publishes widely in the fields of family law, gender theory, employment law, theories of social change, and legal education. She is coauthor of the leading casebook in the area of gender law.
Find out what she has to say about the law, where it’s been, where it is going, and what gender has to do with it all.
First airing Saturday, November 4, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
Katharine T. Bartlett, A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, served as Dean of Duke Law School from 2000-2007. She teaches family law, employment discrimination law, gender and law, and contracts, and publishes widely in the fields of family law, gender theory, employment law, theories of social change, and legal education. She has the leading casebook (with Deborah Rhode) in the area of gender law.
Professor Bartlett served as a reporter for the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (2002), for which she was responsible for the provisions relating to child custody. For her work on this project, she was named R. Ammi Cutter Chair in 1998.
Professor Bartlett earned her degrees at Wheaton College, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Before coming to Duke, she was a law clerk on the California Supreme Court and a legal services attorney in Oakland, California. She has been a visiting professor at UCLA and at Boston University, a scholar in residence at New York University School of Law and Columbia Law School, and a fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Professor Bartlett has received numerous honors over the years. In 1994, she won the University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award at Duke University. She was awarded Equal Justice Works' Dean John R. Kramer Award (“Dean of the Year”) for “leadership in public service in legal education” in 2006 and received an honorary doctorate from Wheaton College in 2008
EXPERT WITNESSES: HOW BIAS AND UNRELIABILITY CAN AFFECT YOUR COURT CASE
Anyone who watches TV, or goes through a custody battle, or knows someone who has tangled with the courts, knows what an expert witness is. Called forensic experts, they are the ones who tell the court the deep-seated truth about the parties, right? Well, turns out they disagree, can be biased, and are generally unreliable, according to a recent study of psychologists.
Lucy Guarnera, ABD, is one author of the research that found that training and standards are lacking, and bias toward the side that is paying them is a serious problem. Guarnera is a PhD candidate at University of Virginia, and has received grants from the American Psychology-Law Association, The American Academy of Forensic Psychology, The National Science Foundation and others to conduct her research.
Join us as we talk about expert witnesses and the courts.
HOW DOES A VICTIM MAKE THE DECISION TO LEAVE?
A lot of time and energy has been spent trying to figure out intimate partner violence, and one of the biggest questions we still have is: what prompts a victim to leave? Is it a pivotal event, is it social support, is it police intervention? Is the decision to leave predictable and forseeable?
Dr. David Katerndahl and his associate Johanna Becho carried out a series of studies to try to answer those questions, and they found out some interesting things.
Dr. Katerndahl, a family physician and tenured Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is known for his research on panic disorders, depression and family violence. He was the Principal Investigator on three National Science Foundation-funded projects addressing the Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence. Becho is a bilingual research associate in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at UTHSCSA. She is a graduate of the Family, Couples and Individual Psychotherapy program in the Department of Psychology at Our Lady of the Lake University, and distinguishes herself for the caring and ethical recruitment of subjects and collection of data.
Join us as they reveal what they discovered in their series of investigations, how that information adds to what we know about IPV and how it could ultimately victims.
FEMINISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Feminists wore bustles, marched for the vote, burned their bras and demanded equality. So is it mission accomplished? Why are some women rejecting feminism? Why are some men embracing it? What role does feminism play today, and what does it mean to be a feminist in the 21st Centruy?
Lisa Levey, diversity consultant, advocate for men in the gender debates, and author of the book, Libra Solution, joins us for a rousing discussion of feminism today, what it meant, what it means and where it stands in the world and in individual lives today.
First airing Saturday, October 14, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
It’s no secret to those who experience or work with intimate partner violence, that the violence often creeps (or crashes) into the workplace, either directly or indirectly by affecting the environment, the interactions, and the well-being of workers. But what do we do about it? Especially employers?
Workplaces Respond helps. It was created by Futures Without Violence, and helps with resources, education, and technical assistance to employers, survivors, co-workers and advocates to help create safer work places. Attorney Linda Seabrook, formerly with the U.S. Department of Justice, leads a number of legal programs and initiatives for Futures Without Violence, and she will join us to talk about creating safer workplaces free from domestic and sexual violence and stalking.
First airing Saturday, October 7, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
WHO’S LAUGHING AT THAT? SEXIST HUMOR
We’ve all heard the sexist jokes, the (really!) rape jokes, the humor that has some laughing and some biting their tongues. If we don’t laugh, we have no sense of humor. If we do laugh, are we betraying ourselves or someone else?
Nalyn Srwattanakomen has the research to back up a conversation about sexist humor and who it hurts, and whether it really is harmless. She earned her B.A. in Psychology at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, PA. with research that has focused on issues affecting women, most notably the effects of sexist humor on attitudes and behaviors toward women. Her research interests include social factors that influence decision making, prejudice formation, educational interventions, and various facets of health psychology such as decision making surrounding end-of-life care.
Join us as we talk about what’s funny, what’s not and who it benefits and hurts.
First airing Saturday, September 23, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
TREATING TRAUMATIZED KIDS: WHY YOU SHOULD CARE
Death, family violence, abuse, bullying…it’s all traumatic, and it will happen in one form or another to more than two-thirds of American kids by the time they are 16. Some will figure out how to live with it, some won’t, but all will likely carry long-term effects in behavior, coping, physical health, and psychological health, into adulthood.
So how do we help them?
Dr. Anthony Mannarino and his colleagues have developed a therapy that can work – and there’s evidence to prove it. Mannarino is a professor at the Drexel University College of Medicine and vice-chair of the department of psychiatry at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, and he has years worth of follow up studies that show the Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach works. And that benefits not only the patients, but also friends, family and society in general.
Join us as we discuss kids and trauma, TF-CBT, and resources for families in need.
THE SAFE CHILD ACT
Would you be surprised to know that there is no law that says a judge has to make a kid’s health and safety the first priority when determining custody in a divorce?
Every day judges decide where a child will live when the parents divorce. It’s always a tough decision, and most people make the most of it because they care about their kids. Often they get it wrong, with disastrous results. And those children may be forced to live with someone who has abused or sexually assaulted them.
Andrew Willis, founder of the Stop Abuse Campaign, and Barry Goldstein, nationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate, will join us to talk about the Safe Child Act. This act, being considered by state legislatures in Hawaii, Pennsylvania, New York, Texas, Utah and Washington, would make child health and safety the first priority in determining custody.
Andrew was born in Hong Kong went to school in Great Britain and has not stopped travelling ever since. Following time in the British Army, where he reached the rank of Captain, he spent his life practicing integrated marketing communications and marketing, mostly for global brands. He has been recognized with both creative and marketing effectiveness awards and is a frequent speaker at conferences.
Barry Goldstein is a nationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate. He is co-chair of the child custody task group for NOMAS and serves as Director of Research for the Stop Abuse Campaign. Barry Goldstein is the author of the Safe Child Act which is a comprehensive proposal to make family courts safe for children. He is the author of 5 of the leading books about domestic violence and child custody including The Quincy Solution: Stop Domestic Violence and Save $500 Billion.
Join us as we air the show for the first time on Saturday,
EXPERT WITNESSES: HOW BIAS AND UNRELIABILITY CAN AFFECT YOUR COURT CASE
Anyone who watches TV, or goes through a custody battle, or knows someone who has tangled with the courts, knows what an expert witness is. Called forensic experts, they are the ones who tell the court the deep-seated truth about the parties, right? Well, turns out they disagree, can be biased, and are generally unreliable, according to a recent study of psychologists.
Lucy Guarnera, ABD, is one author of the research that found that training and standards are lacking, and bias toward the side that is paying them is a serious problem. Guarnera is a PhD candidate at University of Virginia, and has received grants from the American Psychology-Law Association, The American Academy of Forensic Psychology, The National Science Foundation and others to conduct her research.
Join us as we talk about expert witnesses and the courts.
First airing Saturday, September 2, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
GRIEF, GRIEVING AND RITUALS: WHY WE ALL NEED THEM
We all know that grieving is something you do for a while after someone dies, and then you move on, right? Well, maybe not. What if grief has just as much to do with lost opportunity, what we expected but did not receive, and even sorrow in the larger world? What if grief isn’t something to get through, but rather an enriching part of life?
Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist who authored The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief. He founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from traditional cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western cultures. And he advocates learning to live with and process our grief and sorrow.
Join us as we discuss sorrow and grieving, untouched and unacknowledged loss, and the skill of grief.
First airing Saturday, August 26, at 11 AM Pacific Time and available thereafter through the archive at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
A WAR STORY
A war. A foreign country. A prisoner. An escape. An adventure. A journalist. A story of heroism, life and death, and history.
Now admit it. You pictured at least one man (or more) as you read those words. But this story is about women, and the forgotten or never told stories of their lives. And another woman who wrote about one of those stories.
Julia Airey lives in Washington, D.C. where she as a technology reporter and associated editor for a foreign policy site. In her free time she writes articles about how millennials can enter the work force, and runs a blog breaking down complicated legal news.
While studying in the Netherlands, Julia led a data journalism investigation into sexual health on campus, and advocated for student housing. She was also an assistant English teacher at a bilingual high school and helped lead camping trips in Wales.
It was during this time in the Netherlands that Julia met Martha Anschuetz, whose story she retells in "At One Time,” a war story you have never heard.
Join us as we talk about Martha, Julia, and women’s stories.
Saturday at 11 AM Pacific time, or go to the website anytime to listen to all our archived programs at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
FINANCIAL ABUSE: ONE WOMAN’S STORY
When most people hear the words “domestic violence,” they think of broken bones and bruises. Some people are aware that intimate partner abuse comes in many forms, from verbally degrading a partner, to isolation, to all kinds of control. One of those forms of control is financial abuse.
Unless you have experienced financial abuse and control, it is really hard to grasp the impact of it. Controllers control, and they can interfere with a woman’s ability to get to work, or look for a job, or interfere with her employer or work performance until she gets fired. Sometimes abusers apply for credit cards in the victim’s name without their knowing about it; sometimes they run up huge debts, or cancel accounts or credit cards without telling the victim. And often that control continues after divorce, after kids grow up, and even when the victim has no money to gain control over.
That’s what happened with Coral Anika Theill, author of “BONSHEÁ Making Light of the Dark” which has been used as a college text. She is also a contributing writer for Leatherneck Magazine and Short Rations for Marines. Her October 2011 Leatherneck Magazine article, "Invisible Battle Scars: Confronting the Stigma Associated with PTS & TBI," is cited in the U.S. Army War College "Psychological Health Notes." She is a recipient of the Lester Granger Award from the National Montford Point Marine Association and a Writer's Award from iUniverse Publishing Company.
Join us as Coral tells us her story of abuse during her marriage and her continued financial abuse after her divorce.
HOW FAMILY COURTS TREAT ABUSE AND ACCUSATIONS OF ALIENATION
Some divorcing fathers say family courts are prejudiced against them when it comes to deciding child custody. Some divorcing mothers say they are punished when they reveal violence and sexual abuse, especially of the children. Judges say they are fair and equitable always. But are they?
Some research has been revealing evidence that should make us all leery of custody decisions. One brand new study found some astounding information, and one of the authors will let us in on what she discovered.
Joan S. Meier is a professor of Clinical Law at George Washington University Law School, and Founder and Legal Director of the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment and Appeals Project (DV LEAP). She is a nationally recognized expert on domestic violence and the law, appellate litigation, and clinical law teaching and has founded programs to provide legal representation, advocacy, and counseling to victims of domestic violence. Professor Meier has co-written several significant pieces of federal and state legislation, and frequently delivers presentations and trainings to attorneys, judges, and professional organizations.
Join us as she talks about what her hot-off-the-presses research study reveals about how judges in family court made decisions about child custody when there are allegations of abuse and alienation.
Go to the website at 11 AM Pacific Time, August 5, to hear the show as it first airs, and go anytime to listen this or all our archived programs at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR HOTEL ROOM AND HELP CATCH A SEX TRAFFICKER
You travel to a great hotel (or a not so great one) and you snap a couple pictures to send back home to the folks. Did you know that if you send them to the Exchange Initiative, those pictures could be used as part of a massive database designed to catch sex traffickers? Turns out that about 40% of trafficking occurs inside hotels and motels. The photos can be used to locate victims, and it’s all done with an app that came out a few months ago.
UNICEF has determined that at least 300,000 American kids and 1.2 million kids worldwide are trafficked and prostituted each year.
Kimberly Ritter, director for development for Exchange Initiative, is a veteran of the meeting planning industry where she specializes in large event planning and where she became aware of the huge problem with human trafficking. She now works with her company and clients to educate, empower, and engage individuals and organizations with real resources to help put an end to sex trafficking. One of the ways they do that is with a Smartphone app, TRAFFICKCAM, which lets travelers capture hotel room images with their camera phone, and upload those images to a database that then enables investigators to match photos being searched online for missing children. UNICEF has determined that at least 300,000 American kids and 1.2 million kids worldwide are trafficked and prostituted each year.
Join us as she shares her expertise, her knowledge and the technology being used to counteract human trafficking and learn how you can help with just your smartphone.
Go to the website at 11 AM Pacific Time, July 29, to hear the show as it first airs, and go anytime to listen this or all our archived programs at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
WOMEN AND POVERTY: HOW BAD IS IT?
Does poverty have a gender? People are poor for a number of reasons, from bad luck to poor planning and everything in between. But it hits everyone about the same, right? Well, maybe not. And maybe the results of poverty vary as much as the reasons for it. And maybe women shoulder a larger share of it all.
Legal Momentum Gender Justice Fellow Seher Khawaja focuses on developing strategies to address employment discrimination and to advance gender equality in the workplace. She served as an attorney for the New York City Housing Authority, where she developed policy on affordable housing, advised on legislative and regulatory reform, and ensured legal compliance, including implementing the Violence Against Women Act, and worked with organizations in Burma, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, South Africa, and the United States on a range of human rights issues, including gender-based violence. Seher is an active member of the New York City Bar Association’s Human Rights and United Nations Committees, has served as an editor on several academic journals.
Join us as we discuss the prevalence, causes, and effects of poverty for women.
Go to the website at 11 AM Pacific Time, July 22, to hear the show as it first airs, and go anytime to listen this or all our archived programs at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
THIS ONE’S FOR THE DOGS: ASSITANCE, SERVICE, COMPANION AND THE DIFFERENCE THEY MAKE
We’ve all seen the dog with the vest, and most of us appreciate how they help the disabled get along. But maybe not those “fake” service dogs for people who have no visible disability. Right? Or not.
Marcie Davis describes herself as a transformation agent, thought leader, businesswoman, public speaker, and assistance dog advocate. As a paraplegic for more than 40 years she has been partnered with service dogs for more than twenty years. She’s written a book, “Working Like Dogs: The Service Dog Guidebook,” founded International Assistance Dog Week, and has a radio show on Pet Life Radio.
Join us as we discuss what dogs can do for us, people’s reactions to working dogs, the joys and the outrages of having a working dog in our world today.
Go to the website at 11 AM Pacific to hear the show as it first airs, and go anytime to listen to all our archived programs at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
Picture yourself a little girl whose parents are divorcing. Scary enough, right? But now picture that social workers accuse your mom of turning you against your dad, and you are ripped away from you mother for thenext six years. Now picture yourself a grown-up woman who has just been awarded more than $6 million beause of that outrage.
That is the situation with a California woman, and it may just be an award that will change things for thousands of children across the country. Barry Goldstein, a nationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate; and Paul Griffin, Legal Director for Child Justice and practicing lawyer in Maryland and the District of Columbia, join us to talk about this award, the case, how it might change custody decisions, and why it really matters.
ONLINE THERAPY- REALLY?!
You see ads all over for online, texting, and other types of "modern" counseling and therapy. But how appropriate, effective and helpful is such therapy?
C. Vail Wright, PhD, is Director, Research and Special Projects with the American Psychological Association in Washington, DC. In that role she focuses on the development and implementation of programs and policies related to expanding opportunities for professional psychologists. Samuel Lustgarten is a doctoral candidate in counseling psychology at the University of Iowa. His studies have centered on the use of technology among practitioners. Specifically, he's published two journal articles in Professional Psychology: Research and Practice and American Psychologist regarding ethical and legal considerations for engaging in cloud-based and televideo technologies, respectively.
Go to the website anytime to listen to all our archived programs at www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways.
Police families are not immune to the violence and terror of intimate partner abuse, yet few departments have any specific policies to address domestic violence complaints when their own officers are involved.
Join us when Judith Spitzer talks about police and DV. Judith Spitzer is an award-winning journalist, columnist and online producer. She has worked for many newspapers large and small including The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post, The Oregonian’s OregonLive.com, The Daily World, and many others.
As editor of a monthly woman’s news magazine in Denver, she wrote several investigative pieces including a story on Denver Police harassment of female officers as well as a story on the Aurora Police Dept. regarding their handling of domestic violence cases and others.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR FAMILY COURTS?
Abuse through the courts, revictimization, parental alienation, women lie, children given to abusers, judges who think that just because a woman is frantic there is something wrong with her, guardians ad litem, lawyers, psychologists, and a system that arguably makes more things worse than it makes them better, So what’s going on in our family courts?
Two experts who really know the experiences, the reasons, and the truth behind the crisis in the family courts join us for an in-depth look at where we are, how we got there, and what we can do about it.
Barry Goldstein, co-author of “Representing the Domestic Violence Survivor,” and author of “Scared to Leave Afraid to Stay,” among other books and articles, has been an attorney, educator and expert witness in domestic violence and custody cases. His latest book, “The Quincy Solution” Stop Domestic Violence and Save $500 Billion,” details reducing domestic violence. Maralee McLean is a child advocate, protective parent, domestic violence expert, and author of PROSECUTED BUT NOT SILENCED: Courtroom Reform for Sexually Abused Children. Her work has been published in the ABA Child Law Journal, Women’s E-News and other publications on the problems of family courts not protecting abused children.
Both will discuss the problems with family court and family court judges on our next show.
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WEST MEETS EAST IN PSYCHOLOGY CARE
Depression, PTSD, bipolar disorder, fertility issues…all call for a certain drugs and treatments, right? Well, not necessarily. Although most practitioners use traditional methods to treat such problems, some are venturing into adding to the usual methods by including alternative treatments like acupuncture, homeopathy, craniosacral therapy, Chinese medicine and others in the mix when it comes to treating a variety of not only physical issues, but also psychological ones.
Dr. Paula King, a general clinical psychologist, works with an organization called Healing Horizons to treat all sorts of conditions with a broad mix of traditional and alternative methods.
Her background includes a doctorate in Psychology and Adult Education from Arizona State University, coaching certification from the Hudson Institute, certification as an interactive imagery guide from the Academy for Guided Imagery, a bachelor’s degree in physical education, over 25 years’ experience in a general psychology practice and 10 years as a performance specialist working with professional and amateur athletes. In addition, Dr. King authored “A Trust Walk: Mindful Golf”, and her articles have often appeared in The Arizona Republic and a variety of national magazines.
Join us as we discuss new and old approaches to treating psychological conditions that plague us.
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FORGIVENESS: DO WE NEED IT?
You hurt my feelings, you feel bad, I forgive you and all’s right with the world again. At least that’s how we are led to believe it all works. Not only does the forgiveness free me from the burden of feeling bad, it frees you from the guilt. Really? Well, maybe.
What does forgiveness really accomplish? Do we need it? How do we forgive? And are there different kinds of forgiveness?
Everett Worthington, Ph.D., is Commonwealth Professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, joins us to talk the power and the problems with forgiveness. He is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in Virginia and has published more than 35 books and 400 articles and scholarly chapters, mostly on forgiveness, positive psychology, marriage, family, religion, and spirituality.
Join us as we discuss forgiveness.
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OUTDOOR ADVENTURE WITHOUT THE PLANNING: TRAVEL GROUPS FOR WOMEN
When women want adventure, they have some choices. They can sign up for a new class, they can learn a new skill, try baking something amazing…or they can book a travel experience just for women. Over the last several years, more and more women only, outdoor experience and adventure travel companies have sprung up, offering visits from national parks to the Himalayas.
What’s up with that?
Marian Marbury, president of Adventures in Good Company, started as a guide taking women’s groups to places like Africa, Asia, and Latin America to kayak, backpack and generally get outdoors and enjoy. After twelve years of that, she started her own company helping women get outside, challenge themselves, and bond over campfires and new situations. But don’t think for a moment it’s only the athletic young women who have turned to the wilderness for recreation and growth. All ages and skill levels are turning to outdoor adventures within the safety and camaraderie of travelling with other women.
Join us as we discuss the trend for women’s outdoor adventure and travel groups. It just might be for you!
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PREGNANT ADOLESCENTS: VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS OF INTIMATE ABUSE
There’s a lot of research about pregnant adolescents, and a lot of research about Intimate Partner Violence with teens, but what about the pregnant adolescent as a perpetrator of IPV? What about pregnant adolescents as victims of IPV? Is it a wide spread problem? What causes it? Is it different from other forms of IPV? And does it have any special meaning for their children and babies?
Dr. Ruth Buzi is an Associate Professor and Director of Social Services at Baylor College of Medicine Teen Health Clinics and has carried out numerous studies and implemented various programs related to adolescent health.
Join us as we discuss pregnant adolescents as perpetrators and victims of intimate abuse.
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THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF FAMILY COURT ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN
We know the family court experience can bring all of us to our knees emotionally, but what about economically? Most people who go through a divorce admit it can drain them financially, but going through a contentious divorce, with abuse, or custody battles thrown in, can be devastating. Is that devastation worse for women and children?
Authors Maralee McLean and Penelope Bryan join us to discuss the economic impact of family court on women and children. Penelope Bryan is Dean of the Law School of Denver Sturm College of Law where she taught family law and civil procedure for nearly 20 years. Her scholarship offers a unique blend of knowledge about family law and about the psychology and social condition of women and children, particularly those ensnared in family law courts. She has written Constructive Divorce: Procedural Justice and Sociolegal Reform.
Maralee, author of Prosecuted but Not Silenced: Courtroom Reform for Sexually Abused Children, has been published in the ABA Child Law Journal, Women’s E-News and other publications. She has testified before Congress about judicial accountability and is a national speaker and advocate for the protection of sexually abused children’s rights in courts.
Join us as we discuss the economic impact of family courts on women and children.
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GENDER, PSYCHOLOGY, AND JUSTICE: WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Women who have contact with the criminal justice system often have experiences quite different from their male counterparts. But how different? And why? Is it different in criminal courts and family courts? And what about race, class and sexual orientation – do they contribute to how a person is treated or the outcomes of courts? And what does it all mean?
Finally, some researchers have looked into how gender intersects with all these factors to impact how women and girls are treated in and by the justice system.
Authors Corinne C. Datchi and Julie R. Ancis collaborated in looking at not only data but personal stories to write their book, Gender, Psychology, and Justice. Ancis is Associate Vice President for Institute Diversity at the Georgia Institute of Technology. And has researched the area of multicultural competence and mental health. She is Past Chair of the Society of Counseling Psychology’s Section for the Advancement of Women. Datchi, Assistant Professor in the Professional Psychology and Family Therapy Department at Seton Hall University, is a private practice psychologist. She researches criminal justice populations.
Join us as we discuss how courts make outdated assumptions that hurt women and girls from first contact to sentencing to family court decisions.
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A WAR STORY
A war. A foreign country. A prisoner. An escape. An adventure. A journalist. A story of heroism, life and death, and history.
Now admit it. You pictured at least one man (or more) as you read those words. But this story is about women, and the forgotten or never told stories of their lives. And another woman who wrote about one of those stories.
Julia Airey lives in Washington, D.C. where she as a technology reporter and associated editor for a foreign policy site. In her free time she writes articles about how millennials can enter the work force, and runs a blog breaking down complicated legal news.
While studying in the Netherlands, Julia led a data journalism investigation into sexual health on campus, and advocated for student housing. She was also an assistant English teacher at a bilingual high school and helped lead camping trips in Wales.
It was during this time in the Netherlands that Julia met Martha Anschuetz, whose story she retells in "At One Time,” a war story you have never heard.
Join us as we talk about Martha, Julia, and women’s stories.
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WHEN ACES HIGH IS A BAD THING: ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES
There was a time when people believed that children are resilient and that if something bad happened to them, they would just be able to adapt and grow up and get on with their lives. Besides, there weren’t that many traumatic things that could happen to kids anyway.
Then the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study revealed a major problem with that thinking. Turns out there are multiple traumatic experiences that can and frequently do, happen to children and they commonly lead to adults with mental problems, chronic diseases, and who are victimized and victimizers.
In the nearly 20 years since the ACE Study came out, how has the information been used and adapted; how have policies changed; and do we see courts, institutions, organizations, and therapists who have changed policies and procedures because of this astounding research?
Vincent J. Felitti, MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Senior Editor of the Permanente Journal, advisor to numerous professional organizations and associations, and one of the two principal investigators of the ACE study will share with us how the study came about, what it revealed, and how it has or has not changed the way we care for children. Joining him will be Jane Ellen Stevens, founder and publisher of the ACEs Connection Network, focus on research about adverse childhood experiences, and how people are implementing trauma-informed and resilience-building practices based on that research.
Join us as we discuss the ACE Study and what it means.
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WOMEN AND POLITICS: VOTING, RUNNING, LEADING
It’s been pretty much politics 24 – 7 for the last months, but only a small part of the conversations have been about women actually participating in the process. Are women voting, running, winning office? What is happening with women’s political leadership?
Pew Research came out with a report on why women aren’t running, let alone winning. Consultant Cathy Allen can tell us first hand whether that is what she has seen as someone who has helped recruit, train and elect more than a thousand women all over the world. She is one of the first international political consultants to focus on electing women, and worked on Hillary Clinton’s recent (and past) campaign where she focused on turnout, messaging to women, volunteering and endorsements, among other tasks. President of Seattle-based business, The Connections Group, Cathy is a frequent TV, radio and online political commentator and has written four books on running successful campaigns.
Join us as we discuss women and politics.
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WHY DOESN’T HE HELP WITH HOUSEWORK? MAYBE IT’S YOU
It’s an age-old complaint: men don’t do their share of housework and child care. But maybe it’s not just because they won’t. Maybe it’s because women resist it.
Sounds like an old Phyllis Schlafley idea (Google it, kids). We women work hard and we want men to help pull the domestic weight. But consultant Lisa D’Annolfo Levey, a national advocate for the importance of men in the gender dialogue, has found that women may be unconsciously viewing that help as an intrusion.
Levey has a background in management and economics, and is an expert on gender diversity. She’s consulted with leading corporations and organizations about the evolution of gender roles and making both men and women partners in personal and professional work. Her book, “The Libra Solution: Shedding Excess and Redefining Success at Work and at Home,” is about creating new gender norms.
Find out how women may be pushing back against one of the things we say we want most, why we may be doing it, and how that can change, as Levey talks about how gender equality can be less talk and more reality.
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IS IT THE TRUTH, A STRATEGY OR A DIRTY TRICK? The tactics abusers use in family court.
Anyone who watched TV knows that courts can be a nasty place for those involved in litigation. But those who have seen Family Court cases where abusers are involved in a divorce or a custody battle, know that it can often go beyond nasty into downright terror. And that is no accident. So what tactics do abusers use in court, how do they get their lawyers to help, and why do some judges allow it?
All tough questions, but Dr. Karin Huffer will help us sort it out.
Karin, author of “Unlocking Justice” and “legal Abuse Syndrome,” has been a family therapist for more than 20 years, and and is an expert in PTSD and Legal Abuse Syndrome. She currently heads up the Equal Access Advocacy program at John Jay University, and has seen her share of brutal court cases. She says that too often the courts, bad judges and bad lawyers prevent a good outcome.
Join us as we talk about the tricks, the strategies, and effects of abusive litigation.
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CYBER STALKING, CYBER HARRASSMENT- ILLEGAL? MAYBE
Do you know the difference between cyber stalking and cyber harassment? Do you know how often it is used? Or the devastating effect it can have on your life? Elaine Davies does.
Davies, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Communication, and theatre at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, has done extensive research in all areas of communication including that in romantic relationships, destructive communication, and the use of technological devices for those purposes. Her past work appears in journals such as Human Communication, The Journal of Business Communication, and Communication Quarterly. Most recently, she contributed a chapter to the 2016 book Contexts of the Dark Side of Communication published by Peter Lang.
And she knows just how that technology can be used to hurt, control and terrorize, and what, if anything, is being done about it. Join us as Davies tells us about cyber stalking and harassment.
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POWER AND CONTROL IN FAMILY COURTS
Anyone who has ever gotten a divorce knows that courts are intimidating places. Anyone who has ever divorced an abuser knows courts can do a lot more than just intimidate. They can destroy your life and sense of reality.
The dynamics of abuse between intimate partners spill into legal proceedings, revictimize spouses and children and cause harm that costs individuals and society dearly. How can this happen?
That’s what Dr. Julie Ancis researches, and she has some pretty alarming findings.
Ancis is Associate Vice President for Institute Diversity at Georgia Institute of Technology, is an Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychology, and has authored many publications. Her co-edited book with Corinne Datchi entitled Gender, Psychology and Justice: The Mental Health of Women and Girls in the Legal System with NYU press, is due for imminent release.
Join us as we talk about guardians ad litem, gender bias in family court, bogus psychological theories and assumptions that are harming women and children, and racking up big costs for them and for society as a whole.
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SHE’S THE CRAZY ONE: HOW ABUSERS DANCE WITH MENTAL HEALTH
Mental health professionals are a valued and necessary part of our world and they can do a lot of good. But what happens when the idea of mental health, mental illness, and even the professionals who help us, are used and exploited to make things worse for those victimized by domestic violence?
Rachel Graber has worked in human services for seven years as a school counselor, an intern at Meskwaki Child and Victims Services, and a public policy intern at the Women’s Resource and Action Center. She leads the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence legislative affairs in Washington, DC. She sits on the National Task Force to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, a national public policy collaboration between violence against women organizations, organizes NCADV Congressional briefings and legislative events, lobbies Congress on issues related to gender based violence, and helps mobilize efforts to influence national legislation aimed at protecting and providing safe alternatives for victims of domestic violence.
And she knows that exploiting mental health resources and professionals is often a way abusers control, win, and further victimize others.
Join us as we talk about how a perpetrator can use and abuse mental health resources, definitions, and perceptions.
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EMOTIONAL ABUSE- WHAT DOES IT MEAN, HOW DOES IT MATTER?
If your spouse says something to hurt your feelings, is that emotional abuse? It’s a phrase we hear often, but rarely hear exactly what it means. And if someone says something nasty, why can’t we just suck it up and let it slide off our backs? After all, there are no broken bones or black eyes involved in emotional slights. Or is it that simple?
Anna Marie Askin-Evans is a resident in marriage and family therapy and helps people deal with a variety of painful and traumatic events that do more than hurt; they can rip away value and cause pain that never goes away. She will help us define emotional abuse, recognize it, and share approaches to living with it and moving past it.
Join us as we talk about core hurts and vulnerabilities, and the words that can damage every bit as much as the proverbial sticks and stones.
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FORGIVENESS: DO WE NEED IT?
You hurt my feelings, you feel bad, I forgive you and all’s right with the world again. At least that’s how we are led to believe it all works. Not only does the forgiveness free me from the burden of feeling bad, it frees you from the guilt. Really? Well, maybe.
What does forgiveness really accomplish? Do we need it? How do we forgive? And are there different kinds of forgiveness?
Everett Worthington, Ph.D., is Commonwealth Professor in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University, joins us to talk the power and the problems with forgiveness. He is a licensed Clinical Psychologist in Virginia and has published more than 35 books and 400 articles and scholarly chapters, mostly on forgiveness, positive psychology, marriage, family, religion, and spirituality.
Join us as we discuss forgiveness.
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SPIRITUALITY AND TRAUMA: THE LINK THAT MAY BE OVERLOOKED
There are many ways to help survivors, from medication to visualization to just being there. But for those who have experienced trauma, many of these approaches may be missing the boat when it comes to helping survivors make sense of their pain.
A new book, “Trauma, Meaning, and Spirituality: Translating Research into Clinical Practice,” may offer a different perspective.
Authors Crystal Park, PhD, and Joseph Currier, PhD, say that there is a relationship between trauma and spirituality that can help not only with assessment of survivors, but also with treatment. Park, with the University of Connecticut Department of Psychology, has done extensive research on the multiple aspects of coping with stressful events, and what brings meaning to those events for survivors. Currier is Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Combined Clinical & Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of South Alabama. His research focuses on psychological, spiritual/existential, and physical health consequences of military trauma and other stressful life events.
Join us as we discuss the link between spirituality and trauma.
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THE FEMALE VETERAN: HOMELESS WITH A DIFFERENCE
Picture a veteran – a homeless veteran. Is he tall? Short? bearded, clean shaven? Or did you picture her a woman? What you saw in your mind probably isn’t a complete picture and it probably doesn’t reflect gender differences when it comes to vets.
Lily Casura knows all about those gender differences. Casura, a long time journalist and veterans’ advocate, not only writes about veterans, she started the first website about combat vets and PTSD. Casura is a graduate student in public policy, has received numerous awards and honors, and is a Harvard graduate. And she is an author, writer and lecturer on veteran’s issues.
She joins us Saturday to talk about the picture we have of veterans, especially female veterans, and the reality.
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WHO NEEDS AN ADVOCATE AND HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM ONE?
The word “advocate” is all over the place – we advocate for justice, we want an advocate when we go to court – we even see advocacy in the titles of college courses! But what is advocacy, what is an advocate, and why does it matter?
Mai Fernandez has been executive director of the National Center for Victims of Crime since 2010 and has extensive experience with victim-related work not only at the local level, but also nationally. She’s been a national media-spokesperson on crime victims’ rights, and has managed programs that serve victims of child abuse, sex trafficking, and gang violence. Her credentials include serving as the Assistant District Attorney for New York County, helping victims navigate the criminal justice system and pleading their cases before the court.
Ms. Fernandez will join us to shed some light on victim advocacy - what we mean by the term, what it encompasses, why it is needed, how available it is, how costly it is, how it helps, and how it is different for different situations.
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WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT THE PROBLEM WITH FAMILY COURT?
The court tells you their father must see your kids, but CPS tells you they will take away the kids if you don’t protect them from him. His lawyers say you are alienating the children because they don’t want to go see their dad. The judge says you are just being hostile when you say the kids are afraid of him. The kids cry and ask you to help them. Your friends and neighbors want to know what you did wrong and why you are being so nasty to your ex. Sound like a soap opera? Well, it’s a soap opera thousands of women face every day dealing with family court.
The traps, the fears, the frustrations and the anguish protective parents and children often face in family courts are situations advocates and experts alike continue to see and continue to try to remedy. But how?
Hear how individuals and organizations are taking different approaches to tackle the problems with custody and family courts. Maralee McLean is a child advocate and domestic violence expert, who authored “Prosecuted but Not Silenced: Courtroom Reform for Sexually Abused Children. She has written for ABA Child Law Journal, Women’s E-News, and other publications on the problems of family courts not protecting abused children, and has appeared on national television shows and other venues to help bring the message of what is happening in family courts to the public.
She will join us as we talk about the traps, the dangers, the hostilities and the anguish for protective mothers and what they are doing about it.
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HIS, HERS AND THEIRS: GENDER AND EDUCATION
Girl’s schools; boy’s schools – are they a good idea allowing for an educational environment that caters to the way different students learn? Or a well-intentioned throwback to sexism? And what do race and money have to do with it?
Experts Dr. Janet Hyde, researcher and professor, and Bill Ivey, Dean of the Middle School at Stoneleigh-Burnham school, each have different takes on the question of same-gender education. Join us as we discuss whether separating the boys from the girls has a place in education.
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FUNNY WOMEN: HUMOR AND THE X CHROMOSOME
Did you ever notice that men laugh at the Three Stooges more than women? Or that mrn say they want a woman with a sense of humor, but what they're really saying is that they want a woman who will laugh at their jokes? Preferably while her boobs are jiggling. Is there women’s humor? And what about all those women who make a living (or try to) of pointing out the laughable moments in all our lives? Is the business of humor funny? And is it different for the guys and the gals?
Veteran comedians Peggy Platt and Kristen Kirkham dish about their careers, the challenges for women in the business of being funny, and what makes us laugh.
Peggy Platt, the “Reigning Queen of Seattle Comedy,” has plied her trade as a noted performer, comedian, teacher, and artist in the Pacific Northwest. She is a winner of the Seattle Comedy Competition, a prolific author of full-length plays, and has toured with her stage shows all over the world, not to mention exotic locals like Indianapolis.
Kristen Kirkham started her comedy career working with Robin William's improv group in San Francisco, where the already recognized Williams, an accomplished comedy star, would often drop by unexpectedly to perform. She has performed varied comedy in numerous venues all over the world, but settled in Seattle to round out her career doing standup.
Join us as these women of comedy share experiences and insights into women and comedy.
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TAKE A PICTURE OF YOUR HOTEL ROOM AND HELP CATCH A SEX TRAFFICKER
You travel to a great hotel (or a not so great one) and you snap a couple pictures to send back home to the folks. Did you know that if you send them to the Exchange Initiative, those pictures could be used as part of a massive database designed to catch sex traffickers? Turns out that about 40% of trafficking occurs inside hotels and motels, and the photos can be used to locate victims, and it’s all done with an app that came out a few months ago.
Kimberly Ritter, director for development for Exchange Initiative, is a veteran of the meeting planning industry where she specializes in large event planning and where she became aware of the huge problem with human trafficking. UNICEF has determined that at least 300,000 American kids and 1.2 million kids worldwide are trafficked and prostituted each year. Ritter is a leading advocate against human trafficking.
Live at 11 AM Pacific time, or go to the website anytime deal about that and the app that’s going to help bring the planning and hotel industries together with advocates, police, and even travelers to fight this huge problem.
Join us as she shares her expertise, her knowledge and the technology being used to counteract human trafficking.
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WHAT’S FAITH GOT TO DO WITH IT? CHURCHES, SPIRITUALITY AND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
The number of women who first go to their clergy person seeking help for domestic violence is overwhelming. But what happens when they go there? Is there help, support, coercion, denial? Some research shows that many cleric beliefs gets in the way of helping victims, and very few religious leaders even get any education about intimate violence. So does religion help, hurt or frustrate those who see assistance for abuse?
Carolyn Scott Brown is Director of Learning and Resources for FaithTrust Institute. Her primary responsibilities include helping faith and community organizations develop a combination of resources and training services to achieve their organizational goals in prevention and intervention for domestic & sexual violence, child abuse, teen dating violence and ministerial misconduct. She also consults with both national and local community organizations as they partner with faith communities to respond effectively to domestic and sexual violence.
Carolyn will help us understand the cleric and religious response to domestic violence, how it can improve, and what we can do about it.
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS? OR SHELTER, CRISIS AND FEAR?
We’ve all heard there is more domestic violence during the holidays, but is that really true? Is there more assault, more victimization, more seeking shelter because of this time of year? How does this season affect victims, survivors and their families?
Adam Dodge, Legal Director with Laura’s House shelter in California, has seen changes and similarities across all times of year when it comes to intimate partner violence and its fallout. He has been involved in raising awareness about the issue as well as working as a lecturer and speaker on behalf of Laura’s House and on domestic violence in general.
Join us as we talk about the reality of this merry time of year when it comes to victims, shelters, services, and families.
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Intimate Partner Abuse, shootings, war...all and more are the kinds of trauma that can be the undoing for some people. Yet some victims can grow from the experience, can thrive, and even come out better than they were before? What make the difference and what can we do to help with growth after trauma?
Richard Tedeschi, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at Oakland University, has researched post traumatic growth. He will share his knowledge and experience about how we might even benefit after adversity.
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS? OR SHELTER, CRISIS AND FEAR?
We’ve all heard there is more domestic violence during the holidays, but is that really true? Is there more assault, more victimization, more seeking shelter because of this time of year? How does this season affect victims, survivors and their families?
Adam Dodge, Legal Director with Laura’s House shelter in California, has seen changes and similarities across all times of year when it comes to intimate partner violence and its fallout. He has been involved in raising awareness about the issue as well as working as a lecturer and speaker on behalf of Laura’s House and on domestic violence in general.
Join us as we talk about the reality of this merry time of year when it comes to victims, shelters, services, and families.
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WOMEN IN JAIL: OVERLOOKED AND EVER-GROWING
Women in prison are often perceived as the prostitutes, the "bad girls," the drug addicts. It's easy to just look at the labels without digging deeper to learn who are the women behind bars, what led them there, and what domestic violence has to do with their incarceration. And it's easy to overlook the fact that the number of women incarcerated is growing at a faster rate than any other jailed population.
Elizabeth Swavola, Senior Program Associate, Sentencing and Corrections, has a history of advocating for improved responses to violence against women, and she co-founded an organization to help those returning home from prison. Taylar Nuevelle is a writer and advocate for justice involved women who founded the "Who Speaks for Me?" project which ties trauma to prison for women. She was also incarcerated for five years. Her writings have been published in the Washington Post and The Nation, among others.
Join us Saturday as we discuss women in prison and a new report Swavola helped author, "Overlooked: Women and Jails in an Era of Reform."
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HIS, HERS AND THEIRS: GENDER AND EDUCATION
Girl’s schools; boy’s schools – are they a good idea allowing for an educational environment that caters to the way different students learn? Or a well-intentioned throwback to sexism? And what do race and money have to do with it?
Experts Dr. Janet Hyde, researcher and professor, and Bill Ivey, Dean of the Middle School at Stoneleigh-Burnham school, each have different takes on the question of same-gender education. Join us as we discuss whether separating the boys from the girls has a place in education.
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WOMEN’S VOICES; WOMEN’S WORDS
You’ve probably heard it, but it bears repeating: “For most of history, anonymous was a woman.” Virginia Wolfe’s observation holds true when it comes to women’s voices and women’s quotes- too often they’ve been anonymous. One woman, however, is dedicating her life to making sure all those female excerpts aren’t lost or forgotten.
Rosalie Maggio is author of more than twenty books, including eight collections of quotations, and creator of the website, www.quotationsbywomen.com, which has over 43,000 quotations by almost 7,000 women on some 7,000 topics. Her most recent book is Unspinning the Spin, a guide to unbiased language.
Join us as we take some time to listen to what women have to say and talk about women’s stories, women’s voices, and women’s quotes.
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A WAR STORY
A war. A foreign country. A prisoner. An escape. An adventure. A journalist. A story of heroism, life and death, and history.
Now admit it. You pictured at least one man (or more) as you read those words. But this story is about women, and the forgotten or never told stories of their lives. And another woman who wrote about one of those stories.
Julia Airey lives in Washington, D.C. where she as a technology reporter and associated editor for a foreign policy site. In her free time she writes articles about how millennials can enter the work force, and runs a blog breaking down complicated legal news.
While studying in the Netherlands, Julia led a data journalism investigation into sexual health on campus, and advocated for student housing. She was also an assistant English teacher at a bilingual high school and helped lead camping trips in Wales.
It was during this time in the Netherlands that Julia met Martha Anschuetz, whose story she retells in "At One Time,” a war story you have never heard.
Join us as we talk about Martha, Julia, and women’s stories.
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WOMEN IN JAIL: OVERLOOKED AND EVER-GROWING
Women in prison are often perceived as the prostitutes, the "bad girls," the drug addicts. It's easy to just look at the labels without digging deeper to learn who are the women behind bars, what led them there, and what domestic violence has to do with their incarceration. And it's easy to overlook the fact that the number of women incarcerated is growing at a faster rate than any other jailed population.
Elizabeth Swavola, Senior Program Associate, Sentencing and Corrections, has a history of advocating for improved responses to violence against women, and she co-founded an organization to help those returning home from prison. Taylar Nuevelle is a writer and advocate for justice involved women who founded the "Who Speaks for Me?" project which ties trauma to prison for women. She was also incarcerated for five years. Her writings have been published in the Washington Post and The Nation, among others.
Join us Saturday as we discuss women in prison and a new report Swavola helped author, "Overlooked: Women and Jails in an Era of Reform."
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You probably don't think too much about sanitary supplies. If you are a woman, you get them when you need them, and if you are a man, you probably don't think of them at all. But girls in Third World Countries, just like many homeless and poverty stricken, are often forced to miss school, be socially ostracized, and isolated during those days of the month. An organization called Days for Girls has quietly been working not only to bring these young women supplies, but also to study exactly what girls in those situations can use, can maintain, and can carry within their cultures and their social groups.
It's really a fascinating story of women helping women and doing so in a sensitive and open way. Join us as we talk with April Haberman of Days for Girls International. You may find yourself amazed that no one thought of this sooner.
AUDRIE & DAISY: THE FILM AND THE STORY OF TEEN SEXUAL ASSAULT
We read about it every week – a teenage girl sexually assaulted by classmates or neighbor boys, and what happens next is more horrible than the physical violence. What happens next in so many of these cases, is the girl is bullied, ridiculed, and slut shamed, and if she dares to report it to police, she is often the butt of community-wide derision, victim blaming, and campaigns to trivialize what happened and to discredit her.
In Delaney Henderson’s case, her rape became national news, a rap artist made a song out of it that even threatened her life, and she made the decision to use her experience to do some good. She not only reported her assault, she sued the rap artist, she started an organization to support victims like her, AND she was instrumental in making a new documentary featured on Netflix called Audrie & Daisy. The film is a testament to the girls who live through this experience and those who do not.
Join Delaney, Daisy and Jada Smith (who also appears in the film) as we talk about their experiences, the film, and the prevalence of sexual assault and its despicable follow up for teenage girls.
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SEXUAL ASSAULT, NATIVE AMERICANS AND SOVEREIGN RIGHTS
According to the Dept. of Justice, Native American women have higher rates of domestic violence, coupled with low income rates, higher rates of sexual assault, and the list goes on and on. So what can we learn, how can we fight, and what are we doing about native populations and assault?
During this month of focusing awareness on domestic violence, let’s add some special lighting to cultures that are facing special battles in the attempt to educate and eliminate violence against women.
Special guest Lynda Smallenberger, Executive Director of Kene Me-Wu Family Healing Center, Inc., (KMWFHC) will join us. She worked in Indian Country for over twenty five years in Tribal gaming and social services, has substance abuse counseling and skills in working with violence against women specializing in working with tribal women as they change their lives. She is on the California Domestic Violence Advisory Council, (DVAC) and works with the Judicial Council of California Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) on the Violence Against Women Educational Program.
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WHAT’S STEM, WHO’S THE AAUW AND HOW IS IT ALL ABOUT GIRLS?
More girls are going to college, so why aren’t there more female scientists? Or mathematicians? Or computer developers and engineers? Good question, and one that many organizations are trying to get a handle on, including the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The problem has led to numerous programs designed to figure out education, careers, and pay for women. The AAUW issued a groundbreaking report a few years ago and continues to look to improving women’s representation in these core fields. One AAUW branch is even working on a CHiPS program to encourage representation in civics, history and political science.
Find out more when Ana Kay Yaghoubian, the AAUW STEM Senior Manager joins us to talk about Tech Trek and Tech Savvy and other programs designed to get women up and running in the science fields.
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WHAT ABOUT RACE, GENDER AND JUSTICE IN CHINA?
Join several recent travelers to Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai as they relate experiences, observations and comments about visiting and living in China. How do women and minorities there compare to what Americans experience? Are we more alike than different? What can we learn from each other? The conversation is open and it may get wild, as we talk about China, as seen by foreign visitors.
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CLEOPATRA AND YOU: MORE IN COMMON THAN YOU THINK?
We’ve all seen the movies of Egyptian ancients and how they treated their women, and we all are thankful we live in an era that is kinder to us, right? Well, maybe not. Is there something we can learn about those women of the past and their day to day lives that might help us as we look at where we are now in our culture and our struggles? You might be surprised.
Professor Janet H. Johnson, professor of Egyptology in the Oriental Institute and department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago and Professor Cynthia Shawamreh, Senior Counsel for the City of Chicago’s Department of Law, Finance and Economic Development Division, will join us to discuss women in ancient Egypt and how their lives can inform our lives in the modern world. Dr. Johnson’s interests include Egypt in the 1st Millennium B.C., and she has written about private property, marriage and inheritance, and gender and marriage in ancient Egypt. Ms Shawamreh Ms. Shawamreh served as the co-chair of the Subcommittee on Hate Crime and Discrimination against Religious Institutions for the Illinois Advisory Committee of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She also brings a rich personal history to the conversation from her experience as a Jew who is married to a Muslim.
It’s a different conversation, but one that just may enrich your understanding of women across the ages.
Join us as we discuss the social, economic, legal, and sexual status of women in ancient Egypt and how it fits with European and American women of today.
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SOCIAL NORMS AND BYSTANDER INTERVENTION: HOW WE FEEL ABOUT DOING RIGHT
Bystander intervention, doing the right thing, all doing our part to prevent violence…it all sounds great, but maybe not so easy. Do we really want to get involved? Do men always feel good about standing up to prevent violence? These are heady questions, and questions that really need answers as we think about prevention programs and safety.
Alan Berkowitz got his PhD in Psychology from Cornell, and has been working ever since to help colleges, public health agencies, military organizations and communities to design programs to address health and social justice issues. Known not only for his prolific scholarly articles, but also for innovative programs addressing substance abuse, sexual assault and gender, he will join us to discuss our expectations and our realities when it comes to intervention and prevention of violence.
Join us as we discuss social norms, sexual aggression, and bystanders.
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WHAT CAN YOU DO TO PREVENT VIOLENCE?
Sounds idealistic, doesn’t it? That each of us can prevent interpersonal violence may be a lofty goal, but can it really work? One organization, Green Dot, etc., thinks it’s doable, and that research, commitment and the willingness to try a new approach is just what we need to be effective to reduce power-based personal violence.
Dr. Dorothy J. Edwards, author of the Green Dot Violence Prevention Strategy, holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Texas Woman’s University. She has a long professional history working on intervention and prevention of violence. With a specialty in primary prevention, she provides training and consultation in the areas of power-based personal violence, organizational capacity building, program implementation, and strategic planning and community mobilization. Dr. Edwards is currently working with government entities, state coalitions, military, non-profits, community organizations, high schools and colleges from around the globe.
Join us as we discuss Green Dot, etc., and what each of us can do as individuals and members of groups to help eliminate or reduce violence in our world.
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POLICING, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT: ACLU REPORT
Do police responders believe victims? Do they take reports of sexual violence seriously? If you call police will that trigger unwanted contact from child protection services? To find out the answers to those questions and more, the ACLU did a nationwide survey of domestic violence and sexual assault and the police response over a one month period last year.
Donna Coker, MSW, JD, and professor of law at University of Miami, helped author the report and will share those results with us. Professor Coker has carried out research that focuses on criminal law, gender and inequality, and she is a nationally recognized expert in domestic violence law and policy. Her extensive body of research includes economic vulnerability and intimate partner violence and gender and criminal law doctrine.
Join us Saturday as we talk about the ACLU report, “Responses from the Field: Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Policing.”
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WHAT’S IN A NAME WHEN IT COMES TO ABUSE?
It was domestic violence, then violence against women. Then came intimate terrorism, and then abuse. Sometimes intimate partner violence, and now it’s gendered violence. Are we talking about the same thing? Is this just semantics, or political correctness or do these names refer to different things? Why the changes in terminology and what does it all mean?
Merril Cousin is the Executive Director of the recently renamed Coalition Ending Gender-Based Violence and Michael Munson is the co-founder and Executive Director of FORGE, an organization focused on improving the lives of transgender individuals by building stronger connections, providing resources, and empowering growth through knowledge. Both have many years working and leading in organizations that help educate and support those affected by abuse and sexual violence, and they will help us hash out just what these terms mean, why they change, and whether names are important when it comes to working against intimate violence and abuse.
Join us Saturday as we talk about what’s in a name when it comes to abuse.
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Victims of Intimate Partner Abuse often struggle with the courts and legal systems as much as they do with their abusers. The cost, the availability, the misinformation and lack of understanding they face as they try to find lawyers and work their way through the maze of courts, laws and agencies can be staggering. In Chicago, however, some victims are finding relief thanks to a virtual legal clinic offered by area lawyers and the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The only one in the country, the clinic has been a resource for hundreds of women for the last two years.
Vickie Smith. Executive Director of the lCADV since 1993, is a founding board member of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, and has worked with other state and national advocates to draft the historic 1994 Violence Against Women Act. Vickie has worked with a number of agencies and criminal justice and health care professionals to develop community responses to family violence. She joins us to talk about the Virtual Legal Clinic - how it operates, who it helps, and the good it has accomplished in the last two years.
"I'm sorry," "I'm no expert, but...," "I think." You know you've used them. The qualifiers and minimizers women learn to use when talking so we don't sound bossy or pushy. While we may have come a long way in careers and money, is it possible that we haven't come far at all in equalizing the language we use in our relationships and our careers? Is there a female way to speak? And does it really matter?
Some studies have shown that men and women use different language, but it is much more complicated. Several factors, including the conversation topic and characteristics of the communication partner influence our language choices. Knowing if, how, and when men and women use and understand language differently may improve how you communicate your intentions.
Adrienne B. Hancock, PhD is coauthor of a study, "Influence of Communication Partner's Gender on Language." She is an associate profesor at George Washington University's Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, and she knows how gender is involved in language, voice, and communication. Her research aims to identify what will help transgendered people be perceived as their genuine gender. Central to this agenda are Dr. Hancock's investigations of the communication differences between cisgender men and women. She found out from her studies about interrupting, self-references, justifiers, fillers, and tag questions.
Join us as we explore gender, language, and how men and women talk and are perceived.
Many people are familiar with how technology can be used to perpetrate intimate partner abuse, whether a victim is stalked, tracked, or rarassed using phones and computers, or whether an abuser threatens, isolates or destroys using high tech equipment. But research is now showing that technology can be used not just as a tool to hurt someone, but also as a trigger for abuse.
A study on the roles of phones and computers in abusing women by male perpetrators helps define all the ways technology fits into the equaation of intimate partner abuse, Ibe if tge aytgirs if tgat researcgm Jiabbe Belknap, PhD, joins us as does Jenn Doe, MPA, Outreach Coordinator for Safe Shelter of St. Vrain Valley in Longmont, CO as we discuss technology, abuse and how the two fit together.
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: THE HISTORY,THE REALITY, AND THE HOPE
Think child sexual abuse is something that only happens to once in a while? That it couldn’t affect your life? Think again. It’s time to drag this silent issue out of the closet and learn exactly how prevalent it is and exactly what is being done about it.
Find out what the signs of abuse are, what to do if your child or someone you know is being abused. And what about all those sex offender registries? And what about all the adults we encounter every day who lived through abuse?
One man who knows the answers to these questions will join us Saturday as we discuss this sad, overwhelming and necessary topic.
Eric Jones is the Survivor Support Director for Restore Hope, a Portland area nonprofit with the mission to protect children of all ages from sexual abuse and help adult survivors heal from their trauma. He is himself a survivor and believes all adults have a collective responsibility to keep everybody’s children safe from the many abuse perpetrators hiding in plain sight in today’s society. He says that advocating for child sexual abuse prevention and survivor support is the most satisfying and rewarding work of his life
Jones has authored a book of hope for survivors, entitled “My Climb to Healing from Child Sexual Abuse: A Survivor’s Perspective.” The paperback and e-book version will be released later this year.
Join us as we discuss child sexual abuse – the history, the reality, and the hope.
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KIDS REFUSE TO SEE DAD? SEND ‘EM TO JAIL, ACCORDING TO ONE JUDGE
Juvenile detention facilities are for the junior criminals in our society, right? A place to send the bad kids who are too young for prison, you might assume. But what if you knew of three nice kids, good in school, never in any trouble, who got sent to kiddie jail because they refused to meet with the father they say is abusive?
That’s what happened to three Michigan youngsters, 15, 10, and 9 when a judge said they were in contempt of court for not spending time with the dad the kids say was violent. The judge, however, said the father was a great man, and sentenced the children to a facility until they changed their minds about seeing him. And by the way, the judge ordered the kids be kept apart, and prohibited their mother from seeing them.
Investigative journalist Michael Volpe's work has been in publications from the Washington Examiner, Crime Magazine, and numerous others. He has published articles on family court in six different media sources including simultaneous investigations in Rockland County New York, Oakland County Michigan, and in Connecticut. He's the author of three books- Prosecutors Gone Wild, The Definitive Dossier of PTSD in Whistleblowers, and Bullied to Death: Chris Mackney's Kafkaesque Divorce.
He investigated the Michigan case, and will fill us in on their situation, whether it is truly unusual, and how and why a judge makes such decisions. Find out what has transpired for these kids and their mother since their sentencing.
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PTSD, DISABILITIES AND THE COURTS: EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL?
Did you know that as many as 85% of women who experience Intimate Partner Violence have PTSD? Some studies say a little less, but no matter which study you read, the numbers are alarming.
Did you know that in courts a person with PTSD or other disability is often accused of being “crazy,” or lying to manipulate the court rather than being recognized as a person with a disability?
Just because some disabilities are not visible doesn’t mean they are not included under federal regulations. People with PTSD may qualify for taking breaks in the proceedings, may be able to get extensions on deadlines, may be able to testify in court from a safe room or even on the phone. Courts are mandated to accommodate to ensure equal access to the justice system, but how can we get them to do it?
Dr. Karin Huffer is doing something about that.
Dr. Huffer is an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, and knows plenty about the law, disability accommodation, and domestic violence. She is starting a program at John Jay to teach people how to be advocates for those whose disabilities are exploited and not accommodated in court, even when those people are representing themselves.
Learn more about what an Equal Access Advocate can do, how to learn to be one and get one, and find how this whole thing can work to help women deal with and get their rights in courts. Join us Saturday with Dr. Karin Huffer and information about equal access and the courts.
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HOW DO MEN BENEFIT FROM RAPE? THE ANSWER ISN’T AS OBVIOUS AS YOU THINK
Yes, there’s THAT, but is that really the reason men rape? Especially in an age when sex is pretty acceptable and available no matter who you are, why go the forced route? Of course, most people realized decades ago that rape isn’t about sex, it’s about a type of control. But how do all men, not just the rapists benefit from a rape culture?
Dr. Christopher Kilmartin is an emeritus college professor, author, comedian, actor, playwright, consultant and professional psychologist will walk us through his latest article on what all men (rapists or not) stand to gain from rape. He holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and is a licensed clinical psychologist who has a great deal of experience consulting with businesses, college students, human services workers, athletic departments, the military, and counselors. He has authored four books on gender and gender-based violence, and is an internationally-recognized expert on gender and violence prevention.
Join us as Dr. Kilmartin discusses the advantages men gain because of the few men who commit sexual assault.
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ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER RAPE, ANOTHER SLAP ON THE WRIST
An Olympic caliber swimmer, a college student, a Stanford man…a rapist…a slap on the hand…all make for headlines and outrage. But maybe the overarching outrage over the Brock Turner story should be for how often this happens. How many times this story is repeated, how many times there isn’t even a slap on the hand, could be the real story here. Add in the letter the father of the rapist wrote to a judge trying to make the case for how difficult the whole situation is for his son, and you have just one more verse of a song that is sung in court rooms all over the country, every single day.
We have two experts on the show this week to talk about the Turner case and why it is a typical situation, not an unusual one.
Ebony Tucker is the Advocacy Director for the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence. Before that, she directed the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault helping to develop anti-sexual assault initiatives, and as the Associate Executive Director and Legal Assistance for Victims (LAV) Project Director at the Florida Council Against Sexual Violence. Casey Gwinn is the former elected San Diego City Attorney where he created one of the leading domestic violence inits in America and then wnet on to found the first Family Justice Center in the United States. Today, he serves as the President of Alliance for HOPE Internationsl and leads the rapidly expanding Family Justice Center movement and Camp HOPE America, the largest evidence-based camping program in the country for children impacted by domestic violence. He was recently named one of Womens eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century
Join us as we discuss the Brock Turner case through a larger lens.
THE POLITICS OF ANGER: THE HELP AND THE HINDRANCE
It seems that every campaign, every electoral contest, stirs up deep emotions on both sides. Often that emotion is anger, and often it serves a purpose or at least accomplishes something for one side or the other. More times than not, it just shuts down discourse. So what is the politics of anger and how and why should we diffuse it? And does it matter more to women than to men?
Nick Licata is a former Seattle City councilmember who grew from Ohio farm country, the son of two high school dropouts, to become an activist, politician, elected official, founder of a national municipal policy network, proponent of a higher minimum wage and paid sick leave, supporter of funding for cultural facilities, and initiator of Seattle’s Civic Poet program. Does he know about politics and anger? Undoubtedly.
His recent article, “Defusing the Politics of Anger,” appeared in the latest issue of Utne Reader, and he joins us to discuss anger and politics.
Listen us as we talk the politics of anger with Nick Licata.
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GENDER AND JUDGING: WOMEN ON THE BENCH
Does it matter if you go before a male or a female judge? Do they make different decisions? And here’s an easy one: are there more men judges or women judges? Twenty years ago, pundits explained the low numbers of women on the bench by pointing out the low numbers of female law school grads. That explanation no longer holds water. So where are the women judges, and why should we care?
Dr. Sally Kenney is the co-founder and co-chair of the Law And Society’s Collaborative Research Network on Women Judges, and has researched gender and judging, judicial selection, feminist social movements, women and electoral politics, the European Court of Justice, exclusionary employment policies, and pregnancy discrimination. Her most recent book, Gender and Justice: Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter, was published by Routledge Press in 2013. She has worked closely with the academic network of the National Association of Women Judges and in 2013, she received the National Association of Women Judges Florence Murray Award. She has also conducted trainings for judges in Tbilisi, Georgia and Nairobi, Kenya, as well as throughout the United States. She also is a founder of the Infinity Project, an organization that works to increase gender diversity of federal judges.
Join us as we talk gender and judging with Dr. Sally Kenney.
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WHY DOES HE DO THAT? HERE’S EXACTLY WHY!
People who work in the field of domestic violence get frustrated whenever someone asks of a victim, “Why does she stay?” Why, they wonder, isn’t the question for the abuser, as in “Why does he do that?”
Finally someone asked the question, and it was Chuck Derry, director of the Gender Violence Institute in Clearwater, Minnesota. The answers are not unexpected, but they are disturbing, revealing, and clearly paint a picture of abusers and their motivations when they decide to abuse. The benefits to them are so numerous, maybe the better question is, “Why would he ever stop?”
Derry has helped to end men’s violence against women for thirty years, first as men’s program coordinator with male offenders in Minnesota, then as a founder of the Gender Violence Institute. That organization provides training and assistance nationally and internationally on the dynamics of domestic violence, criminal justice system reform, effective coordinated community responses to DV, and rehabilitative programs for men who batter.
Join us as we discuss why abusers do it and how they benefit by being abusive.
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MOTHERHOOD AND MOTHERING: THE FUN STUFF
Humorist Erma Bombeck said, “When humor goes, there goes civilization.” That applies to motherhood as well.
We all know the pain, the mess, the disappointment, the self-sacrifice, that motherhood brings. But it also brings amazing joy, huge rewards, and a lot of laughter (some of which isn’t revealed until much later). So let’s talk mothering and being mothered – and focus on the fun bits in honor of Mothers Day!
Deanna Sundvick-Egge is the mother of three, grandmother to a changing number, and says she has a resume somewhere but she really hasn’t seen it since the 90’s. Mary O’Brien, PhD, is the mother of two teenagerish girls and learned that all her education and credentials don’t give her any special status or capabilities when it comes to the world’s oldest profession (we’re talking motherhood, not that other one). Rebecca Luncan is an artist and brand new mother, and she promises to join us between feeding, rocking, changing, and playing with her newborn, IF she can stay awake long enough.
Join us as we celebrate Mother’s Day and talk about the fun stuff that keeps us all in the game.
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Strangulation is can be lethal within minutes, and can cause a victim to black out in seconds. It's also used a lot by domestic violence perpetrators. Sometimes it's not taken very seriously by courts or law enforcement, or even by victims, but as one survey indicated, nearly ten percent of women have been strangled by a partner in their lives.
Gael B. Strack is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder for Alliance for HOPE International and she knows a lot about what strangulation is and what it does to victims. Programs of the Alliance include: National Family Justice Center Alliance, Training Institute on Strangulation Prevention, Camp HOPE America, Justice Legal Network and VOICES Survivor Network, and we will talk about what all this means and what can be done about it
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, HONOR CRIMES, AND IMMIGRANT WOMEN: THE COMMON FACTOR
Domestic violence in the US, honor crimes in those “other” countries: are they really so different? And what can this mean for women who immigrate to the US and have experienced both? What are the connections, what are the commonalities, and what are the realities for women of all cultures when it comes to victimization by intimate partners?
Jessica Winegar says the 18,000 women killed by abusers in the US between 2003 and 2014 are no different from the women killed in the Middle East or South Asia. She is the Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Chair in Anthropology at Northwestern University. Her research specialization is in the Middle East, and she has written widely on issues of gender, Islam, and global politics. Penny Venetis is Executive Vice President and Legal Director of Legal Momentum and as Clinical Professor of Law, and Director of the International Human Rights Clinic, at Rutgers, she specialized in civil rights and international human rights impact litigation. She instituted women’s rights projects in the Rutgers Law School clinics, developed human trafficking advocacy projects, and recruited and supervised pro bono attorneys from major law firms to work on the Clinic’s landmark cases.
Join us as we discuss domestic violence, honor crimes, cultural similarities and differences, and the realities for women who are victimized.
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When doctors discovered that gonorrhea affected all classes of girls back in the late 19th Century, they dismissed any evidence about the transmission of the disease from fathers to daughters, and instead blamed --you guessed it-- women for the spread of the disease. It was poor housekeeping, not daddy dearest, accounting for the STD/ Author Lynn Sacco, assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Tennessee wrote "Unspeakable: Father - Daughter Incest in American History," to explore the role of medicine and society in detecting and dealing wiht incest historically, and she reseearched how the experts threw scientific knowledge to the winds rather than face the issue of father- daughter incest. Easier to blame the mothers than to face a harsh reality.
Sacco has documented medical history and social attitudes about incest and sex crimes over the last two hundred years and how the problem was ignored in order to sustain an image of the ideal white family and paternal authority.
Prof. Sacco earned degrees in journalism and English from Marquette University, a lwa degree from John Marshall Law School and practiced law for several years in Chicago. She went on to get a doctorate in history from the University of Southern Californie, and has been with the University of Tennessee history department since 2004.
Join us as we talk about the history if incest, medicine, feminism, society and sexuality in America.
Remember women's commissions? There was a time when such groups were appointed internationally, nationally, and even locally, to study the status of women and the progress being made in gender equality. But when was the last time you heard of one? What is the status of women's commissions, both internationally and in the US? What are they, why are they important, what is the history of them? And why are the US commissions struggling when the international one is strong? What is CEDAW and why should we care about it?
One woman knows about commissions and it turns out they are still out there workig to examine issues that affect women. From child care to equal pay, from property rights to human rights, these associations have been working since the 1960's to illuminate and resolve social problems affecting women. But they are not as strong a presence as they have been.
Susan Rose, with more than 30 years' experience in public administartion, education and community activism, has been committed to the advancement of women, workplace issues and civil rights. Join us as we talk about women's commissions and what they are doing today.
A woman in San Francisco recently was scheduled to have a Cesarean section and decided she wanted to have a tubal ligation at the time of that surgery. Her doctor agreed. The problem? The hospital where she was going to have the procedure, refused to allow the sterilization ecause it was a Catholic institution and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops said the prodedure was "evil." Just go to another hospital you say? Well good luck with that. Many regions in this country have prohibitive distances between facilities and it is a problem that's restricting access to health care for growing numbers of women.
Janet Chung, legal and legislative counsel at Legal Voice in Seattle joins us to talk about medical access in the age of mergers. Legal voice is a non-rofit organization that fights for legal rights and justice for women in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska by bringing ground breaking cases to court, advocating for landmark legislation and providing legal information. Chung has advocated for policies to protect women's access to reproductive health services and insurance coverage and her cases have addressed issues including adverse treatment of domestic violence and sexual assault victims in the work place and on campuses as well as fighting gender stereotyuping of workers.
Join us as we talke about hospital mergers, religious dotrine, access to healthcare and reproductive freedom.
Research has indicated that far too often, family courts make decisions that hurt women and children who are already victims of abuse. For the many victims who have tried to fight such decisions and for the advocates and family members who witness such actions, it may seem that we are powerless against such decisions. But are we?
Garland Waller, a professor, a film producer, and spokesperson on domestic violence joins us. She has made documentaries about court injustices since the 1980's, including "Small Justice: Little Justice in America's Family Court," and "No Way Out But One," about the story of one American domestic violence victim who was granted asylum by the Netherlands because of the violence she experienced. She joins Eileen King, the founding director of Child Justice, Inc. She has worked since the 1990's helping get free legal representation to vicitms of domestic violence and their children who have witnessed DV, or been abused directly. Her organization offers emotional support for protective parents, joins in legal appeals, works with the media and she often testifies before state legislatures about the issue of revictimization by the courts.
There are judges, guardians, lawyers, arbitrators, psychologists, advocates, mediators, child protection services, social workers, and more who all can be involved when there is a divorce or litigation in family courts across the country. Who are these people? What do they do? How expert are they? What do they know about intimate partner violence? Who do they represent? What do they cost? Do they help or hurt? And how can they impact decisions like child custody?
There have been studies of the situations with these ancillary court personnel, and there is pracitcal experience about them. Richard Ducote joins us for a discussion about al the people who make up cases and decisions in family court. Ducote has represented hundreds of abused children over the last 30 years of his law practice. In the 1980's he began reoresenting victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence focusing on cases where courts had awarded custody of children to molesters and violence perpetrators. He is an ardent opponent of the so-called Parental Alienation Syndrome often used by abusers to gain visitation or custody of children in domestic violence cases. That opposition led to his participation in cases in 44 different states as well as to appearances on Oprah, 60 minutes, Good Morning Britain, and Leeza. He has been interviewed and quoted in Parade Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Money, and the National Law Journal.
His expertise is profound, his awards numerous, and his knowledge about gamily court abuses is extensive. Join us as we talk about the population of victims, perpetrators, personnel, decision makers, and others involved in teh drama that is family court.
THE CRISIS IN THE FAMILY COURTS: THE ROLE OF THE FATHERS' RIGHTS MOVEMENT
What is the Fathers' Rights Movement? What are the tenets of it, how did it get started, who are these people promoting it, and what is the reality behind the message? Judges are buying into it and women and children are impacted by the junk science and propaganda behind it. So what is the real research, and what can we do about the fall out from this movement?
Join us as author Doreen Ludwig talks about the movement, who's funding it, and what it means.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR FAMILY COURTS?
Abuse through the courts, revictimization, parental alienation, women lie, children given to abusers, judges who think that just because a woman is frantic there is something wrong with her, guardians ad litem, lawyers, psychologists, and a system that arguably makes more things worse than it makes them better, So what’s going on in our family courts?
Two experts who really know the experiences, the reasons, and the truth behind the crisis in the family courts join us for an in-depth look at where we are, how we got there, and what we can do about it.
Barry Goldstein, co-author of “Representing the Domestic Violence Survivor,” and author of “Scared to Leave Afraid to Stay,” among other books and articles, has been an attorney, educator and expert witness in domestic violence and custody cases. His latest book, “The Quincy Solution” Stop Domestic Violence and Save $500 Billion,” details reducing domestic violence. Maralee McLean is a child advocate, protective parent, domestic violence expert, and author of PROSECUTED BUT NOT SILENCED: Courtroom Reform for Sexually Abused Children. Her work has been published in the ABA Child Law Journal, Women’s E-News and other publications on the problems of family courts not protecting abused children.
Both will discuss the problems with family court and family court judges on our next show.
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There are federal laws saying convicted domestic violence abusers can't buy guns, but what if they already own firearms? There's a good chance they can just keep them and no police or judges or even laws will make them surrender what they already own. And even if a state does require relinquishment it's up to judges to require it. Shannon Frattacoli, PhD., Associate Director for Outreach, Center for Injury Research and Policy at Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research has studied the effects of gun injury prevention policies. She will join us to talk about domestic violence, guns, and public policy laws.
Where can you find pregnant 12-year-olds, women pregnant again and again just months after giving birth, and teens with high blood pressure, diabetes, HIV, and multiple pregnancies? A third world country perhaps? Maybe. But you really don't have to look that far.
Right here inthe USA we have areas where there are no local access to maternal health care, where extreme poverty prevents women from getting medicine or from transportation to doctors. So how rampant is this problem, who is affected and what are we doing about it?
Dr. Keisha Renee Callins is a women's health professional at Mirian Worthy Women's Health Center, and Assistant Medical Director for Albany Area Primary Health Care. She has earned numerous awards for resident teaching and research, presents at local and national conferences and is an expert in teenage pregnanacy prevention, obesity prevention, and physician workforce issues .
She works every day in one of the most poverty stricken areas of the US and she sees the catastrophe that is maternal health care in poor, rural communities.
Join us as we talk about poor women's health care, the reality and the tragedy.
FAMILY COURT RESPONSES TO INCEST AND SEXUAL ABUSE IN CUSTODY DISPUTES
The Boston Globe just ran a story about a little girl who, for five years, was forced by the courts to live with the father who she said was sexually abusing her. The girl’s mother believed the child, and took her to the doctor, then to the psychologist, and everyone believed the girl. Then they got to the courts and that’s where the child’s life hit a very sad bottom.
Even sadder: this is happening all the time. Thousands of times. Thousands of children.
What is going on with a court system that forces children to be exposed and at risk by those who are abusing them?
Maralee McLean is a child advocate, protective parent, domestic violence expert, and author of PROSECUTED BUT NOT SILENCED: Courtroom Reform for Sexually Abused Children. Her work has been published in the ABA Child Law Journal, Women’s E-News and other publications on the problems of family courts not protecting abused children. She organized a National Rally of Mothers at the Colorado State Capitol and has been involved in legislative work that spans over two decades. She testified before Congress to promote judicial accountability to better protect sexually abused children’s rights in our courts. Maralee’s story has been covered by many media outlets and internationally on CNN.
Join us as we talk about the courts’ response to sexual abuse of children in custody disputes.
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There is a woman in Florida who was sent to jail for not testifying against her attacked. Her attacker was her husband. She defied a court order when she didn't show up at his trial. Advocates say she was scared, and that it happens all the time that a victim doesn't face her abuser in court. They say most judges understand and don't revictimize the victim by punishing her. Some say a court order is a court order, and if witnesses don't appear in court, criminials get off. That's just the way it is. So who's right?
Jeanne Gold, attorney, journalist, women's advocate and CEO of SafeHouse in Florida joins Robert Rhodes, Seattle attorney and veteran of numerous trials and intimate partner violence cases, join us to discuss the issue of REVICTIMIZING THE VICTIM: WHEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUFFERRERS GET HIT AGAIN BY THE LAW.
PRETTY IS AS PRETTY GETS: DO ATTRACTIVE WOMEN GET BETTER GRADES?
I was a good student, I was good at soccer, I was vice president of the student council, I was a pretty girl.
Evangeline Lilly
Lilly doesn’t mention her grades, but if her experience is typical of that found in a recent study, she probably got higher marks than her less attractive female friends. Yep – pretty girls get better grades, according to an economics professor’s study of more than 5,000 college women. And it didn’t make a difference whether the grader was male or female.
So what does this mean? Not only does this have implications from an academic point of view, but also from a social point of view. Does it diminish the all A’s the class knock out got? Does it make a difference to the less attractive woman who is working hard for those A’s? Or does it really change anything now that we know it happens?
Rey Hernandez-Julian is an associate professor of economics at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, and he likes to use his economics lens to examine education. His previous research has included looks at how athletic achievement and course scheduling affect student performance in college, and he’s studied the relationship between school choice and outcomes outside of school. His PhD in applied Economics is from Clemson University.
Join us as we look at appearance and grades for women.
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Women in the media - where are they? what is their influence? Find out with Katy McCarthy from the Women's Media Center
Any girl who ever went to junior high risked being called a slut. You know what a slut is, right? It's any girl who was promiscuous, looked like she might be promiscuors, or like she might be developed sexually, or like she might someday have sex, or was just unlucky enough to be targeted by bullies.
Emily Lindin knows all about that since she was the target of "slut shaming" from age 11 to 14. But unlike most of us who just geot depressed and kept our heads down, she's doing something about it.
Lindin is the author of the new book "UnSlut: A Diary and a Memoir" and founder of The UnSlut Project, an online community where survivors of sexual bullying and slut shaming can share their stories, and where girls who are currently suffering can find support and solidarity.
Now a Harvard graduate pursuing her PhD in California, Emily started the project by blogging her own middle school diaries. "UnSlut: A Documentary Fils" is currently screening around the country, and Lindin has shared her story on TV and Radio shows including ABC with Katie Couric, CNN, THe Doctors, Al Jazeera America and others.
Join us as we talk about what it means to have a "slut" label and how we can "unslut" each other.
MISUSE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE IN CUSTODY LITIGATION
Do you know that the Leadership Council estimates nearly 60,000 kids a year are forced by the courts to be with an unsafe parent? One article in Family and Intimate Partner Violence Quarterly (spring 2013) reported 175 documented cases of kids killed by their fathers after the court disregarded their mothers’ concerns about safety for children – and that was in just a two year period! So what’s up with the courts? How can this happen?
One reason is that the courts are using junk science and a skewed idea of “fairness” in determining child custody. One researcher found that courts often misuse psychological science in custody litigation. And instead of recognizing what can be dangerous to children, family courts see themselves as fair and balanced and those concerned with abuse as ideologues with an ax to grind. The losers? As usual, it’s the children.
Joan Meier, attorney and Professor of Clinical Law AT George Washington University is a nationally recognized expert on domestic violence and the law, appellate litigation and clinical law education. She founded several interdisciplinary domestic violence clinical programs, which have been recognized by the US Department of Justice as models for such organizations. She trains attorneys, judges and other court professionals and was awarded the Cahn Award from the National Equal Justice Library.
Join us as we explore her research and the startling findings about how courts can disregard danger for children and use junk science in determining child custody, often times to the detriment and danger of the children involved.
This show is a replay of a previously aired episode
A friend once told me that her brother made her sit in a lawn chair while he attached it to a car battery to make an electric chair. What?! Sometimes sibling rivalry isn't harmless. Sometimes it's violent abuse that can lead to problems in adulthood for victims.
Two people who work with and have experienced sibling abuse join us to talk about what it is, how it is minimized, and the later implications for victims.
Amy Meyers, PhD, is an assistant professor of social work at Molloy College and sees victims of sibling abuse in her clinical practice. She sees the terminology we use when talking about brothers and sisters as one way we overlook sibling abuse.
Nancy Kilgore, MS, knows how brother and sister relationships can be traumatic and harmful. Autor of "Girl in the Water: A Personal Story of Bullying and Sibling Abuse," and "The Sourcebook for Working with Battered Women," Nancy works with victims of abuse by sibling.
With the healthcare business being what it is today, it seems like all the health care providers are parts of big organizations and most of those organizations are headed up by men. So if there is a difference between men and women in the way patients are treated and care is dispensed, what does it mean if most of the direct providers are female and the head honchos are male?
Lots of questions, some answers.
Andrea Piatt, PhD., ABPP, is the principal and founder of Commonwealth Psychology Associates in Massachusetts. She is a board certified clinical neuropsychologist who specializes in assessment of adults with neurological injury or disease, medical conditions, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, and or emotional problems that impact academic or work life. And she is interested in helping women providers be owners and not just worker bees when it comes to helping patients.
A Washington State police officer turned psychologist looks at the treatment of first responders who are just expected to deal with it in the aftermath of some pretty nasty and traumatic work.
Loreli Thompson, PhD also counsels victims of trauma and violence. Join us as we look at the world of the first responder.
There's been a push for years to have doctors, nurses, and health care folks to become more involved in screening and treating victims of intimate partner violence. There have been flyers taped in bathrooms, brochures stacked in waiting rooms, and once in a while a quesion about domestic violence on an intake form. But what are we really doing, is this the appropriate response, and what can we do better?
Project Connect, a program funded by the Department of Human Serivces, has trained doctors and nurses about how to talk with patients about domestic violence and sexual assault, and that can be a tough thing to do.
Lisa James, Director of Health at Futures Without Violence, has worked with experts in medicine, violence and policy to work out an effective health care response to abuse. She is a recipient of the American Medical Association's Citation for Distinguished Service for her efforts to train health care provicers on domestic violence, and she coordinates the biennial National Conference on Health Care and Domestic Violence.
Join us as we discuss the role of health care providers in helping victims of sexual and domestic violence.
Think big business and big money are only influencing politics? Have you looked at judicial elections lately? A report issued by Justice at Stake found that special interest spending is skyrocketing in even obscure and small town judicial elections, and that is leading to some heavy influence at play for special interests. Not such good news for the "little people" who are looking to the courts to help settle issues in our lives. So how bad is the problem, and what can we do about it?
Scott Greytak is the Policy Counsel and Research Analyst for Justice at Stake, where he designs and manages advocacy campaigns to protect courts from special interest influence and politicization by utilizing legislative, letigative, communications and organizing strategies. He is the lead author of "Bankrolling the Bench: The New Politics of Judicial Elections 2013 - 2014." He has been an Ohio public defender and sits on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation's Capital and the American Constitution Society D.C. Lawyer Chapter.
Join us as we look at who is paying for judicial elections, what it means to fair and impartial courts, and who it impacts.
We see it all too often in the news - dad (once in awhile it's mom), goes nuts and kills mom, the kids, anyone who happens to be in the way, and then, often, himself. What is going on here? The media stories often say something just snapped for dad. Domestic violence experts look at it as an extreme form of control that erupts when an abused women tries to leave. But what is really going on, and why on earth does the perpetrator kill the poor kids?
Sharon Maillous, PhD did a research study into just this phenomenon, and she shares with us her knowledge about not only familicide but why children are targeted in these cases.
Casey Gwin, attorney and president of the Family Justice Center, joins us to discuss children who grow up exposed to trauma like domestic violence and his new book, "Cheering for the Children."
They used to say men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses, but that was a long time ago before we became enlightened and all gender neutral. Or..was it?
According to a recent study, men are less attracted to women who are smarter than they are, at least when the women are psychologically close by. They apparently feel differently about women who are more out of reach.
So what does this mean for relationships today? And what does that say about our culture, our society, and our progress in interpersonal relationships?
Lora Park, associate professor of psychology and coauthor of the study, has made it her business to study how such personal aspects of individuals can shape their lives. She has researched self-worth, how power is experienced and perceived in others, and in one study funded by the National Science Foundation, she looks at how romantic goals affect women's interest in science, technology, engineering and math. Join us as we discuss her latest research and what it means for us.
SO ARE THERE SOME GOOD PARTS TO THIS GROWING OLD THING?
Let’s see…you get old, your knees go bad, you forget things, you’re no longer socially relevant, and your hair gets thinner, right? Well, maybe. But the big surprise is that there are actually some pretty good things about aging that no one seems to be talking about.
So we will.
Join us as Dr. Ken Dellefield, a San Diego consulting psychologist and gerontologist helps us uncover and celebrate all the unexpected gifts and joys that face us as we get older. Ken has specialized in working with older adults and their families for 39 years, and has developed older adult programs in hospitals, nursing homes, day treatment programs, outpatient mental health clinics and home based services. He was the founding chairperson of the San Diego County Mental Health System of Care Advisory Council and has been very involved in developing older adult mental health services in San Diego.
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Police families are not immune to the violence and terror of intimate partner abuse, yet few departments have any specific policies to address domestic violence complaints when their own officers are involved.
Join us when Judith Spitzer talks about police and DV. Judith Spitzer is an award-winning journalist, columnist and online producer. She has worked for many newspapers large and small including The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post, The Oregonian’s OregonLive.com, The Daily World, and many others.
As editor of a monthly woman’s news magazine in Denver, she wrote several investigative pieces including a story on Denver Police harassment of female officers as well as a story on the Aurora Police Dept. regarding their handling of domestic violence cases and others.
SURVIVING AFTER THE CRISIS
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and a great way to start this month off is by talking about what happens after the trauma and crisis of experiencing domestic violence. The Voices Survivor Network is a program of Alliance for HOPE International and representatives from that organization will bring us some stories and information to help celebrate strength and survival.
This group of individuals use their collective voice to help others through advocacy, education, and empowerment. VOICES members support each other as well as those experiencing domestic violence and sexual assault. Members of this committee offer a unique perspective in regards to established programming and help identify gaps in services.
If you have your own story of survival, or if you want to share your thoughts or lend your support to others, join us Saturday for “Surviving the Crisis,” a conversation about what comes after.
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THE NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE: WHERE’S IT LOCATED, WHEN DID IT START, AND WHAT DOES IT DO?
For years, there’s been a telephone number in Texas that anyone who needs information about domestic violence can call. It’s become the one resource that clinics, shelters, women’s organizations and advocates can post in notices, put on rest room doors, and print on the back of brochures. It has consistently been the go-to number that is the first stop for victims throughout the nation to use when they are seeking help or information about DV.
This Saturday we are fortunate to have three people who know the Domestic Violence hotline number and organization intimately, and can tell us who calls, what happens when they do, and how this simple phone number has been a godsend for decades.
Cameka Crawford is the Chief Communications officer at the National Domestic Violence Hotline and its youth-focused program, loveisrespect. Brian Pinero, Chief Programs Officer at the NDVH, and former guest on the show will join us as will Whitney Laas, who oversees the daily operations of The Hotline and loveisrespect's 24/7 crisis chat lines and text messaging service. No one knows more about the history, functioning, and benefits of the national hotline like these three.
Please join us Saturday to learn more about the national hotline and the kinds of calls that come in each day, and the lasting good a simple phone number can do
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LEGAL MARIJUANA IS ONE THING FOR ADULTS, BUT ARE WE ACCIDENTALLY POISONING LITTLE KIDS?
Lots of folks are happy marijuana is legal in a lot of states, but there may be fallout no one thinks about. King County, Washington recently published a report that showed an increasing number of people, especially children, are accidentally eating and getting sick from it. Colorado reported that since marijuana was legalized there have been at least a dozen kids poisoned when they ate it. And it’s not just marijuana – kids get their hands on alcohol, Tylenol, aspirin—and lots of stuff that is fine for adults, but terrible for them.
Join us as Dr. Alexander Garrard, Clinical Managing Director of the Washington Poison Center tells us about what’s happening with kids and substances and poisoning. He provides clinical management direction and leadership to the Washington Poison Center, and is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, School of Pharmacy. Prior to this position he worked as a health scientist in the Division of Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) in the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And he sees accidental poisoning among children way too often.
Please join us Saturday to learn more about what’s happening with kids and accidental poisoning.
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WHO ARE THE RAPISTS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES?
Are there a few men on college men who perpetrate most of the rape there? Or are there hordes of men who rape once in a while? When trying to solve the issue of sexual assault on our college campuses, it seems like it would be good to know whether we are dealing with a few serial rapists, or whether a lot of men carry out rape as isolated situations.
One study looked at the information and found out who perpetrators are likely to be, and you may just be surprised.
Jacquelyn W. White, PhD, is a senior research scientist at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and is an organizer of a national group working to ensure that campus climate surveys of sexual misconduct are rooted in empirically based research. She is co-editor of the forthcoming American Psychological Association Handbook on the Psychology of Women. She has conducted research on gender issues, sexual victimization, and intimate partner violence for over 35 years, and led one of the few longitudinal studies of sexual and physical dating violence among adolescents and college students. Her work has led to information about who rapes and the consequences of campus rape.
Please join us Saturday to learn more about the campus rapist.
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WOMEN, PROTECTION ORDERS, AND THE REAL COSTS TO VICTIMS
You’ve experienced violence from your partner, and everyone is telling you to get a protection order. Sounds right. The legal aid representative tells you how to proceed, it might help, and it doesn’t cost anything. Or does it?
Two researchers looked at whether getting a protection order had any impact on women’s earnings, and their findings may be a shock. And those findings covered six years of women’s earnings. Free to get a protection order? Think again.
Melanie M. Hughes and Lisa D. Brush join us to look at their research and what it told them about women’s financial picture after getting a protection order. Hughes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She uses quantitative approaches to study women’s empowerment, often focusing on groups of women who are particularly marginalized. She is coauthor of Women, Politics, and Power: A Global Perspective (3rd Edition forthcoming with CQ Press). Her research has been published in journals such as American Sociological Review, American Political Science Review, and Social Forces.
Brush is Professor of Sociology and of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her first book was Gender and Governance (Rowman and Littlefield 2003), and her second book was Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy (Oxford University Press 2011). Her current research looks at preventing adolescent relationship abuse and teen dating violence by engaging high school and middle school boys in coached athletic programs to change masculinities.
Collusion – complicity – conspiracy. What do those words have to do with domestic violence? Well, one theory says uninformed communities, cities, social services organizations, batterers, and others, are all colluding in a way that harms victims of domestic violence. So what is collusion and what do we do about it? First we need to understand it, and that’s where Albert Chagoya of Dallas, TX comes in.
Chagoya is the Director of Addicare Family Violence Program there, and can help us understand what he means by collusion and how it happens. He earned his bachelors degree in Political Science and Criminal Justice in 2003 from the University of Texas in Arlington. He is currently the Co-chairman for DVAC-Dallas County Domestic Violence Awareness Coalition, with professional duties that include state wide batterers intervention training and agency consulting.
Please join us to learn more about collusion when we talk with Albert Chagoya on Saturday.
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GAY CONVERSION THERAPY – REALLY?
In case you never heard of it, some people think they can convert gays, especially young people, into heterosexuals by using a type of “therapy.” Really! Of course this assumes that being gay is like a bad habit or mental illness that can be cured. So what is this all about, does it help, does it hurt, and what are we doing about it?
Oregon is one state among several that recently passed a law prohibiting conversion therapy, and other states are considering such bans.
Samantha Ames is an attorney with the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) knows about conversion, what it’s supposed to do and what it really does. She’s served as a Policy Fellow in Washington, D.C. before moving to San Francisco to work as a staff attorney focusing on conversion therapy cases. She has testified on the harms of conversion therapy and the constitutionality of efforts to end it before both state and federal bodies, as well as at the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva, Switzerland.
Please join us to learn more about conversion and the hype around it.
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“Fathers’ rights” is a term bandied about on the web, in courtrooms, and in custody hearings. It’s a term often used when discussing child support and visitation. But what about fathers’ responsibilities? And what is the difference between terminology and rhetoric and what is really happening with fathers in the world?
The “State of the World’s Fathers” report was launched recently after taking a long, hard look at dads everywhere, and the results are worth talking about not just in the context of divorce and child support, but in the context of raising generations and creating healthy families. So what did the report say?
Ruti Levtov, Program Officer at Promundo, co-coordinates the MenCare Global Fatherhood Campaign, producers of the report. She will join us Saturday to explain the report and share some pretty surprising findings it revealed.
Ruti plays a key role in Promundo's research initiatives, including the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES). Ruti previously worked with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center, and was a research fellow at the Tata Institute for Social Sciences in Mumbai. She received her MA in international comparative education at Stanford University, and her PhD in public health from the University of Michigan, where her research focused primarily on gender, violence, and schooling.
Please join us to learn more about the report on the status of the world’s fathers. Call-in to share your opinions and questions at (646) 378-0430.
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SHARING THE STORY
Why is it so important for trauma and domestic violence victims to tell their stories? Are they just sharing cautionary tales, or does the telling make a difference?
It turns out that telling a trauma narrative does help with recovery for victims. Research also shows that sharing the story can also help minimize psychological effects that can follow. At least one organization recognizes this and has helped survivors with the telling in at least one special project.
Brian Pinero is the chief programs officer at the National Domestic Violence Hotline and its youth-focused program, loveisrespect. He’s going to talk with us about a project designed to facilitate survivors’ stories and the results of that project. Prior to joining The Hotline, he supervised youth shelter services, was an investigator at Child Protective Services and worked as a juvenile probation officer. Brian is a member of the National Advisory Board for Crisis Text Line and holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas.
Join us Saturday as we explore the importance of telling the story and how we can do that effectively. Call-in to share how your story or that of others has helped you deal with life experiences. (646) 378-0430.
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GIRL SCOUTS TURN DOWN BIG DOLLARS FOR TRANSGENDER FAIRNESS. WHAT??
A Seattle Girl Scout Council turned away a big donation because the giver wanted to make sure none of the money went to promote anyone or anything transgender. So what’s the fuss all about? What is transgender, what does it have to do with domestic violence, and why should we all care?
Join us Saturday for a discussion with Danni Askini, social worker, writer, trans*Activist and executive director of Gender Justice League. Danni is a former director for Basic Rights Oregon, and was the founding Transgender Health Director for Verbena Health. She has worked for social justice issues for 15 years, and has been active in prison, immigration, and community issues.
Now is our chance to get solid information about gender issues in the news.
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WHAT’S CREATIVITY HAVE TO DO WITH TRAUMA?
How to deal with trauma is a lifetime study for scholars, and an ongoing question for those who have been traumatized. Some people write their stories, or create poems that help them deal.
K. Alexandra Onno, PhD, LMHC is a poet, storyteller, educator and therapist who specializes in the healing power of story. She uses traditional, somatic, depth and transformative approaches to psychology and works with creative and expressive ways of healing. Alex uses her own creative work in her life and her practice and as a graduate level professor at Saybrook University’s LIOS program in counseling psychology.
She joins us, as will several published and noted poets and writers to share examples of work that have helped in the healing process after trauma.
Please join us to learn the science and the psychology of using creativity to deal with trauma. Call-in to share how your creativity or that of others has helped you deal with life experiences. (646) 378-0430.
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RAPE KITS BACKLOGGED ON SHELVES, RAPISTS FREE AS BIRDS. WHO’S DOING SOMETHING?
We've all heard about the backlog of rape kits at crime facilities and police labs all across the country, and all the information locked in those kits that could be used to prosecute rapists and prevent them from raping again. The good news is that some states are actually tackling that backlog and making headway in those DNA tests - AND finding a lot of criminals. The bad news – huge backlogs still exist; it takes money to process this evidence; and some states are actually charging victims for processing and investigating via rape kits.
Erika Teschke, Founder of RapeKitWA.org, started out as your everyday citizen until she read about the nationwide issue with untested rape kits. Since then she has talked with leaders at all levels of the rape kit chain of custody in Wa State and with national organizations such as the Joyful Heart Foundation’s End The Backlog in order to help bring victim centered rape kit reform to her home state.
RapeKitWA. org began as an educational tool and has morphed into a community based grassroots lobbying effort that helped to both educate the public about rape kits and steer legislation through the WA State Legislature.
Join Rita Henley Jensen, founder and editor of Womens eNews, and Rob Okun, Editor and author of Voice Male, as we discuss feminism around the world- what men and women are doing to promote equality and justice for women.
A PILL FOR ABORTION LANDS WOMAN IN JAIL FOR MURDER
A Georgia woman took pills to end her pregnancy and the prosecutor charged her with murder. Huh? The 23-year old bought the pills on line that caused her to go into labor. She delivered the non-viable fetus on the way to a hospital.
So what are these pills? Can anyone get them? What is the medical abortion as opposed to a surgical one? Is it legal? Can women really be jailed for taking them? Is this common in the rest of the world?
Join us Saturday as Dr. Beverly Winikoff of Gynuity Health Projects joins us to talk about medical abortion and the status of medical abortion around the world. Beverly was Director for Reproductive Health at the Population Council for 25 years and worked on preventing STDs, improving postpartum care, and Safe Motherhood. She is a professor of Clinical Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
We’ll also have Monica Simpson, Executive Director of SisterSong, a Georgia organization that works for reproductive justice among indigenous women and women of color. She has been featured in several publications as an activist and an artist and works in philanthropy and fundraising as well.
Join us Saturday as we talk about the Georgia case, and others like it; what can happen to women who take matters into their own hands when it comes to reproduction; what is a medically induced abortion; drugs used to terminate pregnancy; and what’s going on in the world when it comes to reproduction.
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REVENGE – NAKED AND VICTIMIZED ON THE INTERNET
Bad enough to have a bad break up. Even worse when you think about the naughty pictures you took for him. But when that ex decides the best way to get back at you is to post those sexual pictures on the internet, you have revenge – a not necessarily illegal and wholly vindictive assault that affects as many as tens of thousands of women. And where those pictures are posted range from eBay and Facebook to special revenge sites specifically designed to appeal to the vindictive.
Elizabeth Zwerling is an award-winning journalist and journalism professor based in Southern California. A former staff writer for the Los Angeles and Bay Area newspaper groups, she has written about education, media, and health and gender justice for Women's Enews, Ms. Magazine, the Online Journalism Review, Pasadena Weekly, Patch.com and Public Radio, among others. She knows about revenge and she will tell us what it is, to whom it happens, and what, if anything, victims can do about it.
Join us Saturday as we tackle the topic of revenge .
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AFTER SAFETY COMES MONEY
After safety, money is probably one of the biggest concerns for domestic violence victims. Not just how to get some, but how to spend it, how to protect it, how to do what you have to do to record it, pay taxes on it, and protect it. That’s one place where the Jennifer Beach Foundation comes in.
Keith Beach is founder and president of the Jennifer Beach Foundation where he has served since December 2001. The organization provides education, advocacy, and assistance for those affected by child abuse and domestic violence. One of the ways the group helps is by offering its free Hope and Power classes to help survivors figure out personal finances like budgeting, credit reports, borrowing, housing, financial aid and employment.
Join us as we talk about finances, taxes, operating a foundation to help abuse victims, and even how to start an organization to help victims and survivors.
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SIBLING VIOLENCE- WHEN IS IT HORSEPLAY AND WHEN IS IT ABUSE?
A friend once told me that her brother made her sit in a lawn chair while he attached it to a car battery to make an electric chair. What?! Sometimes sibling rivalry isn’t harmless. Sometimes it’s violent abuse that can lead to problems in adulthood for victims.
Two people who work with and have experienced sibling abuse join us to talk about what it is, how it is minimized, and the later implications for victims.
Amy Meyers, PhD, is an assistant professor of Social Work at Molloy College and sees victims of sibling abuse in her clinical practice. She sees the terminology we use when talking about brothers and sisters as one way we overlook sibling abuse.
Nancy Kilgore, MS knows how brother and sister relationships can be traumatic and harmful. Author of Girl in the Water: A Personal Story of Bullying and Sibling Abuse, and The Sourcebook for Working with Battered Women, Nancy works with victims of abuse by sibling.
Both women join us to talk about this little-explored area of interpersonal violence.
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ARE YOU WORKING WITH A BULLY?
Are you working with a bully? More than 25% of us are. If you aren't being bullied, chances are you have seen someone being abused by a supervisor or coworker. When we talk workplace bullying, we're talking more than some eye rolls or impatient words. Those can be off-putting, but when we talk bullying, we're talking about more than that. The eye rolls and the harsh words are often coupled with more verbal abuse, with non-verbal actions, with exclusionary actions, and they are used repeatedly. We're talking covert abuse along with overt actions perpetrated by someone who is doing it on purpose to targeted workers.
Think you are the victim of workplace bullying? Gary Namie, PhD, is research director and one of the founders of the Workplace Bullying Institute. According to its website, "WBI is the first and only U.S. organization dedicated to the eradication of workplace bullying that combines help for individuals, research, books, public education, training for professionals-unions-employers, legislative advocacy, and consulting solutions for organizations.
Tune in Saturday at 11 am Pacific time to hear what he has to say and to ask questions about workplace bullying and what you can do if you are targeted -- or what you should do if you are the bully.
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HAPPY MOTHERS’ DAY – NOW FIGHT TILL YOU BLEED JUST TO SEE YOUR KIDS
That’s what thousands of mothers will be doing this Sunday. Mothering is never easy, but for some moms, it means a gut wrenching battle with an ex-spouse, the courts, and child protective services, police, psychologists and guardians ad litem just to see their kids, even when the mother has done nothing wrong! One law journal calls this tendency of the courts to give abusers custody “surprising” and an increasing trend (Saunders, 2010). But it happens. And even when abusers don’t get full custody, they routinely get visitation and moms have to worry about the safety of their kids.
Joining us on this Mothers’ Day special program is Stacy Slaton, Owner of Divorce Planners, an organization that helps women divorcing domestic violence abusers. She not only helps other women facing custody and divorce battles with controlling men, but also fought her own battles with an ex and the courts for 15 years
Join us as we find out what's going on with domestic violence, child custody and the courts.
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RAPE KITS BACKLOGGED ON SHELVES, RAPISTS FREE AS BIRDS. WHO’S DOING SOMETHING?
We've all heard about the backlog of rape kits at crime facilities and police labs all across the country, and all the information locked in those kits that could be used to prosecute rapists and prevent them from raping again. The good news is that some states are actually tackling that backlog and making headway in those DNA tests - AND finding a lot of criminals. The bad news – huge backlogs still exist; it takes money to process this evidence; and some states are actually charging victims for processing and investigating via rape kits.
Erika Teschke, Founder of RapeKitWA.org, started out as your everyday citizen until she read about the nationwide issue with untested rape kits. Since then she has talked with leaders at all levels of the rape kit chain of custody in Wa State and with national organizations such as the Joyful Heart’s End The Backlog in order to help bring victim centered rape kit reform to her home state. RapeKitWA. org began as an educational tool and has morphed into a community based grassroots lobbying effort that helped to both educate the public about rape kits and steer legislation through the WA State Legislature.
Join us as we talk with Erika to find out what's going on with rape kits around the country with rape kits and the victims they represent.
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WHAT IS FETICIDE, WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE, AND DID SOMEONE SET THE CLOCK BACK?
Did you hear about the Indiana woman who had a miscarriage and was sent to jail for 40 years for “feticide?” Or the woman, also in Indiana, who attempted to commit suicide while she was pregnant and spent a year in jail for harming the baby? These aren’t isolated cases, and they aren’t all happening in Indiana. One study actually found hundreds of cases where women were arrested for doing something while pregnant that some official found harmful to their pregnancies.
So what does this mean for women around the country? And what about health care in general? Has health care reform and resultant hospital mergers have an impact on women, on pregnancies, on you?
Join us Saturday as we talk with Rachel Berkson, NARAL Pro-Choice Washington Executive Director. Rachel has been Associate Director of Washington Community Action Network. the Executive Director of the SEIU Washington State Council, where her primary focus was coordinating the union’s joint political and legislative programs, and from 2000 - 2006 was a lead organizer with the Working Families Party, a labor and community-based grassroots political party in New York State. Join us as we hash over what’s happening with pregnant women and politics, women’s health care, and where we are headed when it comes to women’s health in this country.
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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE WORLD OF WOMEN?
No one is better attuned to the situation of women in countries throughout the world than Rita Henley Jensen, founder and editor in chief of Women’s e-News, one of the most comprehensive and well-written publications covering women’s issues globally. So if we want to get up-to-the-minute information about what’s happening, she is the one to talk with, and we are delighted to have Rita join us Saturday as we discuss the latest in women’s rights in general and specifically a growing phenomenon of the immigration of care givers, specifically mothers; what is becoming a universal challenge to abortion rights; and even the fuss in France over super thin models.
Tune in Saturday at 11 am Pacific time to hear what she has to say and to ask questions about the problems for women in the world and what some people are doing about it.
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PARTY WITH CONSENT- A MOVEMENT TO HELP END CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT
Ever heard of “partying with consent?” If you hang around a college campus, that’s the buzz phrase that means you don’t have sex without permission. Sounds easy, right? But some people (like rapists) just aren’t getting it. What’s the deal?
Jonathan Kalin, founder of “Party with Consent,” started the movement to help end sexual assault on college campuses and health masculinities. He admits that most of the efforts to help curb campus rape has led to confusion and a lot of frustration, and he’s identified three barriers to solving that problem. The idea that sexual assault is simply the result of miscommunication; the fact that there is a real communication problem surrounding sexual consent; and the contradiction of athletics.
Jonathan travels the US to promote and explain the philosophy behind the Party with Consent movement.
There’s no denying there is a serious sexual assault issue on campuses. Even the president launched a major campaign last fall to address the problems. So does Jonathan have the answers?
Tune in Saturday at 11 am Pacific time to hear what he has to say and to ask questions about the problem and what some people are doing about it.
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A PROTECTION ORDER FOR FIDO? THIS COULD BE BIG!
People who know about domestic violence know how animals are often victims of abusers, and animals are often reasons women find it difficult to get away from an abusive situation. If someone says they will kill the dog if you leave, you think twice about leaving.
Rep. Liz Vazquez (R) of Alaska understands how domestic violence works. She knows abusers use every trick in the book, every controlling thing they can think of to keep their victims under their thumbs. That’s why she is sponsoring Alaska HB 147. The bill would allow courts to include animals in a protective order, which means that if the protection order is violated, there are consequences for the abuser just as if he violated a protection against the human being protected. Think of the possibilities such a bill could have, not only for protecting pets, but also for helping victims and their children.
Rep. Vazquez was born in New York, went to law school at Cornell, served as an administrative law judge and was an assistant attorney general and prosecutor. The first co-sponsor of the bill is Rep. Max Gruenberg (D), who has been an Alaska State representative for 20 years, a decorated veteran of the US Navy, who graduated from Stanford and the UCLA Law School. They are just two representatives at the forefront in what is a law that could have great benefits for victims of domestic violence.
Join both representatives on Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to find out more about this proposed legislation, and to talk with the representatives sponsoring it.
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So is S & M the new missionary position? With ity shades of Gray comfortably ensconced as mainstream do we think of handcuffs and riding crops with a nudge, nudge, wink, wink attitude? If a husand slaps a wife is it sexy or abusive? And when some religious folks say they have a spouse's permission to spank them in order to carry out God's direction for head of households, do we look at the hitting differently? In other words, when is it abuse, when is it fun, and how do we tell the difference? Or do we need to?
Two guests will join the show this week to "school" us in the fine art of telling the difference between hurting, loving, giving permission for pain, and how to tell whether we are all being hoodwinked into thinking we are stodgy and unsophisticated if we don’t associate pain with love.
Monika Johnson Hostler is the Executive Director of the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA). Monika worked at the local rape crisis center in Scotland County as the Crisis Intervention Coordinator. Monika has been an activist in the social justice movement for more than 15 years. She has presented on the issue of sexual violence to numerous communities including the Joint Task for the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Military Academy subcommittee, and was appointed by the Obama administration to serve on the National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women.
Tre’Andre Valentine is a queer activist from Trinidad & Tobago and has been with The Network/La Red, a survivor-led social justice organization working to end partner abuse in lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and/or trans*, SM and polyamorous communities since 2009 as the Community Programs Coordinator providing support services to survivors. Tre’Andre currently serves as the Director of Community Engagement, increasing visibility of the issue of LGBQ/T
Join us as we talk with Margo Lindauer, author of "Damned if you do, damned if you don't: Why multi-court-involved battered mothers just can't win." As Lindauer states in her book, "Being a good mother is difficult. Being a good mother and a victim 1 of domestic violence 2 is even harder. The different and often competing expectations placed on battered mothers in the juvenile (child welfare), 3 civil/trial, 4 criminal, and family 5 court systems present a profound and befuddling problem. In this Article, I intend to identify the difficulty and uniqueness of being both a mother 6 and a victim of domestic violence, investigate the tension and conflict among different judicial systems, and proffer some suggestions for reform."
What do animals do for us? Let's talk to the experts to find out. Joining us is Dr. Kim Nicholas, a vet from Washington state, and Jenna Pringle, who specializes in pet adoption and placement.
WHERE HAS ALL THE HEALTH CARE GONE?
Been to the doctor lately? Or was it a physician’s assistant? What about all those annual tests we were told we needed? Had any of those lately? Been told you’re too old for a PAP test? What is going on in the world of doctors and patients and who makes all these decisions? And how do these decisions affect women who have been traumatized or abused?
So many changes, so many questions. What can we expect in the new world of affordable care?
If anyone can help us figure it out, it’s Lyle Larson, PhD, PA-C, Chief Physician Assistant, University of Washington Medical Center, and Teaching Associate, Division of Cardiology, Electrophysiology Section. Lyle teaches, practices, and has worked with and edited several scholarly publications. He writes and lectures in the medical field, working with not only physicians and physicians’ assistants, but also with research and funding.
With so much of the dialog about health care centering on cost and accessibility, it’s sometimes hard to realize that the day to day visiting of the doctor’s office or the emergency room may be altered by all the changes. Let’s learn more about what we are facing in our medicine-doctor-patient futures.
Lyle is joining us this Saturday to talk about health concerns and questions we face as we go down a new road to treatment and relationships in the era of health care reform.
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to talk about what is new, what we need to know and what we should expect as we go forward to health care’s next face.
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POTATOE, POTAHTO- DOES IT REALLY MATTER HOW YOU SAY IT?
Remember when we had firemen and man hole covers? Think those days are over? Well think again! Language, words and what we say has all sorts of power; power that can influence social attitudes and even career expectations. If you thought the word war was won 30 years ago, think again.
Rosalie Maggio is the award-winning author of over 20 books, including the 2-million-copy bestseller How to Say It; a French-language biography of daredevil Marie Marvingt; 2 children's books and hundreds of children's stories; one of the largest collections of women's quotations in print; how-to books like The Art of Talking to Anyone and The Art of Organizing Anything, and 4 books on biased language, including the just-published Unspinning the Spin: The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language. Published by McGraw Hill, Prentice-Hall, Beacon, Morrow, and others, her books have been translated in Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Thai, Korean, and Arabic. Her website, www.quotationsbywomen.com showcases 43,000 quotations by 6,700 women under 1,000 topics. She is currently writing an English-language biography of Marie Marvingt (see www.mariemarvingt.com) and working on screenplays.
She will join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to talk about language, words, gender and bias. And I’ll bet you are rocked by what she has to say about the words we use.
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You see red hearts, lace hearts, romantic messages and love in the air at this Valentines time of year. But after the lace and roses, most of us face the real every-day tasks of raising families and caring for our kids.
Most governmental agencies have some focus on keeping people safe, and some focus exclusively on keeping children safe in our dangerous world.
The coordinator for a Washington State coalition dedicated to educating folks about safety for children is our guest this Saturday. Kathleen Clary-Cooke is with Safe Kids Benton-Franklin Health District, an organization that provides staff, operation support and other resources to keeping kids safe. Based on the needs of the community, this coalition implements evidence-based programs, such as car-seat checkups, safety workshops and sports clinics, that help parents and caregivers prevent childhood injuries.
Kathleen spent a number of years in the communications field before going to law school and keeping a private practice for a number of years. Her work with abused and neglected children led her to her work with the Safe Kids Coalition.
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to learn more about how to keep kids safe, and what can happen when we don’t.
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AFTER PRISON: WHO’S THERE TO HELP?
The United States incarcerates more of its citizens than any other nation, with a jail and prison population that increased from 200,000 to a staggering 2.3 million in the past 40 years. But what happens to all those people after they serve their time and go back into their communities? Not surprisingly, the barriers to living after incarceration are staggering. They face employment discrimination, denial of public benefits and food stamps for their families, exclusion from housing, and let’s not forget that even voting rights are taken away for some.
So what do we do to help make sure these folks don’t return to crime and are able to build their lives?
An organization called “Root and Rebound” in California is helping former prisoners with social support, legal services, education, training, advocacy and litigation.
Our guests this week are Katherine Katcher, founder and executive director of the program, who earned her law degree from UC Berkeley, and Sonja Tonnesen, deputy director at Root & Rebound. These women will join us to talk about the problems and social issues surrounding those released from prison and share some of their successes and ideas for helping the formerly incarcerated rejoin society.
You’ve seen the ads- a bruised and bloodied woman looks plaintively at the camera. Or a movie star plays the role of a battered woman being degraded and beaten. Or even a picture of a cemetery and mourners. All the images and audio are designed to let the watcher understand the seriousness of domestic violence. The ads can be shocking, even gut-wrenching. But what do those ads really do to help victims of domestic violence? Is the image being conveyed effective in either educating the public, or helping the victims? All good questions, and one academic has done studies to find out.
Courtney Welton-Mitchell is the director of the Humanitarian Assistance Applied Research Group at the University of Denver. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology in 2012, holds two M.A. degrees, in social psychology and mental health counseling, and is a licensed clinician
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She will join us Saturday to talk about what her research showed when it comes to effective messages about DV. What is the message ads give about DV, what outcomes do the current approaches have, and is there a better way to educate, protect, and fund raise to help abused women?
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to learn more about violence advertising messages and effects.
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Court testimony from an “expert” hired by the Los Angeles School District, argued that a 9-year-old who was sexually assaulted at school didn’t experience any trauma from the event because she had a low IQ. Really! Does anyone really believe that? Well, apparently some do. What other misconceptions exist that minimize the damage done by trauma to people who are different from our ideal? Can you imagine being a little girl who endured a horrible assault and then being told and treated as if it were no big deal?
Well, we’re going to explore that topic and more with Brian D. Tallant, L.P.C., N.C.C. Brian is a Program Director at Aurora Mental Health in Colorado and manages Intercept Center; a mental health outpatient and day treatment program for children who have a dual diagnosis of developmental disability and co-occurring mental health disorders. He works with a number of disabled children who have experienced trauma of all sorts.
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to learn more about childhood trauma and disabled children, and find out if the “expert” from the school district in LA is right or wrong as can be.
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A Missouri State Representative has proposed a bill that would require women to get a notarized signature (no forgeries, ladies!) from the father of the baby in order to get an abortion. Really- a permission slip! And don't think you could wiggle your way out of the requirement for rape. A rape will only be exempted if it is a "legitimate" rape according to the representative. His definition of legitimate? It is reported to police and "proved." Otherwise, prepare to mother your attacker's child. And don't think domestic violence will excuse you from the proposed rules, either. the caring representative says that just because there is violence in the relationship doesn't mean the baby shouldn't be born.
Well.
Do you agree? Think this is reasonable legislation? Or are you outraged by this lattest attempt to chip away at abortion rights that have existed since the 1970's?
Rev. Rebecca Turner, Executive Director of Faithaloud, join us to look at the Missouri legislation as well as other political attempts to change abortion rights.
SUPERVISED VISITATION – THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UNREALISTIC
If you’ve never known anyone who had some pretty rugged child custody battles, you may not know what supervised visitation is. In cases where the courts are reluctant to allow a parent to spend time with his or her children alone (maybe there are assault or domestic violence issues), the court will order the parent to use the services of a visitation supervisor. This person or organization arranges for the hand off of kids between one parent and another, or will go on the visit with the kids and the parent to be sure everything is all right. Sometimes the parent will have the visit right at a protective facility. Sounds like a great solution for situations where there could be some danger, right?
Well, maybe. There are plenty of down sides, and like most things, there are consequences.
Join us Saturday when Tracee Parker shares her knowledge about supervised visitation. She was the Program Director of the Safe Havens Visitation Center/Safe & Sound Visitation in the Seattle area during its operation from January 2005 through December 2012. Her background includes domestic violence advocacy, community organizing, violence prevention, mediation, nonviolent conflict resolution training, and domestic violence perpetrator treatment. Tracee is currently working on her doctorate in clinical psychology where her research focus is post-separation battering, family law and domestic violence, and coercive control.
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to learn more about supervised visitation.
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Time to revisit a favorite past show.and this one is about tteatment programs for perpetrators of domestic vioence. Does it really work? Listen and find out.
IS THIS WHAT WE CAN DO TO ELIMINATE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?
We are always asking ourselves what we can do to prevent or eliminate domestic violence (DV). Could the Quincy Solution be the answer?
It makes sense that ending DV requires a legal system that women can use readily to get help, and that takes full legal measures against abusers, right? Seems reasonable, but for whatever reasons, it doesn’t often work that way. The Quincy Solution comes from a 1987 study by a suburban Boston judicial district that actually researched what could help eliminate DV, and they based the Quincy Solution upon that research. They found that in order to be effective against DV, the system had to empower victims and control abusers. Easy to say, but how do we do that?
Barry Goldstein, a nationally recognized domestic violence author, speaker and advocate will join us Saturday to talk about the Quincy Solution. He has written several of the leading domestic violence books including Domestic Violence, Abuse and Child Custody co-edited with Dr. Mo Therese Hannah, Representing the Domestic Violence Survivor, co-authored with Elizabeth Liu and Scared to Leave Afraid to Stay. His newest book is The Quincy Solution: Stop Domestic Violence and Save $500 Billion.
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to learn more about the Quincy Plan and domestic violence.
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You’ve probably wondered what to do if you know someone in a domestic violence situation. What if you are confronted with domestic violence with a stranger or acquaintance? What’s a bystander supposed to do in that situation? Intercede? Yell at the abuser? Offer to take the victim away? All those actions can be dangerous and ultimately not useful. So what DO you do?
Saturday’s guest is Barbara Paradiso, MPA, who has Paradiso has worked on behalf of victims of domestic and sexual violence and their children for more than thirty years as an advocate, administrator and activist. She is the founder and Director of the Center on Domestic Violence at the School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver). In that capacity, Ms. Paradiso is responsible for the development and maintenance of a groundbreaking Center for original research, service and graduate level educational programming - the first of its kind in the nation.
So who better to talk with us about what to do as a bystander when we witness domestic violence?
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to learn more bystander behavior and domestic violence.
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Did you know There's a U.S. district court judge in Alabama who was arrested in August after his wife called 9-1-1 crying and being audibly beaten by her husband? The police report says the good judge blodied the woman's face and legs and dragged her around the room by her hair. On top of that, his first wife reports he did much the same to her during their marriage. So what's happening? What happens much too often in these cases: he took a plea deal that requires him to see a counsellor once a week for 24 weeks and the whole thing disappears from his record. The community wants him out. The fact is, this man was appointed a judge for life and unless he resigns or is impeached by the U.S. congress, he will still be on the bench hearing cases involving domestic violence and other crimes. And he will sit in judgement of others while his own messy background goes away. Huh?
That's right, no jail time, no conviction, even, eventually, no record of arrest. Is this a guy you want to stand before in a court of law?
This week we are welcoming Staci Zaretsky, an editor of ABOVE the Law, and a contributor to other legal publications such as Judgepedia, Lawyerist, and Ms. JD. She's been featired on various TV and radio programs including CNBC's Power Lunch, HuffPost Live, and Chicago Public Radio. Staci is a gruaduate of Lehigh University and Western New England University School of Law. She has been published in the Western New England Law Review. She is going to help us figure out what this case is about, how it compares to other domestic violence cases, and what's going on with Judge Mark Fuller.
Sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse -- each brings with it a heavy burden for victims to deal with. But as bad as that trauma is, having it committed by one we rely on like a parent or clergyman, makes that trauma so much worse. Join us as we discuss betrayal trauma..
The drama never seems to end for the NFL. After years of getting a slap on the hand for violence against women, the athletes are going to face a new tough policy in the future. And the NFL hired former Manhattan prosecutor Lisa Friel as an advisor for that revamp in policy. Problem is, she is already getting wishy washy about how the policy has to look out for the athletes. So is all the hype from the NFL just that - hype?
Join us with MIchael O'keeffe, award winning sports reporter for the NY Daily News as we discuss his take on abuse in sports.
Really, if 7th Heaven's Rev. Eric Camden can be a child molester, is nothing sacred? Well, no. Not when it comes to the abuse of children.
In light of the recent allegations and investigations into actor Stephen Collins (TV's Rev. Camden) for molesting children, it's time to take another look at just who molesters are, how they operate, hot to recognize them, and how to help kids be safe. We also need to reexamine what we can do about this terrible problem. Did you know a 2004 U.S. Department of Education report said nearly 10 % of students have sexual contact with school employees before they graduate? That report also stated that abuse happens when no one is paying attention to the issue.
So let's pay attention.
Storm is a writer and poet. She is a survivor and advocate for child abuse victims and has turned that into a personal campaign to speak out against the unspeakable. She wants to help children get out of abusive situations by personally speaking about what she's been through.
Daphne Young, Vice President of Communications and PreventionEducation for Childhelp can halp us figure it all out. Childhelp is America's longest running and largets national nonprofit meeting the physical, emotional, educational and spiritual needs of abused and neglected children. The organization focuses on advocacy, prevention, treatment, and community outreach. She has developed a youth safety curriculum for young athletes with Olympic Consultants, the Foundation for Glogal Sports Development called Childhelp: Speak Up, Be Safe for Athletes.
Storm and Daphne will give us answers, explain what child molestation really is, and offer strategies and resources for all of us.
October has been Domestic Violence Awareness Month for a couple of decades now and still some folks don’t get it. You might see a purple ribbon. Maybe some businesses and communities string some purple lights in their windows, but what are we doing this year to increase awareness and honor the lives torn apart by this particularly insidious form of violence against women?
There is a National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and we’re lucky to have its new Executive Director, Ruth Glenn join us to talk about what different groups around the country are doing to raise awareness about DV. She worked for the Colorado Department of Human Services for 28 years and served as the Director of the Domestic Violence Program (DVP) for the last nine of those years. Ruth has worked and volunteered in the domestic violence field for over 19 years and holds a Masters’ in Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Colorado Denver, Program on Domestic Violence, as well as a degree in Communications.
She has served on many domestic violence program and funding boards, provided hundreds of presentations on domestic violence victimization and survival, testified before the Colorado State legislature, appeared on local and national television, and provided consultation, training and technical assistance on a local and national level on victim/survivor issues as they relate to domestic violence.
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to as we discuss what we are doing to improve understanding of intimate partner violence.
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What woman doesn't want to take control of her life? Starting a business and watching it grow is one great way to do just that. But many women have no experience with entrepreneurship, and many carry extra burdens to life fulfillment. Those who have experienced domestic violence even more so.
Susan Wilson Solovic, best selling author, ABC and Fox commentator Susan Wilson Solovic will talk women starting small and making it. From upstart to millionaire, from beginner to expert, she has advice and suggestions for every woman out there. join us for this important conversation.
GENDER VIOLENCE: IS IT REALLY THAT DIFFERENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
The news gives us shocking reports of violence against women in the Middle East – stoning, brutality, punishment for being sexually assaulted—it has to be worse than the US, right? It turns out there are vast differences in gender violence, but there also are a surprising number of similarities.
Leyla Welkin, Ph.D. is a clinical cross cultural psychologist born in Turkey and educated in the US. After 25 years working in the Pacific Northwest, she founded the Pomegranate Connection Program in Ankara, Turkey in 2008. She has partnered with organizations in the US, the UK, and Turkey to address gender based violence. Welkin has worked with civil and social organizations, government agencies, businesses, universities, and the United Nations Population Fund to develop programs to prevent and intervene in sexual and family violence among Syrian refugees living in Turkey.
Her work has given her a unique perspective on talking about the perpetrators, survivors, social views and struggles faced by women in the Middle East and how they compare with those in the United States.
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to as we discuss domestic violence and gender abuse in the Middle East and how it compares with that in the US.
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SUICIDE: WHAT ABOUT THOSE LEFT BEHIND?
We’ve all known a friend of a friend, or a family member, or even a celebrity who shocked and dumbfounded us because of his or her suicide. Your children may have school friends who have contemplated or carried out a suicide. Maybe a relative left you wondering for the rest of your life what you could have done. Perhaps you have had thoughts of killing yourself. Not a happy topic, for sure, but one which can affect all of us.
September is suicide awareness month, so this is a perfect time to discuss this topic and find out more about the whys and guilt that can accompany it.
Dr. Jill Harkavy-Friedman is responsible for research for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. This includes gathering data from AFSP funded studies and communicating those findings to the larger community and public. She also collaborates on the development of prevention materials such as films, programs and brochures.
Dr. Harkavy-Friedman received her B.A. in Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Florida. In 1984 she joined Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, first as an assistant professor and later an associate professor of clinical psychology in psychiatry.
She has been studying suicidal behavior for more than 25 years and has more than 90 publications. As a licensed psychologist, she maintains a clinical practice at her office in Manhattan.
With the death of Joan Rivers this week, it seems like everyone is talking about her role in shaping the world’s view of women in comedy. So what about women in comedy? Is there such a thing as “women’s humor?” Is it only funny when women mock their bodies and relationships? Are today’s female comedians different from other generations of female comics?
Prepare to discuss humor, laughs, what’s funny and how women are perceived in comedy with two guests Saturday. Sheila Moeschen is a writer and Senior Editor for I AM THAT GIRL, an organization that empowers girls and young women to healthy self-esteem and self-worth. She holds a Ph.D in Gender and Theatre Studies from Northwestern University. Sheila has been involved behind the scenes with the Women In Comedy Festival since its beginning in 2008. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and her work has appeared elsewhere in print and online. She lives in Boston. Elyse Schuerman is one of the producers of the Women in Comedy Festival, and between them, we should have a rousing conversation about what makes people laugh and how women fit into the comedy scene.
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to learn more women in comedy.
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THE BULLY AND THE BULLIED
Kids get bullied. Adults get bullied. Workers get bullied. It’s just a fact of life, right? We grow up change jobs, move new places and there’s no harm, no foul, right? Well, maybe not. Could bullying actually be tied to abuse, domestic violence and long term consequences? What happens when your parent or your teacher is the bully? Or your supervisor at work or a relative?
Lisa Freeman, award winning author and speaker, will help us sort it all out Saturday. She’s appeared on TCT Today, Family Life Radio, Family Forum, news programs (such as WNEM-TV 5, WEYI-TV 25, WILNS-TV 6, ABC-TV 12 and more!) and has made headlines in newspapers both at the local and national level. For four years she hosted her own televised ministry “A Time to Heal.” Currently she writes a blog, “Abuse Bites but True Love Heals” to inspire others. She also lost a son in 2010, who had been bullied all his life for having Asperger’s Syndrome and a rare heart disease. Both personally and professionally, Lisa knows the ins and outs of bullying.
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to learn more about the causes, effects, and long term consequences of bullying.
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Everybody’s been talking about “Fifty Shades of Gray” the notorious book soon to be movie, telling the story of a young girl experimenting with sexuality with a gorgeous, rich sadist. So is it just a good fantasy, or is it something darker?
A recent study by some Michigan State University researchers found that young women who are fans of the book are more likely to be prone to eating disorders, binge drinking and multiple sexual partners, than young women who have not read the books. They are also more likely to have a verbally abusive partner.
Coincidence? Maybe, but we’ll learn more Saturday when we talk with Amy Bonomi, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Human Development and Family Studies Department at Michigan State University. Dr. Bonomi’s research focuses on the long-term health effects of domestic violence, dating violence, and child abuse, and the intimacy dynamics/processes that keep violent relationships intact. Dr. Bonomi and her colleagues analyzed abuse and harmed identity in the national bestseller, Fifty Shades of Grey, using the U.S. Centers for Disease Control’s definitions of intimate partner violence. She is an associate editor at the Journal of Women’s Health and BMC Public Health, and is the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University.
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to learn more about “Fifty Shades of Gray.
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ATHLETES, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, AND ARE WE TAKING IT SERIOUSLY?
We’ve all seen the headlines- Ray Rice gets two game suspension for knocking his fiancé unconscious and dragging her off a casino elevator. Joe Mixon under investigation for punching a woman in the face. One of the Steubenville high school students convicted of rape is back on the football field. The news reports go on and on with allegations and prosecutions of athletes at all levels for violence against women. And what are we doing about it? The NFL gives a slap on the hand to Rice (who could have been suspended for numerous games if he had smoked a joint). Sports fans still line up for autographs, and the victims are disparaged for “ruining” the athlete’s life. Have we really slipped down the rabbit hole when it comes to seriously dealing with violent athletes?
So let’s talk about it. Brian O’Connor, Director of Public Education Campaigns and Programs for Futures Without Violence where he crafts national and international violence prevention campaigns for a variety of audiences. He’s former marketer of global brands such as Gatorade and Kodak, and reporter for the Village Voice. His work engaging men inspires them to model positive masculinity and teach boys that violence never equals strength. Brian holds a master's from Columbia University and is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. He is the former president of the board of Root Division, an arts education non-profit based in San Francisco where he lives.
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to learn more about our responses to athletes who are also abusers.
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We’ve heard (and experienced) so much wrong with the family court system. Judges don’t get it, the process is another way to abuse a partner, the courts and other professionals are making money hand over fist because of all the extra counsellors and shrinks they are requiring to determine custody…the list goes on and on. So what being done about it? What should family courts look like and who’s going to get them that way?
Shawn C. Marsh, Ph.D., is the Chief Program Officer over Juvenile Law at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges headquartered at the University of Nevada - Reno. He’s a researcher and teacher and he knows why family courts need to change and how to make that happen. He knows about psychology and the law, adolescent development, resiliency, and juvenile justice. He’s published numerous articles in scholarly journals such as Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice and Victims & Offenders, as well as chapters in textbooks such as Correctional Psychiatry and Juvenile Crime and Justice. See if you agree with his thoughts and comments, and let us know how you are making a difference when it comes to family courts.
Dr. Jill Murray
IF IT DOESN’T LEAVE A BRUISE, CAN IT BE ABUSE?
How can it be abuse when he never hit me? How can you call it domestic violence when there are no black eyes or broken bones? Easy. There are many ways one human being can bully, damage, and control another and only one of them involves physical attacks. Verbal abuse, psychological abuse, spiritual abuse, emotional abuse, financial abuse—they may sound like they are not nearly as bad as those broken bones, but in fact those types of abuse can actually have more devastating consequences for the victim. Bones heal; black eyes get better; but when your security, your peace of mind, your doubts about your worth are consistently beaten down, the effects are not so easily repaired.
Dr. Jill Murray is an expert in teen dating violence as well as an expert on domestic violence issues, and has a private practice in California. She has been on Oprah, Dr. Phil (and we’re going to ask her about him, for sure), Anderson Cooper, 20/20 and other national programs. She also has written several books on abusive relationships, including her most recent, “But He Never Hit Me,” which won the Publisher’s Choice award. She knows her stuff, and she is going to share it with us on Saturday.
Join us Saturday at 11 am Pacific Time to learn more about how abuse can be many things, and how abuse can have long lasting consequences for its victims.
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You’ve heard it - “My wife is crazy, but the courts are so prejudiced against men, she got full custody.” “He was abusing me in front of the children, but the judge didn’t even pay attention to me- he got full custody.” “We have shared custody – how can I ever get him/her to be reasonable when it comes to the decisions about the kids?”
Oh, the horror stories we hear. It seems like men’s groups and women’s groups are becoming more active about the sad state our family courts are in. Anyone who’s been in front of a judge knows the fear, the devastation and the lifelong impact of their decisions regarding divorce and child custody. It seems like everyone is let asking, “What was that judge thinking?”
Now is your chance to find out. Join us Saturday to hear A Colorado family court judge explain how judges think, assess, and make decisions, and what laws they have to consider when making those decisions.
Angela R. Arkin has been a District Court Judge in the 18th Judicial District since 2002. She’s a graduate of Emory Law School, and is licensed in Colorado, Georgia and the District of Columbia. She began her judicial career by serving two years as a District Court Magistrate in Arapahoe County with a domestic and juvenile docket. She is currently handling a 100% domestic docket in Douglas County. Prior to her current assignment, Judge Arkin has served as a District Judge in all four counties in the District, with mixed dockets including criminal, civil, probate, mental health, juvenile and domestic cases.
The news article covers the latest woman murdered by her husband, and quotes a neighbor saying, “I can’t believe it, he was such a nice guy!” The TV reporter leers happily at the woman wearing a swimsuit while doing a story about a swimming pool. Beauty pageants…er, make that “scholarship pageants,” hang onto the bikini competition while pretending to ask each candidate a tough, intellectual question. How many headlines have screamed, “Grandfather elected to city council,” when the headline about a woman announcing she is a grandmother precedes all other information about her accomplishments? And how can we forget the scantily clad Paris Hilton slithering around the top of a luxury car and being sprayed into her ecstatic face with spouting water, all to sell a hamburger?
We are surrounded by media messages regardless of how they portray women, and how does that affect us?
Joining us Saturday is media activist Ann Simonton, once a top fashion model, who now works to expose the disturbing consequences of corporate owned media. Simonton appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated and Seventeen, and on the pages of Glamour, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Women's Day, Bride and many other national magazines. She also appeared on dozens of national television commercials before turning her back on this lucrative career to dedicate her life to exposing commercial media's bias. Ms. Simonton is an authority on the effects of media images and you may have seen her on Dr. Phil, Oprah, Larry King Live, Entertainment Tonight or CNN's Crossfire. She is the founder and Director of Media Watch.
CHILD BRIDES
Imagine being 11 or 12 years old, getting ready for your wedding to a man as old as or older than your father, makes the arrangements to take you back to his home after the ceremony. Now imagine being 5 years old, waking from a nap to find out you were married. One 8 year old Yemeni girl was in the news last fall after she died from a ruptured uterus after her wedding night to a man in his 30s. According to the International Center for Research on Women, One in every nine girls in this world will be married before the age of 15. And, yes, it even happens in America.
Dr. Suzanne Petroni has more than 20 years of experience in foreign policy and global development, with particular expertise in gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and adolescent health and development. She will be on our show Saturday to talk about child brides around the world, what creates the situation and what happens to these girls. Get ready to be shocked and outraged by the information she shares.
Join us Saturday at 11 Pacific Time to learn more about this significant topic.
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DO RELIGIONS HELP OR HINDER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS?
Popular televangelist Pat Robertson recently advised a child who wrote in asking what to do when his father waves a gun around the mother when they fight. With all apparent concern and sincerity, the TV preacher told the child, “you don’t want to get your father busted,” and that instead of calling the police, the child should tell his mother to tell the father to get help. Huh?? This man clearly has no business giving out advice about domestic violence when he so clearly has no grasp of what it is nor how to handle it. Unfortunately, the young listener isn’t the only one who is getting dicey and dangerous advice about DV.
So is Robertson typical of the religious stance on domestic violence? Are women being given advice by their clergy that is wrong, harmful, lacking in understanding of what DV is? Unfortunately, some women are. The good news is that some clergy have the knowledge, understanding and common sense to really help in these situations.
Carolyn Scott Brown, M.A., is the Director of Learning and Resources for FaithTrust Institute in Seattle. She helps faith and community organizations develop a combination of resources and training services to help prevent and intervene for domestic & sexual violence, child abuse, teen dating violence and ministerial misconduct. And she does it from a faith-based perspective. Scott-Brown, author, psychologist, and consultant, has an undergraduate degree from Brown University and a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. She is the author of The Black Woman’s Guide to Menopause: Doing Menopause with Heart and Soul. She joins us July 5th to talk about how faith and religion can be compatible with helping abused women stay safe.
This is hard, but imagine you are raped, get pregnant from that rape, and decide to continue the pregnancy. THEN, the attacker seeks joint custody…or even SOLE custody of that child! It defies logic, yet 31 states the rapists have parental rights to that child. That means visitation, overnights, perhaps, communication with your attacker for 18 years. It happens more than you think.
Shauna Prewitt is an attorney, author, and advocate for raped women, and this is exactly what happened to her after she was raped in college. Spurred by these events and determined to make a difference, Shauna enrolled at Georgetown Law School in 2006. During her time there, Shauna wrote the first scholarly piece examining the legal protections afforded to women who mother through rape. Since its publication, Shauna's piece has received much attention from legal scholars, legislators, and advocacy groups.
She is now a practicing attorney and national expert on the laws protective of pregnant raped women. Shauna frequently testifies in support of stronger rape legislation and routinely contributes to the national commentary on the need for even greater protections. Interviews with and articles written by Shauna have appeared on CNN, NBC, and other national media outlets. And this Saturday she joins us to talk about these kinds of situations and what can be done about them.
If you’ve ever experienced family court, you know how wrenching it can be. In difficult cases it’s hard to find a lawyer to tackle the issues, and if you’re broke, good luck getting legal advice. In the brotherhood/sisterhood of lawyers, one particular woman stands out – REALLY stands out. Elizabeth Kates has practice law for 34 years with impressive qualifications like a J.D. and LLM degrees from University of Florida, plus psychology training. She has practiced in the areas of finance, taxation and gender issues affecting women in the IRS and other federal laws. But she is so much more.
Liz founded lizlibrary.org to focus on women’s issues and history, which is probably the most comprehensive site about divorce, custody, news, and so much more. She believes that there is an abrogation of the rule of law in family law that has led to more and more problems for women in divorce and child custody, even as the changes in the laws in other areas have purported to equalize women's rights.
And to top it off, Liz is outspoken and controversial even among her peers. One lawyer wrote on his website that people should “stay away” from her as an attorney. She can be just as fierce in her opinions as she can be supportive of the issues she supports.
THE POLICE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE- MORE THAN ARRESTS
You’ve heard about mandatory arrest in domestic violence cases – somebody is going to jail if you call the police, right? What about dual arrests? Do police have special training for DV? How do they decide who is the perpetrator? Who makes decisions about police training and actions in these cases?
All these questions and more will be covered by Margaret Alquist, MSW, MPA, when she joins us Saturday to talk about correction departments and domestic violence. Margaret is currently a presentence writer for sex offenders and also DV lead. She has been involved in domestic violence issues for the Washington State Department of Corrections and is responsible for developing and implementing a DV policy, curriculum, and training for DOC staff. Margaret started out her DV career as a community-based DV advocate with New Beginnings. She also served as a crisis social worker for Oahu Hawaii’s child protection system. Margaret is an active member of the King County DV and Child Maltreatment Coordinated Response Oversight Committee and has participated over the last ten year in an East King County collaborative on DV coordinated response. So let’s talk police and domestic violence!
Join us Saturday at 11 Pacific Time to learn more about this significant topic. Call-in with your comments to (646) 378-0430.
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Did you know that Italian schools are now teaching classes in how not to kill your girlfriend? That a study carried out by Peru’s National Mental Health Institute found that 21% of women in that country experience domestic violence daily? That domestic violence and rape have gone up in South Africa? Women's status and crimes against women is the focus ot Saturday's show with Rita Henley Jensen, world traveler and editor of Women's E-News. Join us for a rocking discussion of women's issues world wide. Join us at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways and call in to 646-378-0430.
There are two things most people know about rape kits: There’s a huge backlog of kits that have never been tested, and “Law and Order” always gets their rape kits tested immediately. That’s a start, but there is a whole lot more about the kits, the law, the Violence Against Women Act, and who pays for them. Do you know whether it is only police or the individual who can request the test? Does a victim have to prosecute if the police get a rape kit tested? How about the privacy issue? The Department of Justice recently released an evaluative report answering these questions and more. Katy Waldman has investigated and reported on the latest DOJ information and she will be here to share that information with us on Saturday. Katy writes about women's issues, culture, books, and science for Slate magazine, where she is an assistant editor. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, the Washington Post, Narrative, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC.
Join us Saturday at 11 to learn more about this significant topic. Call-in with your comments to (646) 378-0430.
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DUAL ARRESTS- WHAT IS IT, WHO USES IT, AND IS IT EFFECTIVE?
Sometimes when police officers are called to a domestic violence situation, they arrest the man, sometimes they arrest the woman, and then there are the times they arrest both. Some research indicates that dual arrest increases the likelihood of the victim being arrested along with the abuser. So why do some police departments do that? What can we do about it?
Julie Randall, a former probation officer turned victims’ rights advocate joins us to talk about dual arrests. She is the coordinator of the Hendricks County (Indiana) Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and was the founding executive director of Sheltering Wings domestic violence shelter. Her background in advocacy, community outreach, education and policy development will help us figure out whether dual arrest is a good thing or not, and why some police use the policy of duel arrests more than others.
GENDER STUDIES, WOMEN’S STUDIES—DO WE REALLY STILL NEED THEM?
You remember women’s studies – started around the time young women were supposedly burning their bras. If you’re a supporter of the programs, they are a place to learn the history of feminism, equality, and women’s accomplishments in the world. If you aren’t a supporter, those programs are for women with short hair and Birkenstocks to learn how to resent men. Fortunately, both those stereotypes are off the mark. So – what is women’s studies and how are such programs relevant today?
We’ll get those answers and more as Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Director and Professor of the Women’s Studies Program at Southern Connecticut State University, joins us for Saturday’s show. Growing up in Taiwan, Tricia was expected to follow a life as previous generations of women had- obedient and submissive to patriarchy. That didn’t work for her, and instead she went to graduate school and became a teacher focusing on social justice issues, including gender, racial, and socio-economic issues. She also is very active in leadership of a number of academic and political organizations, including Veteran Feminists of America, New Haven League of Women Voters, and the National Women’s Studies Association. Tricia also contributed to several publications including a special issue on transnational Indigenous feminism with Lectora (University of Barcelona), forthcoming in 2016. If anyone knows the current status of women’s studies, it is Tricia.
Some news articles, some TV clips, a few coffee break discussions are popping up about human trafficking. Isn’t that a problem found only in the slums of Asia? Unfortunately it’s an issue that is much more prevalent than most of us know, and it affects people everywhere – even cherry cheeked farmers’ daughters in Iowa.
Joining us this Saturday for a discussion about what trafficking is, who it affects, and what we can do about it, will beVelma Veloria, former Washington State legislator, and expert on trafficking, will join us. Ms. Veloria was instrumental in passing HB1175, making Washington the first state in the nation to criminalize trafficking. She’s now working to address corporate responsibility around human trafficking, as well as working with Washington legislators to formulate and pass legislation that would make aspects of human rights offenses covered under Washington law. She authored legislation that created a Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on International Trade Policy in the State Legislature. As a former labor organizer, Ms. Veloria has established a track record of for laws and education about family issues across the broader community. In 2011, Ms. Veloria was recognized by the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) with the Women of Courage Award, which is presented to women from diverse backgrounds that have demonstrated courage by taking a stand to further civil rights and equality.
Join us Saturday at 11 to learn more about this significant topic. Call-in with your comments to (646) 378-0430.
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So many stories about domestic violence; so many books. How to get the book that will help you or your friends and family the most. That’s our topic for discussion Saturday. We’ll have Debra Adams, BA/MA, Interdisciplinary Studies join us to talk about three books she has helped author. An international Expert on Education and Prevention of Domestic Violence, she lived in an abusive marriage for 17 years, and for the last 20 years she has been working to stop violence against women. Debra also hosts her own radio show, Debra Ses at http://debra-ses.blogspot.com/
She will be talking about The Missing Piece in Business, The Missing Piece: A Transformational Journey; and Why Doesn’t she just leave? Real Women, Real Stories, among others.
If you have a favorite book, comments about books and research in the field of violence against women, or if you would like a peek at what’s out there, join us Saturday as we take time to talk books.
THOUGHT HEARTBLEED MAKES YOU VULNERABLE? TRY CYBERSTAKING
Victims of domestic violence have to worry about what happens when their abusers are in the same house with them, and now they have to worry when their abusers are nowhere in sight. Technology is making stalking, bullying, controlling, and even spying a real threat to victims. NSA type tracking and monitoring doesn’t hold a candle to the intrusive ways abusers use technology to harass and strike fear in their victims. MobiStealth was used by a murderer to read his girlfriend’s text messages to learn of her plans to leave him. The CDC reports more than 8 million women have been stalked, and 81% of those women were physically assaulted.
Michele Garcia is the director of the Stalking Resource Center for the National Center for Victims of Crime, an organization that works toward education, promoting victim safety, and holding offenders accountable. She has 20 years of experience working for victims’ rights and domestic violence.
Join us Saturday as we talk about how technology is used to control and hurt people, the many types of technology being used by stalkers, and what you can do about it if you think you are a victim. Share your comments and stories with us, and let others know about this controversial show.
.So there is a man in Delaware who admitted to the court that he raped his 3-year-old daughter. The man is a wealthy heir to the DuPont fortune. The judge in the case decided the man would not "fare well" in prison. His sentence is probation. HUH? This is an admitted pedophile! His victim got a life sentence.
Did monty play a part in the sentence? Did influence play a part? What about other children who will be exposed to this man while he is free to live his life?
Eric Merlino, a lifelong Wilmington, Delaware resident, is the executive director of Contact Lifeline, a rape crisis hotline and advocacy program, joins us to discuss this case, whether it's a unique situation, how often these things happen, and what we should be doing about it. Eric has a degree in Sociology and Criminal Justice from the University of Delaware and a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Temple University. He has 27 years of experience in behavioral health and human services, and was the Delaware state volunteer coordinator for Amnesty International for ten years.
Join us as we talk about child sexual abuse, judicial decisions, and how to protect children. Share your comments and stories with us, and let others know about this controversial show.
Last week we talked about the new book, "Voice Male: The Untold Story of the Profeminist Men's Movement." by Rob Okun. This week we'll continue looking at men working for gender equality, raising boys, male socialization, and fathering, with Okun. We might even talk about the "men's rights movement," a culture of patriarchy, and what the heck Rob's been doing over the years to promote equality and feminism.
Okun is Editor of Voice Male magazine and former executive director of the Men’s Resource Center for Change, one of the oldest men’s centers in North America. His essays have appeared in newspapers, magazines and websites including Ms., Women’s eNews, Alternet, MenEngage and Vday.
MEN OF THE MOVEMENT
Are men afraid of feminists? What is the “man box?” Do “real men” work for gender equality? These are just some of the issues we’ll talk about Saturday when Rob Okun joins us Saturday. His new book, “ Voice Male,” looks at men’s experiences with feminism, manliness, fathering, growing up male, and the history of men’s involvement in the profeminist movement. Subtitled The Untold Story of the Profeminist Men’s Movement, the book brings readers inside “one of the most important social justice movements you’ve never heard of”—the social transformation of masculinities.
Okun is Editor of Voice Male magazine and former executive director of the Men’s Resource Center for Change, one of the oldest men’s centers in North America. His essays have appeared in newspapers, magazines and websites including Ms., Women’s eNews, Alternet, MenEngage and Vday. Rob led batterer intervention groups for many years and is psychotherapist practicing in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is co-chair of the board of the Men’s Resource Center for Change, and serves on the board of directors of the New England Center for Women in Transition, an agency serving survivors of sexual and domestic violence.
Join us Saturday as we talk men, men, men. Share your comments and stories with us, and let others know about this controversial show.
Saturday morning, 11 am Pacific at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
VIOLENCE IN MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS
Sometimes when we talk about domestic violence, we assume it means abuse between a man and a woman who are in an intimate relationship. That’s certainly a big part of domestic violence, but it doesn’t stop there. Violence can and does, also happen in relationships between same gendered couples, and what is often called the “Marginalized Populations.” Since intimate partner violence is about power and control over another, any relationship is susceptible, and can suffer from abuse.
Saturday, Dawn Monet shares the facts, the insights and the realities of abuse. Dawn is a community advocate for the NW Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian and Gay Survivors of Abuse, and has been involved with this work for 15 years. She is a graduate with honors from UCSB, with a special interest in art therapy, and was awarded “Special Merit” University Service Award. Be with us Saturday to learn more about the less talked about victims of domestic violence.
The complications from domestic violence are far and wide, and we’ve talked with experts on physical assault, the children who witness violence, and even professionals who work with the offenders. Now it’s time we talk with someone who has lived the nightmare.
Maralee McLean is a mother who faced the family justice courts to battle for the safety and custody of her children. The trauma, ignorance and failure of the family court and justice system led her to write, “Prosecuted But Not Silenced,” a book that has become a reference for not only judges and lawyers, but for other mothers fighting for their children. Maralee will be with us Saturday to talk not only about her personal struggles, but about the situation rampant in our family court system where the officials and decision makers are placing children in danger.
You’ve heard the numbers tossed around- half of all abused spouses are men, women are as violent as men, she’s the one who abused me! And there’s no doubt that women can be perpetrators of domestic violence. So what’s the real story about women who abuse? We are fortunate to have Lisa Young Larance, MSW, join us for Saturday’s show, “When women use violence.” She is the Domestic Violence Intervention Services Coordinator at a Michigan Catholic Social Services organization, and has researched, written about and talked about women’s use of force. Find out how often women strike out, when and why they strike out, and what we know about women who have used force in relationships. It’s not a simple topic. Join us, share your comments and stories with us, and let others know about this controversial show.
So do all women have to escape to shelters with just their kids and the clothes on their backs in order to be safe from domestic violence? That's pretty much how it's been for a couple of decades. Now, though, some pretty exciting changes are coming into play for victims of DV. Want to stay in your home? Need help with rent? What's safe, what's practical, and what's on the horizon for women who have to get away from an abuser? Linda Olsen, from the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence joins 3 Women 3 Ways to tell us what's up. Join us, call in, take part.
So do all women have to escape to shelters with just their kids and the clothes on their backs in order to be safe from domestic violence? That's pretty much how it's been for a couple of decades. Now, though, some pretty exciting changes are coming into play for victims of DV. Want to stay in your home? Need help with rent? What's safe, what's practical, and what's on the horizon for women who have to get away from an abuser? Linda Olsen, from the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence joins 3 Women 3 Ways to tell us what's up. Join us, call in, take part.
Do employers have an obligation to protect victims of domestic violence? Does domestic violence show up at work? What about the office bully? Is that another form of victimization? Join us Saturday as guest Helen LaVan, PhD, helps us learn more about the bully at work, the fallout from experiencing domestic violence and the work place, the role of the employers. LaVan is a Professor of Management at DePaul University, where she researches and publishes articles on employment discrimination and employee relations. Her recent publications have been about workplace bullying, the ethics of the Second Amendment (forthcoming), and the spillover of domestic violence into the workplace. She is a licensed counselor (LPC) in the State of Illinois.
Saturday morning, 11 am Pacific at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways
Call-in with your comments to (646) 378-0430. And if you miss the live program, you can go to the website and listen to all our archived programs whenever you are able.
Did you know that Italian schools are now teaching classes in how not to kill your girlfriend? That a study carried out by Peru’s National Mental Health Institute found that 21% of women in that country experience domestic violence daily? That domestic violence and rape have gone up in South Africa? Women's status and crimes against women is the focus ot Saturday's show with Rita Henley Jensen, world traveler and editor of Women's E-News. Join us for a rocking discussion of women's issues world wide. Join us at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways and call in to 646-378-0430.
Abortion is a hot button for most people, and no matter whether you think it’s an inalienable right or murder, or somewhere in between, you should know what’s happening in the US regarding the issue. A new report from the Guttmacher institute reports that 42 different states enacted more than 120 provisions regarding reproductive health in 2012 - and 92 abortion restrictions in 2011. Ranging from provision of educational materials, required ultrasounds and even requiring non-medically necessary trans-vaginal ultrasounds, states have been busy the last couple of years regarding how much say the state has in a woman’s decision to have an abortion. North Dakota has passed a law that prohibits abortion for gender or genetic defect of the fetus. And it looks like these conditions placed on abortion are continuing to gain in popularity.
Join us Saturday as guest Megan Burbank, Communications Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Washington helps us make some sense of this trend. Megan holds degrees from Smith College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has written about politics, feminism, arts and entertainment for several publications, including The Stranger, The Seattle Times, Bitch Magazine and The Toast.
We laugh when we hear the stories about the man who filled the hot tub with manure because his wife got it in the divorce. Or the woman who sold the ex’s car for $5. Or the famous story of the man who sawed the house in half to split the assets. Divorce revenge. It can be funny or terrible, but who really does these things? Why? And what are the repercussions of such actions? Join us Saturday as we take a look what really happens in divorce revenge. Dr. Karin Huffer, Associate Professor King's University, forensic psychologist, and advocate for those with disabilities from traumatic brain injury to PTSD from domestic violence will be here to discuss break up revenge and what it really means.
Wouldn’t it be convenient if we just had a check off list for figuring out whether the person we want to enter a relationship with could turn abusive? Well, it’s not quite that easy, but there are some indicators of risks that the criminal justice system can use to try to determine how high the risks of danger are for person involved in perpetrating domestic violence. This tool helps courts and counsellors look at a situation and what it could turn into in the future. Is this magic? Is it the cure-all for DV? Can it help eliminate homicides? We will talk risk assessment, how it can help, what the weaknesses are, and what the latest research shows on Saturday with Connie Sponsler-Garcia of the Battered Women’s Justice Project. She’s worked for more than 30 years as an advocate for adult and child victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and domestic trafficking; she’s run a battered women’s shelter; and she served on the Department of Defense Domestic Violence Task Force. She helps combine fatality review findings and community safety assessment methodology in Arizona and is a consultant to the Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative.
Did you know that Italian schools are now teaching classes in how not to kill your girlfriend? That a study carried out by Peru’s National Mental Health Institute found that 21% of women in that country experience domestic violence daily? That domestic violence and rape have gone up in South Africa? Women's status and crimes against women is the focus ot Saturday's show with Rita Henley Jensen, world traveler and editor of Women's E-News. Join us for a rocking discussion of women's issues world wide. Join us at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways and call in to 646-378-0430.
News stories about domestic violence are all over the place. Attack at a school? Acts of terrorism? Natural disasters? Violence in a community? All these events leave us shocked, disbelieving and disgusted. But how often do these types of actions leave us thinking about the children involved? According to the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, one in four school kids has been exposed to trauma that can affect both ability to learn and ability to function. So what do you do if a child you know is one of the four? Join us Saturday as Dr. Steven Marans, a Yale professor and director of The National Center for Children Exposed to Violence, joins us to talk about the children who are often forgotten or in the shadow of shattering events.
A South Carolina woman was charged with homicide after she had a stillbirth; a Utah woman gave birth to twins, when one died she was arrested and charged with homicide because she decided to delay a C-section. An Oregon woman who didn’t have the test for gestational diabetes her doctor wanted was arrested; a woman from Louisiana spent about a year in jail for murdering her fetus when she had a stillbirth. Outrageous? Absolutely. Unusual? Not so much. More and more the “authorities” are intervening in cases that used to be a woman’s personal business. Is it a coincidence that there are so many states putting restrictions on abortions? Lynn Paltro, a Cornell University and New York University School of Law graduate, is founder and Executive Director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women. She’ll join us as we talk about women and civil rights, health , and state control.
Go to court, get Justice? Not necessarily true for the victim of a controlling spouse. They will use whatever way they can to get back at, abuse, or control the person they supposedly love, but quickly see as an adversary in court. So much of this abuse comes over who gets custody of the kids. How oftendo men with documented abuse of their chilfren's mothers wind up with custody? A lot more than you probably can guess. Why is this happening? Join us as Dr. Karin Huffer, Associate Professor King's University, forensic psychologist, and advocate for those with disabilities from domestic violence helps us delve into the whats and wherefores of legal abuse. Share your stories and concerns.
We laugh when we hear the stories about the man who filled the hot tub with manure because his wife got it in the divorce. Or the woman who sold the ex’s car for $5. Or the famous story of the man who sawed the house in half to split the assets. Divorce revenge. It can be funny or terrible, but who really does these things? Why? And what are the repercussions of such actions? Join us Saturday as we take a look what really happens in divorce revenge. Dr. Karin Huffer, Associate Professor King's University, forensic psychologist, and advocate for those with disabilities from traumatic brain injury to PTSD from domestic violence will be here to discuss break up revenge and what it really means.
Saturday morning, 11 am Pacific at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways Call-in with your comments to (646) 378-0430. And if you miss the live program, you can go to the website and listen to all our archived programs whenever you are able
You hear people say it all the time- she lied, she said she was abused just to get a leg up in court, she claimed I hurt the kids so she could get custody. The internet is peppered with websites advising men how they can fight such claims and reporting how often this happens. Women making false claims. How prevalent are these claims, and who benefits from making the charges go away? What’s the real story? Join us this week as we talk with Erin Jemison, Executive Director of the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Erin has presented at state and national conferences, sharing her knowledge domestic violence and sexual assault issues. She also serves as the Chairperson of Colorado’s Sex Offender Management Board.
Saturday morning, 11 am Pacific at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways Call-in with your comments to (646) 378-0430. And if you miss the live program, you can go to the website and listen to all our archived programs whenever you are able.
With all the hype and publicity surrounding the George Zimmerman trial and its aftermath, another huge Florida case was playing out, with a very different outcome. Marissa Alexander, a young single mother, was assaulted by her husband in 2010. Marissa had a legally registered handgun, and she fired a single bullet into the wall near the ceiling to scare off her attacker. Instead, she got arrested, tried, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Friends, supporters are still working to see justice served for Marissa. Join us as we speak with Rita Henley Jensen, founder of Women’s e-News, and former senior writer for the National Law Journal and New York Times journalist, to talk about Marissa’s situation, the story behind her sentencing, and what’s happening now. Saturday morning, 11 am Pacific at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways Call-in with your comments to (646) 378-0430. And if you miss the live program, you can go to the website and listen to all our archived programs whenever you are able.
The statistics are alarming: 1 in 4 women is abused by a partner; 1 in 3 women is raped, and perpetrators are overwhelmingly male. So why do they abuse and rape? Is it society? Women and how they behave? How we raise sons? Who are these abusers, why do they do it, and what can we do about it?
Phyllis Frank, Associate Executive Directors of VCS of Rockland County, New York joins us for a rousing discussion about the men who abuse (women who abuse are another show). Ms. Frank started a batterer program in 1978 and has worked non-stop to work locally and nationally on issues of domestic violence offenders, accountability and batterer programs, even co-authoring several articles that were published in Social Work: Journal of the National Association of Social Workers. She was appointed by NY Governor Mario Cuomo’s Commission on Domestic Violence, and has been co-chair of the National Organization for Men Against Sexism. Join us:
Saturday morning, 11 am Pacific at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways Call-in with your comments to (646) 378-0430. And if you miss the live program, you can go to the website and listen to all our archived programs whenever you are able.
Rape stories are in the news all the time. A lot of them report the victim had been drinking, or was drunk. So when a SLATE reporter wrote an article telling college women not to party in order to be safe from assault, the comments hit the fan. Blaming the victim? Or ignoring the facts? One of the fallout articles was by Amanda Hess, a freelance writer, Slate blogger, and a contributor to the forthcoming Book of Jezebel. She reports on sex, Hollywood, teenagers, and technology for places like WIRED, New York Magazine, ESPN The Magazine, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, NYLON, DETAILS, and the Village Voice. She lives in Los Angeles. Join us as we has over the idea that women plus alcohol equals rape. Saturday morning, 11 am Pacific at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways Call-in with your comments to (646) 378-0430.
A Montana judge handed down a 30-day jail sentence to a former teacher who admitted he repeatedly raped a 14-year old former student. The student killed herself before she turned 17. The perpetrator got 30 days in jail. Outraged? So is the Montana National Organization for Women. They have filed a complaint with the state Judicial Standards Commission demanding the judge’s ouster. Marian Bradley, State President for the Montana National Organization for Women, will join us Saturday morning to talk about the situation with Judge Baugh, what’s going on with the recall, and whether this case is unusual. Saturday, 11 am, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways. You can listen at any time by accessing the archived shows at that location, or call in live at 646-378-0430.
About 60% of Americans know someone who has been the victim of domestic violence or sexual assault, but only about 15% have ever had a discussion about it with friends, according to a new study by the Avon Foundation. Why the big gap? Are people afraid to discuss the topic? Is it still a shameful secret like it was 50 years ago? More than half those surveyed who experience assault said they didn't get help from anyone they told about their victimization, but nearly 75% of the people surveyed said they would give a hand to a victim they knew. So do people lie on surveys? Maybe. But maybe they just don't realize how to recognize or help those who are victimized. Join us when Merril Cousins, executive director of King County Coalition against Domestic Violence in Seattle, WA, as we discuss the Avon report, Saturday, 11 am, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways. You can listen at any time by accessing the archived shows at that location, or call in live at 646-378-0430.
Italy is teaching boys classes in how not to kill your girlfriend. South Africa reports a big jump in domestic violence crimes. Great Britain is working to kick out a Canadian woman whose boyfriend abused her. One Indian columnist says rape and women’s violence are perceived as secondary issues in that country. So what’s going on in the world? Join us while we catch up on international news and issues with Rita Henley Jensen, traveler, expert in women’s issues, and editor of Women’s E News as we catch up with the world’s women. Saturday, 11 am Pacific Time, at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/3women3ways/2013/09/28/3-women-3-ways and call in to comment or ask a question at 1-646-378-0430.
Soldiers with service dogs- you’ve seen articles and pictures about them, but what does it have to do with domestic violence or women? Bart Sherwood, from Train a Dog Save a Warrior will join us to talk about PTSD, trauma, women in the military, and just what are the rules and training that apply to service dogs. Why are dogs helpful? What are the problems and blessings of PTSD service dogs, and why should we care? Join us for Service Dogs and DV Saturday at 11 am PST,
Its time to catch up on whats in the news! Politics, violence, crazy and funny stuff - its all out there and well toss around the topics this Saturday.
It's time to catch up on what's in the news! Politics, violence, crazy and funny stuff - it's all out there and we'll toss around the topics this Saturday.
Animal abuse has been linked with violence in other areas of life, including domestic violence. Some abusers use pets and critters to purposefully hurt their victim. Sometimes women stay in an abusive situation longer than they want to because of concern for their animals. So what's the story? How does animal abuse fit into the domestic violence scenario and what can be done about it? Join us for our discussion on animals and domestic violence.
A custody dispute often involves a guardian ad litem, a person appointed by the court to work in the children's best interests and report back to the judge with recommendations for custody. Sounds like a great idea, but who are these guardians? Where do they come from, how are they trained? And what is their effect on the family and the kids? Join us as we talk about these guardians ad litem with Seattle attorney Caroline Davis, a veteran of family court and custody disputes.
A lot of people need help from an attorney when leaving a spouse, but in cases of domestic violence and abuse, not all lawyers have the background and skill to deal with the added problems. Barry Goldstein, author of Scared to Leave Afraid to Stay, and co-author of Representing the Domestic Violence Survivor, among many others, will join the show to talk about lawyers and domestic violence.