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On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, guest host Pamela Shelden interviews Pam Munter, author of Fading Fame: Women of a Certain Age in Hollywood. Their conversation explores Pam's book and its themes of the systemic misogyny that has dominated Hollywood throughout its history. They also address how women on the screen, victimized in a variety of ways, from predatory men on casting couches, to the process of aging itself, continue to be victimized today and how we as viewers can recognize those patterns and stop the cycle.

Pamela Shelden, a member of the Engendered Collective, holds a Ph.D. in English/American literature. She has taught both at the university level (including Brooklyn College, City University of New York) and the high school level (including Stuyvesant High School). Today, she continues teaching through her business, College Counseling and Tutoring Services (CATS), while also mentoring young people to advocate for issues, particularly those affecting the lives of women and children. Dr. Shelden also serves on the Board of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Peninsula Section, where she coordinates several advocacy programs, including a popular advocacy-focused film series.

During our conversation, both Pams referenced the following resources:

• "Institutional discrimination" or sexism in media
• Fading Fame women including Mary Pickford, Doris Day, and many more

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On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, guest host Kerri Holt speaks with Lizzy Hershberger and Molly Maeve Eagan to discuss their book Behind Blue Curtains, A True Crime Memoir of an Amish Woman's Survival, Escape and Pursuit of Justice. Their conversation will explore Lizzy's struggle to survive the abuse, support herself, marry and raise her own family, and seek justice. Themes covered also include the role of religion and community in the survivor's life, its role in shaping gender norms and expectations, with particular emphasis on enabling, excusing, or permitting men's violence over women and the survivors' healing from trauma.

Kerri Holt, a member of the Engendered Collective, is a Domestic Violence Victim Advocate for a community-based non-profit (and a Credentialed Advocate through NOVA (National Organization for Victim Assistance).) Kerri answers calls on a 24/7 hotline with survivors and police with the goal of survivors attaining safety from a current or former partner. She also provides survivor-centered advocacy in a non-crisis capacity through community prevention and education programming.

During our conversation, Kerri, Lizzy and Molly referenced the following resources:

• The grooming process
• WIsconsin v. Yoder Supreme Court case
• The work of Dr. Zuleka Henderson on trauma and healing

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, guest host Roman James interviews feminist lawyer, human rights activist, political philosopher, columnist and author, Rafia Zakaria about her newly released book, Against White Feminism, Notes on Disruption. Roman speaks with Rafia about the historic domination of the feminist lexicon by upper middle-class white women, the de-centering of Black and Brown voices, and the role that patriarchy plays in perpetuating white supremacist, capitalist, imperialist feminism which often subjugates the very populations it asserts to be empowering.

Roman James is mama to the most wonderful, generous, and intelligent light being she ever met. Additionally, she serves as an activist and resistor of the violence imposed on women and children in the archaic American family court system having been radicalized by the institutional betrayal of the legal system. Her purpose is to thrive in her self-possession, rise above the systemic failures and leave everyone she comes in contact with better off for having met her.

During our conversation, Roman and Rafia referenced the following resources:

• Rafia's journey to becoming a feminist.
• Rafia's perspective on women being tasked to be disrupters.
• 1893 World's Fair's showcase of the "White City" and the exclusion of Black people and communities
• The controversy behind ESPN reporter Maria Taylor and Rachel Nicols
• The double standard and racism behind "culturally-coded crimes"

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On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Dr. Karen WIlliams, a psychiatrist based in Australia, with an interest In PTSD and cPTSD , social justice and public health. Karen is the Founder of Doctors Against Violence Towards Women, a group of 700 plus doctors from across Australia and New Zealand committed to combating domestic abuse against women, in all of its forms. We speak with Karen today about her work, her organization's mission, and its advocacy to reform the health care system including lobbying the government to provide better, evidence-based support for the domestic violence sector and coordinating with other advocacy groups in the child welfare, education, and/or legal sectors.

During our conversation, Karen and I referenced the following resources:

• How Karen came to found Doctors Against Violence Towards Women
• The gendered difference in how society and the medical industry treats men with trauma versus women with trauma
• The pathologization of women's trauma
• The Dirty John Netflix series
• The abuser disinformation tactic of "PAS" or responding to victims' claims of abuse by counterclaiming "Parental Alienation"
• The lack of regulation of forensic evaluators not just in Australia, but all over the English-speaking world (Listen to our interview with Nancy Erickson for more on this crisis)

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On this episode of the en(gender)ed podcast, our guest is Roz Davidson, Director of The Positive Parenting Company Ltd and a National Consultant and Trainer in the UK implementing "CODA" a 12-week therapeutic program for women and children recovering from domestic abuse which focuses on providing skills to the Mother to support the child, and addresses self-blame, attachment, what abuse is, and emotional regulation across themed sessions. We speak with Roz today about coercive control, its signs, impact, and what she and other advocates in Britain are doing to ensure that domestic abuse is taken seriously and perpetrators are held to account. Roz is currently enrolled in a program to receive her Masters in Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence at Goldsmiths University.

During our conversation, Roz and I referenced the following resources:

• Roz Davidson's interview Episode 133: Domestic Violence Awareness Month Community Conversation on Domestic Abuse and Child Abuse
• How Roz uses "CODA" to help children exposed to domestic abuse by addressing their behavior instead of the cause.
• Britain's "Domestic Abuse Bill"
• Safety planning
• Objectives of the CODA program
• The "Timekeeper" PSA and training tool on coercive control of children Roz served as an advisor on
• The "Freedome" Program, "Caring Dads" Programs
• Domestic abuse is and as coercive control and intimate partner terrorism
• Timekeeper's "Grounding" techniques and trauma-informed content

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