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On this episode, our guest is Tammy Cho, co-founder of BetterBrave--an online site that combats sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation in the workplace by empowering targets and allies with the necessary resources and tools. BetterBrave offers options for women to report harassment and provides a clear outline of their rights. Users can also access BetterBrave's guide to learn steps to take before reporting an incident to HR and the importance of consulting an employment attorney as soon as possible to guide the response for optimal job protection.

In our conversation with Tammy, we address the culture of sexual harassment in the workplace, the risks and harms from reporting harassment and discrimination, and the tools that BetterBrave offers employees to empower them to speak out while reducing the possibility of retaliation. We also speak with Tammy about how we, as individuals, can do more to nurture a workplace culture that incentivizes equal treatment, respect, and accountability.

During our interview, Tammy and I referenced the below resources:

• Former Uber employee and whistleblower, Susan Fowler's blog post about her experience at Uber
• Forbes article: Uber Whistleblower Susan Fowler On What Every Company Should Do To Stop Harassment
• Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that protected against workplace discrimination
• The Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Supreme Court Decision that decided that employers couldn't be sued if he claims were made more than 180 days from the date of hire
• President Obama's resetting of the 180 day statute of limitations in the Ledbetter v. Goodyear et al. ruling with each new pay check, in the Lilly Ledbetter's Fair Pay Act of 2009
• Trump Revoked Crucial Protections For Women Workers The Week Prior To Equal Pay Day
• Why Trump suspended an Obama administration wage gap initiative
• The Cost of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
• 11 Types of Workplace Harassment and How to Stop Them
• Futures Without Violence's resources on "Workplace Safety and Equity" and Project Include's website, which supports diversity and inclusion in the tech industry
• BetterBrave partners' Equal Rights Advocates and the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund
• The EEOC's most recent lawsuit against seven organizations for harassment
• Vox article that addresses the industries with the most sexual harassment claims
• More about the movement for "One Fair Wage" for restaurant workers
• Study: Lingering illnesses can trouble women for years after assault, workplace harassment

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, we have two guests, Maria Mayo and Nadia Dawisha, co-founders of the online group called "Brock Turner for Prison." Maria is a survivor of rape and domestic violence as well as a practicing attorney who proposed a class on "Sexual Violence and the Law" when she attended law school). Nadia is a former professor and worked on Ohio's victims' rights legislation. Maria and Nadia have been running the "Brock Turner for Prison" page since June 2016 to address issues of sexual violence and violence against women in the media and the site has grown now to over 25 admins, a Twitter and an Instagram account. Brock Turner for Prison will also be launching a website and a podcast in the near future.

We speak to Maria and Nadia today about their Facebook group and a response to the Brock Turner rape case, the subsequent recall of the judge on that case, Aaron Persky, and Brock Turner's most recent failed appeal.

In our conversation, Maria and Nadia and I addressed the following resources:

• The impact of Nadia's work to hold University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, accountable for their Title IX violations
• The Federal Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights
• The film Wind River which exemplifies the challenges Native American sexual assault survivors experience in getting their rapes prosecuted
• "Emily Doe" letter to Judge Persky about Brock Turner rape
• Summary of the Brock Turner rape case as reported in this Guardian article
• Brock Turner's father's controversial letter defending his son
• Why the Stanford Judge Gave Brock Turner Six Months
• Rape Conviction Rates and statistics about perpetrators of sexual violence from RAINN
• Maria and Nadia's hashtags including #BoysWillBeBetter, #UseTheRightWords
• Judge Aaron Persky's recall, led by Michele Dauber
• Judge Archie Simonson's recall in 1977 in Wisconsin
• UNC Chapel Hill Professor Zeynep Tufekci's research on social movements and technology
• Brock Turner failed appeal and its reasoning
• Episode 12, our interview with Tom Digby, author of Love and War: How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance
• Lili Loufbourow's article, "The Female Price of Male Pleasure"
• CUNY, School of Public Health, Professor Spring Cooper's research on Sexual Agency
• Teri's Blog Post on Senator McCain's passing and the normalization of abuse, sexism and bad behavior
• The media's characterization of Hugh Hefner as feminist icon instead of exploitation masking as sex positivity
• Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

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Today's episode adds to our men and masculinities series of episodes and continues our series on gender and environmental justice. Our guest is Professor James Wilkie, Assistant Professor at Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame University. Professor Wilkie is a consumer psychologist whose research incorporates aspects of implicit social cognition to examine how consumers interpret various aspects of the marketplace in biased fashions.

We speak with Professor Wilkie about his current work which draws on this perspective to examine how consumers' judgment and decisions are influenced by: 1). gender cues, 2). numeric information (e.g., prices), and 3). materialistic framing. In particular, Professor Wilkie's recent research has centered on how men's eco-friendly behavior may be negatively correlated to the extent to which that behavior may brand them as "feminine." We also explore Professor Wilkie's suggestions on how pro-environmental marketers might position their communications to incentivize men to engage in more eco-friendly behavior.

If you want to explore more of Professor Wilkie's research, you can download his papers below, as well as explore other resources we discussed on the show:

• Real Men Don't Eat Quiche: Regulation of Gender-Expressive Choices by Men
• Is Eco-Friendly Unmanly? The Green-Feminine Stereotype and Its Effect on Sustainable Consumption
• Men Resist Green Behavior as Unmanly
• Obama and the Arugula Scandal
• The Black Masculinities of Barack Obama: Some Implications for African American Men
• Fade To Black: On Obama's Performance of Black Masculinity

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In our first episode of en(gender)ed, we referenced the importance of recognizing and advocating for gender justice reforms alongside other forms of social justice, including environmental and economic justice. On today's episode, we address the intersection of these issues, in particular, with respect to migrants and refugees who are at risk of increased illness, lost productivity/wages, disease and other public health threats, and even death. Female migrants and their children are also subject to higher risk of human and sex trafficking.

On today's episode, our guest is Cat Song, Co-Founder and General Counsel of Exsulcoin, a blockchain startup creating solutions for refugees. Exsulcoin is a peer-to-peer marketplace for refugee integration and offers solutions including paying for tutoring, mentorship, or nanowork tasks. Cat founded the startup with her brother, James, in response to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, formerly called Burma. A long-time advocate for anti-human trafficking initiatives, immigration, and legal rights for low-income populations, Cat is here to speak with us today about her work with Exsulcoin and how it is one part of the environmental, economic and gender justice solution needed for all migrants and refugees.

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

• Burma Task Force's website which provides information on the Rohingya and other minority groups
• How migration and climate change impacts women
• The impact of climate change and migration on sex trafficking
• Blockchain 101--for beginners
• The Global Impact Investment Network's (GIIN) Impact Reporting and Investment Standards or IRIS--the catalog of generally accepted performance metrics used by impact investors
• The "Impact Continuum"
• An article by CoinTelegraph on gender inequality in blockchain and crypto
• CoinDance's estimates on gender participation distribution in the crypto community
• Reddit survey on MyEther users by gender
• Elizabeth Stark's tweet about "women in crypto"

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Greetings en(gender)ed listeners:

This is the third "Reflections" episode where I examine a series of interviews with my friend, Michael. He joins me as we reflect back on episodes, 12 (Tom Digby), 13 (Allen Corben), 14 (Ben Atherton-Zeman), 15 (Dr. Tonya Leslie), 17 (Autumn), the first set of episodes on the construction of gender identity, feminism, masculinity, diversity and inclusion.

Michael and I used to work together and served many students who were not in school or not working and were looking to develop skills to go back to school or to find a job. The young people we were helping often had their systemic barriers exacerbated by personal conflict in their lives that were difficult to manage, such as parents who didn't prioritize their education or work over their care-taking responsibilities, or romantic partners who were not helping to parent, didn't support their efforts to better themselves, and/or engaged in deliberate patterns of behavior to sabotage their school and/or work.

I was interested in Michael's perspective on the topics covered in our shows so far, especially since the majority of listeners are, not surprisingly, female. I hope you will find this episode engaging and, for the male listeners, an entree into your own exploration of what en(gender)ed has to offer you.

During our reflection, we talked about these additional resources:

• NOMAS' Facebook Group
• Whiteness on the TV show, Friends, and its absence of race
• The diversity on the children show, Captain Planet and the Planeteers
• Crazy Rich Asians' significance in its representation of Asian-Americans in mainstream Hollywood
• Symbolic Annihililation from lack of diversity in the media, texts, etc.
• Radiolab's story on "Dana" who shares their story about growing up with an intersex identity

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On this episode, we speak with Jordan, a cis-gendered bisexual man who identifies as an intersectional feminist, anti-racist and pro-LGBTQAI. He grew up in Dallas, Texas as the second child out of 8 in a conservative Christian home who followed the teachings of the Institute in Basic Life Principles, established by Bill Gothard (a ministry that was popular with the TLC Duggar Family of 19 Kids and Counting).

As a child, Jordan grew up isolated from his community, homeschooled by his parents and often called upon to take an active role in caring for his younger siblings. Ever since he was introduced to a computer when he was ten, Jordan has been fascinated with coding and not only taught himself how to code, but also has made a career out of it ever since. At 32, Jordan left home to move to NYC and pursue a career as a programmer, leaving his family and siblings behind. His journey over the past several decades since then has taken him to the likes of raves, Burning Man, Costa Rica, and finally home to himself.. By connecting with the range of people and places in his travels, Jordan has opened his eyes to the abuse and oppression he experienced as a child, by his parents and by his church, and reinforced by the patriarchal norms that shape all of us in this society.

Jordan is here with us today to share his story of survival and transformation.

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In this episode, we speak with survivor, Rosaura Torres Thomas, author of the book: Abuse Hidden Behind the Badge--a memoir of her life living suffering from the abuse and coercive control of two police officers--one a highly ranked Officer in Philadelphia and, another--a Pennsylvania state trooper. Our guest, Rosaura, suffered two (2) retinal detachment surgeries stemming from her experiences with domestic violence and has since become an avid activist speaking out against domestic violence and more specifically "The Code of Silence" within police departments. My conversation with Rosaura explores not only the impact domestic abuse and coercive control had on her, but also, the impact and lasting effects it has had on her children.

Listeners may recall that In Episode 4 of en(gender)ed, we spoke with Ruth Glenn, CEO and President of the NCADV about rates of domestic violence and how certain groups of people commit higher rates than others. National trends show that law enforcement professionals are one such group. Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence in contrast to 10% of families in the general population.

Below are some resources about police and domestic violence:

• National Center for Women and Policing's "Police Family Violence Fact Sheet"
• An Atlantic article entitled, "Police Have a Much Bigger Domestic-Abuse Problem than the NFL Does"
• The "Abuse of Power" website which has resources about police domestic violence for survivors and families
• A HuffPo article entitled "The Super Predators: When the Man Who Abuses You is also a Cop"
• A research article estimating the rate of domestic violence perpetrated by law enforcement
• A USA Today article entitled, "Domestic abusers: Dangerous for women and lethal for cops."

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Lisa Fischel-Wolovick, an attorney who has represented battered women for almost thirty years. She is also the author of numerous publications including her recent book: Traumatic Divorce and Separation: The Impact of Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse in Custody and Divorce, just recently published by Oxford Univ. Press, this past March. Lisa also helped to organize the first Criminal Court that specialized in domestic violence.

Before becoming an attorney, Lisa obtained her Master's in Social Work and worked in hospital social work which included advocacy and counseling for battered women. Lisa also currently teaching courses in Family Violence and Child Maltreatment at the City University of New York, in John Jay's Graduate Program in Forensic Psychology.

Lisa speaks with us about her new book and how divorce impacts families differently, especially for those experiencing high-risk factors of domestic violence, mental illness, and/or substance abuse and the risks and harms that they face in the process. We will also explore the recommendations and conclusions she has to improve our family and criminal court systems and practices and policy reforms she believes is necessary to see real, significant, positive change.

In our conversation, Lisa and I touch upon the following topics:

• The difference between domestic violence and high-conflict cases vs. "traumatic divorce and separation"
• The impact of traumatic divorce and separation on survivors and children
• Judith Herman's book, Trauma and Recovery
• How survivors and children from the US Border migrant children crisis and from the US family court crisis are at similar health risks from the trauma of separation
• Lundy Bancroft's book, The Batterer as Parent
• Evan Stark's interest and research into how batterers are using coercive control on children
• The problems with Kelly and Johnson's Typology of Domestic Violence which fail to take into account the history and pattern of coercive control
• The research of Kathleen Kendall-Tackett on how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) from trauma and domestic violence puts children at greater risk of adult illness
• Gender bias in family courts and the task forces that attempted to study it. Legal Momentum has a guide for establishing them.
• Family court gender bias studies from the Voices of Women Organizing Project and from the Wellesley's Center for Women and its report
• The work of Dr. Kathleen Faller and of Viola Vaughn-Eden on how child welfare workers and other professionals should assess child sexual abuse
• Ross Cheit and his book, The Witch Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology and the Sexual Abuse of Children
• Daniel Saunders' study published for the National Institute of Justice/DOJ, entitled, "Child Custody Evaluators' Beliefs About Domestic Abuse Allegations: Their Relationship to Evaluator Demographics, Background, Domestic Violence Knowledge and Custody-Visitation Recommendations"

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Laura Fernandez, the Clinical Director at Sanctuary for Families, a leading service provider and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking and related forms of gender violence in New York City. At Sanctuary, Laura provides leadership, management, and strategic direction for all clinical services citywide, including individual and group counseling, crisis management and intervention, and a program for survivors who serve as mentors for others. More than 5,500 individuals receive life-saving clinical services at Sanctuary each year. We speak with Laura about the work she does with survivors, how to recognize symptoms of abuse in survivors, and how each of us may better support survivors in our own lives.

During the show, Laura and I touched upon the following topics:

• Sanctuary for Families' Vacation Cutting Bill that makes it illegal to send your child out of the country to get female genital mutilation (FGM) procedures
• The need for future laws to make it illegal to send your child outside of the country for forced marriage
• Current child marriage laws in NYS and across the country
• Sanctuary for Families' current advocacy efforts with regard to child marriage, FGM, trafficking, strangulation, etc.
• How they use Jackie Campbell's "Danger Assessment" for safety planning of victims
• The various Power and Control Wheels used for psycho-education of the survivor to help her understand the dynamics of abuse, including the post-separation power and control wheel and the abuse of children wheel
• Their guiding framework of crisis to stabilization to self-sufficiency
• My reference to the Deborah Epstein resignation from the NFL as a domestic violence consultant and her interview with NPR sharing examples of how the NFL cultivates a culture of misogyny

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On this episode of en(gender)ed, we speak with Autumn, a junior at Cornell University studying English. In the summer of 2015, when she was 18 years old, Autumn realized that she is a transgender woman, and since then her work and writing have focused on articulating the experience of being transgender. After graduating from college, Autumn hopes to improve the understanding of mental illness and LGBT issues in Asian communities, especially in Korea. We speak with Autumn today about her journey of self-discovery and growth and gives #UpstanderTips on how we as parents, and as members of our larger community, can be affirming and supportive of gender non-conforming children and students and how we can contribute to their mental health and to their developing a positive self-image and sense of belonging. Autumn shares her vision of how we can create a society of true diversity, inclusion and acceptance.

During our conversation, Autumn and I talked about the following topics:

• Netflix's Sense8 show and how the Wachowski siblings serve as positive role models for her
• Jeffrey Tambor's harassment of Jessica Walters on Arrested Development, and subsequent harassment claims on the show Transparent
• Backlash to Scarlett Johansson's acceptance of a role as a transgender man in the new film, Rub and Tub, and her subsequent withdrawal from the role. Since the recording of this episode, Autumn has read more about the casting decision and no longer thinks that Scarlett Johansson should have been cast in the Rub and Tub role.
• A link to an article describing the term "LGTBQIA" and the differences between "gender identity," "gender expression," "biological sex" and whom you are "attracted to" and the more updated and complete list which is included in the "gender unicorn," including "sex assigned at birth" which replaces "biological sex" and breaks out the former "attracted to" into two further categories--"physically attracted to" and "emotionally attracted to."
• Why you should always use "transgender" instead of "transgendered"

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