Tamara MC - Child Bride in the USA

Tamara MC - Child Bride in the USA

Divorced: Religious Cult

My guest today is a freedom activist for girls and women worldwide. Dr. Tamara MC is a social scientist and linguist who explores how language is used to manipulate vulnerable populations.

As a cult, child marriage, polygamy, and modern-day slavery survivor/advocate, themes in Dr. Tamara’s work explore coercive control, intergenerational trauma, religion/spirituality, and mothering. She is currently revising her debut memoir, Child Bride: My Marriage at 12.

Dr. Tamara will be hosting our Child Marriage & CSA Panel at CORT2023.

FIND Dr. Tamara MC:

@TamaraMCPhD

 https://tamaramc.com/

https://twitter.com/TamaraMCPhD

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Articles by Tamara MC:

I grew up in a cult and was married at 12— in Texas

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cult-child-marriage-texas-b1973888.html

Essay in Ms. Magazine about the cult I grew up in: 

https://msmagazine.com/2022/09/23/uncultured-book-review-children-of-god-cult-girls-women/

Essay in Motherwell about girls staying sweet:

https://motherwellmag.com/2022/08/10/i-was-a-child-bride-its-time-to-stop-teaching-young-girls-to-stay-sweet/

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