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
https://www.instagram.com/tamaramcphd/
 
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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