Gender-based violence, or GBV, is harm perpetrated against a person’s will on the basis of their gender or gender characteristics. It is such a widespread global issue that 1 in 3 women have reported experiencing some form of gender-based violence. Gayatri Patel, Director of Gender Advocacy at CARE USA, talks to us about this universal issue. GBV can ... Show More
Mar 17
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights on Community College Campuses
Approximately 10 million students per year are attending community colleges in the U.S., and many students are balancing multiple responsibilities while they study. Yet, most community colleges do not offer robust health care services, like contraception, STI testing and treatmen ... Show More
32m 33s
Mar 10
Amy Littlefield on Her New Book: Killers of Roe: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights
From an IRS agent who originally penned the Hyde Amendment to the lawmakers involved in creating parental consent laws, there are several actors in the antiabortion movement’s fight to dismantle Roe v. Wade. Amy Littlefield, abortion access correspondent at the Nation, freelance ... Show More
48m 47s
Apr 2025
S4E3 Conflict-related Sexual Violence - Centering Survivors
Conflict zones are places of immense hardship - with people facing displacement, broken healthcare systems, and separation from families and communities. But when sexual violence is added to the equation, the challenges for survivors become even greater. Conflict-related sexual v ... Show More
38m 50s
Apr 2023
Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. Schiller, "Inequality across State Lines: How Policymakers Have Failed Domestic Violence Victims in the United States" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
In the United States, one in four women will be victims of domestic violence each year. Despite the passage of federal legislation on violence against women beginning in 1994, differences persist across states in how domestic violence is addressed. Kaitlin Sidorsky and Wendy J. S ... Show More
49m 49s
Sep 2023
Tiantian Zheng, "Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Based on ethnographic research with victims of intimate partner violence since 2014, Tiantian Zheng's Violent Intimacy: Family Harmony, State Stability, and Intimate Partner Violence in Post-Socialist China (Bloomsbury, 2022) brings to the forefront women's experiences of, negoti ... Show More
23m 48s
Dec 2022
Violences conjugales, banalité du mâle
<p><strong>Isolement, humiliation, inversion de la culpabilité, intimidation, impunité : dans les violences de couple, les stratégies de l’agresseur se déploient dans le quotidien le plus ordinaire.</strong> Que ce soit dans le cadre de la vie domestique, dans la chambre à couche ... Show More
59m 5s
Sep 2022
The Impact of Coercive Control on Children: How To Recover & Become Happy After A Controlling & Abusive Relationship, with Emma Katz
Send a textDr Emma Katz, Ph.D., is an internationally-renowned expert in domestic abuse and coercive control, whose work has influenced legislation in the UK and overseas.Coercive control is a form of domestic abuse where perpetrators use a pattern of threats, humiliation or inti ... Show More
55m 2s
May 2024
Ep 185: Australia: The Bondi Junction Mass Murder, Femicide and Male Violence with Lauren Trevan, Part 1
Laura interviews Australian author and advocate Lauren Trevan about the national crises of men killing women and her book Now I See You.
We recorded this episode just after the horrific Bondi attack by Joel Cauchi on April 13 2024, where he stabbed 18 people including a nine-mon ... Show More
53m 12s