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Help celebrate Mother's Day by learning #upstandertips on how to support #ProtectiveMoms whose efforts to protect our children are weaponized against us in family court. Here is a list of all the episodes you can listen to better understand the systemic gender bias we face. 1/

Episode 6: #SurvivorStories episode w/"Elizabeth"
Episode 20: #SurvivorStories Series with Rosaura Torres Thomas, author of "Abuse Hidden Behind the Badge" Episode 30: #SurvivorStories Series with Anita Gera on The misuse of the Hague Convention to harm children @anitasgera 2/

Episode 31: #SurvivorStories Series w/ "Caitlin" on the dangers of "shared parenting" for survivors & children
Episode 32: #SurvivorStories with Lana on her "Sophie's Choice" to protect her daughter from CSA
Episode 35: #SurvivorStories Series with Maria Santiago 3/

Episode 37: #SurvivorStories Series with Sarah Strong Mitigating coercive parenting by an abuser
Episode 59: #SurvivorStories series with "Ashley" on the dangers of technology--cyberstalking and surveillance
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Episode 69: #SurvivorStories Series w/Jessica Ingels on courts giving custody to abusers
Episode 70: Follow up to #SurvivorStories Series with Jessica Ingels
Episode 97: #SurvivorStories Series with "Carol" on parenting with an abuser during COVID-19 5/

And for more on the systemic problem of gender bias against protective moms, listen to these episodes:

Episode 2: Evan Stark on "Coercive Control" as a gendered liberty crime
Episode 9 Joan Meier of the Domestic Violence Legal Empowerment Project @DV_LEAP #coercivecontrol 6/

Episode 10: Barry Goldstein on Gender Bias in Family Courts
Episode 11: Kathleen Russell of the Center for @JudicialCenter
Episode 16: en(gender)ed Reflections on family court @AbuseStoppers #GenderBiasedLaws 7/

Epiosde 19: Lisa Fischel-Wolovick on "Traumatic Divorce and Separation"
Episode 28: Paul Griffin, Legal Director of Child Justice Inc. on "It's Worse to Accuse than it is to Abuse" on Protective Parents and children who are "lost in the system" @ChildJusticeInc 8/

Episode 38: Dr. Tanja Jovanovic of the Grady Trauma Project Witnessing on how abuse is just as bad for children as being abused
Episode 40: Health Psychologist Kathleen Kendall-Tackett On domestic violence, trauma, breastfeeding, mothering and their intersection 9/

Episode 67: Bethany Johnson and Maggie Quinlan On "You're Doing It Wrong! Mothering, Media and Medical Expertise"
Episode 68: Indra Lusero of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women on Reproductive Justice as a Human Right #YDIW @JQ_Research #motherhood #johnsonquinlan 10/

Episode 71: en(gender)ed Reflections on the weaponization of motherhood

#protectivemom #protectivemoms #protectivemother #protectivemothers #mother #mom #momlife #mothersday #mothersday2020 #happymothersday #happymothersday2020 #women #genderequality #ratifyERA #lovemom 11/

And, our most recent #SurvivorStories episode with @_Nic_Lee on domestic abuse with a disability. Listen so you can best learn how to support the protective mother in your life. #coercivecontrol #parenting #mothering #motherhood #mothersday2020 #mothersdaygift #MothersDaygifts

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