Episode 23
Kate Price
While working with Bessel van der Kolk, sociologist Kate Price remembered that her father had drugged her, sexually abused her, and trafficked her to men at a nearby truck stop. She now works for the Wellesley Center for Research on women against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.
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Episode 22
Sarah Hedlund and Diana Mondragón
Sarah and Diana were both groomed and sexually abused by the same English teacher in Iowa and Illinois. They came together to hold him accountable. Their podcast tracks their complex journey from police reports, to complaints to the state licensure boards, to civil litigation, and more.
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Episode 21
Deborah Tuerkheimer
Legal scholar Deborah Tuerkheimer discusses her book, Credible, as well as her legal scholarship on sexual violence and her efforts to reform the Model Penal Code.
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Episode 20
Sarah Weinman
Journalist, editor, writer, and crime fiction authority Sarah Weinman, who currently writes the monthly crime and mystery column for the New York Times Book Review, discusses her third non-fiction book, Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime.
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Episode 19
Cassia Spohn
Feminist Criminologist, Regent's Professor, and Anti-rape Activist Cassia Spohn discusses her more than 50 years of advocating for and assessing the impact of rape law reform and the failures of the criminal justice system.
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Episode 18
Nancy Whittier
Smith College Sociology Professor Nancy Whittier provides a social movement analysis to understand child sexual abuse, the antirape movement, feminism, and our post #MeToo moment
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