Tamara MC - Child Bride in the USA

Tamara MC - Child Bride in the USADivorced: Religious CultMy 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/TamaraMCPhDhttps://www.instagram.com/tamaramcphd/ Articles by Tamara MC:I grew up in a cult and was married at 12— in Texashttps://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cult-child-marriage-texas-b1973888.htmlEssay 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/Support this podcast on Patreon (starting as low as $2/month) and get access to bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/janiceselbie Thanks to my newest patrons: Marie, Mary,  and Peter. Every dollar helps.Subscribe to the audio-only version here: https://www.divorcing-religion.com/religious-trauma-podcastFollow Janice and the Conference on Religious Trauma on Social Media: Mastodon: [email protected]: https://twitter.com/divorcereligionTwitter: https://twitter.com/Wise_counsellorTwitter: https://twitter.com/ComeToCORTFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DivorcingReligionTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@janiceselbieInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/wisecounsellor/The Divorcing Religion Podcast is for entertainment purposes only. If you need help with your mental health, please consult a qualified, secular, mental health clinician.Support the show