Michaela Coel on Making “I May Destroy You”
The protagonist of “I May Destroy You,” a young woman named Arabella, has her drink spiked at a party and discovers afterward that she has been assaulted. She spends the rest of the show untangling...
View ArticleMichaela Coel on Making “I May Destroy You”
The protagonist of “I May Destroy You,” a young woman named Arabella, has her drink spiked at a party and discovers afterward that she has been assaulted. She spends the rest of the show untangling...
View ArticleTeens Turn To Instagram To Expose Sexual Harassment And Worse at Public High...
The Brooklyn Latin School, a specialized high school in New York City, is one of several schools with a student-run Instagram page dedicated to offering a space for survivors of sexual abuse to...
View ArticleMaria Hinojosa's Story of Love And Hate In A Torn America
On Today's Show: Maria Hinojosa, anchor and executive producer of Latino USA, and the author of Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn, talks about how some of our national conversations...
View ArticleHow Maria Hinojosa Learned To Fluff Her Feathers
Maria Hinojosa is best known as the host of the public radio program Latino USA, a role she's occupied for over 25 years. But getting to that point in her career required navigating newsrooms at CBS,...
View Article'Canary: The Washington Post Investigates'
Reporter and host Amy Brittain joins us to discuss the new Washington Post investigative podcast, Canary. It follows one woman's decision to come forward with sexual assault allegations against a...
View Article'Like A Bird'
This segment is guest-hosted by Matt Katz. A new novel follows a young woman who struggles to find herself, and community, in the face of sexual trauma. Author and poet Fariha Róisín joins us to...
View ArticleThe Overlooked and Pervasive Sexual Abuse of Boys and Young Men
In the past few years, we’ve witnessed how powerful institutions including the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, and others have hidden decades of sexual abuse toward boys and young men. And while many...
View ArticleA YouTube Empire Is Crumbling
Just a month ago, David Dobrik was one of YouTube's most beloved vloggers. With over 18 million subscribers, several big name brand deals, and a successful merchandise line, the 24-year-old star was...
View ArticleHow to End the Dominion of Men
Andrew Cuomo’s just the latest. Why is masculinity so often conflated with domination? And how do we separate the two? Kai turns to a historian and to a novelist for answers. Linda Hirschman, author of...
View ArticleA GOP Ally For Sen. Gillibrand's Fight Against Military Sexual Assault
For years, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been pushing for changes to the way the military handles sexual assault in the ranks. Now she's got an ally on the other side of the aisle.On Today's Show:U.S....
View ArticleThis Week in Politics: Fiance of Stringer Accuser Says She Spoke of Assault 7...
Leaders of the Progressive wing of the Democratic party have pulled their support for Scott Stringer, the New York City comptroller who's running for mayor. That's after a woman accused him of sexual...
View ArticleGillibrand: Why Dems Are Divided On Prosecuting Sexual Assault In The Military
The Senate has a lot on its plate, from infrastructure to voting rights.On Today's Show:Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator (D NY), talks about her work in the Senate on military justice, plus updates on...
View ArticleWhat Bill Cosby's Release Means for Survivors
While the overturning of Bill Cosby’s conviction is seen as a legal victory by some, it’s seen as an injustice by others. What constitutes true justice when it comes to violent sexual crimes against...
View ArticleAre Current Sexual Assault Protocols at the Olympics Enough?
This is the first Summer Olympics since Larry Nassar’s highly publicized sentencing in 2018 for decades of sexual abuse of some of America’s leading Olympic women gymnasts. There have also been...
View ArticleListening to Epstein's Victims
In 2008, Jeffrey Epstein pled guilty to some remarkably soft state charges: one count of solicitation of prostitution and one count of solicitation of prostitution with a minor. He even got federal...
View ArticlePolitics, Power, and Abuse
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is far from the first politician to find himself facing allegations of sexual harassment or assault. This week, interim host Melissa Harris-Perry sat down with Professor...
View ArticleResources for Sexual Assault Survivors
If you are a survivor of sexual assault, or know someone who is, below are several resources that you might find helpful. General Resources for Survivors RAINN The largest anti-sexual violence...
View Article"You Should Be Carrying This. Not Me."
When a listener named Chloe was in college, she says she was sexually assaulted at a party by a former classmate. She filed a police report, but her classmate was never charged with a crime. He left...
View ArticleWhere is Chinese Tennis Star Peng Shuai?
After Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai accused an ex-government official of sexual assault, the former Grand Slam Doubles champion has all but disappeared. Now, amid concerns over the Shuai's safety, the...
View Article"We Need to Talk About Cosby" explores a shattered legacy
"We Need to Talk About Cosby" grapples with the legacy of the once-beloved comedian who's been accused by over 60 women of rape and sexual assault. Director W. Kamau Bell interviews a wide range of...
View ArticleMaria Hinojosa on Partying, Partnership, and Her New Pulitzer
Journalist Maria Hinojosa and the staffs of Futuro Media and PRX recently won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting for the podcast "Suave." For Maria, winning this accolade took years of hard...
View ArticleThe Federal Probe Into the NYPD's Special Victims Division
The Department of Justice has opened a federal probe into NYPD's Special Victims Division, which handles the department's sex crimes investigations. Meg O'Connor, a reporter covering police and...
View ArticleThe Custody Battles Awaiting Mothers of Children Conceived in Rape
Exceptions in the case of rape used to be considered a necessity in abortion legislation, even within the pro-life movement. But today ten states have no rape exception in their abortion laws, and more...
View ArticleThe Custody Battles Awaiting Mothers of Children Conceived in Rape
Exceptions in the case of rape used to be considered a necessity in abortion legislation, even within the pro-life movement. But today ten states have no rape exception in their abortion laws, and more...
View ArticleGabrielle Union Completes Herself
*This episode originally ran in 2017.When actor Gabrielle Union talked with Anna in front of a live audience back in 2017, she was about to turn 45 and had just released her first book of essays, We’re...
View ArticleThe Suspect Detective
In 2010, Milique Wagner was arrested for a murder he says he had nothing to do with. The night of the shooting, Wagner was picked up for questioning and spent three days in the Philadelphia Police...
View ArticleE. Jean Carroll's Allegation Trump Raped Her Goes to Court
The journalist and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll has accused former President Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the '90s - and the case in court this week stems from a...
View ArticleE. Jean Carroll vs. Donald J. Trump: Day One
A case in court this week that alleges that former President Trump sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll, who was only able to file because of the Adult Survivors Act. On Today's Show:Jane Manning,...
View ArticleAn Update On E. Jean Carroll's Suit Against Trump
The journalist and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll has accused former President Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room in the '90s. Jane Manning, director of the Women's Equal Justice...
View ArticleWhy The Jury Found Trump Liable For Sexual Abuse and Defamation
A legal analyst unpacks the outcome of E. Jean Carroll's case against former President Trump.On Today's Show:Jane Manning, director, Women's Equal Justice Project and former sex crimes prosecutor,...
View ArticleA Manhattan Jury Finds Trump Liable
Jane Manning, director, Women's Equal Justice Project and former sex crimes prosecutor, talks about the verdict in E. Jean Carroll's civil suit against Donald Trump. A jury found the former president...
View ArticleE. Jean Carroll and the Progress of #MeToo
On May 9th, a Manhattan federal jury found that former president Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in a luxury department store dressing room in the mid 1990s, and awarded her $5...
View ArticleThe Border Patrol’s Fearless 5%
The Border Patrol is one of the largest federal law enforcement agencies in the U.S., with roughly 19,000 officers. It also has one of the largest gender disparities – for decades, the number of women...
View ArticleE. Jean Carroll and Roberta Kaplan on Defamatory Trump
Earlier this month, E. Jean Carroll won an unprecedented legal victory: in a civil suit, Donald Trump was found liable for sexual abuse against her in the mid-nineteen-nineties, and for defamation in...
View ArticleWhen the police don't believe victims
"Victim/Suspect" follows reporter Rae de Leon as she investigates a pattern of cases where women reported sexual assault only to be accused by police of lying. Filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman explores the...
View ArticleThe Trump Case Against E. Jean Carroll and The Progress of #MeToo
This week, another legal blow for former president Donald Trump after a judge ruled to dismiss Trump's counter defamation lawsuit against E Jean Carroll for statements she made about a ruling on civil...
View ArticleExposing An Abusive Doctor at Columbia University
For years, Dr. Robert Hadden continued as a respected OB-GYN at Columbia University while assaulting hundreds of his patients. A new podcast and series of articles about the case expose Dr. Hadden's...
View ArticleFrom Victim to Suspect
Nicole Chase was a young mom with a daughter to support when she took a job at a local restaurant in Canton, Connecticut. She liked the work and was good at her job. But the place turned out to be more...
View Article'To Kill a Tiger' Follows a Father Seeking Justice for His Daughter
The documentary "To Kill a Tiger" follows the story of Ranjit, an Indian farmer on a quest for justice after his 13-year-old daughter is gang-raped. Director Nisha Pahuja joins us to discuss this...
View ArticleThe Adult Survivors Act Window Closes
Last week, the yearlong lookback window allowing adult victims of sexual assault to file lawsuits against their perpetrators closed. Bernadette Hogan, statehouse reporter at Spectrum News NY1,...
View ArticleAn Abusive Doctor Exposed at Columbia University
[REBROADCAST FROM SEPTEMBER 19, 2023] For years, Dr. Robert Hadden continued as a respected OB-GYN at Columbia University while assaulting hundreds of his patients. A new podcast and series of articles...
View ArticleTrump’s Second Defamation Trial
Writer E. Jean Carroll is taking former President Donald Trump back to court, this time focusing on what damages, if any, Trump must pay Carroll for defaming her. Andrea Bernstein, journalist reporting...
View ArticleMaybe: Trump Was Found By A Jury To Have Committed Sexual Assault. Who Cares...
Writer E. Jean Carroll is taking former President Donald Trump back to court, this time focusing on what damages, if any, Trump must pay Carroll for defaming her.On Today's Show:Andrea Bernstein,...
View ArticleE. Jean Carroll on Trump Defamation Cases: “Money Is Precious to Him”
After winning the Iowa caucuses by a historic margin, Donald Trump made his way to a courtroom in New York, where a jury was selected in a second defamation trial involving E. Jean Carroll. In May,...
View ArticleFebruary 1, 2024: Evening Roundup
The U.S Postal Service is honoring New York's First Black woman Senator, Constance Baker Motley, as part of their Black heritage stamp series. Plus, Holtec, a company in New Jersey, has agreed to pay a...
View ArticleOscar Docs - To Kill a Tiger
This month we hear from the makers of the five films nominated for the Academy Award for best feature documentary. Today, writer and director Nisha Pahuja talks about her film "To Kill a Tiger" that...
View ArticleAlleged Abuse at Rikers Comes to Light
WNYC/Gothamist reporters Samantha Max, who covers public safety, and Jessy Edwards, who covers incarceration and public safety, talk about their investigation into alleged sexual abuse on Rikers...
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