1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to billgate f Daily with 2 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Bunker. You know, folks, 3 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: we are waiting with bated breath for the decision to 4 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: come down from the Supreme Court that throws a grenade 5 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: on Rob Wade that essentially, for the first time in 6 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: close to fifty years, women and people with uteruses in 7 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: this country will not have access to abortion, They will 8 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: not have bodily autonomy. We will have a patchwork of 9 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 1: care in this country that really will come down to 10 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: your economic status and your ability to be able to 11 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 1: get on planes and buses and trains in order to 12 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: access the type of care that you need. But in 13 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: some places like Texas and Tennessee and Florida, you that 14 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: action of leaving your state to receive reproductive care can 15 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: amount to a jail sentence, can amount to your loved 16 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,440 Speaker 1: ones or friends or colleagues who may be hard up 17 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: for cash, throwing you under the bus so that they 18 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: can get a ten thousand dollars or more bounty for 19 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:35,319 Speaker 1: being able to dime you out to authorities. Oh, I 20 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: don't think that they left the state to go on vacation. 21 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 1: I think it was something much more nefarious than that. 22 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 1: We have often said on this show and in other 23 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 1: places and spaces that what the religious, radicalized right wing 24 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: party wants in this country is Gilead. And you know, 25 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: when I say that, I say it tongue in cheek. 26 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: But the reality is is that if you are a 27 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: person of color in this country that knows even just 28 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: the surface of America's history, you know that Gilead has 29 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: already been forced sterilization, forced abortion for women of color 30 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: and indigenous women in this country. That has been the norm, 31 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 1: and there has been no recourse Roe v. Wade, and 32 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 1: that decision allowed women and now also people with uterus 33 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: is to be able to access that freedom and that power. 34 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: Now it's going to be taken away. The thing is 35 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: is that this isn't going to end there. This is 36 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:55,800 Speaker 1: about full and complete control. When I talk about abortion, 37 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: I'm also talking about voting rights. I'm also talking about 38 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 1: school careerulum and the fight against critical race theory, which 39 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:04,959 Speaker 1: by the way, still is not taught in K through 40 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,399 Speaker 1: twelve schools. I'm talking about the anti trans bills, the numerous, 41 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: the hundreds that have been put out across the country, 42 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: all of This is about control. It is about toxic masculinity, 43 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: It is about every type of phobia that you could 44 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 1: think of. It is about the desire to turn the 45 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: clock back, the desire to have ownership over other people's 46 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: lives and their bodies, and that if they aren't like you, 47 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 1: operate like you, then they don't deserve to exist. It's 48 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:43,119 Speaker 1: as simple as that when we look at these manifestos 49 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: that we've seen pop up, whether with the Buffalo white 50 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: nationalist shooter, whether with the Proud Boys or the oath Keepers, 51 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: whether it is the gunmen in New Zealand who basically 52 00:03:55,520 --> 00:04:00,240 Speaker 1: all pull from the same place. Fox News Donald Trump 53 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: putin these figures right of people who have decided that 54 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: their way is the only way. I try and say 55 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: that we have options, that there is still hope, but 56 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: the reality is is that I am not completely sure 57 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: of that fact. My next guest, who's coming up shortly 58 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 1: tells of a story that is so heartbreaking and was 59 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: really challenging to listen to. Dawn Tyree is a person 60 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: who supports her LGBTQA community, and she was robbed through 61 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:52,800 Speaker 1: a child forced marriage. She was robbed of her sexual orientation. 62 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: She struggled for years with self harm because of the oppression, 63 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,480 Speaker 1: and just recently, at the age of forty nine, has 64 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: come out and decided to reclaim the power that has 65 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: been taken away from her as identifying as a pansexual 66 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: at the age of forty nine. What how are these 67 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: things linked unless somebody is doing harm to you or 68 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 1: to themselves. And I mean real harm, not the perceived 69 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: harm that Greg Abbott thinks that parents of trans children 70 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: are doing by caring for and loving their children by 71 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 1: giving them gender affirming surgery. No, no, I'm not talking 72 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: about that harm. I'm talking about real harm. Who are 73 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: we to tell people how they should show up, how 74 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: they should identify, how they should love, how they should exist. 75 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: The freedom supposedly around religion, the freedom of bodily autonomy, 76 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 1: was for us to be able to move without shackles, 77 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: whether they be literal or figurative, for us to be 78 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: able to move and understand and grow into ourselves without 79 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:17,840 Speaker 1: the harsh spotlight or shame that other people project onto us. 80 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: Freedom of religion was about being able to practice right. 81 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: It was not supposed to be about the religious radicalized 82 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: rights ability to prescribe their interpretation of their Bible onto 83 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 1: the rest of us. This is a story about power, 84 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: and frankly, we have moved to a space where it 85 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: isn't a conversation about differing ideologies. It is about good 86 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: versus evil. It is about seeing all people's humanity, regardless 87 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: of if it mirrors your own. At the core of it, 88 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: what we are saying when we talk about progressive politics, 89 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,440 Speaker 1: when we talk about progression, it is a fact that 90 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 1: when we were writing the forefathers were writing this constitution, 91 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: I was considered chattel. Women did not have the right 92 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: to vote, we didn't have the right to exist, to speak, 93 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: to be queer. People were hung burned at the stake. 94 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: Isn't it a good thing that we've evolved from that 95 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: place that we can continue to try and perfect this 96 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: very imperfect union. But here we are in this moment 97 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 1: where there is a real power struggle that is at hand. 98 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: And again the media allows for Republicans to continue to 99 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: hide behind ideology, but it isn't around oh well, I'm 100 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: a fiscal conservative and I'm this and i'm that. No, 101 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: if you don't call these people what they are and 102 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: buy their name white supremists, Christian fundamentalist, Christian fascist like 103 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:13,440 Speaker 1: the group in Dallas that decided to try and enter 104 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: into a gay bar and cause harm. Why would they 105 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: travel to this space? Ain't nobody invite them? Why can't 106 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,440 Speaker 1: you just allow people to be and find community where 107 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: they are. Why do you see yourself as the one 108 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: that gets to dictate what makes sense. If you don't 109 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: want your kids learning about queer people, black people, Latin 110 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: X people, indigenous people, pull them out of school, send 111 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: them to the fucking Catholic school, send them to Christian school, 112 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,319 Speaker 1: fucking homeschool. But you don't get to dictate what curriculum 113 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: looks like for the rest of us because you only 114 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: want to see the world through a white, cis hetero 115 00:08:55,679 --> 00:09:03,000 Speaker 1: mail lens. But we don't ever push back, We just cower. 116 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 1: And so I think that this conversation with Dawn Tyree 117 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: is one that is illuminating because her experience didn't come 118 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: through Trumpism, It was decades prior to that. It was 119 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: about the fundamental treatment and mistreatment and abuse of girls 120 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: and of women in this country. So when we say 121 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: oftentimes this is not who we are, we don't really 122 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: have a strong foundational understanding of who we are because 123 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: all America has ever known is violence, is hatred, is misogyny, 124 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: is homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, patriarchy, and if we don't excavate 125 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: these true then they will keep repeating themselves. So coming 126 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: up next my conversation with survivor Dawn Tyree. Hey there, 127 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: I want to tell you about another podcast I think 128 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 1: you'll love. 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Dawn, you know your story 153 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: was a part of an A and E documentary that 154 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: was done and you in this space talk about how 155 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 1: you were forced to marry your abuser at the young 156 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 1: age of thirteen when you were pregnant, and I want 157 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: you to explain to the Woke AF audience what child 158 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: marriage is and why it's a conversation that we should 159 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,959 Speaker 1: be having in this country as we're hearing places like 160 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 1: Tennessee and others working to lower the age of marriage, right, 161 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: would they apparently want to lower the age of everything 162 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: for you? To get an assault rifle for you to 163 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:49,839 Speaker 1: be able to get married. But God forbid you be 164 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 1: able to have bodily autonomy. That's something that you need 165 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: all different kind layers of consent for. So tell us 166 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: a bit more about your story. Well, my story is 167 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 1: that I was forced to marry at thirteen years old. 168 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:09,559 Speaker 1: It was a family friend who had actually been my 169 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: legal guardian, who I referred to as my nanny. He 170 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: had been sexually abusing me for two years, and when 171 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: I became pregnant, the fix all was for us to 172 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: get married. It saved him from a prison sentence and 173 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:26,200 Speaker 1: saved my parents from child abuse and neglect charges, so 174 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: it basically saved all the adults and put me in 175 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 1: servitude as a sex slave to my abuser. Oh God, Dawn, 176 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 1: can you tell us what state was this happening in. 177 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,839 Speaker 1: It happened in Texas, and a lot of people would say, oh, 178 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,400 Speaker 1: of course it did. But you know, there are nine 179 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 1: states today that have no minimum age for marriage, so 180 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: it could have easily happened, and California is one of them. 181 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: And we actually lived in California before we moved to Texas, 182 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: so we were really only in Texas for a couple 183 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:04,439 Speaker 1: of months before the marriage took place. Do you even 184 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: what was your mindset during this time of I imagine 185 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:16,520 Speaker 1: that in order to get married at the age of thirteen, 186 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: you had to have parental consent, right, so what can 187 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: you walk us through what that yeah, what that process is, 188 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 1: and what that looked like from from what you Recallum, 189 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: So it typically takes parental consent or you know, a 190 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 1: judge discretion, and in my case, it only took my 191 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: father's signature to marry UM. What that looked like to 192 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: me at that time? UM, I was cohersd. I would 193 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: you know, I didn't have a say in what was 194 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: going on? Who as a child? A child you know, 195 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: defined by the law as anyone under eighteen years old. 196 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 1: So at thirteen years old, I really did have a say. 197 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: I was groomed to marry him for two weeks before 198 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: the marriage took place. I mean I was getting the 199 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: input from him that he was saving me from a 200 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: bad situation, that it was in my best centrist. My 201 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: stepmother was reinforcing that with that I couldn't stay at 202 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: home with a baby, and that you know, we needed 203 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 1: to be married. It was going to save him and 204 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: you know, I'm not sure where my father was standing 205 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: in this. I think he was under a lot of influence, 206 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: you know, by my stepmother, and so he went ahead 207 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,960 Speaker 1: and gave consent to this marriage to my rapists who 208 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: was I was thirteen and he was thirty two years old. 209 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 1: It was clearly, you know, a statutory rape, and in 210 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: marriage in the United States to a minor overrides the 211 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: federal law of statutory rape. So at that point that 212 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: no charges, not not during the marriage or even after. 213 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: When I was trying to escape, I tried to file 214 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: police reports, and because of the marriage, it totally saves 215 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: him and exonerates the perpetrator from any charges. So let 216 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:14,000 Speaker 1: me ask you this. You're thirteen years old, this man 217 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:17,160 Speaker 1: this I mean, I would refer to him as a rapist, 218 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: but I don't want to put words in your con is. Yeah, 219 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: it's thirty five years old. You go before whom in 220 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: order to have this marriage a judge, right, that's correct. 221 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 1: You know, you have to go before the judge. So 222 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: the clerk will issue the license and you go before 223 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:39,640 Speaker 1: the judge. And in some states, the judge, you know, 224 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: may have some discernment and there may be an investigation which, 225 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 1: in my opinion, an investigation by the court is just 226 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: a band aid or you know, it's only for the 227 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 1: consciousness of the court to put a rubber stamp on 228 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: the marriage. It's saying, look, we've done this safety you know, 229 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 1: check and everything's fine. And in our experience, in my experience, 230 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. M You know, when social services steps 231 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: in and there's an investigation, most children are not going 232 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:11,680 Speaker 1: to out their family out their parents are out their abuser. Um. 233 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: And so it really serves no purpose. In fact, it 234 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,119 Speaker 1: puts a children more at risk because they have to 235 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 1: go home with these people that have threatened them, you know, emotionally, 236 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 1: physically and otherwise. UM to not speak against the family. 237 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: How long did this, this this marriage? This this this 238 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: trap for you right, how long did this this last? 239 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: I was I was trapped for a little over three years, UM. 240 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: And it is a trap. So thank you for referring 241 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:45,360 Speaker 1: to it as a trap. Miners that mary have no 242 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: legal recourse. I mean I tried to go to a shelter. 243 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 1: They turned me away because we were miners. Try to 244 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:52,720 Speaker 1: rent an apartment, you can't sign a lease, Try to 245 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: hire a lawyer. Lawyer won't go into contract with you, 246 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:58,160 Speaker 1: I couldn't rent a hotel room. Yeah, I mean it's 247 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 1: a joke, you know. Here I am at sixteen years old, 248 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: I have two children in tow. We're trying to escape 249 00:18:03,560 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: a very violent situation, and the shelters turned us away. 250 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:10,760 Speaker 1: We literally couldn't go to a women's shelter or a 251 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: homeless shelter. And it's that way right now today across 252 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: the nation. So let me get this straight, right, because 253 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,640 Speaker 1: this is just this is the insanity of a country 254 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: that says that we love and protect children. Right, We're 255 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: watching children get gunned down in their classrooms and lawmakers 256 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:34,639 Speaker 1: say they can't do anything about it. And you're telling 257 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: me that basically, you're able your parent, one parent is 258 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: able to sign over your bodily autonomy yourself as a child, 259 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: because in the eyes quote unquote of the law, you 260 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,440 Speaker 1: are a miner until you reach the age of eighteen, right, 261 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 1: And so they sign over your bodily autonomy, your authority 262 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:01,359 Speaker 1: over self to your abuser. And then in the eyes 263 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 1: of the law, you were married, but you are not 264 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:06,520 Speaker 1: a woman to be able to go into a shelter 265 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: with your two children. You got that one, correct, you know, 266 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: And not only that, like by losing it my bodily autonomy. 267 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 1: I was expecting my second child at fourteen years old, 268 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 1: you know, and not one time when I, you know, 269 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 1: went to my prenatal appointments or was seeing the physician 270 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 1: or my doctor or whomever, did someone stop and asked 271 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 1: me if this was a choice that I would that 272 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,400 Speaker 1: I was okay with or I don't recall ever being 273 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:41,120 Speaker 1: educated about birth control or anything like that. And so, 274 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: you know, you just you're completely removed from any self governing. 275 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 1: Did you think that you had done something wrong? Oh? Absolutely, 276 00:19:54,440 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 1: it felt like that. And I gohead, it really felt 277 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: like I had done something that, um, you know, I 278 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 1: brought this all upon myself. And because I was hearing 279 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: that from my stepmother and things like that, so the 280 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,320 Speaker 1: negative voices kind of go, you know, their own repeat um. 281 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 1: And so I felt like I deserved the situation that 282 00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 1: I was in, that I had brought it upon myself, 283 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:21,919 Speaker 1: and you know, the only the only thing that I 284 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:25,439 Speaker 1: could do for myself was to figure out how to 285 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 1: get out of this situation. And that's I mean, that's 286 00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: a whole other can of worms. It's like when the 287 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: miner decides or wants out of the abuse of the situation. 288 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: I'm getting a little bit paidback. Sorry. Um. When the 289 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:45,960 Speaker 1: minor wants out of the abusive situation, often the family 290 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: will disown them. So now you have not only the 291 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 1: community turning this this child away with their children or not. Um, 292 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 1: you don't have any family support. UM, So you really 293 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:02,760 Speaker 1: are alone. And it's it's quite a shame that even 294 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:06,160 Speaker 1: the community looks down upon, you know, child brides. It's 295 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: almost like, UM, it's it's shameful, and it is put 296 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: on on us that it was our fault when in 297 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:19,120 Speaker 1: fact we didn't have any choice when it happened. What 298 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 1: how did you go, Dawn, from being a sixteen year 299 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 1: old with two children trying to flee an abuser, no 300 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: family to run to that was that was going to 301 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: open their doors in their arms to you to be 302 00:21:40,560 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: to where you are now, to becoming an activist and 303 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: an author. What was that arc? Who? Um? Part of 304 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 1: you know, the emotional change and kind of the awareness 305 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 1: wake up call, if you will, for me, was after 306 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 1: my daughter was born and I began to worry about 307 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:14,400 Speaker 1: her safety as an infant. I mean, this is just repulsive. 308 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:18,960 Speaker 1: But at fifteen and sixteen years old. I did not 309 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: want him changing her diaper. And that's when I began 310 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 1: to plot my way out, like try to figure out 311 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,760 Speaker 1: how am I going to get out of this situation. 312 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 1: And we had to, you know, my family unit how 313 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: to be separated because it wasn't possible. As I had mentioned, 314 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,439 Speaker 1: we were turned away from shelters and you know, just 315 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: had had no means or resources to get out of 316 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 1: that situation. And so my children actually stayed with his 317 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 1: parents while I stayed with an anonymous family member to 318 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,720 Speaker 1: get my feet on the ground. And then on one 319 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 1: of the visits, I would go visit my children on 320 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 1: the weekends, and on one of those visits, I packed 321 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 1: him up and I took them and it was very messy. 322 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: And again because my husband at that time, so I'm 323 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,200 Speaker 1: sixteen years old, he is my husband and my legal guardian, 324 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: even though I was an emancipated minors, so he had 325 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: the rights to report me as a runaway, and when 326 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: law enforcement caught up to me, they would threaten to 327 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,040 Speaker 1: return me to my rapists. So I mean this, it's 328 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: a violent, perpetual circle of being trapped and authority and 329 00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: control and manipulation, you know, and so I was able 330 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: to kind of stay undercover, you know, and and fly 331 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:45,399 Speaker 1: under the radar for our safety until I got my 332 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: feet on the ground. And that is it was very difficult. 333 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,239 Speaker 1: I would move into I'd find a roommate, you know, 334 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 1: apply for the room, put the down payment on the room, 335 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:58,479 Speaker 1: move in, and then two weeks later, kind of you know, 336 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,360 Speaker 1: fake it and say, oh my goodness, you know, I'm 337 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: really sorry. I have two children and I need to 338 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,600 Speaker 1: suddenly they had to come and live with me suddenly. Um. 339 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 1: And and that was something that I would repeat over 340 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: and over and over so that we would have a 341 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:14,639 Speaker 1: place to live because it was hard to find it. 342 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,840 Speaker 1: I couldn't rent a place, but I could find a roommate, 343 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,679 Speaker 1: you know, a situation that would be willing to let 344 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,240 Speaker 1: me move in, and then I would move my children in. 345 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 1: And it's you know, the poverty and the things that 346 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:33,080 Speaker 1: we went through, um for many years, at least a decade, 347 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 1: where we would, you know, live without electricity at times, 348 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 1: living without basic essential needs, you know, toilet paper, toothpaste, 349 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 1: things like that. And you know, my children they don't 350 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 1: know any different. When you're raising your children, it's like 351 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 1: that's just life. It's life that we don't have toilet 352 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,360 Speaker 1: paper and we're you know, using other means to keep 353 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:54,920 Speaker 1: ourselves to to you know, have hygiene and things like that. 354 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: The the the forfeited education increases, the poverty with child brides, 355 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: the chances of IPv increases like fourfold for child brides. 356 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 1: It's really sad how we set this is a setup 357 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,159 Speaker 1: for failure. You had mentioned the divorce rate in the 358 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 1: nation is like fifty percent. For child marriages, it's over 359 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: eighty percent. So how many dawn now that you have, 360 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: I mean gone through, my God so much? How did 361 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:40,120 Speaker 1: your activism start and wear? And if you have any 362 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: statistics or numbers, how many girls in this country that 363 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 1: says that they care about girls, that says that they 364 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: care about children are in similar situations. We know that 365 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 1: three hundred thousand children were married between two thousan twenty 366 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: eighteen in the United States. Some sixty thousand of those 367 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: marriages could have been punishable by statutory rate laws and 368 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:20,439 Speaker 1: given a prison sentence. I mean, that is just extraordinary. 369 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: And we have places right now in this country that 370 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: are looking to lower the age, as I said at 371 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: the top, like in Tennessee, to lower the age of marriage. 372 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 1: And so when you talk and you share your story, 373 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: what is it that you're trying to get people, including 374 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:45,800 Speaker 1: our lawmakers to understand. I think we use our voices 375 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: for the voiceless. I mean, you know, I felt like 376 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:55,679 Speaker 1: my situation was a very isolated situation. And you know, 377 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, when I myself started to investigate child 378 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,679 Speaker 1: marriage and United States was totally blown away that it 379 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 1: was legal in all fifty states that year twenty eighteen. 380 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 1: And so using our voices, we're trying to influence change 381 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 1: and protect children from child marriage. We're learning that it's 382 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,400 Speaker 1: connected to human trafficking, sex trafficking, child labor. I mean, 383 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,560 Speaker 1: there's an overlap there that's frightening. Hearing that other states 384 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 1: want to lower the age for marriage is terrifying. We 385 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,679 Speaker 1: have nine states in the US right now that have 386 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 1: no minimum age for marriage. I just don't I Like, 387 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 1: you say this to me, and I'm like, how how 388 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,920 Speaker 1: is that something that that could even stand? Is it? 389 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 1: Do you believe it's because people don't know? Like And 390 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: when I say people, I mean, like the masses don't 391 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,520 Speaker 1: know this fact. Or is it that we know and 392 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: we just don't care, Like what's your opinion on that. 393 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: I think my opinion. Okay, First of all, people are 394 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: shocked to learn, you know, about child marriage in the US. 395 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: So it's true that a lot of people just don't 396 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:15,400 Speaker 1: know and are unaware, and even lawmakers, legislators are surprised 397 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: when they find out that, you know, it's happening in 398 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 1: their state. And so we bring awareness to it. We 399 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:26,480 Speaker 1: try to educate the legislators and then influence change because 400 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: of the archaic laws that are in place, those are 401 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,400 Speaker 1: the little loopholes that allow it. And then we come 402 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: up against opposition where they want to keep those in 403 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,120 Speaker 1: place because we believe that you know, Romeo and Juliet 404 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,280 Speaker 1: deserve to be married, and we believe that the sixteen 405 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,320 Speaker 1: or seventeen year old that got pregnant deserves, you know, 406 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 1: to not have a bastard child. And so that's how 407 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: the stories of survivors will get you know, an override 408 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,320 Speaker 1: and those laws will stay in place. I mean, we 409 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: had this is really interesting just recently in the state 410 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: of Alaska. We had a senator, you know, actually demand 411 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: to go on record to state that she herself, at 412 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: fifteen years old, was as mature as at twenty five 413 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 1: year old and believes that a fifteen year old can 414 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: get married a mature one, a mature fifteen year old 415 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,080 Speaker 1: can get married. I mean, and you know, my grandkid 416 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 1: is fifteen years old, and I look at them and 417 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, no, no, no, no no, you 418 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: should not be married. And it's astonishing the opposition that 419 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:37,880 Speaker 1: we get. Do you think that's the opposition tied to 420 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 1: some perverse ideology with regard to Christian fundamentalism, Like is 421 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 1: it is it religion that is what you find to 422 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 1: be where the obstacles are because I mean, I don't 423 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: talk to me about the state of Alaska and the 424 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: people politicians that they've produced, but um, you know, but 425 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, like, is this tied in ways to religiosity? 426 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 1: In some cases, yes, it is, and in others it's not. 427 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 1: I mean, we get human rights activists that are saying 428 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 1: this is you know, um it human rights activists that 429 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: will say this, this is an infringement on reproductive rights 430 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: or the right to be married, or the right to 431 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: practice a culture, the right to practice their religion. And 432 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 1: so as you can see, we can get it from 433 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:41,040 Speaker 1: both sides. Where of the fundamentalists, you know, this is 434 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: by practice and by nature, and then also by human rights. 435 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: You have the freedom of religion and culture practices. So 436 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: Dawn Um, you also are you know, on top of 437 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: all of the work and the writing and the things 438 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,920 Speaker 1: that you've done, you're an advisory board member for the 439 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: Resiliency Foundation. So I just want to give you an 440 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 1: opportunity as we close out to tell folks about the 441 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: Resiliency Foundation and how they can get involved. Thank you well. 442 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: Genevieve Meyer is the founder of the Resiliency Foundation and 443 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: offers support and resources to survivors survivors of child marriage. 444 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 1: And right now I'm working mainly with Global Hope three 445 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: sixty five, who is fighting child marriage globally, human trafficking 446 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: globally and here in the States, with a primary focus 447 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 1: on ending child marriage in California. I want to take 448 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: it all the way up and down the West Coast 449 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 1: because we know that's a corridor for trafficking and child marriage. 450 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: But you can go to the California Coalition and Child 451 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:51,120 Speaker 1: Marriage Dot Org and we can help you draft a 452 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: resolution in your state, in your county city, state, just 453 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:04,040 Speaker 1: to take a stand against child marriage. Don I you 454 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 1: know your story is extraordinary. Your own resilience is extraordinary, 455 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 1: and I just thank you so much for joining wik 456 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 1: f and providing insight into an issue we've never delved 457 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 1: into on this show. 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