THIS WEEK I WILL BE TALKING ABOUT A SUBJECT THAT HAS AFFECTED MOST PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD AND NEVER REALLY DISCUSSED. WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE OFTEN LEFT IN THE DARK WITH NO WHERE TO GO BECAUSE OF THE INDIFFERENCES WITHIN A HARSH DIVORCE. IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS GOING THROUGH A DIVORCE, THIS SHOW WILL BE FOR YOU. COME JOIN AND SHARE YOUR OWN OPINIONS, ASK YOUR OWN QUESTIONS. GAIN SOME KNOWLEDGE.
JANINE KELLY
The Women’s Center of Montgomery County
Elkins Park: 8080 Old York Road Suite 200 Elkins Park, PA 19046 215-635-7340 Korean Hotline: 215-886-8725
Lansdale: Central Montgomery Hospital 100 Medical Drive Lansdale, PA 19446 215-853-8060
Norristown: 18 West Airy Street 400 Courthouse Plaza Norristown, PA 19404 610-279-7474
Bryn Mawr: 14 South Bryn Mawr Avenue Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 610-525-1428
Pottstown: 1800 E High Street Suite 350 Pottstown, PA 19464 610-970-7364
Colmar: 2306 N. Broad Street Suite 203 Colmar, PA 18915 215-996-0723
Janine Kelly is the Community Education Coordinator for The Women’s Center of Montgomery County. Ms. Kelly earned her degree in Education from Temple University and continued her graduate studies at West Chester University.
As a Women’s Center full-time staff member, she writes curriculum, facilitates workshops and does guest speaking engagements in approximately 60 schools throughout the Montgomery County region each year. These educational workshops range from Pre School to the college level. In addition to schools, Ms. Kelly provides trainings and presentations to law enforcement agencies, civic groups, churches, corporations, county departments, hospitals, and mental health facilities. Ms. Kelly also does outreach through guest speaking on radio shows.
All of center’s outreach is done in order to educate communities about the free and confidential help and support that The Women’s Center of Montgomery County has been providing victims of domestic violence and their families for 35 years.
Dr JEN MAHER
Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies
Education
Ph.D. in English and Modern Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Courses
G206 – Gay Histories, Queer Cultures
G225 – Gender, Sexuality & Pop Culture
G290 – History of Feminist Thought & Practice
G700 – Contemporary Debates in Feminist Theory
Research
Dr. Maher completed a Ph.D. in English and Modern Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she worked previously as a Visiting Assistant Professor teaching courses in Popular Culture, American Women’s Literature, Third Wave Feminism, and Gender and the Body. Her most recent published research focused on the pedagogy and rhetoric of the feminist anti-pornography movement and was published in Sexing the Look in Popular Visual Culture (Cambridge Scholars, 2010). She has also published fiction and memoir in a variety of venues, including two Seal Press anthologies, Secrets and Confidences: The Complicated Truth about Women’s Friendships and Young Wives’ Tales. The latter essay was praised byThe Women’s Review of Books as one of the best essays in the collection, “addressing the conundrum of identity politics and love head-on.” Maher has frequently contributed to the thoroughly awesome magazine, Bitch: A Feminist Response to Popular Culture and her essay “Hot for Teacher: On the Erotics of Pedagogy” was featured in the collection Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism, praised by critics as disparate as Robin Morgan and Margaret Cho.
At Indiana University, Dr. Maher’s area of expertise covers gender and popular culture; second and third wave feminism; gender and modern memoir, and feminist history/theory. She directs the Study Abroad Program in gender and social policy at The University of Amsterdam. Currently, she is working on larger projects on the gender and representation of the teacher-student relationship in popular culture, as well as assisted reproductive technology and the (hetero)familial narrative in American film.
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Helen Michaels is a co-creator with Lorraine Roe of the Audacious Action Angels (AAA) Oracle Deck. Helen is an artist, Reiki practitioner, and a very experienced art therapist. She and Lorraine have been on a high octane spiritual journey for a few decades now and learning to live with their emerging psychic abilities. Much to their surprise, messages and information from the angelic and fairy realms are filled with wit and humor that end up piercing the ego's perspective - which isn't exactly the 'feel good' part! After Lorraine asked Helen to do up a few ideas for an oracle deck, Helen was downloaded with images, titles and basic structure for the deck in about 3 hours. Then she created a painting a day for more than a month to birth the deck into visual form. Although Helen is a life-long artist, she had not received creative inspiration "straight from God" in this way before, but laying a spiritual foundation was the first step. Helen is excited to collaborate with Lorraine and share their real life, on-going experience ofembodying spirit.
Lorraine Roe is a former Emmy award winning investigative television reporter and producer who hears and sees spirit. Working in the psychic realms since 2002, Roe tells it like it is. She takes her reporter skills and asks the tough questions about life on the other side. She also laughs a lot. Roe is a Huffington Post blogger, has her own website at www.psychichousewives.com, and has a husband and three children who all live in Los Angeles, CA.
