This isn’t your typical website. No two pages are alike. Blah is boring. Dr. Tamara MC is a maximalist and has created each page of her website with whimsy and opulence. Imagine you are walking into a storybook filled with color and magic. Voila– Join her on this journey! Each page has a different theme with things that she loves (and hopefully with things you also love!).
Dr. Tamara MC has many interests and is multi-hyphenated. Her website includes information about writing (creative nonfiction and memoir), coercive control and gender-based violence (such as cults, child marriage, human trafficking, and polygamy), and disability (Autism and ADHD). And SO, SO much more. Welcome to your home on the Internet, where each of us can feel a little less lonely and whole lot more seen.
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About Dr. Tamara MC
- Author
- Academic
- Artist
- Activist
About Dr. Tamara MC
- Author
- Academic
- Artist
- Activist
- Middle East Peace Activist
- Muslim Jewish Love Advocate
- Language, Culture, & Identity Expert
- Holocaust Storyteller/Neverforgetter
- Gender, Diversity, Inclusivity Punkster
- Refugee/Immigrant Experience Truthteller
- Transition Cheerleader
- International Educator
- Teacher Trainer
- Writing Coach
- Creative Arts Consultant
- Happiness & Joy Igniter
- Natural Health Practioner
- Dream Sanctuary Creator
Peace, Love, & Joy
- Middle East Peace Activist
- Muslim Jewish Love Advocate
- Language, Culture, & Identity Expert
- Holocaust Storyteller/Neverforgetter
- Gender, Diversity, Inclusivity Punkster
- Refugee/Immigrant Experience Truthteller
- Transition Cheerleader
- International Educator
- Teacher Trainer
- Writing Coach
- Creative Arts Consultant
- Happiness & Joy Igniter
- Natural Health Practioner
- Dream Sanctuary Creator
Peace, Love, & Joy
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Dr. Tamara MC is a lifelong vegetarian and lover of all sentient beings.
If you love animals, you will get along great!
If you love pink sheep, you’ll get along even more magnificently.
The Daily Reality of Growing Up In A Cult
I constantly monitored every last breath, how I slept, how I breathed, how I ate. I was taught that if I had even one bad thought, God would know.
Girls in my cult were drilled, above all else, to serve our communities and to give up our nafs, the Arabic word for self. In being forced to give up our identities, our bodies, minds, and spirits were unprotected. We completely lost our sense of self and didn’t know where our bodies stopped and the perpetrators’ bodies began. Girls in fundamentalist communities are often given the same instructions—to give up their essence, their very being.
We didn’t know whom to trust or where to turn because all roads led to the same place—men in power, who yielded black leather whips, forcing us to work, marry, and do whatever they demanded. We were locked in compounds, behind metal gates and tall walls, with no way out. Without access to transportation, television, books, newspapers, radios (it was the 80s), proper clothing, and hygiene items, we were stuck-like-chuck, to put it mildly.
I was groomed to believe I should marry early, so I didn’t provoke men. If a man desired me, it was my fault, not theirs. If they acted irreligiously and raped me, I was to blame. All blame, all the ills of the cult, returned to the girls. -- Dr. Tamara MC
I was groomed to believe I should marry early, so I didn’t provoke men. If a man desired me, it was my fault, not theirs. If they acted irreligiously and raped me, I was to blame. All blame, all the ills of the cult, returned to the girls. -- Dr. Tamara MC
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Check Out Dr. Tamara's Hot-Off-The-Press Articles
Check Out Dr. Tamara MC's Hot-Off-The-Press Articles
HER/HIS story, dawn, and Joy
HER/HIS story MC sits on a hard chair shaking her head. It is pre-summer 2013 and MC’s big breasts fall out of MC’s flowered razorback bra. MC’s black thong swings up from MC’s black yoga pants. It is 11:06 am and horns are honking on the avenue. Later, when MC will be eating cornbread casserole […]
Miami Vice, 1993
His Murphy bed dropped from the wall in that Arizona studio apartment. While he watched Miami Vice.Ed wash the teacups, wipe counters. clear away his MIS textbooks. Bight PM sharp:catching glimpses of Don Johnson’s world between dishes and dusting. Espadrilles with no socks. silk t-shirts.Bangladesh to AZfiltered through pink and palm trees on his twelve-inch […]
Solitary Car
I am the only one alone on this train,watching families cluster, friends laugh.Mile Post Seventy-Two slides past the window,avalanche protection standing guard. Morning haze from last night’s forest firescents the air like distant campfires.I missed the bus downtown yesterday—another small journey undertaken alone. It seems like old times:everyone else, and me. Not lonely, not ecstatic, […]
Litva Eating Memory
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Kinder, I was her child until childhood grew teeth she was mine Bubbe until memory learned hunger my little town swallows itself along the river while moss grows backwards into time the poor little town breeds smaller townsmy poor little dream divides into poorer dreams will I […]
Unapologetically Joyful: How My Neurodivergent Exuberance Challenges Expectations
Want to listen to the article? Great–listen here! Joy radiates through my entire body like electricity. Sparks travel from my core to my fingertips in waves of pure, unfiltered delight. This isn’t occasional happiness or momentary pleasure — it’s a neurological symphony that plays in my brain, filling my world with color, light, and sensation […]
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FAQs
My name is pronounced:
“Tamara” like the sun will come out tomorrow.
“MC” like emcee, not McDonalds.
My students often call me Doc MC, and you can too.
Someone who believes in the magical strength of all girls, women, and female-identifying humans to live free in matriarchal magnificence.
And yes, I did make up this title.
Pink is power. Unicorns represents our eternal search for magic.
Joy is transgressive. Being joyful is activism.
“Joy and pain
Like sunshine and rain”
(From the lyrics of Rob Base.)
Absolutely!
This is an inclusive space, and anyone who supports our mission is welcome.
I’ve loved Barbie since I was a little girl. She was able to do all the things I dreamed of before I was physically able.
Barbie was my girl way before the movie premiered.
Absolutely nothing. That’s exactly why unicorns are the symbol of my brand and my website. Unicorns stand for freedom.
No! She has no training or certificates in these areas, just a lifetime of experience.
