Edith Bunker Fights Back
"‘How did you get away from the lousy bum?’ ‘Cake. I-I-I hit him with the cake I was baking.’” ~ Archie and Edith Bunker, All in the...
May 2, 2019
Empowering Female Refugees With Emotional and Physical Self-Defense
"I learned that if you are strong and assertive, there is a solution.” ~ Participant from Lesvos ESD Training, 2018 Seventy women....
Apr 18, 2019
A Safer World for Athletes is in Your Hands
This summer, ESD Global is hosting a Level 1 Elite Athletes ESD Instructor Training, led by Olympic gold-medalist Arlene Limas, for...
Apr 9, 2019
Remember the Ladies! (updated to our time: Remember the Marginalized!)
Happy Women’s History Month! Many American women have read the quote by Abigail Adams, the second First Lady of the U.S., who admonished...
Mar 21, 2019
Bringing ESD to Latin America
When we last brought you news about Aude Mulliez, she was hard at work using the skills and tools she gained at ESD Global's very first...
Mar 20, 2019
First Wave Feminism and Self-Defense
Most of my knowledge about women training in martial arts at the beginning of the twentieth century has come from jokes and cartoons...
Mar 14, 2019
Fighting Like Amazons: Suffrage and Self-Defense
Next year is the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in the United States. As we...
Mar 6, 2019
Listen to Your Lizard Brain
“We were in the middle of dinner and he lost his temper,” a women shared with her ESD class during a conversation about boundary setting....
Feb 28, 2019
Helping Teens Stay Safe in the Dating World
February is Teen Dating Awareness (TeenDV) Month. According to loveisrespect.org: “Dating violence is more common than many people think....
Feb 21, 2019
"So, I'd Better Behave, Then" and Other Responses to Our Career Choice
"So, what do you do?” “I teach self-defense.” More often than not, upon hearing our answer to a seemingly innocuous question about our...
Feb 7, 2019