⚠️⚠️⚠️tw: grooming, child abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, self-harm, murder. Join in on a panel of survivors talking about purity culture within the Unification church. We do a deep dive into the intersections of purity culture, lack of autonomy, lack of boundaries and what that means. Part 1 of a multi-series. We dive deep with @Mightybrecca who has contributed this episodes cover art. @Mis_mend who is in graduate school for licensed therapy in psych and mental health and @princessryka who is a researcher at Harvard Med for trauma, reintegration, rehabilitation and extremist violence prevention. You can find them on instagram.
We will continue to explore purity culture in the Unification church in these next episodes, if you would like to contribute you can email reneethomasart@yahoo.com. Of course this discussion is from our perspective and life experiences only. These are complex traumatic topics to approach and I applaud all of you for your bravery and being receptive to this conversation. I know we have so much more to explore and learn, so here we go, one conversation at a time.
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