Being a Woman of Color in Purity Culture with Asha Dahya

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🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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TEDx speaker and author Asha Dahya is the Creator and Editor in Chief of GIRLTALKHQ. She was born in the UK, raised in Australia, and now lives in the USA. Of Indian descent, Asha grew up in Evangelical churches and was imbued with the teachings of purity culture. She discusses how it shaped her understanding of love, embodiment, and relationships, and why it prevented her from seeking the proper help when her marriage turned abusive. She also discusses how being a woman of color in the United States adds another layer of otherness and objectification within the confines of Evangelical spaces. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Straight Wide American Jesus. I'm Brad O'Neal, faculty and religions
0:18.4	give more college, our shows hosted in partnership with the CapCenter UCSB. Before we get to our
0:24.3	interview with Asha Daya about purity culture and the experience of it as a woman of color. I wanted
0:31.6	to point all of you to some of the other work we've done on purity culture, especially as it is
0:38.8	conveyed and communicated by women who have experienced that culture. So we have a couple of interviews
0:46.2	with scholars that I think will be of interest. One is titled Purity Cultural National Security
0:52.2	and Racism and that is from September 15th. So you can look that up in our archives. That's an
0:57.2	interview I did with Dr. Sarah Moslinner of Central Michigan University about her book Virgin Nation
1:02.7	and it relates purity culture to understandings of white womanhood to race and a whole host of
1:10.8	other things including a lengthy discussion of true love weights and the silver ring thing movement.
1:17.2	So you can check that out if those topics interest you. There's also an interview I did with Dr.
1:24.1	Leslie Doro Smith called Sex scandals Christianity in America and that is from September 7th 2020
1:31.7	and that is all about how certain conceptions of manhood and sexuality in American
1:39.2	purity culture but also in American politics function to allow men to often act with impunity
1:46.2	when it comes to sex scandals and to misbehavior and abuse and so on and so forth. So you can
1:51.9	check that out as well. We have an episode called Dating Jesus which goes which is from all the way
1:59.6	back in season one but we did re-release it on August 25th of 2020 and you can check that out. It
2:07.7	includes an interview with Dr. with Reverend Sarah Butteau who is a minister in the UCC
2:15.9	church but grew up in purity culture and finally we have an interview with Ruth Everhart who's
2:21.8	an author and who's written a book called Hashtag Me Too and talks about the church's reckoning
2:29.2	with the Me Too movement and with the rampant abuse that exists in church spaces and that is from
2:36.7	January 29th of 2020. So all four of those episodes are on the topic of purity culture and
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