Religious Trauma and Purity Culture: Part II

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Brad speaks with Emily Torres, who is behind the Life She Wrote blog and podcast. Emily tells her story of growing up--and eventually leaving--Evangelicalism and describes the religious trauma that ensued from her experiences. She explains the mechanics of purity culture and how young women learn that their bodies are not their own, their bodies are stumbling blocks, and that they should never trust them. This leads to a prolonged conversation about how purity culture inflicts trauma on young people through both subtle and explicit cues, signals, and messages. 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	You're listening to an irreverent podcast.
0:03.7	Visit irreverent.fm for more content from our amazing lineup of creators.
0:20.0	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
0:21.7	My name is Brad O'Neeshy,
0:23.2	our shows hosted in partnership with the Cap Center at UCSB.
0:27.0	And I'm joined today by Emily Torres,
0:29.1	who's a podcaster, a writer, a survivor,
0:32.6	and just generally an advocate for those who have survived religious trauma,
0:36.8	something we're talking about more often on our show and just generally.
0:41.2	And so, Emily, thanks for joining me.
0:43.8	Thank you.
0:44.3	Thank you so much for having me.
0:46.3	So you, we've been sort of like Twitter,
0:49.0	we've been in the same Twitter tribe for a long time,
0:51.6	this like never ending sort of DM thread and other stuff with other folks.
0:56.6	And just in the last few months,
0:59.2	you've really launched some amazing stuff.
1:01.6	You have your podcast going,
1:02.8	you've been writing for a long time at the life she wrote.
1:06.7	So I guess one of the first questions I have is just,
1:10.8	what is your story?
1:11.8	You work sort of tirelessly to advocate for a lot of things,
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