Torah Bontrager - Growing Up Amish, Part 2: Escaping & Activism

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Episode 41: In part two of their conversation with activist / Amish Girl in Manhattan author TORAH BONTRAGER, Lola & Meagan discuss the abuse Torah suffered in her family, escaping the community, graduating from Columbia University, and Torah's involvement with the fight against the Supreme Court case, Wisconsin v Yoder. If you have your own story about cults, high-control groups, manipulation, or abuse of power, shoot us an email at [email protected]. FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: @trustmepodcast @oohlalola @vibehigherbitch OR TWITTER: @trustmecultpod @ohlalola

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0:00.0	If you have your own story of being in a cult or a high control group, or if you've had an experience with manipulation or abuse of power you'd like to share, leave us a message on our hotline number at 513-900-2955.
0:11.0	Or shoot us an email at TrustMePod at gmail.com.
0:15.0	Trust me. Do you trust me?
0:18.0	Trust me. I'm like a smart person. I've never lied to you. I've never had lied.
0:24.0	If you think that one person has all the answers, don't!
0:28.0	Welcome to TrustMe, the podcast about cults, extreme belief, and the abuse of power from two future ghosts, who've actually experienced it. I am a little long future ghost.
0:37.0	I'm Megan Elizabeth. Thank you for cutting through all my death denial right there. Wow. Future ghost.
0:44.0	But it's fun if you're a ghost. Do you get to haunt people?
0:47.0	That's true. That's true.
0:49.0	Today is part two of our interview with the formerly Amish Torah Bun Trigger, activist and author of Amish Girl in Manhattan.
0:56.0	Today we'll get deeper into our interview with her discussing things like trigger warning, the abuse she suffered in her family, her first escape attempt, and how she finally escaped the community only to then experience more abuse.
1:06.0	Plus how she ultimately ended up graduating from Columbia University and becoming an activist fighting to overturn a Supreme Court case.
1:14.0	Hell, yeah.
1:16.0	I'm pretty obsessed with one Amish Girl in Manhattan. That's the perfect name.
1:20.0	And number two, the Supreme Court case. She's fighting. I can't stop thinking about it. So I'm excited for people.
1:25.0	Oh, it's fascinating. Also, Amish Girl in Manhattan sounds like a Mary Katen Ashley movie that I would have watched in like 1994.
1:33.0	Oh, I would have watched in 2024. Yeah.
1:37.0	So good.
1:38.0	Before we talk to her again, Megan, what's the cultiest thing that's happened to you this week?
1:44.0	Okay. Well, this happened to me not last night, but the night before.
1:48.0	And basically I was just trying to sleep and I think it's Coltie. I don't know. Maybe it's on the line. You tell me, but I was laying down trying to fall asleep.
2:00.0	And my brain could not land on a single fact to the felt true.
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