TSFU INTERVIEWS: Ep. 2- Cait West, Author of "Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy"
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Fallon sits down with author Cait West to chat about her life and her new memoir, "Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy". Cait spills all the details about growing up in the strict Christian Patriarchy movement, which adopts the beliefs of the Quiverfull Movement (check out our episode "The New F Word- Ep. 5: "Under Authority" and The Quiverfull Movement") and emphasizes men's role of authority. She was groomed to be a stay-at-home daughter with no college or career in sight. Every detail of her life was controlled until she found the courage to escape.
Rift is Cait's amazing story of breaking free from this oppressive upbringing and forging her own path. She dives into the lingering effects of patriarchal religious trauma and her own role in those systems. Her story sheds light on the impacts of "purity culture" and the abuse in some extremist Christian communities.
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| 0:00.0 | That was the first time I felt this inner self like stand up for me in a way that I had been so repressed that I was just always following the rules and this was like something's wrong. |
| 0:13.7 | Maybe my dad doesn't actually want the best for me or maybe what he's saying is not true. And so I held that really close for years. |
| 0:21.6 | I didn't know how to leave. |
| 0:22.9 | But I knew that if I ever fell in love, I would never let my dad ruin my relationship again. |
| 0:28.8 | That is so fucked up. |
| 0:31.9 | It's fucked up. |
| 0:33.0 | So fucked up. |
| 0:36.8 | It is just so damn fucked up. It is just so damn fucked up. That's fucked up. |
| 0:46.5 | Hey everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. This will be kind of a different podcast for TSFU. |
| 0:52.7 | Not only will, we get to talk to an amazing author about |
| 0:56.3 | her new book, but also it's just going to be me, Fallon Mori for today. I'll be your one host, |
| 1:02.9 | along with Kate West, who's in the studio. So we're here to talk about her new memoir, Rift, |
| 1:10.3 | which is a memoir of breaking away from the Christian |
| 1:13.0 | patriarchy. I, again, am your host, Fallon Mory. This is That's So Fucked Up, a true |
| 1:19.1 | crime comedy podcast about cults, crimes, and other things that make you say, ugh, that's so |
| 1:26.0 | fucked up. Ash definitely does that tagline a little more |
| 1:29.7 | justice than I do, but I think we're going to start rolling. I'm going to jump right in and I want to |
| 1:34.7 | say welcome, Kate. It's so good that we finally get to talk to you on the podcast. Yeah, thank you so |
| 1:41.2 | much for having me. So before we kick off with just jumping in, is there anything you want to say to lead us in, anything you want to kind of open us up with? |
| 1:52.0 | Sure, I guess I could just introduce myself. |
| 1:54.4 | I'm a writer and an editor. |
| 1:56.3 | I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
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