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Join Michigan authors Cait West, Dawn Burns, and Sara Moslener for a literary evening in discussion about their books:
- Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy by Cait West
- Evangelina Everyday by Dawn Burns
- Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence by Sara Moslener
In collaboration with Sleepy Dog Books
Stop by Flyleaf Books for a meet & greet with the author of RIFT: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy! Copies of RIFT will be available for purchase.
Join Cait West and Jennifer Mathieu (author of MOXIE) for a discussion about Cait's debut book, RIFT: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy.
Noon PST/ 3 pm EST
Secular AZ is a nonpartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization that protects the constitutional separation of church and state and educates lawmakers and the public to ensure freedom of conscience for Arizonans of all faiths and of none.
For more information, visit the Secular AZ website.
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Abstract: Culture wars and backlash against the feminist movement in the 1990s led to the rise of an ideology called Christian patriarchy in the United States. Organizations such as Vision Forum and grassroots magazines and newsletters such as Patriarch spread this ideology, gaining followers across evangelical denominations, many of whom continue to follow this lifestyle today. This movement established men as the leaders of the church, and fathers as cult leaders of their families. Those raised as female in this movement were kept isolated and homeschooled and were often forbidden higher education, dating, and working outside the home, hence their name “stay-at-home daughters.” Instead, they were trained to propagate the ideology by becoming homemakers, told to marry and bear as many children as possible. This panel will explore the specific challenges that stay-at-home daughters face when leaving their community, from delayed developmental learning (adolescence) to learning independence in their twenties and thirties. While previous literature has focused on women in patriarchal marriages, unmarried daughters have not been studied extensively in this movement. These survivors usually require extensive support to find happiness and wholeness after growing up in a high-control environment. This includes learning to be independent, access to education, and mental health services.
Find more information about this conference on the ICSA website.
Join Cait West and Liz Charlotte Grant for a discussion about Cait's debut book, RIFT: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy.
Join Michigan authors Cait West, Dawn Burns, and Sara Moslener for a literary evening in discussion about their books.
Details to come!
Details to come!
Coalition for Responsible Home Education
9 am PT / Noon ET
You’re invited to the first-ever Day of the Homeschooled Child event! Join us as we close out Child Abuse Prevention Month by shining a light on abused homeschooled children.
At this free virtual event, you’ll hear from CRHE leadership team about topics related to Day of the Homeschooled Child, including:
How homeschool law nationwide is failing children
What child abuse and neglect in homeschool settings looks like
Who the victims and survivors of this abuse are
What you can do to help homeschooled children
Register for free here.
Event Theme: “Rifts”
Many Voices is multi-genre and open to writers at all levels of experience. 5-minute slot sign-ups will be available to all attendees. Put your name down to read when you arrive. The open mic portion of the afternoon will begin after the featured readers.
6:30 p.m. EST
Join authors Angela Herrington, Angela Parker, Tiffany Yecke Brooks, Shannon Kearns, and Cait West as they discuss faith deconstruction and healing from religious trauma. By registering for the event, you'll be entered to win a copy of each of their books!
Register here: http://bit.ly/deconstruction-conversation
The conversation will last approximately one hour with an audience Q&A to follow. The winner of the book giveaway will be announced during the livestream event.
Submit Q&A questions through this form: https://forms.gle/EoJafkhYsbqBx6Ji6
Description: By discussing creative nonfiction writers who integrate the natural world into their work, this circle will encourage participants to use nature and scientific research to inspire their own writing. One session will focus on using nature metaphors to find deeper meaning in our personal narratives; the other session will offer insights into incorporating science storytelling into braided and lyric essays, including how and where to find unique stories, how to prune and connect those stories to the rest of the piece, and how to work with a fact-checker.
For more information about the Festival, check out their website. If you’d like to get information about how to register for this Lunch Circle, click here.
Abstract: In her 2015 article “Evangelical Purity Culture Is Not about Sex–It’s about Power,” researcher and scholar Sara Moslener writes, "I’m a big believer that most academics are really writing their own stories. The more authentic we are with those stories, the more people connect to the histories we are trying to uncover." Like Moslener, creative writers Cait West, Dawn Burns, Bex Miller, and Bree Strayer find the same to be true of their creative work, be it memoir, fiction, or poetry.
We are focusing our pieces around bodily autonomy and reproductive rights, each of us writing from a background steeped in evangelicalism and Christian patriarchy, using this experience to understand our current culture after the overthrow of Roe v. Wade. As a roundtable, we will be pairing individual readings with discussion around how our writing is informed by our religious upbringings and experiences and how this creative work is an act of taking back the narrative in a world where women have lost or are at risk of losing their autonomy.
Find more information about this conference on the PCA website.
Move forward on your healing journey with supportive writing processes and simple memoir-writing techniques from 20+ skilled healers and writers.
A free 4-day virtual event for sensitive, thoughtful, creative seekers.
