Linda Kay Klein
@LindaKayKlein
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Author of PURE: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free. Founder of Break Free Together.
NYC
Joined March 2011
It's out! My TEDx talk on how I survived purity culture and healed a lifetime of sexual shame. I'm really proud of this talk. It's more intimate than my previous @TEDx (I literally cry twice) and I dig deep into how we RECOVER from purity culture.
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"Shame, Klein argues, is baked into the latest round of purity teachings. Since those teachings are formalized in adolescence, they become a virtually intractable part of a person’s identity." https://t.co/SMRwlW2ONd via @sojourners @LindaKayKlein #pure #lindakayklein
sojo.net
The No Shame Movement, as well as other hashtags like #ChurchToo and online education communities like Queer Theology, offer space for people to identify the effects of shame or fundamentalist...
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This is fantastic and so is @LindaKayKlein ‘s book “pure”.
The @nytimes and @retroreport just released an incredible 10-min video on the rise and fall of The Purity Movement and the millions of wounded young people it left in its wake.
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If you are hurting and need support, please reach out. I offer one-on-one & group coaching on purity culture recovery, and I run a nonprofit that is organizing a massive online purity culture story exchange for late this year. DM here or visit my website (see bio) to learn more.
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I am honored to be featured in the film, but moreover, I’m honored that they featured my work: The people I support to release the shame they internalized in purity culture and find a way to be healthy, to be whole, to be THEMSELVES every single day.
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...@HarrisJosh telling the “ladies” to protect the purity of their brothers in the Lord by dressing modestly (and his subsequent rejection of purity culture which included stopping the publication of his books), and more.
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I’ve been studying this world for 16 years and I’VE never even seen some of the footage they turned up: Massive concerts and rallies, 200,000+ purity pledges on the National Mall...
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The @nytimes and @retroreport just released an incredible 10-min video on the rise and fall of The Purity Movement and the millions of wounded young people it left in its wake.
nytimes.com
The Christian “purity” movement promoted a strict view of abstinence before marriage. But two decades later, some followers are grappling with unforeseen aftershocks.
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Completely agree with this excellently researched article by @C_Stroop arguing that evangelicals in skinny pants are not likely to substantively change the subculture -
religiondispatches.org
Early in George W. Bush’s second term, not long after I started my Ph.D. work at Stanford, I met a cousin of mine in San Francisco. We had spent a lot of time together in early childhood in central...
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Honored to be featured on the @sexinthepews podcast with @coachglennklein this week
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Lovely little quiz from @shannonhopkins and friends! https://t.co/nKtIZgt1uc What kind of Goodmaker are you?
take.quiz-maker.com
This is a fun, quick quiz to help you determine what kind of goodmaker you are or could be. Goodmakers Society is place where people can come to be supported in thier goodmaking endeavors. If you...
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Can anyone recommend a resource on the intersection of purity culture and mental illness, specifically bi-polar disorder, for a reader who reached out to me?
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In the article, he also names something I've kept quiet, private, close to my heart, for the past few weeks - our newborn baby daughter. I will write more about her soon. For now, I want to let the power of Jimmie's words stand alone. #blacklivesmatter
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This “Great-Again America” is now and has always been an illusory vision for a nation to absolve itself of sinful, poisonous fruits from a tree planted in blood-soaked ground."
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We, people of color, will not and cannot wait for white America to give us ours. We are taking it every day through the lives we lead and through the protests you are watching on your TVs, laptops, smartphones, and tablets.
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The “American Dilemma,” as the sociologist and economist Gunnar Myrdal coined it more than 70 years ago, is not a problem for “people of color.” It is a fundamental barrier that keeps white Americans from fully realizing their humanity....
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"The burden of work is on those who have historically reaped the spoils of white supremacy, now reckoning with the opioid crisis, the coronavirus, and black and brown rage on the streets in these Divided States...
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