
Daniella Mestyanek Young
@daniellamyoung
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Scholar of CULTS, Extreme groups, & Extremely Bad Leadership. Author of UNCULTURED, about how the US Army is like a sex cult. Masters in I/O psych; Harvard ES
Washington, DC
Joined August 2017
UNCULTURED is available now anywhere you buy books, & the audio has been recommended by the NYT & Buzzfeed. Check out this sample chapter in @RollingStone, where you see cult kids training for the “persecution.” .
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In this excerpt from her new book, Uncultured, Daniella Mestyanek Young describes her childhood in the infamous Children of God cult
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OMG, my best friend from childhood in the cult, Michaela (maybe you remember her from Uncultured), fell & snapped her leg in half, much in the same way I did back then. Oh, I remember the pain so vividly.
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OMG! My childhood, BFF, Michaela (maybe you’ve read about her in Uncultu… Daniella Mestyanek Young needs your support for Fundraiser for Michaela’s broken leg
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RT @MacmillanAudio: Uncultured, written and read by @daniellamyoung, is on national @nytimes correspondent @londonoe's queue! What audioboo….
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I’m a national correspondent for The New York Times based in St. Paul, Minn. Here are five things I've been watching and listening to.
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RT @JKleinschmidtIR: Happy to see that the audiobook version of my friend @daniellamyoung's book "Uncultured" has received a very deserved….
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RT @JoelleTamraz: Congrats, @daniellamyoung! 🤩 Can’t wait to receive my paperback copies later this month! #amreading #memoir #mustread #Bo….
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Today was fun, because the Uncultured paperback launched, & I read a portion of a chapter into my TikTok and I got flagged for a copyright violation, I think because it recognizes the text from when it was published by… @RollingStone! . A good launch! .
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In this excerpt from her new book, Uncultured, Daniella Mestyanek Young describes her childhood in the infamous Children of God cult
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RT @Matrimonified: Ha ha! I mentioned this to a friend today & she sent me this podcast where @daniellamyoung SAYS THE SAME THING!.
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RT @Matrimonified: Random thought: most of the discussion of cults from the “secular” Side focus on how groups exert control as an identify….
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I have been trying to get this essay, on Veterans Day, military service, and how complicated it is for women veterans, published for about four years, but women veterans…. So grateful to @OpenSecretsMag, who gave it a home.
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RT @ElizahDavis: It is an added layer of terrifying to see the way bad actors have so quickly and effectively fanned flames on here, and th….
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RT @AileenWeintraub: The cult of motherhood is a thing we need to talk about and I love @daniellamyoung reading excerpts of Knocked Down on….
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This is the only man I’ve heard say this. I’ve heard a lot of women say this. Every other man questioned the validity of the survey. Any organization with a 44% rape statistic is broken. #usarmy #departmentofdefense.
@daniellamyoung In my admittedly non-scientific survey of women vets I know, it was closer to 100% had experienced some kind of sexual assault or harassment.
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And once again, I ask where are all the “good men” in uniform, who should be fucking raging about this at the top of their lungs?!?!?!.
Y’all see that wounded warrior project survey that shows that nearly half, HALF, of military women have been sexually assaulted?!?. Keep telling me this group isn’t a toxic cult….
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Y’all see that wounded warrior project survey that shows that nearly half, HALF, of military women have been sexually assaulted?!?. Keep telling me this group isn’t a toxic cult….
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Wounded Warrior Project study shows female vets more likely to have thoughts of suicide, experience sexual assault.
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