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“It says a lot about Sandberg’s brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls”
― Jessica Roy

“Though Sam spent the majority of her twenties craving freedom and adventure, her unquenchable desire for both eventually guided her back to the same type of controlled environments she had grown up in: abusive relationships with tyrannical men, a life under fundamentalist religious rule, and finally, to the ultimate controlled environment: prison.”
― Jessica Roy, American Girls: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her Home

“In one such study, published in an Australian psychology journal, researchers noted that children of ISIS parents often displayed "intense affects, efforts to ward off recurrence, behavioural re-enactment, somatic problems, emotional and behavioural deregulation, anticipatory anxiety and fear, a schematic view of a dangerous and distrustful world, dissociation, negative self-attributions, mood disturbance, misinterpretation of events and expectation of caregiver abandonment. A traumatized child may engage in 'excessive clinging, compliance, oppositional defiance and distrustful behaviour, and they may be preoccupied with retribution and revenge.' For children exposed to ISIS-related violence, the basic building blocks of attachment and caregiver relationships will be altered. Although trauma may not arise through direct violence, it can develop through an impending sense of doom, or being a heightened state of continued arousal.”
― Jessica Roy, American Girls: One Woman's Journey into the Islamic State and Her Sister's Fight to Bring Her Home