Racism, sexism, ableism, homo- and transphobia, ageism, fatphobia are algorithms created by humans’ struggle to make peace with the body.
“Maybe I don’t know what fills it in yet, but I can look at the space around where I sit in the world, what creates that shape, and I can care about what it’s made of, if it’s good, if it hurts anyone, it makes people happy, if it makes me happy. And that can be enough for now.”
― One Last Stop
― One Last Stop
“The refugees of these doctrines often cannot seem to connect to themselves, their bodies, or to other people. Many of them experience anxiety, depression, and panic that they aren’t able to explain, and they don’t feel the inner permission to own their emotions, trust themselves, find peace, or experience pleasure.”
― You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
― You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
“I believe that people need to know that what they were taught to believe under Evangelical doctrine can legitimately be defined as trauma. I believe that the doctrine passed on by parents, teachers, pastors, and educators who may have meant their best ultimately did deep harm. Ill-intention is not a prerequisite for trauma or pain.”
― You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
― You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
“We’ve been complicit—not out of malice but because we have been groomed and raised in a system of racial injustice that has relied on our obliviousness and/or apathy to maintain its uninterrupted operation”
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
― The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
“Sometimes the point is to be sad, August. Sometimes you just have to feel it because it deserves to be felt.”
― One Last Stop
― One Last Stop
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