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Essays on growing up Truth 2x2 | Rural Regional & Remote Life | Queer Culture | High Control & Group Base Coercive Control (cults)
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The Gold on the Edges of your Bible (opens the original)
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Content Warning. Refers to a sexual harassment / flasher. Refers to spiritual abuse and fear of death.When I talk about this time of my life, I refer to it as ‘the 19th autumn’ – I don’t recall the exact date, the exact month – just that sometime in that year, I was walking up a hill, in the dark, kicking autumn leaves, terrified the devil was about to get me.Autumn 1999I’m kicking soggy leaves along the pavement, as I slowly walk up the hill above my university.</s
Love is Like a Butterfly (opens the original)
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We didn’t watch movies, listen to music, the radio or watch TV in our 2x2 community.We did, however, love ourselves some 2WEB, Bourke Outback Radio. On the sly.My father and one of his brothers, a man we dare not name these days, were the main culprits.They fancied themselves country music guitar men. With no skills to speak of, just an old guitar of my mothers. They’d strum make-believe cords (genuinely, I don’t think either of them had a music lesson in their lives) and copy the country music
The Things We Learn Not to Need (opens the original)
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*Content Warning. Refers to menstrual poverty, otherwise known as ‘period poverty’, coercive control and family violence.After my recent surgery, I’ve used a lot of pads. Pads of all sizes and shapes. Not a day passes when that doesn’t make me uncomfortable to be using so many of them.I need more pads; I’ve used all the ones the hospital gave me at discharge. Truthfully, they were uncomfortable ones, and weeks ago I should have ordered more online, I’ve avoided it. I know I have.<sp
Bearing Witness (opens the original)
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Today I stood in the Victorian Parliament to hear the report tabled with the findings from the inquiry into cults and fringe groups.It wasn’t an easy thing to do.I chose to do it, to bear witness. I wanted to stand there, to see it tabled. I wanted to feel the presence of that report and its monumental significance to survivors. Survivors took risks to trust a process in that inquiry. They took a chance on a government inquiry, with a risk of personal retraumatisation, to submit over 250 times.
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