Note: I’ve written about religious trauma, cult dynamics, and deconstruction for over a decade. This piece looks at why Amanda Frances calling her former church a cult matters, and why mainstream religious abuse still gets minimized. Twelve years. Twelve goddamn years of writing about high-control religion and cult dynamics and the very specific kind of damage that happens when you hand a human brain to an authority figure with a persecution complex and a collection plate, a

In case you didn't pick up on it, I didn't like Star Trek Discovery and here's why.