Raised to be a 2x2 Worker, Rell Oliver-Braddock has found faith big enough for her queer family, feminism and in a compost heap. Join us for a conversation with Rell that meanders down the many paths of a rich life, and that follows Rell's quest to find where faith sits within her values of community and justice. Learn about Rell's journey out of the Two by Twos/2x2s in Australia.

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Let's be honest; good trauma informed, cult sensitive therapists and support are hard to find. Please persist and try to find one that works for you. If you’re in a tough spot right now, please know you’re not alone.

Links:

The Religious Trauma Collective

As an Australian CSA survivor, the best support I’ve accessed at my lowest points, has been through Survivor Hub

QLife support the LGBTQIA+ community in Australia

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One of the biggest things that my healing journey entailed was actually learning this body belongs to me. I belong to me.

Kristin Warnaca is a sex therapist and a former member of the 2x2s. She joins us for a wide-ranging discussion on sex and relationships: how they are constrained within the 2x2s; the effect that has on former members; and the wide world of pleasure that is waiting for anyone who cares to look.

This conversation includes Kristin's experiences of being assaulted both as a child and as an adult, so please go gently and slowly with these stories. It's okay to come back another time if today you're feeling fragile.

Resources

Links to Kristin's work:

www.wilderintimacy.com

https://www.instagram.com/wilderintimacy/

Link to Substack, where we will later release a list of books and recommended resources:

https://lauramcconnellau.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips

Further reading:

• Kissing: A Field Guide — Violet Blue
• Polywise — Fern & Cooley
• It’s Called Polyamory — Tamara Pincus & Rebecca Hiles
• Sex — Ali Paul
• Embracing Queer Family — Laura Chiaramonte
• Radical Intimacy — Sophie K. Rosa
• Slow Pleasure — Euphemia Russell
• 101 Kinky Things Even You Can Do — Kate Sloan
• How to Have Feminist Sex — Flo Perry
• Getting It — Allison Moon
• With Pleasure — Juno Roche (note: spine shows McLaughlin & Dawson as publisher)
• Pleasure — Betony Vernon
• Butt Seriously — Dr. Evan Goldstein
• Slutdom — Dr. Hilary Caldwell
• Turn Yourself On — Ami Spencer, Mushka, Paul Keogh, Billie Quinlan
• The Feminist Porn Book — Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, Mireille Miller-Young
• Radical Relating — Cassidy (full author name not visible on spine)
• Indie Porn — Edited by Dylan Ryan, David S. Hall, and others (spine shows Stardust, Duke as publisher)
• Porn — Polly Barton
• The Ethical Slut — Dossie Easton & Janet W. Hardy

Truth 2x2 Cult Kids Socials

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Support

Let's be honest; good trauma informed, cult sensitive therapists and support are hard to find. Please persist and try to find one that works for you. If you’re in a tough spot right now, please know you’re not alone.

Links:

The Religious Trauma Collective

As an Australian CSA survivor, the best support I’ve accessed at my lowest points, has been through Survivor Hub

QLife support the LGBTQIA+ community in Australia

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The groundbreaking Victorian inquiry has enabled cult survivors to pinpoint common experiences despite diverse beliefs. On this episode I speak with Clare Heath-McIvor, a podcaster and writer on Christian nationalism. Claire is also the founding member and president of Survivors of Coercive Cults and High Control Groups. She's the co-author of Beyond Belief a paper submitted to the Victorian government inquiry into the recruitment methods and impacts of cults and organised fringe groups which outlines legislative change to prevent group coercive control.

Truth 2x2 Cult Kids Socials

Tiktok

Instagram

Website

Support

Let's be honest; good trauma informed, cult sensitive therapists and support are hard to find. Please persist and try to find one that works for you. If you’re in a tough spot right now, please know you’re not alone.

Links:

The Religious Trauma Collective

As an Australian CSA survivor, the best support I’ve accessed at my lowest points, has been through Survivor Hub

QLife support the LGBTQIA+ community in Australia

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.