Today’s a good day 😍 I get to reveal the cover for my forthcoming edited collection of short stories about
#ConversionTherapy
written by CT survivors (w/ a foreword by
@gayrodcon
)!
Here’s a photo from a Moral Majority publication in the 80s.
It’s ironic that these folks are wearing masks to “protect” themselves against AIDS, but their ideological successors refuse to wear masks to protect themselves and others from an illness that actually is airborne.
Last night Jerry Falwell Jr. showed up at a
@LibertyU
party and invited seniors to an end-of-the-year bash at his house, saying, “We’re going to have the real Liberty graduation.” 🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠
One time at
@LibertyU
, a male Worship Studies professor repeatedly propositioned sex w me, and after I refused him, he low-key threatened to implicate my cousin, w whom he went to church, in the situation (it was as bizarre and uncomfortable as it sounds)
#ExposeChristianSchools
I am 1 of the 33 plaintiffs in this lawsuit. The case is simple: the
@usedgov
needs to stop giving taxpayer-$$$ to religious colleges that actively discriminate against LGBT+ students or these schools need to find another way to finance their homophobia
#EqualityAct
#DontExemptUs
BIG NEWS: Today, we filed a class action lawsuit against the
@usedgov
on behalf of 33 plaintiffs who experienced anti-
#LGBTQ
discrimination and abuse at Evangelical & LDS colleges nationwide.
The
@WashingtonPost
has the exclusive on this historic case:
✨ and just like that,* I got my first book deal ✨
*by “just like that,” I mean “after five very long years of extensive research, numerous conference presentations, and countless drafts,” but to say that wouldn’t be serving the Carrie Bradshaw energy I’m trying to channel 💅
Evangelicals, regardless of their level of sincerity, are never benign. They hold fast to a colonizing mindset that assumes that others are lesser-than, unless said others conform to their particular, rigid—not to mention harmful—way of being. No thanks.
I’m beyond annoyed with people asserting that any attempt to convince anyone of anything is equivalent to proselytizing.
Just no, people. Proselytizing is asking someone to change their very identity to match yours, which can only be done from an assumed position of superiority
Who/where are the other queer scholars of religion on Twitter? 🏳️🌈
As one who was relatively late to the queer study of religion/the study of queer religion (and as someone who couldn’t make it to AAR this year 😭), I don’t have a well-established network!
I want to meet y’all!
🚨Where my 🏳️🌈 alumni from Liberty, Bob Jones, Pensacola Christian, Wheaton, Azusa Pacific, Dallas Theological, + all other Christian colleges/universities/seminaries at?!🚨
I want to hear YOUR stories!
Feel free to retweet, comment, + like to boost this post + spread the word!
Hey, folx! I’m wondering if you or anyone you know is currently attending a
#ChristianCollege
who is part of the
#LGBTQ
+ community and would be willing to be part of a documentary on the topic! If possible, plz
#retweet
to help find anyone out there who might be interested!
☔️ When it rains, it pours! I’m VERY excited to announce that I have also signed a contract to edit a collection of short stories about conversion therapy (CT), as told by told by CT survivors! ☔️
Another 🔥🔥🔥 commentary by the one and only
@C_Stroop
. Authoritarian Christianity is very much a threat to US democracy, and the media’s refusal to recognize it as such only exacerbates the problem.
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT: Your boy made it to
@netflix
! Cook at All Costs is officially streaming internationally, and I am beyond excited to have been part of such a fabulous show! 🚨
🚨 The last of my big news to share with y’all (for now, at least): I am thrilled to officially announce that I’ve signed another book contract—this time, for a volume of essays that I am co-editing about the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators! 🚨
🚨PROTEST AT LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: On Nov 7 there will be a demonstration re: the rampant culture of sexual assault at LU and re: how the administration has actively attempted to silence sexual assault survivors🚨Please share widely!
Got some fun news to share that I’ve been sitting on for a few months: My co-edited collection (a book of essays) about the grandchildren who of Holocaust survivors has been accepted for publication 😭 I’m beyond excited and can’t wait for it to be in print (likely this year) 🤩
🚨 CALLING ALL CONVERSION-THERAPY SURVIVORS 🚨
I am editing a volume of stories about conversion therapy written by conversion-therapy survivors, and I want to hear your story (see the attached photos for more details)!
Plz feel free to retweet, like, and/or comment to boost!
Did y’all hear about the students at
@LibertyU
who are refusing to comply w safety measures after a huge covid outbreak on campus? What’s truly remarkable is the lack of care they have for their neighbour(s).
I’m so baffled by how many LU alumni have been talking about
@LibertyU
needing to get back to its foundational principles. Reminder: LU was Falwell Sr.’s way of getting around de-segregation laws. The school’s bigotry is just differently packaged now—still hateful, still 🤮.
Religious colleges and universities hide behind their "sincerely held religious beliefs" in order to target, harass, and harm their queer students. Title IX's religious exemption needs to be removed entirely.
I had a professor at
@LibertyU
who told us that if we responded with “the Resurrection” to any of his test questions, he would give us at least partial credit because ultimately, he said, everything goes back to the resurrection. He taught US history.
#ExposeChristianSchools
Are you also someone who attended Christian schools as a kid who wants the public to understand how extreme and authoritarian they are?
Please share your stories and memories using the hashtag
#ExposeChristianSchools
My newest article, in
@whosoeverdotorg
, discusses the
@REAP_LGBTQ
class-action lawsuit I was a part of against the
@usedgov
, which, every year, gives literally *billions* of taxpayer dollars to religious schools that discriminate against LGBTQ+ students.
@ChristnNitemare
@instagram
@instagram
, this account should never have been deleted, as it is shedding light on Christian Nationalists who need to be exposed for the damage they are doing across the world.
@ChristnNitemare
is a fabulous account & 💯% deserves to be restored. Please do the right thing.
Religious exemptions are completely ludicrous. How are religious schools - which, again, receive billions of taxpayer dollars each year - not held accountable (like other publicly funded schools) for discrimination against queer students?
🚨 My newest book chapter is now OUT! 🚨
The topic of this piece is most certainly the most personal subject that I work on and is the topic I most enjoy researching: Liberty University, the world’s largest evangelical university.
Y’all, today I started writing my new book 😍. For the past 2yrs, amidst the other projects I’ve announced on here, I’ve been doing the research for this next book, but finally I began writing it. I can’t explain how excited I am—it’s full of sex, “sin,” & scandal 😎. Buckle up!
I know Amazon is the devil, but it is still super exciting when your work is ranked
#1
on any of their lists 🥰 THANK YOU ALL WHO PRE-ORDERED! (Pre-ordering is SUPER helpful for authors because it directly affects a book’s chances of commercial success!)
New article about
@JerryFalwellJr
's recent tweet. Thank you to all those who were shared their thoughts/reactions about Falwell Jr.'s racism (some of whom could not be included, unfortunately). Please feel free to retweet to spread the word.
@Eric_Conn
Lol. Literally no one on the left cares if a woman were to be a homemaker. On the contrary, however, I am *very* confident that you would be *very* upset if a man were to be a homemaker while his wife worked outside the home…
It’s noteworthy that
@LibertyU
put in these “prayer boxes” so willingly but dragged their heels for years on putting in emergency blue light boxes (despite multiple sexual assault victims begging LU to install them, so as to improve student safety on campus). Priorities, amirite?
Our founder, Dr. Jerry Falwell, always said, “Nothing of eternal significance ever happens apart from prayer.” This semester, we are asking you to join us in a new initiative, Liberty In Prayer! Look for prayer request boxes across campus or visit .
Had a little viewing party for my episode on Cook at All Costs on
@netflix
! Very grateful to have my friends + fam, both in person and in spirit, celebrate alongside me 🥰
#CookatAllCosts
Has everyone seen the newest Instagram post published by the Standing for Freedom Center at
@LibertyU
? Apparently the “+” in LGBTQIA+ means pedophilia! The more you know 🤡
Currently reading Jerry Falwell Sr.’s 1981 book _The Fundamentalist Phenomenon_, where he describes the “life-style” of the “cool free-swinger.” This sounds *dangerously* close to how many would describe the “life-style” of his son, Jerry Falwell Jr., 40 years later…
One time at
@LibertyU
, for extra credit, I attended a forum that promoted the advancement of concealed carry policies on university campuses, where we heard from the Chief Council for the NRA. It was for an American Revolution course.
#ExposeChristianSchools
Are you also someone who attended Christian schools as a kid who wants the public to understand how extreme and authoritarian they are?
Please share your stories and memories using the hashtag
#ExposeChristianSchools
My newest article was published yesterday! I would be sincerely so appreciative if you would share it on your social media—let’s spread the word in order to protect vulnerable LGBTQ+ young people from such a base practice at
#LibertyUniversity
and beyond
🏳️🌈 I am beyond humbled to have been included in this smart, thorough, and salient video exposé on global bans of
#conversiontherapy
. Thank you
@rachelmsavage
for your work, and thank you
@TRF_Stories
for publishing this piece! 🏳️🌈
Last night, I was interviewed on
@CBCTheNational
by
@Ginella_M
about Bill C-4, the new legislation to ban
#conversiontherapy
in Canada. Very grateful to have the opportunity to speak out against conversion therapy on this nation-wide platform. Here’s a clip from the interview.
Not to brag or anything, but yesterday I got 24 likes for one of my posts—the most likes I’ve ever gotten in a one-day timespan on
#Twitter
. Might as well put
#Influencer
in my bio at this point 💅🏼
Praying that Paul Maxwell, Joshua Harris, and every other ex-vangelical will experience the unbearable pain and emptiness of life apart from Christ, that they are sheep and that the Good Shepherd will bring them home.
One time at
@LibertyU
, a forum about interracial dating was organized, where it was asked, “What does the Bible really say [about interracial dating]?” The forum was organized by LU’s Center for Multicultural Enrichment.
#ExposeChristianSchools
Are you also someone who attended Christian schools as a kid who wants the public to understand how extreme and authoritarian they are?
Please share your stories and memories using the hashtag
#ExposeChristianSchools
“To put it mildly, conversion therapists aren’t the brightest of folks. As you might have expected, for several of the guys who attended, the conversion therapy group became gay Christian speed dating.”
#ExposeChristianSchools
Very excited that my article, “Pre/Occupied Longing: Toward a Definition of Postnostalgia in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated,” was accepted for publication in Studies in Jewish American Literature! 🥳
#AcademicTwitter
#academia
#AcademicChatter
🏳️🌈💜
#AcademicTwitter
: A Liberty University student reached out to me & they’re doing a project on Reagan’s inaction during the AIDS crisis. Could anyone suggest some folx who work on the topic whose names I could pass onto them? & could you help boost this post? Thank you! 💜🏳️🌈
I am gobsmacked.
This news is just phenomenal
I’m sincerely so humbled & amazed by the work of so many survivors, particularly
@mattash89
who dedicated so much time & effort to put an end to
#ConversionTherapy
in Canada. Without Matt stepping up, we would not be where we are.
History.
We did it. Together, survivors, LGBTQ2+ Canadians, elected officials and folks from coast to coast to coast have taken a huge step forward for a safer, more equal and more free country - for everyone.
From the bottom of our hearts: thank you.❤️
#Proud
Hey, folx! I need the Twitter sphere’s help! I’m looking for folx (or folx you know) who underwent conversion “therapy”/an “ex-gay ministry” at Liberty University in the past two years. If so, could you DM me? And if the queer spirit is willing, could you retweet this? 🙏🏼💜🏳️🌈✨
This should have happened *years* ago and was only the result of podcasts like
@GangsterCapital
calling for these basic security measures.
@LibertyU
should be ashamed for how long this took.
The collection—titled Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy, under contract w/
@JKPBooks
—includes stories by survivors from different religious/cultural backgrounds. And I’m thrilled that
@gayrodcon
, author of Boy Erased, has agreed to write the foreword!
The leadership on the left cares more about power than they care about you. They want to control your life & rob you of your individual rights. If you do not want to see your American liberties lost, stand against leftist tyranny everywhere it rears its ugly head.
@JennaEllisEsq
I am super excited to share my recent article on
#gay
#conversiontherapy
at
@LibertyU
! Please feel free to share to get the word out! No university in 2020 should support this practice