on March 17 | in Blog, Podcast | by Ryan Bell | with 1 Comment

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This week on the podcast I speak with Emily Joy about her experience leaving evangelicalism under a cloud of sexual abuse. Years later she and a friend started the #ChurchToo hashtag which has become a national phenomenon.

BIO

Emily is a spoken word poet, yoga teacher and activist living and working in Nashville, Tennessee. Her advocacy takes place at the intersection of faith, sexuality and healing, and her work has been featured in Time, Cosmopolitan, Jezebel, Mother Jones, The Huffington Post and more. Emily is the co-creator of the #ChurchToo hashtag, a #MeToo spinoff exposing sexual violence in Christian churches and other faith communities. She is also a sexuality education writer for the website Scarleteen and in her spare time, works at a church. More about Emily and her work can be found at emilyjoypoetry.com.

You can find Emily online on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at the username, @EmilyJoyPoetry (links below).

LINKS

Emily Joy’s website

As a Teen, Emily Joy Was Abused by a Church Youth Leader. Now She’s Leading a Movement to Change Evangelical America (Mother Jones)

The #ChurchToo Movement Isn’t Just About Gender (Jezebel)

Inside the Scam of the “Purity” Movement (Cosmopolitan)

Sexual Abuse Happens In #ChurchToo — We’re Living Proof (Huffington Post)

Abuse of Faith (Houston Chronicle)

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