Don't dissasociate and other tips
I wrote a dossier on my terrible rental for the new tenant— and you should too
Renters of the world unite! I propose rental revolution in a piece I published for the Sydney Morning Herald*
Secrets We Keep: Pray Harder (Series 4) is an investigative podcast series about a cult-like fundamentalist church and the people who managed to escape its grasp.
I was one of the executive producers on the series, hosted by investigative journalist Richard Baker and released late last year. The stories by traumatised ex-members were heartbreaking, as were the horrific cases of child sexual abuse before the courts as we were making the series. Link regarding the case follows- please note, incredibly distressing content: Here.
The series has just been nominated for the prestigious Quill journalism awards, which is cool. But more heartening are the same ex-members now advocating for a widening of coercive control laws to cover cults and churches– as well as to cut them off from cushy tax breaks— to stop emboldening these organisations to doing harm.
Paired reading reccos elsewhere:
‘Maybe scrolling the traumas of the world is not in itself a moral act’
A Christos Tsiolkas review- they don’t make ‘em like this much
That’s it. More a bitsy what I’ve been doing update. More coming.
x B
*The fine print: I did not write the published headline- they are not my words!