Editorial Note: I re-wrote this post in January 2024 to better reflect what I now know about social justice and systemic oppression in the last decade since I left fundamentalism. When I moved out of my restrictive home environment and was kicked out of the cult my family was in, other friends in similar circumstancesContinueContinue reading “Why did you call it the UnBoxing Project?”
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The UnBoxing Project: The trouble with freeing people
My friends and I often felt like Katniss in the Hunger Games as we left behind the high control churches we were raised in and rebelled against those systems. | Source: Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1. Continued from Being an angel with a shotgun. Content note: suicidal ideation, pastoral authority doctrine “Eleanor, does your churchContinueContinue reading “The UnBoxing Project: The trouble with freeing people”
The UnBoxing Project: Being an angel with a shotgun
Source: Konachan.com. Image links to source. Content note: domestic abuse, suicidal ideation, disordered eating Get out your guns, battle’s begun, are you a saint, or a sinner? If love’s a fight, then I shall die, with my heart on a trigger. – The Cab, Angel with a Shotgun (Nightcore remix) “Eleanor, my best friend’s parentsContinueContinue reading “The UnBoxing Project: Being an angel with a shotgun”
Alecia Faith Pennington, you are not alone
Homeschool alumni Alecia Faith Pennington’s Help Me Prove It campaign went viral on social media this last week. She explained that she can’t vote, can’t get a job and can’t get a driver’s license, all because she can’t prove that she was born in the United States. Because she was born at home and herContinueContinue reading “Alecia Faith Pennington, you are not alone”
Why my parents aren’t villains
The morning I moved out, I texted my research professor who was helping me leave that my parents weren’t letting me take the heirloom violin, but left me an old laundry basket, a case of canned green beans, and a pot they didn’t like. She replied, “That sounds like Harry’s birthday presents from the Dursleys.”ContinueContinue reading “Why my parents aren’t villains”
Eleanor Skelton 