CW: rape, sexual/physical abuse (thread)
To exist as a woman, or queer person, in a religious tradition is to love something that often fails to love you back 💔 (1/)
To exist as a woman, or queer person, in a religious tradition is to love something that often fails to love you back 💔 (1/)
On my darkest days, It seems like an act of supreme self deception- loving the thing that hurts you because it’s easier than letting go
But on better days, I see it as an act of resistance- not only rejecting what’s unfair, but refusing to let it steal what is meaningful (2/)
But on better days, I see it as an act of resistance- not only rejecting what’s unfair, but refusing to let it steal what is meaningful (2/)
I can’t speak from experience, but I imagine that victims of sexual assault by religious figures experience something like this, only exponentially more so.
They have survived not only the injury of horrific physical and emotional violence, but the insult (3/)
They have survived not only the injury of horrific physical and emotional violence, but the insult (3/)
of a savage attempt to rob them of their own religious values & tradition.
Those who choose to retain their religious practice do so out of the deepest love - because to love something is to believe in its value, despite its flaws (4/)
Those who choose to retain their religious practice do so out of the deepest love - because to love something is to believe in its value, despite its flaws (4/)
For such a victim- or any victim- to then be accused of “anti religious bias” or of “not caring about the community” when they come forward to testify is the bitterest injustice (5/)
Those who speak the truth care deeply about the community! They care so much they are willing their mental & emotional well-being on the table. The very least we can do is listen. (End) #FrumPeopleToo
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