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Lawyer & Feminist, Senior Partner at https://t.co/9eFMvu7Dgd, https://t.co/z3IM0aRR5m & https://t.co/P68hP8BpAV. Employment & discrimination litigation, US and UK.
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Apr 14, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
What do you do, when your sexual abuse masquerades as spirituality, and you're told you fell pregnant not through rape, but through "tantric enlightenment"?

If you're our incredibly brave client Rachel Montgomery, you try to save others by speaking up:

thedailybeast.com/oregon-student… Despite the esoteric and high-minded rhetoric of Dongzen Buddhism, Rachel's story is a classic tale of abuse and coercive control:
🚩A vulnerable and naive teenager
🚩A charismatic leader, promising a hotline to the divine
🚩Dismantling of psychological defences
🚩Isolation Image