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Growing Up in the Fold: Spanking in Childhood, Impacts in Adulthood
A subscriber-only podcast episode about how childhood spanking has long-term impacts on mental health and relationships.
Growing Up in the Fold: Baby Care in High Control Religion (subscriber only episode)
Links, Updates, and a New Podcast Series!
Hello fellow strong-willed people, We wanted to pop in and give a few updates to where our work has been featured, what’s coming up for STRONGWILLED, and how you can support/get involved. First up, our Purity Culture is Pedophile Culture series continues to be our most-read
Jenai Auman and Being on the Lookout for Power and Control Dynamics
Jenai0:00/3578.8016326530611× Welcome to STRONGWILLED, the multimedia project aimed at helping survivors of religious authoritarian parenting methods develop autonomy and find solidarity. I loved this conversation with Jenai Auman about learning to spot power and abuse dynamics in any group or organization. She is author of Othered, and
Hopecore: Why JD Vance is giving DL Hope
Krispin and DL reflect on estrangement from their parents
The 2026 STRONGWILLED Survey!
Welcome to the new STRONGWILLED platform – we are so glad you are here! We created a survey for you all because we’d love to hear from you about what you’d like to read and hear this coming year. The survey is below. But first, some updates: We recently
For Those Who Tried to Get Your People
Krispin and DL reflect on estrangement from their parents
How Predators Get Away With Their Crimes
Purity Culture is Pedophile Culture Part 5
10 Years of Estrangement (paid subscriber only)
Krispin and DL reflect on estrangement from their parents
Erica Smith and the Purity Culture Dropout Guide
Learn out the sex education you missed if you grew up in purity culture
We Talk About Spotlight (yep the 2015 film starring Mark Ruffalo)
We discuss a movie that's all about exposing the sexual abuse of children
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Dobson in the Epstein Files, Boundaries with Parents & Evaluating the Doctrine of Forgiveness
what a week it's been
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PODCAST: Purity Culture is Pedophile Culture
A summary of our series about the themes in purity culture that promote childhood sexual abuse, as well as the ways Dobson failed to protect kids
Newsletter
Who is Purity Culture Content For?
Purity Culture is Pedophile Culture part 4
Podcast
HOPECORE with DL: Wake Up Dead Man, A Knives Out Mystery
HOPECORE with DL: Wake Up Dead Man, A Knives Out Mystery0:00/2001× Here’s another Hopecore episode! DL talks about why the latest Knives Out Mystery gives them hope. We discussed the way it approaches different types of Christianity, as well as asking whether Christianity itself is helpful, as
Newsletter
Inside the Mind of a Pedophile
Purity Culture is Pedophile Culture Part 3
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Grief & Sleepless in Seattle (an episode for patreon & substack paid subscribers)
DL & Krispin talk about losing our family dog, finding comfort in watching Sleepless in Seattle and handling all the grief of the sad things going on in the world
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James Dobson's Worst Nightmare Part 2
A history of James Dobson, his political movement, how his purity culture was pedophile culture, and how he supported Putin's rise to power in Russia.
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James Dobson's Worst Nightmare Part 1
A history of James Dobson, his eugenic beginnings, his work on the Meese Commission, and how he ushered in religious authoritarianism in the US
Newsletter
Hiding in Plain Sight: How Child Sexual Abusers Operate (and How to Spot Them)
Purity Culture is Pedophile Culture Part 2
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Hopecore with DL Mayfield
why Derry Girls is giving us hope (and why Krispin is a Derry girl).
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Purity Culture is Pedophile Culture
Part 1: It's Not the Man in the Trench Coat you Should Be Worried About
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Hopecore Sunday with DL
We're trying something new - talking about things that give us hope