Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 92 ft. Cait West

Brooke Warner
Cait West joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up in and leaving Christian patriarchy, indoctrination, identifying and writing about the rifts she felt in herself and her family, gender oppression, using geology as a metaphor, moving from memoir in essays to a more linear form, ethical and legal concerns when writing about others, coming to grips with abuse, purity culture, and her memoir Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy.

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Episode 225 ft. Bee Wilson

Episode 225 ft. Bee Wilson

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Episode 224 ft. Alex Poppe

Episode 224 ft. Alex Poppe

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