Kitchen Table Cult Pod

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Kitchen Table Cult Pod

Kitchen Table Cult unpacks all the things Kieryn and Eve learned at the kitchen tables of their childhoods in conservative Christian homeschooling families. Every week we take your questions and drill down on various topics about Quiverfull, the Religious Right, and our childhoods in high-demand groups (otherwise known as cults). We’re not surprised about the rise of Trump, Christian fascism, or evangelical white women voting for someone like Mike Pence, and we want to take you back through the beginning of it all to explain why.

  1. S6E12: Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs

    JUL 18

    S6E12: Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs

    Kieryn and Eve discuss the German family who sought (and were temporarily-ish granted!) asylum in the US to be allowed to homeschool their kids because Germany takes the rights and education of Children seriously. Show notes: https://tinyurl.com/romeikenotes This episode was produced by the lovely Mary Steffenhagen!

    51 min
  2. S6E11: Usurping Democracy with Bureaucracy

    JUN 27

    S6E11: Usurping Democracy with Bureaucracy

    Kieryn and Eve explain the updated policy agenda of the Christian right. We talk about the various tools Christian nationalists plan on using to usurp democracy regardless of who wins the presidential election this year. We dive into Project 2025, the little known and even less talked about Convention of States, and the bureaucratic mechanism at the crux of it all. Notes: Read Kieryn's reporting for prism - https://prismreports.org/2024/05/20/christian-nationalist-playbook-usurp-democracy/ This episode was originally made as a test episode for a major media company, our producer was Mary Steffenhagen!

    41 min
  3. S6E10: KTC x The Amendment with Errin Haines

    JUN 14

    S6E10: KTC x The Amendment with Errin Haines

    Errin Haines of The 19th* News joins Kieryn and Eve to talk about the future of journalism, being a progressive Christian while covering the news, and the liberatory nature of Black Christianity in the US. Notes: https://19thnews.org/ https://19thnews.org/topics/podcast/ https://x.com/errinhaines https://www.instagram.com/emarvelous

    51 min
  4. S6E9: Apocalypse Child with Carly Butler

    MAY 31

    S6E9: Apocalypse Child with Carly Butler

    Kieryn and Eve talk with Carly Butler about her memoir, Apocalypse Child, what identity abuse looks like for homeschooled kids, and how it feels to reparent yourself while parenting children. Pre-order the book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/apocalypse-child-carly-butler/20702732?ean=9781773861326 Follow Carly: @carlymbutton everywhere

    55 min
  5. S6E8: Forager with Michelle Dowd

    MAY 10

    S6E8: Forager with Michelle Dowd

    Kieryn and Eve chat with Michelle Dowd about her fascinating memoir, Forager. What it was like growing up in the family of a cult leader and how wild it is to get out into the real world after growing up in the woods. Check out Michelle's work and get the book! https://bookshop.org/p/books/forager-field-notes-on-survival-a-memoir-michelle-dowd/18759728 https://www.michelledowd.org/ https://www.instagram.com/michelledowdz/ https://mdowd.substack.com/ https://mdowd.substack.com/subscribe?utm_campaign=email-subscribe&next=https%3A%2F%2Fmdowd.substack.com%2Fp%2Fcontinue-foraging-for-what-you-need

    1h 5m

  6. APR 25

    S6E7: As Goes The South with Read Freely Alabama

    Kieryn & Eve are joined by the organizers of Read Freely Alabama to discuss the attempt to censor LGBTQ materials in the Augauta-Prattville library and their efforts to protect the library as a community resource for everyone.

    53 min
  7. S6E6: We Are All The Public Library with Eddie the Librarian

    APR 12

    S6E6: We Are All The Public Library with Eddie the Librarian

    What do censorship, homeschooling, intellectual freedom, and libraries have in common? We get into it today with Eddie Kristan about the fight libraries are seeing with parental-rights extremist groups trying to censor books and the impact that has on children's rights to access information. Show Notes: Institutions on the job: Freedom to Read Foundation (IF arm of the ALA): https://www.ftrf.org/ Emily Knox - Freedom to Read Foundation - knox@illinois.edu PEN American has been on the job: https://pen.org/report/book-bans-pressure-to-censor/ DPLA - the banned book club: https://www.dplabannedbookclub.com/ Queer Liberation Library https://www.queerliberationlibrary.org/ Brooklyn Public Library's Books Unbanned: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned Chicago Public Library Book Sanctuaries: https://www.chipublib.org/news/book-sanctuaries-committed-to-protecting-banned-and-challenge-books/ CPL Book Sanctuary Project: https://www.booksanctuary.org/ Past ALA cases: United States, et al. v. American Library Association, Inc. et al., 539 U.S. 194, 123 S.Ct. 2297, 156 L.Ed.2d 221 (2003) Tattered Cover, Inc. v. City of Thornton, 44 P.3d 1044 (Colo. Sup. Ct., 2002) Sund v. City of Wichita Falls, Texas, 121 F. Supp. 2d 530 (N.D. Texas, 2000) the “300 signatories” case. Case v. Unified School District No. 233, 908 F. Supp. 864 (D. Kan. 1995) The “Annie on my mind” case. Active cases to follow: Pen America v. Escanaba School District 23-cv-10385 Filed May 17, 2023 Fayetteville Public Library v Crawford County et al. -23-CV-05086 Book People Inc et al. v. Wong 23-cv-00858 - Filed July 25, 2023 Leila Green Little, et al. v. Llano County, Llano County Texas Library Most concerning bills: Idaho HB 666 Indiana SB 17 Iowa HB 2176 Oklahoma SB 1142 South Dakota House Bill 1337: Tennessee House Bill 1944 Tennessee House Bill 800 Follow: emilyknox.net @fobettarh EddieKristan Eddie the Giant Librarian

    53 min
  8. S6E5: Rift with Cait West

    APR 5

    S6E5: Rift with Cait West

    Eve and Kieryn chat with Cait West about her memoir, Rift, and what it's like to leave fundamentalist Christianity only to discover that the patriarchy is alive and well in the secular world and childhood pastors became politically active Christian Nationalists. **Find Cait and buy the book!!** https://bookshop.org/p/books/rift-a-memoir-of-breaking-away-from-christian-patriarchy-cait-west/20298441 https://www.caitwest.com/ https://www.instagram.com/caitwestwrites/ https://twitter.com/caitwestwrites https://caitwest.substack.com/

    56 min
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Kitchen Table Cult unpacks all the things Kieryn and Eve learned at the kitchen tables of their childhoods in conservative Christian homeschooling families. Every week we take your questions and drill down on various topics about Quiverfull, the Religious Right, and our childhoods in high-demand groups (otherwise known as cults). We’re not surprised about the rise of Trump, Christian fascism, or evangelical white women voting for someone like Mike Pence, and we want to take you back through the beginning of it all to explain why.

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  • Creator
    Kitchen Table Cult Pod
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2024
  • Episodes
    139
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