Author: Let Them Eat Crow
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My Why
Why I Write About These Things I don’t think I ever intended to write a blog like this. I think I was trying to survive. I know people who left and never looked back. They rebuilt their lives, found new communities, started over, and never wanted to think about it again. I understand that. I…
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Nithaan-jai and What Stories Tell Us When We Listen in Their Language
I imagine you’re wondering why my posts are talking about Thai GL specifically. This is because of a few things. One, it is the place where, post evangelicalism, I have found delight. As a queer woman, finding romances that are built around a story and a sense of orientedness to a person that always drew…
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The Aperture of Grief
Remembering Dolly, Tim and the grief that shapes how we experience them now I’ve spent the last week watching movies and shows I haven’t had occasion to watch or revisit. But the recent deaths of celebrities brought them to the forefront of my mind. Losing Dolly Parton, Tim Curry and Peter Cullen in the same…
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Wine Vetaka Terrifying Manager of Accounting
The first thing I noticed about Wine Vetaka was her eyebrows. They expressed so much sadness and earnestness in the trailer for Enemies with Benefits in scenes that were ostensibly supposed to establish her as this intimidating and strict character. The way she lifted them while expressing pain, or confusion or just clarifying a procedure,…
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Manut-jai and the Irreplaceability of a Person
What is Manut-jai? In considering what makes a character feel like an individual, I have coined a few Thai-based concepts. First, the heart of a character doesn’t quite encapsulate the specificity that I seek to track and recognize. Instead, I have taken the word for human in Thai, manut* and the word for a core…
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The Transition
From Newcomer to Church Member. Remember the cards in the deck before this? Those are all still in play, at the same time. Before You Continue This section explores the early stages of becoming deeply immersed in a high-control religious environment, including the rapid development of belonging, friendship, purpose, responsibility, and emotional attachment. As we…
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How My Research Began to What It’s Become
In the beginning to Now When I first started researching Project 2025, I thought I understood what I was looking at. I thought the Heritage Foundation was a think tank that had produced Project 2025, and that Project 2025 was essentially the policy blueprint waiting for a sympathetic administration to implement it. Then I started…
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Certainty vs. Consideration
How do we find ourselves in a world that was never allowed to be ours? How do we respect a humanity we were taught needed to change? We listen to their stories. And we let ourselves linger with the personhood represented. Learning to see people Coming out of evangelicalism can be a strange and lonely…
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More Full of People
A Window into the Vastness I keep falling in love with characters. I have been doing this for years. I still do it every time a story settles into me. And I’ve gradually become fascinated by what that means. Honestly, I’ve been realizing that I deeply enjoy getting to know them. And I love finding…
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Exhibit 2 – Executive Branch Institutional Profiles
About This Archive This archive is built one institution at a time. Each Institutional Profile is researched individually using publicly available primary sources and supporting documentation. In addition to maintaining these evidence files, LTEC publishes articles that explain the institutions, evidence, and implementation documented throughout this investigation. Because every profile and article is researched, written,…