Parental-Rights Extremism 101

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It's the last episode of Season 4! Kieryn and Eve discuss the book "I'm Glad My Mom Died" and how it feels to realize you were abused by people you love. CW: Child Abuse & Eating Disorders

Buy the Book:
https://bookshop.org/books/i-m-glad-my-mom-died-9781797147963/9781982185824

S4E20: I'm Glad My Mom Died

Eve and Kieryn are back and talking with Weston Brown about parents who homeschool forcing their views on the public school system. Weston's mom is trying to ban books from Public Schools in TX, we talk about how isolating your children to get specific outcomes doesn't work.

Follow Weston on twitter while you still can - 
https://twitter.com/wstnbrwn

S5E1: When Radicalized Parents Homeschool with Weston Brown

Sometimes episodes write themselves and we have The Gospel Coalition to thank for this gem. If you're part of our Slack community you know what's coming, what you don't know is that now we have tshirts (and mugs).

Swag:
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/40377534-jesus-is-an-eggplant?store_id=862793 
Further Reading:
https://waterbrookmultnomah.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Beautiful-Union-Preview.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20230301170931/https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/sex-wont-save-you/

S5E7: Jesus is a P3n1s

The first in a multi-part series we've been teasing about all season. We talk about Parental Rights Extremism and how to effectively combat the rhetoric that is banning books from schools and trans children from being able to be themselves without ceding ground to the extremists. 

Children have rights, parents have responsibilities. 

Show Notes
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/anti-trans-transgender-health-care-ban-legislation-bill-minors-children-lgbtq/ 
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/04/children-are-not-property.html 
https://newrepublic.com/article/165403/groups-pushing-anti-trans-laws-want-divide-lgbtq-movement 
https://www.salon.com/2022/01/12/parental-rights-started-on-the-christian-fringe--now-its-the-gops-winning-issue/ 
Immoral Minority
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/03/12/Immoral-Minority-warns-schools-on-sex-ed-disclosures/6860353221200/

S5E8: Parental Rights Extremism Part 1

Hold on to your hats, Kieryn and Eve do a Deep Dive into the legal history of parental rights and what lays the groundwork for how children's rights are treated (or extremely not, as the case may be) in the US.

Notes:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150908152647/http://www.hslda.org/parentalrights/ 
https://parentalrightsfoundation.org/legal/parental_rights_tradition/ 
https://cite.case.law/wis/35/59/ 
https://casetext.com/case/people-ex-rel-sinclair-v-sinclair 
https://casetext.com/case/school-dist-no-18-garvin-co-v-thompson-et-al 
https://cite.case.law/us/262/390/ 
https://cite.case.law/us/268/510/ 
https://casetext.com/case/wisconsin-v-yoder 
https://cite.case.law/us/530/57/#p66 
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1966/strict-scrutiny 
https://parentalrightsfoundation.org/victory-for-parents-at-the-texas-supreme-court/ 
http://www.narf.org/nill/documents/icwa/index.html 
http://www.narf.org/nill/documents/icwa/ch1.html 
https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/2/20/21131387/indian-child-welfare-act-court-case-foster-care 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaland_v._Brackeen 
https://prismreports.org/2022/03/22/in-multiple-states-rapists-can-sue-their-victims-for-parental-custody/

CRHE Bonfire:
https://www.bonfire.com/children-have-rights-1/
https://www.bonfire.com/children-have-rights160-1/

S5E9: Parental Rights Extremism Part 2

In the third part of the deep dive into Parental Rights Extremism, Kieryn and Eve connect the organizational and funding dots between the orgs working on limiting children's education today to the organizations that started it all in the 1970s.

Show Notes:
https://dayofthehomeschooledchild.org
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1995/11/religious-right-6os-and-7os/ 
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/05/18/a-disciplined-charging-army
https://california.parentsrightsineducation.com/#menu2
https://www.bloomberg.com/bedrock-usa
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-18/what-bridget-ziegler-s-agenda-means-for-lgbtq-youth

S5E10: Parental Rights Extremism Part 3, A PAC is Born

Kieryn and Eve are joined by friends of the pod Carmen Longoria-Green and Sarah Jones to talk about the bit picture and the meaningful ways we can fight Parental Rights Extremism every day.

Show Notes:
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6324958910112 
https://twitter.com/responsiblehs 
https://instagram.com/responsiblehomeschooling 
https://facebook.com/responsiblehomeschooling 
https://dayofthehomeschooledchild.org 
https://twitter.com/onesarahjones
sarah.jones(@)voxmedia(.)com

S5E11: Parental Rights Extremism Part 4 With Carmen & Sarah

Eve and Kieryn discuss Jinger's book Free Indeed, on disentangling (not deconstructing) christianity from the teachings of Bill Gothard, and share a bit about their paths out too.

Show Notes:
https://people.com/tv/duggar-family-prime-video-docuseries-shiny-happy-people-trailer-exclusive/ 
https://mxdarkwater.com/2016/01/03/preparing-a-visionary-daughter-to-do-hard-things-written-in-2010/
TikToks:
https://www.tiktok.com/@bluepupboi/video/7221509868841340206
https://www.tiktok.com/@bluepupboi/video/7221515553507249451
https://www.tiktok.com/@eve_ettinger/video/7221515317233618222

S5E12: You're Not a Stepford Wife, Jing

Kieryn and Eve are IN PERSON and talking about Shiny Happy People and the evolution of sharing their stories as they heal through trauma. 
Contribute to the CRHE fundraiser:
responsiblehomeschooling.org/donate 
Tell Amazon you want a season two of Shiny Happy People!

S5E13: Shiny Happy People

Kieyn and Eve chat with Shiny Happy People producer Cori Shepherd Stern about how the documentary was made and why it's important to tell stories this way. 

Follow Cori:
https://www.instagram.com/girlseeksworld/
https://www.instagram.com/storyforceco/
https://twitter.com/girlseeksworld

S5E14: Shiny Happy People part 2, with Cori Shepherd Stern

Welcome to book club, where Shannon Bonne, formerly known as Shannon Harris, joins Kieryn and Eve to talk about the writing process for her book, The Woman They Wanted. 

Shannon talks about embodiment, freedom, and following the joy after spiritual abuse.

Links:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-woman-they-wanted-shattering-the-illusion-of-the-good-christian-wife-shannon-harris/19561719?ean=9781506483160

https://www.shannonbonne.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1mJjeRIIxjVT1FAcwlBLUk?si=7J7H4XuHR-GOjBFVhLHcaA&nd=1

https://www.instagram.com/shannon.bonne/

S5E18 The Woman They Wanted with Shannon Harris

Kieryn and Eve talk about Jill Duggar Dillard's book, Counting The Cost. How and why it felt different from Jinger's Becoming Free Indeed, and how difficult it is to escape high control environments when the stakes are so high. 

Also, for more info on Christian Zionism:
https://kitchentablecult.com/2021/06/09/s3-e8-christian-zionism-with-amy-fallas-and-garrison-davis/
https://kitchentablecult.com/2021/07/22/s3-e11-christian-zionism-part-2-with-aidan-orly-and-marisa-siegel/

Get the book:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/counting-the-cost-jill-duggar/20124574

S5E19: Counting The Cost

Kieryn and Eve try to overview everything we know so far about Mike Johnson, explain the general concept of Covenant Marriage, and discuss his wife's humurous counseling practice.

Instead of posting 4 pages of notes, here's one link:
https://tinyurl.com/mikejohnsonktc

S5E20: Mike Johnson Overview

Eve and Kieryn discoverd the Stay At Home Girlfriend/Wife /Tradwife tiktoks and note their remarkable similarity to the Above Rubies and quiverfull mommy/daughter blogs from the 00s, but with a dash of late-stage capitalism dread as a twist. What's the motivation behind people outside of religion wanting to choose this? Listen to find out!

Notes:
https://www.aboverubies.org/images/stories/magazines/ARMagazine69.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_feminism
https://politicalresearch.org/2021/07/29/why-are-gen-z-girls-attracted-tradwife-lifestyle
https://www.thecut.com/2023/09/tradwife-content-influencers-conservative-ideology.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/fringe-left-alt-right-share-beliefs-white-power-movement/672454/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Steiner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education

S6E1: Tradwives 2.0 Say Fuck Capitalism?

Kieryn and Eve are joined by Anna Gazmarian to discuss her debut memoir, Devout, which comes out on March 12, 2024. 

Growing up evangelical means growing up with shame much of the time. Add to that depression, anxiety, religious OCD, and bipolar, and you're in for a massive struggle of faith and self-worth.

With Devout, Anna unpacks what worked and didn't work for her in her struggle to keep her faith in tact and get adequate treatment for the way her brain works. We discuss tolerating joy, therapy, ketamine treatments, and purity culture, as well as what supporting someone you love with mental health struggles can entail.

Pre-order Devout! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Devout/Anna-Gazmarian/9781668004036

S6E2: Devout with Anna Gazmarian

This week in the Book Club, Kieryn and Eve chat with Sarah McCammon about her upcoming book (March 19) the Exvangelicals! We talk about gatekeeping knowledge, rampant anti-intellectualism, and how changing your religious beliefs change your relationships. You can take the church kid out of the church but you can't completely take the church out of the kid.  

Follow Sarah:
https://substack.com/@sarahmccammon
https://www.instagram.com/sarahmccammon_journalist/
Buy the book!
https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/the-exvangelicals/

S6E3: The Exvangelicals with Sarah McCammon

What is the future of the pro-life movement without simplistic messaging focused on Roe v. Wade to galvanize conservatives? The nuances of reproductive health science and privacy laws are up for debate, and the unity that the pro-life movement once relied on is fissuring under the pressure to rally support around the details. Banning IVF in Alabama was a deeply unpopular move by the courts, and this week SCOTUS is hearing oral arguments about a case centered on the 23-year-old status of FDA approval for mifepristone. Leading those arguments? Erin Morrow Hawley, ADF senior counsel and the wife of MO Senator, Josh Hawley.

*Show Notes*
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2023/11/16/why-this-teen-birth-control-case-could-kill-access-for-everyone/
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/13/23505459/supreme-court-birth-control-contraception-constitution-matthew-kacsmaryk-deanda-becerra
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/10/texas-abortion-law-jonathan-f-mitchell-profile
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/ivf-morally-right/ 
https://www.lagniappemobile.com/news/ivf-clinic-attorney-argued-embryo-is-a-life/article_4f670e5e-d292-11ee-88e0-6b5e622733c3.html  
https://embryoadoptionusa.com/frequently-asked-questions/#:~:text=Parents%20who%20adopt%20embryos%20are,have%20relinquished%20all%20parental%20rights. 
https://web.archive.org/web/20130901171332/http://demossnews.com/manhattandeclaration/press_kit/manhattan_declaration_signers  

Science:
https://twitter.com/ncrawfordmd/status/1759769551925846303 
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-011-6621-8_18 
https://ivf-worldwide.com/ivf-history.html

S6E4: Doing It For The Babies 2: IVF Bans and Mife

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/

S6E5: Rift with Cait West

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

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

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.

S6E7: As Goes The South with Read Freely Alabama

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

S6E8: Forager with Michelle Dowd

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

S6E9: Apocalypse Child with Carly Butler

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

S6E10: KTC x The Amendment with Errin Haines

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!

S6E11: Usurping Democracy with Bureaucracy

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!

S6E12: Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs

Hännah and Kieryn introduce themselves and talk about the end times.

Episode 1: Beginning at the End

Kieryn and Hännah talk about the Pro-Life Movement, what Kennedy's retirement means, and Birth Control

Episode 2: Doing It For The Babies

Hännah and Kieryn discuss the intersections of homeschooling, race, privilege, and children's rights.

Episode 3: Diligently Taught

Kieryn and Hännah talk about the organization behind Sessions' Religious Liberty Task Force: the Alliance Defending Freedom. Who are they, Where do they come from, What did they teach? 

How do you make a joke about conspiracy theories when the conspiracy turns out to be real?

Episode 4: The Conspiracy is Real Part 1

Eve and Kieryn talk with Kathryn Brightbill, Legislative Policy Analyst at CRHE about the Homeschool Legal Defense Association - what their role is in the current state of things, where they came from, and why they've managed to win so far.

Episode 5: What is HSLDA? with Kathryn Brightbill

Kieryn and Hännah discuss what exactly distinguishes a cult from fundamentalism, and fundamentalism from evangelical thought--and then break down how to avoid falling into fundamentalism, and how to heal from it.

Episode 6: The Fundamentalist - Cult Spectrum

Episode 24: Journaling, Devotions, and Prayer Journals

Episode 32: Chivalry Is Not Dead

Josh Harris and his ex-partner announced their separation in July which sent shockwaves through the evangelical world. Kieryn and Eve are joined by their friend Tope(https://twitter.com/graceishuman) to discuss what this means for ex-fundamentalists, what it's like to leave that world, and why it's such a big deal.

Notes:
Divorce: https://www.instagram.com/p/B0CtVRingGj/
Deconversion: https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ZBrNLH2sl/

S2 E1: Shoulda Seen It Coming with Tope

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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