Chrissy is a prominent voice on the online Exvangelical community and the creator of some hashtags many of you may be familiar with, including #ExposeChristianSchools and #EmptythePews. She’s been mentioned in The Economist, The New York Times, and the Associated Press, and has published in Foreign Policy and Playboy, just to name a few. She lives in Portland, Oregon and works as a senior researcher at the Postsecular Conflicts project at the University of Innsbruck.
This year has been especially exciting for Chrissy: she came out as trans, moved to Portland Oregon, and just this week has released her book Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church. Take a look as we talk about her book, our bodies, Russian literature and succubus fan art, to name a few.
Find Chrissy at https://cstroop.com/ or @C_Stroop and buy her new book
Some other things we discussed-
Turmoil in the Toybox by Phil Phillips
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein
YOU ARE YOUR OWN by Jamie Lee Finch
And finally future guest, Jennifer Lee, the Mormon Lesbian.
For those of you who caught the Discord aftershow, Chrissy sent along a few links-
https://www.politicalresearch.org/bio/chrissy-stroop
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/10/putin-wants-god-or-at-least-the-church-on-his-side/
http://religiondispatches.org/franklin-graham-blames-democrats-for-escalating-tensions-with-russia/
