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Cait West

@caitwest.bsky.social
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Former stay-at-home daughter and author of RIFT: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy | caitwest.com | she/her

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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Going live in on hour for the virtual launch event celebrating the new edition of RIFT! Join me and Lourdes Torres as we talk about being former stay-at-home daughters / tradwives-in-training 💜 open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE SOON: Former Tradwives-in-Training Talk Back
Starting Sep 29 at 7:00 PM EDT
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
the people in our streets resisting authoritarianism, braver than our representatives in Congress
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Bulldozing the People’s House is so overtly symbolic it wouldn’t make it through development edits for the satire no one would want to write.
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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"The teachings of Baucham and other promoters of Christian Patriarchy were extremely harmful in my life. Because of these teachings, I was a stay-at-home daughter until I was twenty-five years old." ~ @caitwest.bsky.social
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How Voddie Baucham’s Teachings Cause Long-Term Damage: Collected Interviews
Girls and women trying to leave fundamentalism have many unique challenges and need support to integrate into society.
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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Our @jonmathieu.bsky.social chats with fellow ex-vangelical @caitwest.bsky.social about high-control religion, Amish country, and more. youtu.be/s3BnFD8bKb4?...
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Why are evangelicals obsessed with Amish country?
YouTube video by The Christian Century
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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Don’t miss @jonmathieu.bsky.social’s chat with @caitwest.bsky.social about evangelicalism, Amish country, and high-control religion. youtu.be/s3BnFD8bKb4
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Why are evangelicals obsessed with Amish country?
YouTube video by The Christian Century
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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
“Many evangelicals don’t see a problem with the patriarchal culture of the Old Order Amish—in fact, patriarchy is precisely what draws them to fetishize these communities.” – @caitwest.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/eva...
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Evangelical fantasies in Amish country
I grew up in the Quiverfull movement. In the tourism industry of Shipshewana, Indiana, I see a lot that looks...
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Already tired of debates around how “liberal” the new pope is. Like, women can’t participate in choosing the pope or lead congregations. NONE of these men are progressive, and the Catholic church is one of the largest patriarchal systems in the world.
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Wearing green for #dayofthehomeschooledchild 💚 For more info, go to responsiblehomeschooling.org/day-of-the-h...
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
What do the Quiverfull movement, Christian nationalism, and Plain communities have in common? Apparently, musical theater. www.christiancentury.org/features/eva...
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Evangelical fantasies in Amish country
I grew up in the Quiverfull movement. In the tourism industry of Shipshewana, Indiana, I see a lot that looks...
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Christian Century @christiancentury.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
“When I saw an advertisement for an upcoming play at the Blue Gate Theatre that pictured an Amish man standing on the front lawn of the White House, I knew I had to return and investigate.” – @caitwest.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/eva...
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Evangelical fantasies in Amish country
I grew up in the Quiverfull movement. In the tourism industry of Shipshewana, Indiana, I see a lot that looks...
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
One of my favorite subgenres to read is something I like to call “unhinged women.” Because they’re aspirational for me. For example, Piglet, Big Swiss, My Year of Rest and Relaxation… any I should add to my list?
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Congress is set to review the SAVE Act this week—to understand the patriarchal implications please read this piece by @sarahstankorb.bsky.social : newrepublic.com/article/1914...
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The Christian Nationalist Plot to Disenfranchise Women Voters
The SAVE Act, which purports to fend off the phantasmal threat of voter fraud, would throw millions of women off the voting rolls.
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
✨ 2025 energy ✨ This little witchy nature girl is back and has no more fucks to give…
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The imperialists are imperialing day after day after day after…
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Democracy, “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” (Dylan Thomas)
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Spiritual abusers use the bible, god, spirituality, scriptures, religion etc. to oppress you and steal your agency, and then when you back away because you’re bleeding out, they tell you it’s your fault because you didn’t have enough faith. Spiritual abuse is cruel like that.
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
When I was in the church, I was told that prodigals ran away from “the faith” or “god” because they wanted to sin or because they were lost. But people don’t usually run away from things that are good, healing, safe, and loving.
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
“If they wanted to, they would” but for churches and their capacity to handle abuse
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“I believe in gender equality but only men are qualified for leadership” is 1000% still patriarchy.
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It’s not enough to call out individual abusers in your church—you also need to examine whether your theology is abusive. If your organization is barring certain people from leadership or membership because of their gender/sexual identity, I’d argue the system is inherently discriminatory & abusive.
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“What would you say to all the women who have crawled their way out from under Christian patriarchy, only to watch Christian patriarchy gain control of local and federal government?” caitwest.substack.com/p/weve-been-...
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We've Been Here Before
The past haunts us, but also guides us
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Hear me out: Love Is Blind, but there’s a one-way window so the women can see the men to watch out for narc eyes.
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
West Michigan! Please join us tomorrow at these free events to talk about purity culture and religious trauma. With everything going on, this is more important than ever. @dawnburns.bsky.social @saramoslener.bsky.social @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social Please RSVP at the link below:
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Happy White Lotus day to all who celebrate 🪷
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Point me to the nearest void so I can scream into it
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Hey Grand Rapids! Please join us for one of these events this Thursday at GVSU 💜 We’ll be creating a safe space to talk about purity culture and religious trauma and would love to meet you! Free registration at www.gvsu.edu/interfaith/c...
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I’m looking forward to speaking with Abbi Nye from CFCtoo today at 4 pm EST—the event is free and virtual so please join us if you can! We’ll be talking about the intersections between Christian patriarchy, homeschooling, and religious trauma. Register at the link below👇🏻 forms.gle/nNnSRTRXm3kd...
Photos of Abbi and Cait with text: Livestream, February 9, 4 pm Eastern
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Just found out my book is going to be used in a class at a university in Germany, and that makes me so happy 💜
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Logan M. Davis @loganmdavis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"Logan Davis, a consultant and columnist from Colorado, grew up in a reformed Calvinist church similar to [the one] Hegseth now attends, and spent middle and high school in a classical Christian school affiliated to the one Hegseth’s children now attend." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Revealed: Trump Pentagon nominee endorsed extremist Christian doctrine on podcast
In newly uncovered recordings, Pete Hegseth rails against feminism, ‘critical race theory’, and even democracy itself
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The chaos of fascism is meant to exhaust us. It is like living with a narcissist on a global scale.
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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This piece is 👌🏻
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
My 2024 tattoo is my 2025 mantra.
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
So excited that Mychal is on Substack!
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
In other news, why is my cat snoring so cute?
Sherlock the cat taking a nap on Cait’s lap
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I’m not sure what to do with the knowledge that sexual predators are in the highest positions of power in my country, with the surprise in my inbox that Marilyn Manson has been welcomed to my city for a concert, with the vitriol of men’s words against Bishop Budde. This misogyny is unbearable.
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Jon Mathieu @jonmathieu.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Excited about the content we are making at CC. Check out our top articles from last year. (Also my roundup of exvangelical women’s memoirs made the list! Shoutouts to my friend @caitwest.bsky.social and hopfully-future-friends @sarahmccammon.bsky.social and @lizcoolj.bsky.social.)
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Our top 24 of 2024
Happy new year! Here are the Century articles from last year that enjoyed the most online...
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Julie Anne Smith @defendthesheep.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
@caitwest.bsky.social 's interview on the @sonsofpatriarchy.bsky.social podcast is excellent. The voices of survivors are so important to help those who are still trapped and need encouragement to leave. open.spotify.com/episode/6dLS...
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Silenced No More: Abuse in the OPC, Part 5
Sons of Patriarchy · Episode
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Author event tonight in Goshen, Indiana! Hang out with Sara Moslener, @brchastain.social and me for conversation and book signing. fablesbooks.com/events/16392...
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Author Talk & Book Signing with Blake Chastain
Goshen's locally owned, independent community bookstore.
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Cait West @caitwest.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Is this the good place?
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