Evvie Ormon from Emergent Phoenix will be speaking at this year’s ICSA (International Cultic Studies Association) Anual Conference!
When: Sunday, June 26th 2022, 12:00 PM-12:50 PM Eastern Standard Time (Track 1)
Visioning the Invisible: The Traumatized Bodies of Racialized Cult Members and Survivors
In the cult survivor and cult expert space there is a noticeable lack of visibility of racialized bodies. So little mention about racialization of bodies within cults, how racialized experience impacts the risk of cult recruitment, and the racialized identities of survivors of color who exit cults into a world that is often nearly as hostile and authoritarian towards their ethnically identifies bodies as the coercive groups they left behind. This talk is an opening, a crack to let light into considerations of racialized survivor experience with hopes to expand this conversation, and invitations to research the lives, challenges, healing journeys, and to visibilize the living bodies of cult survivors of color. Brought by a 2nd Generation cult survivor of color, this talk is at once an invitation to depth, reflection, and looking forward into what is possible.