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Shiny Happy Special Episode

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Aug 7

New Episode just dropped, showing up for you whenever your podcast app updates (or live on the website right now)!
kitchentablecult.com/2025/08/07/s...

In the last year: Trump was re-elected, Project 2025 started becoming law of the land, Eve made quilts, Kieryn briefly appeared in Shiny Happy People season 2 (we get into it), and is ~a semester a…

The Christian nationalist playbook to usurp democracy

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Kieryn Darkwater @mxdarkwater.com · Jul 23

(I'm in it!)

Kieryn Darkwater @mxdarkwater.com · Jul 23

#ShinyHappyPeople season 2 drops in a couple hours 😱

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Kieryn Darkwater @mxdarkwater.com · Jul 5

I did a deep dive on #project2025 and the lesser known #conventionofstates in an article for Prism
- prismreports.org/2024/05/20/c...
- and the most recent @kitchentablecult.com episode. Go learn more than you ever wanted to know -
kitchentablecult.com/2024/06/27/s...

Organizations like the Alliance Defending Freedom and Convention of States publicly share their plans to implement theocracy, but are we paying attention?

prismreports.org

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · Jul 4

We're still trying to raise funds for N to get housing and medical care!

N is a trans homeschool escapee who has experienced massive educational neglect and identity abuse. Everything helps towards getting him stable and housed!

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ns...

Support N's Journey to Independence, organized by Carmen L

Through my work with Coalition for Responsible Home Education, sometimes I meet homeschoo… Carmen L needs your support for Support N's Journey to Independence

www.gofundme.com

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Jun 27

New episode! @eveettinger.com and @mxdarkwater.com take you on a deep dive into #Project2025 and the #ConventionofStates and the bureaucratic mechanism at the center of it all. Don't miss it!
kitchentablecult.com/2024/06/27/s...

S6E11: Usurping Democracy with Bureaucracy

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...

S6E9: Apocalypse Child with Carly Butler

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Jun 4

We had the lovely @carlymbutton.bsky.social on the podcast last week! Give it a listen!

kitchentablecult.com/2024/05/31/s...

Kieryn and Eve talk with Carly Butler about her memoir, Apocalypse Child, what identity abuse looks like for homeschooled kids, and more

S6E8: Forager with Michelle Dowd

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · May 10

New episode! We talk with Michelle Dowd about her new book, plants, and the challenges of healing from CPSTD after escaping a cult. kitchentablecult.com/2024/05/10/s...

How do you make friends and adapt to normal society after leaving a cult? Listen to find out!

S6E7: As Goes The South with Read Freely Alabama

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Apr 27

This week we chatted with Read Freely Alabama about attempts to censor the public library and what everyone can do to stop it. kitchentablecult.com/2024/04/27/s...

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 commun...

S6E7: As Goes The South with Read Freely Alabama

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Apr 27

This week we chatted with Read Freely Alabama about attempts to censor the public library and what everyone can do to stop it. kitchentablecult.com/2024/04/27/s...

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 commun...

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

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Kieryn Darkwater @mxdarkwater.com · Apr 15

This was so great and I would now like to have the 5 laws of libraries tattooed on me somewhere.

Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Apr 15

ICYMI we had an amazing talk with @giantlibrarian.bsky.social about the important work of libraries! go check it out!

What do censorship, homeschooling, intellectual freedom, and libraries have in common? We get into it today with Eddie Kristan

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

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Apr 15

ICYMI we had an amazing talk with @giantlibrarian.bsky.social about the important work of libraries! go check it out!

What do censorship, homeschooling, intellectual freedom, and libraries have in common? We get into it today with Eddie Kristan

S6E4: Doing It For The Babies 2: IVF Bans and Mife | Kitchen Table Cult

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Mar 26

Wtf is happening in Alabama? What do the #IVF and #Mife cases have in common? We get into it!
www.patreon.com/posts/s6e4-d...

Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Feb 20

Is she a stay at home tiktok script or an Above Rubies reader submission?

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8KvtTvd/

TikTok - Make Your Day

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Kitchen Table Cult on Instagram: "The #nonbinary #eldestdaughter of #quiverfull families have entered the chat! What would you add? #exfundie #homeschoolalumni"

Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Feb 14

We're the nonbinary eldest daughters of Quiverfull families, of course we did the meme

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20 likes, 5 comments - kitchentablecultpod on February 13, 2024: "The #nonbinary #eldestdaughter of #quiverfull families have entered the chat! What would you add?..."

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Nov 17

Live for everyone, we attempted to give an overview of who tf Mike Johnson is before the end of the year - www.patreon.com/posts/92998746

S5E20: Mike Johnson Overview | Kitchen Table Cult

S5E19: Counting the Cost | Kitchen Table Cult

Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Oct 20

Live for everyone! We read #CountingTheCost and talked about it
www.patreon.com/posts/s5e19-...

S5E18: The Woman They Wanted with Shannon Harris

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · Oct 9

hi new followers. go support @responsiblehs.bsky.social, listen to this podcast i co-host @kitchentablecult.com, and answer my daily question: DID YOU EAT AND TAKE YOUR MEDS

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Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com · Oct 6

This week on @kitchentablecult.com we talked to Shannon Harris about her book, craft decisions in memoir writing, embodiment after trauma, and leaving a cult. @mxdarkwater.com

kitchentablecult.com/2023/10/06/s...

Welcome to book club, where Shannon Harris (aka Shannon Bonne) joins Kieryn and Eve to talk about the writing process for her debut memoir, The Woman They Wanted. Shannon talks about embodiment, fr…

S5E18: The Woman They Wanted with Shannon Harris | Kitchen Table Cult

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Oct 5

New Episode! 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.

S5E17: Back To School Right-Wing Extremism Edition | Patreon

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Sep 8

New episode! We talk about the right's war on public education and what Classical Liberalism means
www.patreon.com/posts/s5e17-...

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S5E16: Disobedient Women with Sarah Stankorb | Patreon

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Aug 25

Live for everyone! We chat about how to write about trauma in a way that's healing and powerful with Sarah Stankorb and talk about her book, #disobedientwomen. Don't miss it! www.patreon.com/posts/88186361

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Aug 4

New epsiode, live for everyone! @eveettinger.com and @mxdarkwater.com chat with Christina and Aaron Beall about what it was like to leave the #fundamentalist #homeschooling community and shed light on the abuse
https://www.patreon.com/posts/87177174

Just a moment...

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Kitchen Table Cult @kitchentablecult.com · Aug 4

New epsiode, live for everyone! @eveettinger.com and @mxdarkwater.com chat with Christina and Aaron Beall about what it was like to leave the #fundamentalist #homeschooling community and shed light on the abuse
https://www.patreon.com/posts/87177174

Just a moment...