Sugiuchi testimony on the need to regulate faith-based residential treatment facilities.
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Conversion Therapy Is Abuse- Dame Magazine
Last month I published this essay over at Dame Magazine about undergoing conversion therapy as a teen at Escuela Caribe/ New Horizons Youth Ministries. Recently the 11th Circuit Court effectively legalized conversion therapy. It was important for me to illuminate what conversion therapy actually entails. It’s a term which sounds clinical but is in reality…
Like Paris Hilton, I Am A Survivor…#breakingcodesilence, #iseeyousurvivor
I published an essay at HuffPost about being a survivor of the troubled teen treatment industry (TTI).
The Elite Arm of the Youth Control Complex #breakingcodesilence
Recently I found a study called “Troubled Affluent Youth’s Experiences in a Therapeutic Boarding School: The Elite Arm of the Youth Control Complex and Its Implications for Youth Justice,” which explores the mostly unregulated private troubled teen treatment industry (TTI). Highly recommended. Authors Mooney and Leighton describe the TTI as a way for the criminal…
Reading Caste, Watching This Is Paris, and #BreakingCodeSilence
Monday night I watched the Paris Hilton documentary, This Is Paris, which in part deals with Paris Hilton’s time at the troubled teen facility Provo Canyon. I’m still kind of unsettled, which surprised me, mainly because I have spent so long writing about and researching these programs. A large part of my book, Unreformed, traces…
Shield Athens in the AJC
Me, my husband, Chris, and a collective of incredible Athenians known as Shield Athens spent the first 6 weeks of the pandemic making face shields for medical workers. We ended up distributing around 2500, free of charge. The incredible Jessica Handler, author of Invisible Sisters and the Magnetic Girl, profiled us in the AJC. Love…
Shield Athens
Sometime after September 11th, I went back to the Delta to visit my grandfather Waters Hicks. My son had been born in August of that year and I wanted my grandfather to meet him. Also, I realize now, that even though I have effectively exiled myself from the Delta, I tend to go back to…
Sugiuchi Interviewed by Straight White American Jesus Podcast
Bradley Onishi interviewed me for the Straight White American Jesus podcast.
All about Escuela Caribe
List of previously published posts that are relevant to my experience with Escuela Caribe. Enjoy!
Empty the Pews and Everything Else
A few years back Chrissy Stroop and Lauren O’Neal put out a call to writers to submit essays about their stories of leaving the church. Two amazing things happened. 1. My essay, Fundamentalist, made the cut along with a bunch of incredible essays which were collected in an anthology called Empty the Pews: Stories of…