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Deirdre Sugiuchi

Deirdre Sugiuchi is finishing her fundamentalist Christian reform school memoir, Unreformed. Sugiuchi's work has been featured in Dame Magazine, Electric Literature, the anthology Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church, and other places.

Archive, Christian Nationalism, Politics/Law, Racial Justice, Sex/Gender/JusticeJanuary 28, 2021

I Grew Up Evangelical and the Christian Nationalist Insurrection Did Not Surprise Me

By Deirdre Sugiuchi

On Wednesday, January 6, I, like almost everyone else in America, watched as a mob…

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