Forest For The Trees: J’s Story

Someone lied somewhere, and seeing how I got erased from my family and communities for several years, I don’t think it was me. I was truthful once about how I felt and lost everything.

Statement By HARO On WORLD Magazine’s “Homeschool Debate”

We hope for and welcome a conversation about how we can together make homeschooling better for future generations.

Life With A Gay Husband: Rachel’s Story

“I had been talking to my best friend who had just come out to me. She described how she felt — in a marriage with a man — being gay herself. I asked a lot of questions and realized she sounded exactly like my husband! I approached him and asked him if he was attracted to men.”

From Hell to Heroin to Here: Jezebel’s Story

“When I was shooting up heroin and stripping, I didn’t care about my life. I would overdose or get beat up and it didn’t matter to me. I felt like I was a fuckup and that my life wasn’t worth living. In rehab I did the hard work of processing everything that had happened with my family, and as awful as it was, I’m a more whole person for all that.”

A Tool In Someone Else’s Culture War: Philosophical Perspectives’s Story, Part Two

“We’ve been parroting a Republican platform and the great things about homeschooling since we were toddlers. Any negative or critical commentary was marked as ‘rebellious,’ and unacceptable, especially when it was directed at homeschooling itself. The options were, repent, or get out.”

Silence Isn’t Golden: Kierstyn King’s Story

“In 2005, 2006, and 2007 I was a blogger, an NCFCA-er, a Rebelution moderator, a Regenerate Our Culture board member, a Student Project campaigner, and a TeenPact Alumni…I contributed to the amount of hurt I and many others who grew up in this radical, evangelical, conservative christian subculture endured.”