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"Babies and Bathwater" - A Conversation with Jamie Garner about religious purity culture.
"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater"—a phrase weaponised against anyone who dares to question harmful systems. International theatre-maker Jamie Garner transforms this warning into art with their play "Babies and Bathwater," which chronicles one woman's escape from religious coercion and her discovery of her own voice. Drawing from their own experience leaving evangelical Christianity, Jamie explores how purity culture grooms young women, how spiritual abuse mirrors domestic violence, and what it takes to rebuild yourself after losing everything—your community, your certainty, your sense of safety. This is theatre as testimony, art as liberation.
Content note: Includes discussion of spiritual abuse, sexual trauma, and religious coercion
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