Laura Conti

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#GoKindly co-founder | feminist | ex sect | 
ex fundamentalist | writer | she/her| 📚

Every day I think ‘must do an #introduction on here‘ then I can’t find the words. I’ll try 🫣

Ex #cult #sect - raised 5th gen inside a high control religious group. Made a few questionable career choices and worked inside accounting & finance for 17 years. Left and co-founded a #Bcorp bedding brand #socialenterprise #GoKindly

Love #reading (I’ll read pretty much any genre except horror)

Emerging #writer - working on #memoir about growing up in a cultish group & the difficulties leaving high-control communities, #religiouscontrol & #coercivecontrol #ptsd

#feminist …one who gets cranky with the mainstream version. My #feminism is lived & alive. It knows class, race, sexuality, culture, disability and gender all intersect & play out differently in experiences.

#australian (on unceded Barapa Barapa & Wamba Wamba land)

Other things I love:
#cats #motorbikes #openwaterswimming #gardening #humour #MurrayRiver

Reading this/next week

This story is awful.
Now imagine this is all happening & being said to you because of religious beliefs, & ‘so you don’t go to hell’ - & you have religious coercive control. #coercivecontrol #cult #religiouscontrol

https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/his-intention-was-to-kill-my-mother-then-come-for-us-20220922-p5bkac.html

‘His intention was to kill my mother, then come for us’

A daughter recalls growing up in the grip of what we now call coercive control, but what she then thought were just her father’s ‘unique’ ways.

The Sydney Morning Herald
On rage. A thing I’m working on.