Lauren D. Sawyer 12/12/25 Lauren D. Sawyer 12/12/25

Growing Up Pure

This book examines the shaping of purity culture in the United States, looking specifically at the experiences of white youth. It shows that white girls and white queer youth were vulnerable to the purity movement, but that they were also complicit in its white supremacist oppressive structure.

Victoria Houser 10/23/24 Victoria Houser 10/23/24

Your Misogyny is Not a Cultural Difference

Constellating transnational stories of religious gender-based violence and feminist resistance.

Karly Poyner-Smith 6/1/24 Karly Poyner-Smith 6/1/24

Rhetorics of Impurities

ExVangelicalism as Excavating and Encountering Purity

Liv Schultz 4/2/24 Liv Schultz 4/2/24

Navigating Evangelical Affect

Convictions, Promises, and Dissonance in Adolescent Adherence to Purity Teachings

Lauren D. Sawyer 3/29/24 Lauren D. Sawyer 3/29/24

Purity culture and the limits of queer evangelicalism

This article examines the connection between the recent emergence of queer evangelical celibacy narratives and the rhetoric of purity as a form of personal freedom.