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Purity Culture, Power, and the Women Who Survive: Kristi DeMeester on Dark Sisters

Bookwild · Dec 2, 2025 · 1:07:08

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This week, Kristi DeMeester shares how her new novel Dark Sisters emerged from a collision of personal history, cultural rage, and the disturbing ease with which faith, patriarchy, and power can be weaponized. We discuss purity culture, megachurch hypocrisy, witch-trial history, feminist reclamation, the generational impact of religious fundamentalism, and how horror can become a perfect container for social truth-telling, female rage, and bittersweet hope.

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Dark Sisters by Kristi DeMeester

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