Your Therapist Needs Therapy 141 - Talking Apostasy with Sammy from HaramDoodles

About this episode

Jeremy Schumacher interviews Sammy from Haram Doodles about her experiences leaving high control religion and her artistic journey.

This week Jeremy is joined by the incredibly talented Sammy from Haram Doodles. Jeremy and Sammy are both Borgenicht Fellows and they chat about some of the similarities they experienced leaving high control religion. Sammy talks about her deconstruction from Islam and starting Haram Doodles as a way to practice joy in her art while creating a safe space for ExMuslims to connect. Sammy also talks about her work with Ex-Muslims International to end apostasy and blasphemy laws. To learn m...

People in this episode

Host: Jeremy Schumacher

Guest: Sammy

Topics covered

• apostasy
• high control religion
• deconstruction
• art
• Ex-Muslims
• blasphemy laws

Keywords

• apostasy
• Islam
• Haram Doodles
• Ex-Muslims
• art
• deconstruction
• blasphemy laws

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Haram Doodles, Ex-Muslims International

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