Episode Description
I am tha-rilled to bring you my looooong, super-chatty, unfiltered conversation with Mattie Jo Cowsert, an actor and author based in New York City. Mattie Jo wrote a memoir called God, Sex, and Rich People, in which she documents her deconstruction from evangelical Christianity and purity culture to become the most wholesome sex-positive activist you've ever encountered. Her pitch of a TV show version of her book won the Audience Choice Award at the Yale Innovation Summit (!!!) and she's now developing it into a one-woman theater piece as an artist in residence at Collective Connecticut. This woman is a powerhouse! And damn funny to boot!
In this episode, we discuss:
- Mattie Jo's origin story as a born theater kid with a pastor dad in a heavily evangelical community.
- How her sex education consisted mostly of scare tactics but her parents were a little looser about it than the community around them.
- How making gay friends at theater camp made her question the existence of Hell.
- Her move to New York City, and why having Jewish and Muslim friends blew open her worldview and made her leave evangelicalism for good.
- Her "Rubble Years" and the bad experiences she had when she finally made her sexual debut without any idea of how to handle things.
- How she eventually developed her own sexual ethic and value system around sex and relationships and wrote an amazing dang book about all this! I just love her.
Buy God, Sex, and Rich People and learn more about Mattie Jo here: www.mattiejocowsert.com
Subscribe to Mattie Jo's Substack: https://mattiejocowsert.substack.com/
Follow MJ on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattiejocowsert/
Follow MJ on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattiejocowsquirt
That's it for this week! Love ya, pinecones!
xoxo,
Samia
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