Amanda Montell & Zakiya Dalila Harris
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Thursday, June 17, 2021, 6 pm
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Elliott Bay Book Company
The journalist and author of Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language continues to study the power of words in Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, in which she surveys indoctrination techniques used by cults such as Heaven’s Gate and the Peoples Temple, eventually broadening her scope to include platforms like QAnon and fitness organizations like Peloton and CrossFit.