AlanaPiranha
@mspiranha.bsky.social
Artist. Author. Ex-Seventh Day Adventist, currently writing a memoir about my experiences in the church. Visit annealanaparr.com to learn more.
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Can you question a belief without feeling like you’re betraying yourself—or your people?
In “Can You Question Beliefs?”, we explore identity-protective cognition: the tendency to evaluate information in ways that defend the beliefs associated with groups we identify with.
In “Can You Question Beliefs?”, we explore identity-protective cognition: the tendency to evaluate information in ways that defend the beliefs associated with groups we identify with.
October 3, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Can you question a belief without feeling like you’re betraying yourself—or your people?
In “Can You Question Beliefs?”, we explore identity-protective cognition: the tendency to evaluate information in ways that defend the beliefs associated with groups we identify with.
In “Can You Question Beliefs?”, we explore identity-protective cognition: the tendency to evaluate information in ways that defend the beliefs associated with groups we identify with.
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David Graeber wrote a piece about bullying. It was called "The Bully’s Pulpit."
It is a good read if you are looking for something to read today.
This is an extract from that piece. And here is the link to the full piece: davidgraeber.org/articles/the...
It is a good read if you are looking for something to read today.
This is an extract from that piece. And here is the link to the full piece: davidgraeber.org/articles/the...
October 1, 2026 at 2:31 AM
David Graeber wrote a piece about bullying. It was called "The Bully’s Pulpit."
It is a good read if you are looking for something to read today.
This is an extract from that piece. And here is the link to the full piece: davidgraeber.org/articles/the...
It is a good read if you are looking for something to read today.
This is an extract from that piece. And here is the link to the full piece: davidgraeber.org/articles/the...
Here’s a video from my reading last week at the Leaving the Fold event in
Portland! #deconstruction #essay #humor
Portland! #deconstruction #essay #humor
Death and Ikea
YouTube video by Anne Alana Parr
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September 27, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Here’s a video from my reading last week at the Leaving the Fold event in
Portland! #deconstruction #essay #humor
Portland! #deconstruction #essay #humor
If anyone lives in Portland, I will be one of the writers reading my work this Sunday@Art Design Exchange, 417 SE 11th!
September 16, 2026 at 10:52 PM
If anyone lives in Portland, I will be one of the writers reading my work this Sunday@Art Design Exchange, 417 SE 11th!
September 14, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Calling all former exvangelicals, cult members, etc. If you’re in the Portland OR area, check this out!
September 8, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Calling all former exvangelicals, cult members, etc. If you’re in the Portland OR area, check this out!
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The deconstruction conversation, as public and as prolific as it has become, has produced very little cultural permission to simply grieve without agenda — to miss your faith, or your church, or your certainty, without the missing reading as failure...
relevantmagazine.com/faith/decons...
relevantmagazine.com/faith/decons...
Deconstruction Has a Grief Problem Nobody Is Talking About - RELEVANT
Deconstruction has two public faces. One is triumphant — the Instagram post, the podcast episode, the memoir deal. The other is silent — a person who
relevantmagazine.com
September 1, 2026 at 5:34 AM
The deconstruction conversation, as public and as prolific as it has become, has produced very little cultural permission to simply grieve without agenda — to miss your faith, or your church, or your certainty, without the missing reading as failure...
relevantmagazine.com/faith/decons...
relevantmagazine.com/faith/decons...
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Freeing hearts to love and be loved. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
💜www.FreedHearts.org💜
#christiannationalism #LGBTQsupport #Exvangelical #DeconstructingFaith #ReligiousTrauma
💜www.FreedHearts.org💜
#christiannationalism #LGBTQsupport #Exvangelical #DeconstructingFaith #ReligiousTrauma
September 1, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Freeing hearts to love and be loved. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
💜www.FreedHearts.org💜
#christiannationalism #LGBTQsupport #Exvangelical #DeconstructingFaith #ReligiousTrauma
💜www.FreedHearts.org💜
#christiannationalism #LGBTQsupport #Exvangelical #DeconstructingFaith #ReligiousTrauma
Took this at the dahlia festival in Canby recently, I was so happy to catch this bee in flight!
August 28, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Took this at the dahlia festival in Canby recently, I was so happy to catch this bee in flight!
Found this headline in an old Adventist Gleaner magazine, couldn’t resist making my own front page!
August 27, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Found this headline in an old Adventist Gleaner magazine, couldn’t resist making my own front page!
One of my friends is ex-Amish. When I asked him how far back he can trace his Amish roots to, he said, “Well…to the 1500’s”…imagine how life altering that is, to walk away from hundreds of years of belief…
August 24, 2026 at 9:10 PM
One of my friends is ex-Amish. When I asked him how far back he can trace his Amish roots to, he said, “Well…to the 1500’s”…imagine how life altering that is, to walk away from hundreds of years of belief…
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Not the main point, but these creeps clearly used "A.i." for their crappy logo that randomly put the spine of the book on the edge of the back cover instead of between the front and back covers.
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
www.404media.co
August 17, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Not the main point, but these creeps clearly used "A.i." for their crappy logo that randomly put the spine of the book on the edge of the back cover instead of between the front and back covers.
Just another day being happy to create a life free from high control religion
June 24, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Just another day being happy to create a life free from high control religion
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“A.i.” reproduces all the sexism and racism and bigotry of its inputs. If you use it uncritically, you’re accepting and furthering all that bullshit.
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
June 17, 2026 at 5:50 AM
“A.i.” reproduces all the sexism and racism and bigotry of its inputs. If you use it uncritically, you’re accepting and furthering all that bullshit.
Kept this movie theater prop here for a few days for a friend, I dared to touch the fly!
July 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Kept this movie theater prop here for a few days for a friend, I dared to touch the fly!
Had so much fun last night at our “FilmLuck”!
Thank you Mistress of the Reel for coming!
Thank you Mistress of the Reel for coming!
January 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Had so much fun last night at our “FilmLuck”!
Thank you Mistress of the Reel for coming!
Thank you Mistress of the Reel for coming!