The Difficult Work of the Oppressed Oppressor

Jamie Arpin-Ricci
4 min readFeb 28, 2022
(banner art by Jamie Arpin-Ricci)

Growing up as a closeted bisexual man in a conservative, evangelical community- all while being the student council president of my Christian high school, a principal actor in our church drama team, and openly dedicated to a lifetime of missionary service- meant that I carried a fair amount of trauma early on. Years later, when I had both fully come out and declared my fully LGBTQ+ affirming theology, I went on…

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Jamie Arpin-Ricci

Jamie Arpin-Ricci is a bisexual author & activist with more than 25 years experience living at the intersection of faith, sexuality, and justice.