Meet Alexa and Parker, siblings who grew up as part of a religious group their family ultimately left. Now both in college together, they use this conversation to share the ongoing effects of abandoning their church and the unexpected depth to which their religious teaching is embedded in both of them and manifests in their lives even today. They reveal the sometimes contradictory assumptions they’ve made about each other since leaving the church, they discuss Parker’s inability to fully understand Alexa’s queer identity, and they confess how their relationship may look if they weren't siblings. Here’s Alexa and Parker’s conversation about their experience as siblings, a powerful reflection on what it means to be family.

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