Poh Ling Yeow

I think I was attracted to a space.

It's interesting because it actually ties into taboo a bit.

Yeah.

Um, which is that they were attractive to me, not necessarily in the space of faith, but it was an environment that I felt safe around boys in.

Right.

Cause I, well, and I, and I, and cause I was at the age where I was interested in boys, I felt like, um, safe in those spaces.

So I felt, um,

That was a big attraction point for me.

But I think it was also finding a tribe because I was a bit of a loner at school.

I wasn't, like, popular.

And these kinds of organized, you know, organized religion offers you this sort of, like, instant family.

And everyone seems very unjudgmental and very, like,

very sort of, what's the word, like unconditional until you sort of delve into the doctrines and stuff.

And that's when it all fell apart for me because as my brain started to expand, as I matured philosophically, and then I met my ex-husband who was in the same space, we were both in the arts.

And then...

I travelled and my first bestie was, you know, that I met overseas was trans and my world just imploded like in terms of philosophically.

And I had to find a new way of thinking very quickly because I just couldn't hold those thoughts.

I couldn't hold that sort of dogma in place anymore with the experience that I was having.

You moved to Australia at about nine years old, right?

Yeah.