Violet Summer Zine Issue 8

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Desiree’s Testimony The below video testimonies feel all too familiar with that time in college when I explored Greek life but transferred and never went through with the process. I stumbled upon a Youtube video titled “Denouncing AKA” by a southern girl named Desiree Grace. From the title, I knew I had to watch and I didn’t care that it was over thirty minutes of a stranger talking confessional-style into a camera about her Greek life experience. She said ya’ll going to get this testimony one way another! The video was published a few months ago and has already amassed hundreds of thousands of views and has even influenced other Youtubers to share similar stories. “We didn’t understand the severity and context of the oaths when we were making them. No throwing shade,” Grace compassionately reveals to her audience. In two videos on her channel called “Corporate and Cultured,” she explains why she divorced herself from the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc and the Divine Nine community because she felt it wasn’t Godly. With that introduction, this young woman proceeds to go through the receipts of why she is denouncing an organization that she says is getting in the way of her religion. Hear her testimony about what ruined her social life.

Watch “Denouncing AKA and Greek Life In General” https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=SPdNQWDKCgc

Watch Why I Sotpped The Process: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=CUlgp6NJ_iE

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