As this chapter illustrates, the purity message cuts across racial, ethnic, gender, sexual, national, and even religious borders, intersecting with a range of cultures and identities. And so the tapestry must be unwoven and woven again, as the multicolored stories of individual experiences from across multiple spectrums are told. Until, one day, perhaps we will see the loose end of shame’s thread appear, and know, the spool is empty.
