Full Name
Mattie Jo Cowsert
Job Title
Actor, Author, Shameless Oversharer
Company
Mattie Jo Cowsert
Speaker Bio
Actor, Author, Shameless Oversharer.
Mattie Jo was a pastor’s kid and proud purity ring wearer before she moved to New York City and experienced an identity implosion thanks to Tinder and her Jewish roommate. When marriage equality passed in 2015, Mattie Jo decided to share how the queer community was one of the catalysts for questioning everything she’d been taught about this Jesus guy in her first publicly released blog post entitled: God and the Gays. This was the start of her popular blog, God, Sex, and Rich People.
Before terms like “deconstruction”, “purity culture” or “Exvangelical'' became hashtags viewed by billions, God, Sex, and Rich People exposed the sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious realities of a young female Exvangelical dissecting her religious beliefs, working for the 1%, and trying to have good sex without hating herself.
The pitch for God, Sex, and Rich People, the TV series developed by Mattie Jo, won the Audience Choice Award at the 2024 Yale Innovation Summit. Upon winning the audience choice award, Mattie Jo was invited to be an artist in residence at Makerstate -- an artistic incubator program in partnership with MIT + Yale.
Mattie Jo wrote, directed, and executive produced the proof of concept for the GSRP TV show in 2021, which premiered at the Omaha Film Festival in 2023 and has received over 1.1 million views since its September 2024 online release!
Mattie Jo’s book by the same title released in September 2024. The launch party was hosted by Neuehouse Madison Square featured popular #exvangelical influencer Brian Recker, host of the #1 deconstruction podcast The New Evangelicals Tim Whitaker, and Purity Culture expert Erica Smith.
She has appeared on The New Evangelicals Podcast, Ellen Fischer Podcast, Girl Boner Radio among many others. She was invited by author Linda Kay Klein to join the Voices and Faces + Breakfree Together collaboration writing cohort on Religious Trauma, one of only ten individuals across the US to be selected. A one woman show based in her blog and book is currently
in development.
Mattie Jo was a pastor’s kid and proud purity ring wearer before she moved to New York City and experienced an identity implosion thanks to Tinder and her Jewish roommate. When marriage equality passed in 2015, Mattie Jo decided to share how the queer community was one of the catalysts for questioning everything she’d been taught about this Jesus guy in her first publicly released blog post entitled: God and the Gays. This was the start of her popular blog, God, Sex, and Rich People.
Before terms like “deconstruction”, “purity culture” or “Exvangelical'' became hashtags viewed by billions, God, Sex, and Rich People exposed the sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious realities of a young female Exvangelical dissecting her religious beliefs, working for the 1%, and trying to have good sex without hating herself.
The pitch for God, Sex, and Rich People, the TV series developed by Mattie Jo, won the Audience Choice Award at the 2024 Yale Innovation Summit. Upon winning the audience choice award, Mattie Jo was invited to be an artist in residence at Makerstate -- an artistic incubator program in partnership with MIT + Yale.
Mattie Jo wrote, directed, and executive produced the proof of concept for the GSRP TV show in 2021, which premiered at the Omaha Film Festival in 2023 and has received over 1.1 million views since its September 2024 online release!
Mattie Jo’s book by the same title released in September 2024. The launch party was hosted by Neuehouse Madison Square featured popular #exvangelical influencer Brian Recker, host of the #1 deconstruction podcast The New Evangelicals Tim Whitaker, and Purity Culture expert Erica Smith.
She has appeared on The New Evangelicals Podcast, Ellen Fischer Podcast, Girl Boner Radio among many others. She was invited by author Linda Kay Klein to join the Voices and Faces + Breakfree Together collaboration writing cohort on Religious Trauma, one of only ten individuals across the US to be selected. A one woman show based in her blog and book is currently
in development.
