This part of my website holds a different kind of material from the rest of my work. In 2000, my membership in the Baha’i community was withdrawn by the Universal House of Justice — an event that, in time, became the turning point behind the work I do now. The years that followed involved correspondence, a privacy complaint, and a court case.
The pages that follow set out that history: letters, documents, and a factual account of what took place. They are archival in nature, written to record events rather than to reflect on them.
If you’d like to understand how this period connects to the writing I do now, you can read my account “A Perceptual Shift: The Shift That Made the Book Possible.” If you’d prefer to go straight to the historical record, it follows below.
If you choose to read on, the tone shifts. What follows is more formal and procedural than the rest of my site, closer to a documentary record than to my usual writing.