Writing the wrongs KIWI COMMUNE SURVIVOR’S BRAVE STAND
After growing up in New Zealand’s most notorious commune, Rachel King felt nothing but shame.
“It was a secret that I was really embarrassed of,” says the Aucklander of her time at the Centrepoint community in the 1980s. “And when I did start telling people, I just assumed they would hate me and that they wouldn’t want to be my friend any more, so I pushed them away. I was very protective of myself.”
The emotional damage she suffered during her four years in
