Quantum Witch: where religious cults collide with 80s Spectrum games

In her teens, Jay came out as a lesbian and was immediately disowned by the group. After a period of homelessness, she taught herself coding and got a job as a software engineer – but the need to share her experiences haunted her. “The things I had been through in the past were always churning around my head,” she says. “I thought: ‘I have to do something with this. I can’t just sit on this trauma.’ I knew there were people who had been through the same thing. I wanted to give them a story to identify with and let them know better things are out there.”