Opening the Brodie nominations and closing the X-Mormon of the Year Nominations!
We’ve got some great nominations for X-Mormon of the Year — you can continue to add nominations until we begin voting on Wednesday, January 2.
And now it’s that time of year again to start collecting the nominations for the Brodie Awards!!!
This is the fourth year of the Brodie Awards. Just have a look at the winners from the last three years to see which excellent sites and works have already won!!!
I’ll start with the proposed categories, and then I’ll follow up with the proposed guidelines:
Year-long awards for people and websites:
- Best New Blog
- Best Discussion Forum
- Best Humor/Satire Site or Blog
- Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog
- Best LDS-Interest Audio/Video Channel/Series
- Best LDS-Interest Photo Blog
Awards for Individual Works:
- Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction)
- Best LDS-Interest Book (Non-fiction)
- Funniest Humor Piece
- Best LDS-Interest Comic or Image
- Best Poem
- Most Amusing Vignette or Personal Anecdote
- Most Poignant Personal Story
- Best Deconversion/Exit Story
- Best “Mormon Life Journey” Post
- Most Insightful Discussion of Mormon Beliefs, Practices, and Culture
- Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion
- Best Response to Apologetics
- Best Discussion of Mormon (or former-Mormon) Community
- Most Interesting Interfaith Interaction
- Best Chat with the Bishop, Mishies, or Other Church Leaders
- Best LDS Church Watch
- Best News Reporting
- Best LDS-Related Political Commentary
- Best Religion-and-Gender Discussion
- Best Religion-and-Homosexuality Discussion
- Best Religion-and-Race Discussion
- Best Religion-and-Parenting Discussion
- Best Erotic or Sexual Piece
- Best History Piece
- Best Science Piece
- Best Review
- Best Post Title
As you know, the idea behind the Brodies is to highlight excellent work from all over the LDS-interest Internet, and introduce as many people as possible to great blogs they may not be aware of. Last year’s guidelines worked pretty well, so let’s use them again this year:
- Please nominate as many people, sites, and articles as you want. However, please do not nominate more than two individual works by any one author.
- You are allowed (even encouraged!) to nominate your own works. No more than two, though.
- Please nominate works that first appeared during 2012.
- Please try to nominate people and works that have some connection with Mormonism or with Outer Blogness (eg. either the work touches on Mormonism, or the author is a current or former Mormon and/or is an active participant in our community).
- A category must have at least three nominations in order to be included in the voting and awards phase.
- You may suggest your own categories — however please do it as early as possible in the nominations process, to give others plenty of time to add nominations in your proposed categories.
- Any other proposed changes to the categories or to the guidelines are welcome — feel free to discuss it in the comments.
- The nominations will be open for two weeks. (And I’ll add my own nominations when I make the polls.)
I can’t wait to review all of the best works from 2012!!!
Best LDS-Interest Audio/Video Channel/Series
Infants on Thrones! https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=1&gs_ri=hp&tok=lBzxFor6SefcCG_y1mHA7w&cp=10&gs_id=12&xhr=t&q=infants+on+thrones&pf=p&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&oq=infants+on&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.b2I&fp=6eb1946313ccd7d2&bpcl=40096503&biw=1366&bih=659
And here is the actual site and not the Google search (sorry).
http://infantsonthrones.com/
Best Review
http://infantsonthrones.com/under-the-banner-of-heaven/
Cool — I wasn’t even aware of that site!! I’ll have to subscribe and add it to Outer Blogness.
Best New Blog (self nomination)
Mormon Infographics
New in 2012 on August 2nd
Best New Podcast
Helaman’s Rejects Podcast
New in 2012 on December 2nd
Wow, another new podcast!! Very cool, as is the Infographics site. 😀
Another vote for Best new podcast “Helaman’s Rejects”
I’d like to nominate the True Believing Mormons for best humor/satire site or blog.
Ex: http://www.truebelievingmormons.com/mormon-beliefs/about-black-people/
Best Discussion Forum: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/" title="exmormon subreddit"
Best Response to Apologetics:
Best Discussion Forum: the exmormon subreddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/
Best Response to Apologetics: AngelicFerrit’s project to translate the Book of Mormon into plain English.
http://angelicferret.com/wiki/BoM
p.s. Oops, I thought I had the syntax right the first time. I guess not.
Best New Blog
Postmormongirl
Best Humor/Satire Site or Blog
Stake President’s blog RIP President Paternoster
Best faithful-perspective Mormon Blog
Wheat and Tares
Excellent — keep ’em coming!!!
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Most Poignant Personal Story
And Suddenly Life Imploded by Natalie about her mom’s death
Most Insightful Discussion of Mormon Beliefs, Practices, and Culture
Watch where you’re walking
Best Response to Apologetics
Runtu’s response here and
here
Best LDS Church Watch
Hold your breath Caffeine watch!
Best News Reporting
Runtu’s Do not ever slap or poke an elder
Best Religion-and-Gender Discussion (There’s a lot for this category, lots of good stuff this year).
Zelophehad’s Daughters Everything I know about feminism I learned from the 1970s
The peacewriter’s A Woman’s Place parts 1, 2, 3 and
4
The dignity of your womanhood the mormon child bride’s call to feminist action (starting the pants’ thing)
Best Religion-and-Parenting Discussion
What will I teach my kids?
Best History Piece
Circling the wagons
I don’t know what category to put this in. Best mormon social science research?
Mormon emotionality compared to other contructions of emotions
I don’t know which category to put this in either. Are you experiencing Ex mormon stereotype threat?
I still have more to go, but that’s what I have this morning.
Most Insightful Discussion of Mormon Beliefs, Practices, and Culture: curious_mormon’s tabulation comparing “the party” from Orwell’s 1984 to the LDS church.
http://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/vg4t6/comparing_the_lds_church_to_the_party_from_george/
Best Response to Apologetics: curious_mormon’s list of top ten smoking guns against mormonism.
http://mormoncanon.com/articles/Smoking-guns
Most Interesting Interfaith Interaction:
Romney’s Religion: Garrett Amini interviewed by Valerie Tarico. This was a very concise and clear discussion about mormonism for those coming from an evangelical christian or non-religious background.
http://seattlecommunitymedia.org/series/moral-politics/episode/romneys-religion-mormonism
Who knew we got so much spam? Amazing.
We don’t necessarily get that much — it’s just the way the software works. If you post a comment that’s full of links, it generally gets flagged as spam. Another solution — as 4blockhead has discovered — is to post each nomination in a separate comment.
BTW, the link on “Watch where you’re walking” @13 is broken.
I’d like to nominate Ex-Mormon Mavens http://exmormonmavens.com for best new blog. Will come up with more nominations later. 🙂
One more for best new blog: http://postmormongirl.blogspot.com
Is it egotistical to nominate myself? I’m going to do it anyway…
Best Religion-and-Gender Discussion:
http://stillme-thejourney.blogspot.com/2012/03/heavenly-codependency.html
And for Best “Mormon Life Journey†Post
http://stillme-thejourney.blogspot.com/2012/11/living-is-point.html
Also for Best “Mormon Life Journey” Post – just about any of Kiley’s posts. But this one is my favorite:
http://weweregoingtobequeens.blogspot.com/2012/11/oh-horror.html
Of course, you can’t forget FLAK in the discussion board category.
http://www.furtherlightandknowledge.net/
And I don’t know where to put this one, but I want to put it somewhere:
http://surelyyourenotserious.blogspot.com/2012/12/ctr-or-as-grace-would-say-cuh-tuh-err.html
For most poignant story, I would like to nominate Paul Senzee’s “Let The Dead Bury The Dead”
http://paulsenzee.blogspot.com/2012/10/dead-bury-dead.html
Paul Senzee also did a guest post for my blog on male sexuality in Mormonism that I would like to nominate for the Best Sexual Piece Category
http://postmormongirl.blogspot.com/2012/09/guest-post-male-sexuality-mormon-church.html
Given some of the discussion topics from the past year we might do well to have a Best Discussion of Mormonism And Sexuality category
I will come up with more nominations in a little bit.
Still working on the Watch where you’re walking post…
Most Amusing Vignette or Personal Anecdote
more coke and pepsi by Donna Banta
Best Philosophical/Theological Discussion
Oxymormon girl/postmormon girl Fostering a good environment for independent thought
Best LDS-Related Political Commentary
Spooky Mormon Hell Dream by Donna Banta
Best Religion-and-Homosexuality Discussion
Pride in Utah’s response to the same sex parenting study
And Pride in Utah had a lot of good stuff, lots of great news reporting, particularly with the election.
Best news reporting
abstinence only sex ed studies in Utah – what does the data show?
I know that this site:
http://www.exmormonhymnbook.blogspot.com/
isn’t exactly a new site for 2012 as it started late 2011 so I’m not really sure what category it would fall under, but I feel like it needs some sort of recognition.
Most Poignant Personal Story
Post entitled “But I was Only 5” dated 6/27/12. Very touching and introspective.
Most Poignant Personal Story
I’d also like to nominate the post entitled “Horseback Riding with My Dad” dated 4/15/2012. Not only poignant, but a very sad discussion of his dad’s “Final Dismissal.” This sentence in particular struck me: “…it wasn’t so much that I was afraid of the animal, but that I was afraid of doing something wrong that would elicit a verbal and abusive tirade from my dad.”
I don’t know why, but on my two nominations (# 34 and 35 above), the website didn’t show up in my post – both are for http://thegaydot.blogspot.com/.
http://mormonismschism.blogspot.com
I’d like to nominate 3 posts from this blog (self-nomination):
Have You Studied Beliefs of the Mormon Church? LDS Hymn Parody #68 (dated 6/11/2012).
City Creek Center in Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah (dated 4/3/2012) – contains LDS Hymn Parody entitled, “They, the Builders of the Mall.”
Oh, Holy Crap, It’s Filled with Lies – LDS Hymn Parody #60 (dated 2/29/2012)
http://wardgossip.blogspot.com
One of the best blogs around by a very talented writer named Donna Banta. So many great posts (and some very funny ones), but I would like to nominate a recent one named “End of the World Confessional to the Abbottsville Fourth,” dated 12/20/2012.
http://mormonismschism.blogspot.com
Best Poem
Another self-nomination. “Limerick ala Mormonism,” which was posted on my Mormonism Schism blog on 4/6/2012.
@33 I think the best bet would be to change the “photography blog” category (which is generally a small one) and have a category for blogs that are specialized to showcase a particular type of artistic work. So the blog of Hymn parodies would fit, as would a blog that is just artwork, etc.
Does that seem reasonable? Any other suggestions…?
I am absolutely thrilled to see how many people are getting excited about these awards and getting in their nominations early!! I think this is the liveliest year so far!
(However, I would like to remind people that — as per the guidelines — each person should only nominate two works by any one author, including self-nominations.)
exmormonmavens.com
I’d like to nominate or second nominations for
Best New Blog
postmormongirl’s blog
and
Mormon Infographics
Best Discussion Forum (hands down!)
http://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/
Best Erotic or Sexual Piece
(self-nomination)
Oreo
@40 Chanson
@”Specialized” Blogs. Perhaps change my nomination for Mormon Infographics to that category? It’s not a traditional blog. I’m not much for writing it’s more of a visual project.
Best Apologetic Response
“Tactics of a Mormon Apologist” by Flackerman
I don’t know what category but the best video of 2012 has got to be Behind the Veil
Or maybe is there a category “Most controversial”?
Best History Piece
“Seers, seerstones, scrying, and folk magic. Timeline in the Palmyra area”
by Mythrin
I’d like to nominate for best new blog:
Ex-Mormon Mavens
Post Mormon Girl
Best Discussion Forum:
Feminist Mormon Housewives Society facebook group
New Order Mormon Discussion Boards
Mormon Expressions VIP Lounge facebook group
Best Satire Blog:
Paternoster (but alas that has ended and I am sad)
Runtu’s Blog
Best Faithful Perspective Blog:
Feminist Mormon Housewives
Doves and Serpents
C. Jane Kendrick’s blog
Best Audio/Visual Channel or Series:
Mr. Deity for sure!
Mormon Expositor
FMH Podcast
Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction):
Chaste by Angela Felsted
Best LDS-Interest Book (Non-fiction):
Understanding the Tao Te Ching by Spencer K. Wright
Mormon Diaries by Sophia L. Stone
And while I’m not sure what category they fall under, Bart’s Mormon infographics definitely deserve to be nominated for something. They are just too good!
Sorry, my again. Best Religion and Gender discussion. I’m not sure whether I’m allowed to second the Peace Writer “Women’s Place” series. But either way, there’s this really good comparison of the YM and YW manuals by Laura C.
It’s absolutely amazing, IMO.
http://www.dovesandserpents.org/wp/2012/10/manuals/
Shoot, I hit the post button too soon. This is the title of the Laura C. article–“Why Language Matters: A Side-by-Side Look at a Lesson from the New YW/YM Manuals”
@43 Excellent idea! It makes perfect sense to group Mormon Infographics with the ExMormon Hymnbook because they’re different from traditional blogs in kind of the same way. “Best Specialized Blog” it is!
@44 If there were at least three good videos in 2012, then there should definitely be a category for “Best Video”.
@46 – 48 Excellent choices! Of course you can second other people’s nominations if you like.
If there’s a video category, could there be a music category as well. I think it’d be really cool to have Cate Rawson’s pants song on there. And the one that’s a tongue-in-cheek response to it.
Cate: http://youtu.be/GPYtQna1VYA
milliemontag: http://youtu.be/Vmze01JJj3Y
I’ve got one too, but it’s more satirical and is set to the words of “called to serve him.”
http://youtu.be/SEVE1rRlJas
Oh, gosh, this is so going to be flagged as spam. Too many links.