Voting for X-Mormon of the Year 2024 is underway!! Cast your vote here!!
We started collecting Brodies nominations about a week ago, but to make it simpler for you to add your own nominations (and even your own categories!), I like to create a post that shows the current nominees. That post is here!
Add your nominations in the comments below and please include links. (If your comment gets stuck in the moderation queue, please write me at chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com — thanks!!)
Year Long Awards
Best New LDS-Interest Content Creator 2024 (includes new channels and websites, but the earliest post must date no earlier than Nov/Dec 2023)
Best LDS-Interest Podcast 2024
- Radio Free Mormon
- Mormon Discussion Podcast
- Mormon Stories Podcast
- Infants on Thrones
- Girlscamp
- c & A Podcast
- 21st Century Saints
- Second-Class Saints
- Human Stories with Jill Hazard Rowe
- Latter Gay Stories
Best LDS-Interest Video Channel 2024
- Alyssa Grenfell
- Zelph on the Shelf
- Nemo the Mormon
- The Cultural Hall
- Data over Dogma
- Exmo Lex
- Mormon Civil War
- Cults to Consciousness
- Latter-daily Digest
- TheBackyardProfessor
Best LDS-Interest Discussion Community/Forum 2024
Best LDS-Interest Social Media Contributor 2024
- u/3am_doorknob_turn
- WhiteCatProphecy
- More nominations needed!
Funniest LDS-Interest Humor Site 2024
- The Lord’s Newsroom
- Trekxmo
- It Just Gets Stranger, by Eli McCann
- Daily Mormon
Best LDS-Interest Informational Site 2024
Biggest Mormon Douche Canoe supporting the exmo cause 2024 (Normally I would not allow this category because the Brodies are not intended to be a negative/booby prize, but this category came in from r/mormon, so maybe it’s OK to throw in just one…)
- Hildebrandt
- Ballard(s)
- Bundy
- Bednar
- Hansen
X-Mormon Friend of Year 2024 (This is the converse of the above, and was independently proposed on r/exmormon)
- Mayor Henry Lessner and the city of Fairview Texas for standing up to the Conditional Use Permit
- More nominations needed!
Awards for Individual Works
Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction) 2024
- Tales of Unworthiness, by Paul H. Dumm
- American Trinity, by David G. Pace
- Wrecking Balls: Our People, by E. C. Browne
Best LDS-Interest Book (Narrative non-fiction) 2024
- The Book of Queer Mormon Joy, edited by Kerry Spencer Pray
- Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to my New Life as a Woman, by Laurie Lee Hall
- The Boughs of Love: Navigating the Queer Latter-day Saint Experience During an Ongoing Restoration, by Nathan Kitchen
Best LDS-Interest Book (non-narrative, non-fiction) 2024
- How to Leave the Mormon Church: An Exmormon’s Guide to Rebuilding After Religion, by Alyssa Grenfell
- American Zion: A New History of Mormonism, by Benjamin E Park
- Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality, by Matthew L. Harris
- Goodbye Religion: The Causes and Consequences of Secularization, by Ryan T. Cragun and Jesse M. Smith
- The Devil Sat on My Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah, by Erin Stiles
Best LDS-Interest Work of Poetry or Scripture 2024
- Book of the Lavens, by Evan Sharley
- The NEW Book of Abraham – Chapter 1, by Infants on Thrones
- Objetos de [des]amor: Loss and Longing through a Godless Queer Chicano Lens, by Juan Antonio Trujillo
Best LDS-Interest Song 2024
- I turned Choose the Right into an ExMormon Hymn Parody, by Cultural Hall
- Sacrament, by Die Shiny
- I Made a Parody Song about Joseph Smith, by Cultural Hall
Best LDS-Interest Image 2024
- LDS Church Faces New Class-Action as Members Demand Their Planets
- President Nelson Making More Changes on a Whim..
- Mormon Missionaries, Steinbach 964
Most Humorous LDS-Interest Work 2024
- Church Leaders Worry Prominent LDS Therapist Openly Promoting Healthy Emotional Skills, by the Lord’s Newsroom
- Another Mormon Horror Story, by Donna Banta
- More nominations needed!
Best Exit Story 2024
- Why I No Longer Believe in God (From Mormon to Atheist), by Alyssa Grenfell
- My Excommunication is Official, by Nemo the Mormon
- Leaving the Mormon Church Pt. 3, by c & A Podcast
Best LDS-Interest Video Episode 2024
- More nominations needed!
Best LDS-Interest Short Video 2024
- It’s culty now but it used to be WAYYYY wilder… by Alyssa Grenfell
- Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon? by Nemo the Mormon
- More nominations needed!
Best LDS-Interest Podcast Episode 2024
- Human Stories: Jenni Gracesun
- The Secret Life of an (Ex) Mormon Wife with Jessi Ngatikaura
- More nominations needed!
Best LDS-Interest (Post/Episode) Title 2024
- More nominations needed!
Best LDS-Interest Investagative Reporting 2024
- How the Mormon Church BULLIES Small Towns, by Nemo the Mormon
- Heaven’s Helpline, by Murray Jones
- Utah Bills Itself as “Family-Friendly” Even as Lawmakers Have Long Neglected Child Care, by ProPublica
- The Widow’s Mite Report
Best Activism within the LDS Church 2024
- 21st Century Saints
- Rebecca Biblioteca and Nemo the Mormon for challenging the McKinney, Texas Temple steeple height
- More nominations needed!
Most Insightful Analysis of LDS Culture or Doctrine 2024
- Ballerina Farm and the illusion of choice for Mormon women, by Zelph on the Shelf
- Tapirs are Hate Speech Now? by Nemo the Mormon
- God the Monster, by Holly Welker
- Mormons, I Will Never Forgive You, by Johnny Townsend
Best LDS History Piece 2024
- The Top 15 Evidences Against Book of Mormon Historicity, by Mormon Discussion Inc.
- Did the LDS Church Support the Nazis?, by Radio Free Mormon
- Is “biblical womanhood” real? by Zelph on the Shelf
Best Analysis of Mormonism and Marginalized Groups 2024
- Mormon Church Appeases Bigoted Members with New Transgender Policy, by Cultural Hall
- Second-Class Saints, by Matthew L. Harris
- Community, Exponent II’s Secret to Endurance, by Monya Baker
- Their Not-So-Secret-Lives, by Haley Swenson
Thanks in advance for your nominations!! (See also this reddit thread for more nominations).
Best Analysis of Mormonism and Marginalized Groups 2024: Community, Exponent II’s Secret to Endurance by Monya Baker
https://mainstreetplaza.com/2024/08/27/community-exponent-iis-secret-to-endurance/
Most Insightful Analysis of LDS Culture or Doctrine 2024: God the Monster by Holly Welker
https://mainstreetplaza.com/2024/10/12/god-the-monster/
Most Humorous LDS-Interest Work 2024: Another Mormon Horror Story by Donna Banta (if I do say so myself)
https://mainstreetplaza.com/2024/10/08/another-mormon-horror-story/
Thanks for your nominations!! 😀
Here’s a few more!
Best LDS-Interest Podcast 2024https://www.facebook.com/HumanStoriespod/ Funniest LDS-Interest Humor Site 2024https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/ (Eli McCann) Best LDS-Interest Book (Fiction) 2024Tales of Unworthiness by Paul H. Dumm https://mainstreetplaza.com/2024/09/18/wandering-the-afterlife-never-knowing-the-plot-review-of-tales-of-unworthiness-by-paul-h-dumm/American Trinity by David G. Pacehttps://mainstreetplaza.com/2024/09/13/on-american-trinity/ Best LDS-Interest Book (Narrative non-fiction) 2024The Book of Queer Mormon Joy (edited by Kerry Spencer Pray)https://www.signaturebooks.com/books/p/the-book-of-queer-mormon-joyDictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to my NewLife as a Woman by Laurie Lee Hallhttps://www.facebook.com/HumanStoriespod/posts/laurie-lee-hall-joined-us-again-in-the-studio-and-her-podcast-was-released-this-/897340299042155/Boughs of Love: By Nathan Kitchenhttps://www.associationmormonletters.org/2024/11/nathan-kitchen-on-the-boughs-of-love-navigating-the-queer-latter-day-saint-experience-during-an-ongoing-restoration/ Best LDS-Interest Book (non-narrative, non-fiction) 2024The Devil Sat on My Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World inMormon Utah by Erin Stileshttps://www.associationmormonletters.org/reviews/older-reviews/stiles-the-devil-sat-on-my-bed-encounters-with-the-spirit-world-in-mormon-utah-reviewed-by-monya-baker/
Best LDS-Interest Podcast Episode 2024https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-h2wkc-224812e7?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_shareHuman Stories: Jenni Gracesun moves from sacrificing selffor LDS ideals to self-realization “now life happens for me, not to me) The Secret Life of an (Ex) Mormon Wife with Jessi Ngatikaurahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yZSxCXrDxs Best Analysis of Mormonism and Marginalized Groups 2024Haley Swenson “Their Not-So-Secret-Lives” https://slate.com/life/2024/09/secret-lives-mormon-wives-episodes-taylor-cast.html Best LDS-Interest Investigative Reporting 2024 Utah Bills Itself as “Family-Friendly” Even as LawmakersHave Long Neglected Child Carehttps://www.propublica.org/article/utah-lawmakers-child-care-funding
Thanks for all the nominations so far!! I have added them to this post. If you have sent/posted any nominations and don’t see them here, please comment below or email me at chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com and I will add them.
I marked the categories that need more nominations, but you can nominate in any category, even ones that already have lots of nominees. Additionally, it’s not too late to suggest additional categories.
The category is already full as it is, but for Best LDS-Interest Video Channel: Latter-day Digest
https://www.youtube.com/@Latter-dailyDigest
Best LDs-Interest Youtube channel- Backyard professor
Best LDS-Interest Informational Site- widows mite report
Best new LDS Interest content creator- coffee with kish
Here is one for Beat LDS interest song:
Sacrament by Die Shiney
https://youtu.be/gX2JoACDxgM?si=X9vnJ8fkiKkmVjBk
Thanks so much for the great nominations!!!
I’ve added all of the nominations (received so far) to the above post. If you have sent in a nomination and you don’t see it above, please email me: chanson dot exmormon at gmail dot com
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