The idea of “love languages” makes a lot of sense. Two people may love each other, yet have a disconnect on communicating that love because they express and perceive love in different ways. However, I’ve always felt that the standard set of love languages (from the original book by Gary…
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C. L. Hanson is the friendly Swiss-French-American ExMormon atheist mom living in Switzerland! Follow me on mastadon at @chanson@social.linux.pizza or see "letters from a broad" for further adventures!!
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Post-Mormon Media: Past, Present, and Future!
This is a short presentation I gave as part of the panel “Who Gets to Say What Former Mormons are Like?” at Sunstone 2024, organized by Chino Blanco, which was a reprise of the panel of the same name that I organized in 2012. When I set off for BYU…
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Congratulations Brodie Award Winners 2023!!!
Wow, there were some tightly-contested races this year!! Best YouTube channel got more than 1500 votes! Congratulations to the winners and a big thanks to everyone who participated!! Year-long awards: Best new LDS-interest site/blog/channel/content creator 2023: Floodlit.org Best LDS-interest YouTube channel 2023: Nemo the Mormon Best LDS-interest TikTok channel 2023:…
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It’s Time to Vote for the 2023 Brodie Awards!!!
The polls are here!! Thanks to everyone who nominated — I’m really thrilled that so many people are helping keep this venerable tradition alive — to help recognize/promote the best LDS-interest content of the year!!! Sorry about the delay (I meant to post the polls yesterday), but it was actually…
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Congratulations to 2023 X-Mormon of the Year: Adam Steed!!!
Please note that the Brodie Awards nominations will remain open until Sunday, January 14, and we especially need more nominations of new creators who started in 2023 — nominate here!! Congratulations to Adam Steed — 2023’s William Law X-Mormon of the Year!!! Adam won for exposing the “horribly unethical” therapist…
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It’s time to vote for X-Mormon of the Year 2023!!!
Before you vote on this, please be aware that the Brodie Awards nominations are still open and will continue to be open until at least Wednesday, January 3 (possibly until the weekend, depending on my schedule…). I’ve already started consolidating the categories and adding my own nominations to make it…
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2023 Nomination-palooza!!
First, I’d like to post the polls for X-Mormon of the Year on the 27th of December, so please add your last-minute nominations in the comments below. Here’s who we have so far: Ryan Gosling (for his role as a TK smoothie!) Jessi Hildebrandt (for speaking out about abuse) Adam…
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Collecting Nominations for the 2023 Brodie Awards!!
It’s finally awards season again! As always, the objective of the “Brodie Awards” is to give a bit more recognition and signal boost to creative works by ex-Mormons (or any liberal Mo’s willing to hang with us) that have LDS-interest subject matter. And as usual, I’ll review the guidelines, then…
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Collecting Nominations for X-Mormon of the year 2023!!!
It’s that time of year — awards season once again! And — as usual — we start with nominations for William Law X-Mormon of the Year!! As always, the X-Mormon of the Year award goes to the X-Mormon who made the biggest public splash in the year in question (2023…
Gender
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Toxic Femininity and Mormonism
When the concept of “toxic masculinity” first started gaining popularity, I saw various articles and social media posts saying essentially “Oh yeah? Well there’s toxic femininity too!!” As if that were a rebuttal or response to the theory of toxic masculinity. I think those folks completely missed the point. The…