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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C. L. Hanson is the friendly Swiss-French-American ExMormon atheist mom living in Switzerland! See "letters from a broad" for further adventures!!
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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…
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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…
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Congratulations Brodie Award Winners 2022!!
The votes are in! Here are the winners of the 2022 Brodie Awards!! Year-long awards for sites/channels/etc.: Best New LDS-interest Site 2022: Black Menaces Best LDS-interest Website 2022: LDS Discussions Best LDS-interest Podcast 2022: Radio Free Mormon Best LDS-interest Video Channel 2022: Nemo the Mormon Best LDS-interest Blog or Column…
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Time to Vote for the 2022 Brodie Awards!!!
The nominations are in! Vote here for the 2022 Brodie Awards!! Year-long awards for sites/channels/etc.: Best New LDS-interest Site 2022: Unboxing Queer Mormonism The Widow’s Mite Report Floodlit.org Black Menaces Best LDS-interest Website 2022: LDS Discussions Mormonthink Official Website of the CoJCoL-dS Best LDS-interest Podcast 2022: Radio Free Mormon Human…
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Congratulations David Archuleta: X-Mormon of the Year 2022!!!
David Archuleta has been a beloved LDS performing artist since the early aughts — the sort of charming and wholesome star who makes Mormons look good in the eyes of the public. Only one problem: like a lot of people in showbiz, David is gay. This is not a problem…
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Second call for Brodies nominations 2022!!
Thanks everyone for the fantastic nominations so far!! The Brodie Awards are a way to give an extra shout-out to the great exmo and LDS-interest content over the past year — and you can nominate your favorites!! (See the initial nominations thread for guidelines.) In order to make it easier…