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Author: chanson

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!!

The funnest post of the year!!! (Last call for Brodies nominations!!)

chanson, January 25, 2014January 26, 2014

OK, folks — I have compiled your nominations and reviewed all of my SiOB posts from the past year to put together the nominations for the Brodies!! I think the biggest news for this year is the number of pieces of original research — so I have added an original…

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Congratulations to 2013 X-Mormons of the Year: J. Seth Anderson and Michael Ferguson!!!

chanson, January 23, 2014

It’s an inspiring and exciting story! Couples in California right around Proposition 8 learned that if you don’t get married in the window of time when it’s legal, you might have a long wait before your next opportunity. Failure to block same-sex-marriages legally was apparently an error on the part…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Countdown to awards edition!!!

chanson, January 19, 2014January 19, 2014

Folks, you just have a few more days to vote for X-Mormon of the Year!!! Also, we’re getting tons of great nominations for the Brodie Awards!!! This week I plan to review all of my SiOB posts from 2013 to select all of my nominations, and I will have the…

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Vote for William Law X-Mormon of the Year 2013!!!

chanson, January 16, 2014January 16, 2014

Vote for X-Mormon of the Year 2013!!! Remember that the “X” in “X-Mormon of the Year” is a variable that can stand for any kind of non-mainstream Mormon (eg. feminist Mormon, fundamentalist Mormon). As you will see in the descriptions below, many of the contestants are definitely not “ex-Mormons”!! Here’s…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Gimme some truth edition!

chanson, January 12, 2014

Folks, the Brodies nominations are now open!! Nominate your favorite bloggers and other content providers, and nominate your own best work! (Also, get in your last-minute X-Mormon OTY nominations.) And remember, we’re not the only ones wrapping up 2013: Ziff did his annual round-up of funny comments from the Bloggernacle,…

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Opening the Brodie nominations and closing the X-Mormon of the Year Nominations!

chanson, January 12, 2014January 25, 2014

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 15. And now it’s that time of year again to start collecting the nominations for the Brodie Awards!!! This is the fifth year of the Brodie…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Happy 2014 Edition!

chanson, January 5, 2014

Another year over, and a new one just begun! Naturally, folks are wrapping up the holidays, taking a look at what they’ve done over the past year, and planning for the future with goals! In that vein, we’ll be voting this week on the William Law X-Mormon of the Year…

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Collecting nominations for X-Mormon of the Year!!

chanson, January 1, 2014

It’s that time of year!!! Time to chose the X-Mormon who had the biggest impact on 2013!! As usual, I have been keeping an eye out for candidates all year, and weirdly, this year I haven’t found that many. Maybe with the “Mormon Moment” winding down, it’s famous former-Mormons are…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Gay Polygamy Edition!

chanson, December 29, 2013

What an exciting two weeks it’s been!! But before digging into the links, I’d like to remind everyone that 2013 is drawing to a close, which means that it is awards time!! On New Years Day I plan to open the nominations for the William Law X-Mormon of the Year…

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Merry Christmas!!

chanson, December 24, 2013

Folks, I am really sorry to have missed doing SiOB the other day — especially considering that it was going to be the gay polygamy issue!!! From the minute I finished work on Friday evening, I had a million things to do to get ready for Christmas! So, even though…

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  1. Johnny Townsend on Collecting Nominations for the 2025 Brodie Awards!!December 4, 2025

    LDS (ex-LDS) fiction: Murder at the Jack Off Club by Johnny Townsend Both main characters are gay ex-Mormons. One is…

  2. Collecting Nominations for the 2025 Brodie Awards!! – Main Street Plaza on Collecting Nominations for William Law X-Mormon of the Year 2025!!!December 3, 2025

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  3. Collecting Nominations for William Law X-Mormon of the Year 2025!!! – Main Street Plaza on Congratulations 2024 X-Mormon of the Year: Nemo the Mormon!!!November 27, 2025

    […] he needs to do is make the news by getting excommunicated, like “Nemo the Mormon” did last year. […]

  4. Collecting Nominations for William Law X-Mormon of the Year 2025!!! – Main Street Plaza on Congratulations 2024 Brodie Award Winners!!!!November 26, 2025

    […] ask: “When is RFM going to win?” Well, he has won — plenty of Brodie Awards (see 2024 for…

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Awards

William Law X-Mormon of the Year:

  • 2024: Nemo the Mormon
  • 2023: Adam Steed
  • 2022: David Archuleta
  • 2021: Jeff T. Green
  • 2020: Jacinda Ardern
  • 2019: David Nielsen
  • 2018: Sam Young
  • 2017: Savannah
  • 2016: Jeremy Runnells
  • 2015: John Dehlin
  • 2014: Kate Kelly
  • 2013: J. Seth Anderson and Michael Ferguson
  • 2012: David Tweede
  • 2011: Joanna Brooks
  • 2010: Monica Bielanko
  • 2009: Walter Kirn

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