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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!!
Call for Submissions
Mormon Alumni Association Books is seeking LDS-themed novels in all categories, including literary, commercial, and genre fiction. We will also consider short fiction and poetry collections. We are looking for completed manuscripts that explore the unique Mormon experience. Works may be critical of or sympathetic to the LDS Church and…
Congratulations 2018 Brodies Winners!!!
The results are in!!! Congrats to all the winners, and thanks to all who participated!! Year-long awards for people and groups: Best New Podcast: Marriage on a Tightrope Best New Blog/Channel/Site: Unrigeteous Dominion Best Podcast: Radio Free Mormon Best Humor/Satire Blog/Channel/Podcast: The Drunk Mormon Podcast Best Site of Images/Memes/Comics: Stuff…
Time to vote for the 2018 Brodie Awards!!!
The polls are now ready!! A huge thanks to everyone who nominated and shared with us this fantastic crop of amazing content from 2018!! Year-long awards for people and groups: Best New Podcast Brodies 2018: Best New Podcast Marriage on a Tightrope The Drunk Mormon Podcast Latter Day Lesbian Glass…
Last call for Brodies Nominations!!
Thanks for all of the additional nominations!!! I am really sorry for losing so many nominations between the first and second nomination threads — there was this cute little button marked “older comments” which I somehow didn’t notice when I did my earlier roundup. I hope I have everything now…
Brodies 2018 – intermediate nomination roundup!
Thanks for all of the great nominations so far!! I haven’t added my own nominations yet, but I plan to do so this weekend, and then I’ll make the polls. So you have one more week (from this posting) to nominate and then two weeks to vote. It would appear…
Congratulations to X-Mormon of the year 2018: Sam Young!!!
Sam Young — a former Mormon Bishop — has spent the past few years shining the light on a shameful practice within the CoJCoL-dS: having untrained lay bishops give one-on-one, closed-door interviews with children and teens in which bishops are expected to ask the minors about their sexual experiences (chastity)…
It’s time to vote for William Law X-Mormon of the Year 2018!!!
Wow, we’ve got quite a list of X-Mormons to choose from in 2018!! Wm. Law X-Mormon of the Year 2018 And here are the descriptions of the nominees: McKenna Denson: In March of 2018 she confronted her former mission president and secretly recorded him admitting to sexual assault against her…
Collecting Nominations for the 2018 Brodie Awards!!
The nomination process for X-Mormon of the Year is underway — please be sure to get in your nominations before next weekend when the voting begins. Now, it’s also time to start on the Brodie Awards!! The Brodie Awards are a fun little yearly activity intended to give some extra…
Collecting nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2018!!!
Hey folks — it’s that time of year again! Time to decide which X-Mormon made the biggest splash in 2018!! Sorry to be getting started a little late this year — maybe it’s just that the likeliest candidate has never been more obvious. I’m not going to say who I’m…