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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!!

Gathering MORE nominations for the 2017 Brodie Awards!!

chanson, January 14, 2018January 15, 2018

The voting for X-Mormon of the Year is underway you have until January 20th to get your vote in!! As usual, we’re also doing the Brodie Awards — a fun little yearly activity intended to give some extra recognition and signal boost to the best LDS-interest content published/posted during the…

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It’s time to vote for X-Mormon of the Year 2017!!!

chanson, January 6, 2018January 8, 2018

It’s poll time for William Law X-Mormon of the Year! Before you vote, though, please consider nominating your favorite bloggers, podcasters, etc. for this year’s Brodie Awards! Anyone can nominate. Here are this year’s X-MotY nominees and what they did in 2017: Jacinda Ardern: This exmo became Prime Minister of…

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Collecting nominations for the 2017 Brodie Awards!!!

chanson, December 31, 2017

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…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Towel girls edition!

chanson, December 26, 2017

Thanks to everyone who has been contributing nominations for X-Mormon of the Year! I am planning to start collecting nominations for the Brodie Awards this weekend, and then the following weekend, I’ll post the polls to vote for X-Mormon of the Year. So, the Mormon community got some exciting news…

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Collecting nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2017!!!

chanson, December 17, 2017December 31, 2017

Hey folks — it’s that time of year again! Time to decide which X-Mormon made the biggest splash in 2017!! As I said a few weeks ago, it seems like the “Mormon Moment” is over. It seems like there haven’t been as many high-profile excommunications or original public demonstrations during…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Books edition!

chanson, December 10, 2017

Yay, Mormon Alumni Association Books is finally taking off! I just got the first proof copy of our first book in the mail: Now I need to do some work on updating the website — the current list of books there is a list of recommended titles from other publishers…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: The Mormon Moment is Over Edition!

chanson, November 26, 2017

It seems like a couple of years ago there was some LDS-related scandal practically every other week — often making national and international news. Now, not so much. I guess the CoJCoL-dS can’t compete with Trump. Those were the days. Well, let me scrape together what Mormon news I found…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Girl Boy Scouts edition!

chanson, October 29, 2017

When I was a kid growing up Mormon, I wanted to do all of the fun, cool things the Boy Scouts got to do. It wasn’t that the scouting program was ideal so much as the fact that the boys got infinitely more resources (and recognition) for their activities than…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Conference Fallout Edition!

chanson, October 8, 2017

Did you get a chance to watch or listen to the latest General Conference? If not, you can get some of the highlights from Alex. Or listen to the Infants’ usual parody. (Or maybe listen to their ghost stories instead.) Brooke W didn’t care for the message that everything is…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: BYU Coke edition!

chanson, September 24, 2017

In my day, “caffeinated pop” was one of those sinful beverages that good Mormons avoided. Then it became a point of controversy, and then President Newsroom announced that there’s not actually any rule against it. And now Brigham Young University has finally started allowing the sale of Coke with caffeine…

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  1. Pam on Time to Vote for X-MoOTY and the Brodie Awards 2025!!January 10, 2026

    I have not watched even half of the content providers out there. I will be expanding my viewing now that…

  2. Juanita Hartill on Time to Vote for X-MoOTY and the Brodie Awards 2025!!January 8, 2026

    Was not aware of a lot of these different forums and things. Will be checking them out.

  3. Jeanny Nakaya on 2025 Awards Season ScheduleJanuary 8, 2026

    Awesome work!!!!

  4. chanson on Last Call for Nominations!!January 8, 2026

    Thanks for all of the great nominations, everyone!! Nominations are closed. Vote here.

  5. Tom on Collecting Nominations for William Law X-Mormon of the Year 2025!!!January 7, 2026

    I nominate Rebecca Biblioteca and Mormonish for their coverage of the Fairview Temple debacle.

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