Hi kids:
I’m just wondering who’s gonna be at the exmo conference in October? For one, I will be. And I’m traveling a couple thousand miles to be there. I’m really hoping to meet some of you fine folks!
Who’s Gonna Be at the Exmo Conference?
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How Mormonism goads fiction writing
Sometimes, for family home evening, we brainstormed about the end of the world. That’s the first thing I thought when I saw an article in the New York Times on why Mormons have such a prominent place in YA fantasy fiction. Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series and Orson Scott Card’s…
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What Crafting-as-Ministering Can Miss
There’s a joke among Mormons about shoving a cookie through another Mormon’s mail slot on the last day of the month. Actually, I’m not entirely sure it’s a joke. I grew up with my family getting regular visits from ‘home teachers,’ men assigned to my family to check in monthly…
Performing Mormon womanhood
LuLaRoe, Judith Butler, the Family Proclamation, and our invisible Heavenly Mother In the 1990 book Gender Trouble, queer philosopher Judith Butler proposed that gender is not a fixed trait but one that must be constantly performed. Now she’s an academic superstar. But decades earlier, Mormons made a pretty penny perfecting…
That sounds like a lot of fun. Hopefully, I will be defending my dissertation around that time. May be, next year will be a better time for me.
Of course, a lot of local people will be there. I wasn’t able to attend last year, but I did make time to go and meet a lot of internet friends. I’ll be doing the same this year.
Hey when is it? I need to get my ass in gear in order to attend…at least the happy hour!!
I just found out I’m going. So look for the woman in black…and red…LOL
Glad to hear that! Can’t wait to meet you in person!