"Mormon and Queer at the Crossroads" released!

The Spring 2011 issue of Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought was released this week, and as
promised, here's a

copy of my 32-page article "Mormon and Queer at the Crossroads."

(Yay!)

 

Teaching Yaoi to Undergrads

Today I lectured undergrads about yaoi.  My friend's course is a comparative literature course on Japanese manga, and this week was "boys' love" week.  I had read all the students' response papers to a 2002 BL manga titled Only the Ring Finger Knows; it was fascinating to read all the different perspectives from students with different views about homosexuality.  I framed my words around theirs.

Racialized Domestic Servitude and the Perfect Mormon Housewife

Click for my post at Main Street Plaza.

2010 LGBT issues in the Church: optimism or pessimism?

I’m taking this topic from Joanna Brooks and John-Charles Duffy at Religion Dispatches who are optimistic and pessimistic respectively about what 2010 said about LGBT issues in the Church.

Mormonism, disability, same-gender attraction

Click for my post at Main Street Plaza.

Queer Mormon essay to be published!

My essay "Mormon and Queer at the Crossroads" has officially been accepted into Dialogue:  A Journal of Mormon Thought!  The editor, Kristine Haglund, has informed me that it will most likely show up in the Spring 2011 issue.  I'll have one more chance to make perfectionist edits after the copy editor goes through it...and well, I already see a few tweaks here and there, but I also want the thing to be done.

The topic is so contentious.  I look forward to the discussion it generates...I cover a lot of important points.  (I even have slightly grandiose ideas about changing the world.)  At about 8500 words with 92 footnotes (might still change), it's my first major scholarly publication.

My hope is that the essay can land me [at some unspecified point down the road] in a Ph.D. program of some sort.  This is one of those interdisciplinary pieces:  queer theory, feminist studies, cultural studies, history, psychology, sociology of religion, even a little bit of law.

Lord of the White Hell by Ginn Hale

Lord of the White Hell - Book 1 (of 2) by Ginn Hale
Blind Eye Books
Rating:  3 out of 5

Michael and I were both excited when this book arrived.  We read it aloud to each other a chapter at a time.  We had high expectations because we've read a couple other titles from Blind Eye Books (Hale's debut Wicked Gentleman and Astrid Amara's The Archer's Heart) that we both liked...