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Title I spoke to you with silence : essays from queer Mormons of marginalized genders / edited by Kerry Spencer Pray and Jenn Lee Smith
Published Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages)
Contents Foreword / by Lisa Diamond -- Introduction / by Kerry Spencer Pray and Jenn Lee Smith -- Part I: Essays of identity -- Introduction to Part I / by Jenn Lee Smith -- The thing about secrets / by Amanda Farr -- Memoir of a Wikta / by Naji Haska Runs Through -- Frank Pellett's story / by Frank Pellett -- On hair and intersections / by Sarah Pace -- I give you a name (& this is my blessing) / by Aisling "Ash" Rowan -- Immersive theater / by Jenn Lee Smith -- My agender, autistic Mormon life / by Mette Harrison -- Married and bisexual / by Amber Lewis -- The silence that echoes / by Melissa Malcolm King -- Part II: Essays on relationships -- Introduction to Part II / by Kerry Spencer Pray -- I do not sing for my husband / by Jenny Smith -- I spoke to you with silence / by Anonymous -- On the side of love / by Bobbie Lee-Corry -- Cute : a polycule / by Bea Goodman -- Wedding dress / by Anonymous -- Love and change / by Blair Ostler -- Noticed / by Anyonymous -- Ordinary magnificent / by Kerry Spencer Pray -- Melaleuca / by Kel Purcill -- On cleaving / by Kerry Spencer Pray -- Part III: Essays on shame, suicide, and the closet -- Introduction to Part III / by Kimberly Anderson -- Closed casket / by V.H. -- A conversation I'll never have / by Jasper Brennan -- Out/Into the closet / by Anonymous -- The ocean that shaped me / by Abby Kidd -- Hard conversations / by Jaclyn Foster -- Lynette's story / by Kerry Spencer Pray -- By their fruits ye shall know them / by Jodie Palmer -- Way in the closet, serving the Lord / by Judith Miller -- Part IV: Essays on the church -- Introduction to Part IV / by Taylor Petrey -- Unspeakable / by Eliana Massey -- I owe a debt / by Rebecca Moore -- If I can find hope anywhere, that's the best I can do / by Kaja M. Kaniweska -- With a firm hope / Miranda Ybarra -- Minha auto aceitação (my self-acceptance) / by Cristina Moraes -- E se? (What if?) / by Irving Diego Santos -- Seeking courage, pride, and limits / by Chelsea Gibbs -- The binary / by Ari Glass -- Five stories of why I don't belong / by Chris Davis -- Pioneer pattern / by Alma Linda Martinez -- My Lord has come / Becca Barrus -- God sits in my kitchen sometimes / by Jaclyn Foster -- Contributors
Summary "I Spoke to You with Silence" is a collection of original essays and previously published writing that first appeared on blogs and social media outlets where self-identifying Mormons of marginalized genders share their thoughts anonymously without risking friendships, their marriages, their standing in the church, or their lives"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Gender identity -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Gender identity -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches
Sexual orientation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Gender identity -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Gender identity -- Religious aspects -- Mormon Church
Sexual orientation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
LGBTQ+ Mormons.
Genre/Form Essays
Essays.
Form Electronic book
Author Pray, Kerry Spencer, editor.
Smith, Jenn Lee, editor.
LC no. 2022000319
ISBN 1647690803
9781647690809