I had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Brodie at KJZZ (Phoenix's NPR affiliate) about Romney's senate campaign. Listen here!
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Slate: Mitt Romney’s Mormon Mission
At Slate, I wrote about Mitt Romney's Senate campaign (see an excerpt below. Also you can listen to piece read aloud (!) via Slate's Daily Spoken edition... the reader's mispronouncement of my name can be forgiven in light of the savior of the republic--Bob Mueller's--own failure to pronounce our shared last name). According to many, [...]
Racism Makes People Sick: The Legacy of Clark & Clark
Today in "Exile, Exodus, and Zion," we talked about the rise of Jim Crow and Plessy v. Ferguson. We argued that, as was the case with chattel slavery, Jim Crow--and the legal and extralegal violence that propped it up--were experienced as forms of exile; exile from one's own nation, one's own rights, one's own self. [...]
On Trump’s ability to “Colonize Our Brain”
I was so proud this Sunday. Grace Chapel's associate pastor, Steve Allen, spoke directly to the un-Christ-like language (and more importantly) sentiment that the President of the United States used to disparage refugees and immigrants from countries with majority black and brown peoples (Haiti; Africa; El Salvador). If it wasn't clear enough what he meant, [...]
Talking about my “Fundamentalist Christian/Episcopalian/Wiccan Upbringing” with Exponent II
I had the great pleasure of talking about my "Fundamentalist Christian/Episcopalian/Unitarian/Wiccan upbringing"--and a bit about Race and the Making of the Mormon People-- with April Young Bennett on Exponent II's "Religious Feminism Podcast." In it you'll hear me talk about Jane Manning James--and the power (and problems) of making her the symbol for a more diverse, inclusive [...]
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