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I Spoke to You with Silence : Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders / Edited by Kerry Spencer Pray and Jenn Lee Smith.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Pray, Kerry Spencer, editor.
Smith, Jenn Lee, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sexual orientation--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Gender identity--Religious aspects--Latter Day Saint churches.
Gender identity--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Essays--Latter Day Saint authors.
Essays.
Latter Day Saint gay people.
Trans people.
Lesbians.
Gay people.
Sexual orientation.
Gender identity.
Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Homosexuality.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (215 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Other Title:
Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders
Place of Publication:
Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, 2022.
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.
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 It
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.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Other Format:
Print version: Pray, Kerry Spencer I Spoke to You with Silence
ISBN:
1-64769-080-3
OCLC:
1342501172

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