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2022 Brodie Awards

Time to Vote for the 2022 Brodie Awards!!!

chanson, January 19, 2023February 18, 2023

The nominations are in! Vote here for the 2022 Brodie Awards!!

Year-long awards for sites/channels/etc.:

Best New LDS-interest Site 2022:

  • Unboxing Queer Mormonism
  • The Widow’s Mite Report
  • Floodlit.org
  • Black Menaces

Best LDS-interest Website 2022:

  • LDS Discussions
  • Mormonthink
  • Official Website of the CoJCoL-dS

Best LDS-interest Podcast 2022:

  • Radio Free Mormon
  • Human Stories with Jill Hazard Rowe
  • Latter Gay Stories
  • Mormon Stories

Best LDS-interest Video Channel 2022:

  • Zelph on the Shelf
  • @ExmoLex
  • @nuanceho
  • The Backyard Professor
  • Nemo the Mormon

Best LDS-interest Blog or Column 2022:

  • Wheat & Tares
  • By Common Consent
  • Times and Seasons
  • Exponent II
  • Flunking Sainthood
  • Hackman’s Musings
  • Life Outside the Book of Mormon Belt
  • Tokens and Signs

Best /r/exmormon Redditor or satire subreddit 2022:

  • TreeTableBenchGrass
  • uncorrolated mormon
  • Chino Blanco
  • /r/horse

Awards for individual works:

Best LDS-interest Book (Fiction) 2022:

  • Seer Stone, by Donna Banta
  • Orgy at the STD Clinic, by Johnny Townsend
  • One Breath from Drowning, by Kent Quaney
  • If You Want Me Close, by Skye Kilaen

Best LDS-interest Book (Memoir) 2022:

  • Revising Eternity, edited by Holly Welker
  • I’m Glad My Mom Died, by Jeanette McCurdy
  • Rainbow Letters, by Gary M. Watts M.D.

Best LDS-interest TV Series 2022:

  • Under the Banner of Heaven
  • Sins of our Mother
  • Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
  • Mormon No More
  • A Friend of the Family: True Evil

Best LDS-interest Short Video 2022:

  • Why We Left the Mormon Church: A Coming Out Story
  • I Accidentally Started a Cult that Worships a Whale, by Zelph on the Shelf
  • Mormon Male Authority, Why it Sucks, by nuanceho
  • Why I Won’t Stop Saying Mormon, by Exmo Lex
  • Note: a couple of nominations were disqualified because they were from 2021, including Johnny Harris’s exit story and Zelph on the Shelf reading “Charly”

Best LDS-interest Podcast Episode/Series 2022: (In the case of series, just the first episode is linked, but your vote is for the series)

  • Radio Free Mormon: 259: Mormonism and the Rules of Evidence
  • Mormonism LIVE: 096: Mormonism & Masonry
  • Mormonism LIVE: 079: Mormonism’s History of The Holy Garments
  • Mormon Stories 1591: Mormon Church Defends Minnesota Leader of Sexual Assault
  • Mormon Stories 1617: Growing Up in Polygamy – Sam & Melissa Zitting Wyson
  • Mormon Stories 1680: The Dark Side of a Mormon Mission – Brinley Jensen
  • Mormon Stories 1648: Joseph Smith’s First Vision w/ LDS Discussions

Best Work on Healing from Religious Trauma 2022:

  • The Miracle of Forgiveness Virtual Art Gala
  • The Dark Night of the Soul, by Jacob
  • Mormonism Hurts Mental Health and Demands Psychological Dependency, by Zelph on the Shelf

Best LDS-interest Reporting 2022:

  • The Widow’s Mite Report
  • Floodlit.org
  • Jana Riess: As for LDS tithing, what would Jesus pay and to whom?
  • Mormon Billions

Best LDS-interest Twitter Thread 2022:

  • Being born Mormon was like going to a really lovely party where…
  • Poorly explain something you did while Mormon.
  • The church utterly fails its single members.
  • Growing up LDS, I repeatedly received the message that a woman who refused to abort and then died after childbirth had reached perfection.

Best LDS-interest Song 2022: (Normally three nominations are required, but I’m letting this one slide with two to accommodate some last-minute nominations. If someone quickly mentions another favorite LDS-interest song from 2022 in the comments, I might still be able to edit the poll to add it.)

  • Faith in Me, by David Archuleta
  • Deeper, by Ellee Duke

We have some fantastic nominees this year — I hope you’ll take the time to check them out and maybe find some great new creators/works that you weren’t aware of!!

The polls will close on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. Switzerland time. May the best LDS-interest content and creators win!!!

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