Time to Vote for the 2022 Brodie Awards!!!

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!!!