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C. L. Hanson is the friendly Swiss-French-American ExMormon atheist mom living in Switzerland! Follow me on mastadon at @chanson@social.linux.pizza or see "letters from a broad" for further adventures!!

Sorry, one last round for Brodies nominations….

chanson, January 28, 2018

OK, folks, I wanted to have the polls up today, but I ran into a bit of a glitch: Two people nominated The War Goes On, by Clarence Tong, as best poem, but…. I don’t have a third poem nomination to make this category viable. And I don’t want to…

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You’re the star of your adventure now, Lolly Weed!

chanson, January 27, 2018January 27, 2018

For me, giving my whole heart to Josh while knowing that he did not love me the way a man loves a woman has always been devastating. We were best friends, but he never desired me, he never adored me, he never longed for me. […] No matter how much…

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Testing 1,2

chanson, January 21, 2018

We are unfortunately experiencing some server issues. Our server provider is doing some sort of critical maintenance that is supposed to not interrupt service too much, but… Well, thanks for your patience…

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Congratulations to X-Mormon of the Year 2017: Savannah!!

chanson, January 20, 2018January 20, 2018

When Savannah came out as gay while bearing her testimony, the bishop cut her microphone and told her to sit down — and the video went viral. Savannah has been an inspiration to many people, she made an appearance at Love Loud, and she even won the popular vote for…

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Gathering MORE nominations for the 2017 Brodie Awards!!

chanson, January 14, 2018January 15, 2018

The voting for X-Mormon of the Year is underway you have until January 20th to get your vote in!! As usual, we’re also doing the Brodie Awards — a fun little yearly activity intended to give some extra recognition and signal boost to the best LDS-interest content published/posted during the…

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It’s time to vote for X-Mormon of the Year 2017!!!

chanson, January 6, 2018January 8, 2018

It’s poll time for William Law X-Mormon of the Year! Before you vote, though, please consider nominating your favorite bloggers, podcasters, etc. for this year’s Brodie Awards! Anyone can nominate. Here are this year’s X-MotY nominees and what they did in 2017: Jacinda Ardern: This exmo became Prime Minister of…

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Collecting nominations for the 2017 Brodie Awards!!!

chanson, December 31, 2017

The nomination process for X-Mormon of the Year is underway — please be sure to get in your nominations before next weekend when the voting begins. Now, it’s also time to start on the Brodie Awards!! The Brodie Awards are a fun little yearly activity intended to give some extra…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Towel girls edition!

chanson, December 26, 2017

Thanks to everyone who has been contributing nominations for X-Mormon of the Year! I am planning to start collecting nominations for the Brodie Awards this weekend, and then the following weekend, I’ll post the polls to vote for X-Mormon of the Year. So, the Mormon community got some exciting news…

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Collecting nominations for X-Mormon of the Year 2017!!!

chanson, December 17, 2017December 31, 2017

Hey folks — it’s that time of year again! Time to decide which X-Mormon made the biggest splash in 2017!! As I said a few weeks ago, it seems like the “Mormon Moment” is over. It seems like there haven’t been as many high-profile excommunications or original public demonstrations during…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Books edition!

chanson, December 10, 2017

Yay, Mormon Alumni Association Books is finally taking off! I just got the first proof copy of our first book in the mail: Now I need to do some work on updating the website — the current list of books there is a list of recommended titles from other publishers…

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    The haiku at the end is lovely. Sounds like a great book!

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  • 2023: Adam Steed
  • 2022: David Archuleta
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  • 2020: Jacinda Ardern
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  • 2018: Sam Young
  • 2017: Savannah
  • 2016: Jeremy Runnells
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  • 2012: David Tweede
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