okay it’s time for a poll
which one of these should I read next? (please note that they will all be read eventually so don’t just think IF I DON’T PICK THAT ONE IT WILL NEVER BE READ or something, idk)
Guardian of the Dead- Karen Healey
Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology- Margaret and Paul Toscano
A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman- Margaret Drabble
A History of Utah Radicalism- John S. McCormick and John R. Sillito
so that people can answer I gotta end this thing with a ?
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When I’m reading something and am like oh that reference looks interesting I shall add it to my reading list and then see the words “unpublished PhD thesis”
FFFFFFFF I WANTED TO READ THAT DAMMIT
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oh my god neighbors what is it about 9 am on a Sunday that says “hey we should play our music THE LOUDEST EVER”
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tonight was a good night
made tuna melts and then drank tea while girlfriend read me selections from Al Ghazali’s Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife (she’s been reading it for research) and then we went and saw Albert Nobbs and now I am home with another tuna melt while my roommates watch Arrested Development in the next room.
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Louie Felt and May Anderson
[A]t least one Mormon woman went so far as to request that her husband marry polygamously after she fell in love with another woman, so that the two women could openly live together. Sarah Louisa Bouton married Joseph Felt in 1866 as his first wife but according to a 1919 biography, around 1874, Louie (the masculinized nickname she used) met and “fell in love with” a young woman in her local LDS congregation named Alma Elizabeth (Lizzie) Mineer. After discovering her intense passion for Lizzie Mineer, a childless Louie encouraged Joseph to marry the young woman as a plural wife, explaining “that some day they would be privileged to share their happiness with some little ones.” Joseph married Lizzie Mineer in 1876. But Lizzie’s new responsibilities of bearing and raising children evidently proved too great a strain for her and Louie’s relationship. Five years later Louie Felt fell in love with “another beautiful Latter-day Saint girl” named Lizzie Liddell, and again Joseph obligingly married her for Louie’s sake. Thus Louie “opened her home and shared her love” with this second Lizzie.
In 1883, 33 year old Louie Felt met 19 year-old May Anderson, and they also fell in love. This time, however, May did not marry Joseph Felt. In 1889 May moved in with Louie, and Joseph permanently moved out of the house Louie had built and bought on her own. Thus began one of the most intense, stable, and productive love relationships in turn-of-the-century Mormonism. These two women lived together for almost 40 years, and together presided over three of Mormonism’s most significant institutions: the General Primary Association (for Mormon children), the Children’s Friend (a magazine for young Mormons), and founding the Primary Children’s Hospital. Louie and May were fairly open about the romantic and passionate aspects of their relationship, as reported in their biographies published in several early issues of the LDS Children’s Friend. According to their recent biographer, Felt and Anderson’s relationship was a “symbiotic partnership with each compensating for the weaknesses and complementing the strengths of the other”. The 1919 Children’s Friend biography more bluntly declared that “the friendship which had started when Sister Felt and [May Anderson] met…ripened into love. Those who watched their devotion to each other declare that there never were more ardent lovers than these two”. The same biography also calls the beginning of their relationship a “time of love feasting”, and makes it clear that the two women shared the same bed. Twice in the Children’s Friend, Anderson and Felt were referred to as “the David and Jonathan” of the Primary, which, the magazine explained, was a common appellation for the women. For centuries, the biblical characters David and Jonathan have been classic signifiers of male-male desire and homoeroticism, because in the Hebrew scriptures, it was written in 2 Samuel 1:26 that upon Jonathan’s death in battle, David lamented, “very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.” That these two women were described as “David and Jonathan” simultaneously masculinizes them and firmly encodes their love for each other in a homoerotic context.
From the essay “The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature”: A Revised History of Homosexuality & Mormonism, 1840-1980 by Connell O’Donovan
interesting read!
UM, THE FELTS ARE MY ANCESTORS. brb, pulling up my geneology chart….
OMG YOU MAY HAVE HAD SOME TRULY BADASS ANCESTORS
ffff when Mormon history collides with queer history I get way too excited](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwii8r4GSl1qdxm2to1_400.jpg)
Louie Felt and May Anderson
[A]t least one Mormon woman went so far as to request that her husband marry polygamously after she fell in love with another woman, so that the two women could openly live together. Sarah Louisa Bouton married Joseph Felt in 1866 as his first wife but according to a 1919 biography, around 1874, Louie (the masculinized nickname she used) met and “fell in love with” a young woman in her local LDS congregation named Alma Elizabeth (Lizzie) Mineer. After discovering her intense passion for Lizzie Mineer, a childless Louie encouraged Joseph to marry the young woman as a plural wife, explaining “that some day they would be privileged to share their happiness with some little ones.” Joseph married Lizzie Mineer in 1876. But Lizzie’s new responsibilities of bearing and raising children evidently proved too great a strain for her and Louie’s relationship. Five years later Louie Felt fell in love with “another beautiful Latter-day Saint girl” named Lizzie Liddell, and again Joseph obligingly married her for Louie’s sake. Thus Louie “opened her home and shared her love” with this second Lizzie.
In 1883, 33 year old Louie Felt met 19 year-old May Anderson, and they also fell in love. This time, however, May did not marry Joseph Felt. In 1889 May moved in with Louie, and Joseph permanently moved out of the house Louie had built and bought on her own. Thus began one of the most intense, stable, and productive love relationships in turn-of-the-century Mormonism. These two women lived together for almost 40 years, and together presided over three of Mormonism’s most significant institutions: the General Primary Association (for Mormon children), the Children’s Friend (a magazine for young Mormons), and founding the Primary Children’s Hospital. Louie and May were fairly open about the romantic and passionate aspects of their relationship, as reported in their biographies published in several early issues of the LDS Children’s Friend. According to their recent biographer, Felt and Anderson’s relationship was a “symbiotic partnership with each compensating for the weaknesses and complementing the strengths of the other”. The 1919 Children’s Friend biography more bluntly declared that “the friendship which had started when Sister Felt and [May Anderson] met…ripened into love. Those who watched their devotion to each other declare that there never were more ardent lovers than these two”. The same biography also calls the beginning of their relationship a “time of love feasting”, and makes it clear that the two women shared the same bed. Twice in the Children’s Friend, Anderson and Felt were referred to as “the David and Jonathan” of the Primary, which, the magazine explained, was a common appellation for the women. For centuries, the biblical characters David and Jonathan have been classic signifiers of male-male desire and homoeroticism, because in the Hebrew scriptures, it was written in 2 Samuel 1:26 that upon Jonathan’s death in battle, David lamented, “very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.” That these two women were described as “David and Jonathan” simultaneously masculinizes them and firmly encodes their love for each other in a homoerotic context.
From the essay “The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature”: A Revised History of Homosexuality & Mormonism, 1840-1980 by Connell O’Donovan
interesting read!
UM, THE FELTS ARE MY ANCESTORS. brb, pulling up my geneology chart….
OMG YOU MAY HAVE HAD SOME TRULY BADASS ANCESTORS
ffff when Mormon history collides with queer history I get way too excited
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I don’t usually reblog Hunger Games stuff but LOOK AT THEIR SAD LITTLE FACES
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Uhm. Yum?
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