Year of Polygamy Podcast

Join Lindsay as she interviews Dr. Cristina Rosetti as she talks about her new book Joseph Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist.

Links mentioned in this episode:

* Donate to Year of Polygamy

* Buy the book at Benchmark Books

In this episode, Lindsay talks with Tim Kosnoff, an expert attorney on the issue of how attitudes surrounding 19th century polygamy prosecution mirror those of clergy shield laws today. Tim has practiced law for forty years as a prosecutor, defense attorney and as a lawyer representing victims of child sexual abuse. He has extensive experience handling complex civil child sexual abuse litigation throughout the United States and Canada. He has handled thousands of complex child sexual abuse cases against religious and secular organizations including the Boy Scouts of America, the Mormon Church, the Catholic Church and a wide spectrum of other organizations. 

Links mentioned in this episode:

* Tim Kosnoff’s website

* RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)

* Stopitnow.org

* Darkness to Light

* Tim’s email: [email protected]

* Contact Tim at: 1 (425) 830-8201

 

In this episode, Lindsay talks with Dr. Amanda Hendrix-Komoto about the history of abortions in Mormonism.

Links mentioned in this episode:

* R. Lanier Britsch, Unto the Islands of the Sea: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific

* Hokulani Aikau, A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai‘i

* Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific 

* Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, “The Other Crime: Abortion and Contraception in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Utah” in Dialogue

* Jennifer Holland, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement

* Joshua Prager, The Family Roe

* Leslie Reagan, Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America 

* Linda Gordon, The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America

* Leslie Reagan, When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and the Law in United States, 1867 – 1973

* Nicholas Syrett, The Trials of Madame Restell: Nineteenth-Century America’s Most Infamous Physician and the Campaign to Make Abortion Illegal

In this episode, Dr. Cristina Rosetti tells us the story of Orlean Kingston’s extreme 42-day fast, her visions and her life.

TW: This episode discusses eating disorders, scrupulosity, obsessive compulsive disorders and conversations around food restriction.

Links mentioned in this episode:

* Fast from that Which is Not Perfect”: Food Abstinence and Fasting Cures in the Kingdom of God by Cristina Rosetti

* More information about eating disorders

* Eating disorder helpline

Lindsay sits down with the historian who started it all, Todd Compton. They discuss his latest book, In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents and read directly from the accounts of the wives of Joseph Smith.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

Buy the book here from Benchmark Books

Join Lindsay as she interviews Mormon Fundamentalist Moroni Jessop about the issue of race, priesthood restriction and prejudice within Mormon fundamentalism. Moroni discusses his own experiences being a POC within Mormonism, the history of the priesthood ban, and how DNA heritage tests are shaking up fundamentalist communities.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

* Follow Moroni Jessop on TikTok

* Moroni’s Sunstone presentation on race in fundamentalism

* Moroni’s Sunstone panel on Blood Atonement

Join Lindsay as she interviews Faith Bistline about growing up in the FLDS. The two discuss the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade and how both women see parallels to their own upbringings. This episode discusses abortion and reproductive rights and how recent politics compound oppression for women and marginalized genders, even where we least expect it.

Join Lindsay as she interviews TikTok star Benjamin Brown (The Fresh King Benjamin) about his life and childhood growing up in the AUB.

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST:

* Follow Ben on TikTok* Join Fresh King Benjamin’s email list

DONATE TO YEAR OF POLYGAMY HERE

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For the first time ever, Fundamentalist Ben Shaffer tells the horrific story of how his brother, Samuel Shaffer radicalized into a dark brand of Mormon fundamentalism, eventually landing him in jail. On the heels of the Lafferty story and largely because of Hulu’s new limited television series, Under the Banner of Heaven, Ben Shaffer has decided to share this deeply personal story.

SHOW NOTES:

* Knight’s of the Crystal Blade documents

* Knights of the Crystal Blade: Cultists used social media to spread doomsday revelations

* Ben Shaffer’s blog

* The Righteous Branch website

* Ben’s review of Under the Banner of Heaven

* Ben’s youtube channel

* Ben’s previous interview on Year of Polygamy* Shirlee Draper’s article for Juvenille Instructor

More and more Mormons and Latter-day Saints are moving or “gathering” in Missouri. Lindsay interviews Mormon Fundamentalist Moroni Jessop about this movement to gather in Missouri and details the history of Mormonism in the state.