Episode 13: Year of Polygamy – with podcaster Lindsay Hansen Park

Year of Polygamy – with podcaster Lindsay Hansen Park

Lindsay Hansen Park is a women’s rights activist, a feminist writer, and an advocate against gender violence. She was recently the cultural and historical consultant for Hulu’s limited series, Under the Banner of Heaven and is currently heavily involved in the Mormon Feminist movement. Lindsay is the Executive Director for the Sunstone Education Foundation and the founder of the Year of Polygamy podcast. She wrote for six years at FeministMormonHousewives.org about women’s issues and now podcasts for the Sunstone Mormon History podcast. Her work has been referenced by the Los Angeles TimesNew York Times, the Wall Street JournalNPR, Quartz Magazine, and many other Utah publications.  She and her family live in Utah where she raises three beautiful kiddos, gardens, and rages against the machine.

The Discussion

a group of polygamous LDS women
Nauvoo, UT
The Lion House, Brigham Young’s former residence
the Feminist Mormon Housewives site
a flier for Wear Pants to Church Day, circa 2012
artwork for the Year of Polygamy podcast
Martha Hughes Cannon, circa 1892
a statue of Emmeline Wells and Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith, top left, and some of his wives, clockwise from top middle: first wife Emma Hale Smith; Eliza R. Snow; Martha McBride (Knight Smith Kimball); Marinda Nancy Johnson (Hyde Smith); and Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs (Smith Young)
an LDS temple in Juarez City, Mexico
protestors gathered on behalf of FLDS citizens concerned about their local police
an FLDS man linking arms with six of his wives

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