She lives in Stansbury Park, Utah.
(meta data) TITLE: Year of Polygamy » About Year of Polygamy (meta data) PUBLISHED DATETIME: 2015-03-10 ## # About Year of Polygamy The Year of Polygamy podcast started out as a weekly series for the Feminist Mormon Housewives Podcast. Due to its national popularity, this site has been created as a better way to manage these important Mormon histories. For over a decade, Feminist Mormon Housewives, a blog NPR's Krista Tippets called "legendary", has published essays on subjects pertinent to Mormon women. Ranging from ridiculous tales of the drudgery of homelife to heavy hitting religious critiques and feminist theory, FMH has been a bright spot that readers could turn to when they felt alone in their local wards. Since 2013 The FMH Podcast has taken those same topics and tackled them through the new medium of podcasting by hosting panel discussion, monologues, and Lindsay Hansen's searing and provocative historical research series, The Year of Polygamy. Over the course of 75 episodes Hansen takes research hidden away in archives, brushed aside by religious authorities, left out of official histories, written professionally in abstracts and journals, and compiles it all in a narrative respected by leading historians and compelling enough to interest any casual listener. The series follows the Mormon faith through the lens of "The Principle of Plural Marriage" from its genesis in 1831 with its originator Joseph Smith, through the hidden history and governmental pressure, to today and contemporary practicing Fundamentalist Mormons. For the first time polygamy is dissected through a feminist viewpoint, with attention given to the experiences of the women, women who sacrificed everything and suffered long and are never mentioned in museums or landmark tours. Their experiences, along with interviews with experts, scholars, historians, and those still affected directly by the practice, paint a new portrait of how the west was shaped, by the hard work and toil of these invisible women, hidden away through controversy. Through Hansen's careful work, we see how the practice of polygamy affected every aspect of the LDS church's formation and is still a shadow hanging over the church, visible in it's approach to marriage, the role of women, and the temple ceremonies. Instead of the historical footnote polygamy is often treated as, Hansen shows how this practice, started in secret and a direct cause of Joseph Smith's death, responsible for driving the saints to Utah, and then outward again to Mexico and Canada, the root of power struggles both in the church and out, the cause of suspicion and eventually violence including the Mountain Meadows Massacre, was an instigator to most of the history of American West. For the first time, The Year of Polygamy shows how the west was settled not only to claim land and mineral rights, but in a very real way to control the bodies and sexuality of women in a way that reverberates today. About the podcast: Hansen-Park pulls from sources all over Mormon studies, including top-notch scholarship and primary sources. While her work is not original research, she weaves together the stories that have been told to bring you a consolidated history. Sources are usually cited either verbally or in the body of the post, but you can expect her to pull directly from peer-reviewed research. We encourage you to look at the sources listed and do your own work and support the scholars in Mormon Studies doing this work. About the host: Lindsay Hansen-Park is a women's rights activist, a feminist blogger, and an advocate against gender violence. She co-founded Utah For Congo to raise awareness for post rape survivors and is currently heavily involved in the Mormon Feminist movement. Lindsay is the Assistant Director for the Sunstone Education Foundation and the founder of the Feminist Mormon Housewives Podcast. She blogs for FeministMormonHousewives.org about women's issues. Her work has been referenced by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Quartz Magazine, and many other Utah publications. She and her family live in Stansbury Park, Utah where she raises three beautiful kiddos, gardens, and rages against the machine. MEDIA AND PRESS: Where Lindsay's work has been quoted or referenced: BBC World News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02b23jm (Start at about 14:53.) New York Times: Salt Lake Tribune on Sunstone: Salt Lake Tribune: Plural Marriage: http://www.sltrib.com/lifestyle/faith/1733664-155/plural-marriage-essay-smith-church-joseph Judith Freeman Interview: http://www.sltrib.com/home/4031744-155/books-judith-freeman-is-set-free Winston Blackmore http://www.sltrib.com/blogs/polygamy/4199062-155/hear-why-winston-blackmore-who-has?fullpage=1 Conference on Race: http://www.sltrib.com/home/2280531-155/conference-will-explore-issues-of-race St. George Utah: Year of Polygamy: http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2015/03/10/cedar-city-attorney-appears-on-feminist-mormon-housewives/#.V8r6UPkrKT8 City Weekly: Wall Street Journal: Wall Street Journa Articles Lindsay's been quoted in: The Guardian: Salt Lake Tribune: Interviews Lindsay's done: Salt Lake Tribune: City Weekly: Mormon Avengers http://e.cityweekly.net/cityweekly/2014/10/02/#?article=2345738 NPR: Sunstone Symposium Seeks To Gather Voices From Every Corner Of Mormonism Speaking at UVU: Articles that cover the organizations and work Lindsay is involved with: Washington Post: Los Angeles Times: Lindsay's Published Works: New York Times Personal Essay: https://static01.nyt.com/packages/js/newsgraphics/2014/02/27-mormon-essays.js MORMONquestions(1) Article in Quartz Primary Voice, Hillary Clinton article Read more about her background and motivations here. ### Comments (13) #### Cedar City attorney appears on Feminist Mormon Housewives | St George News March 10, 2015 at 2:04 pm | # […] spot that readers could turn to when they felt alone in their local wards," according to the Year of Polygamy website "Over the course of 75 episodes (Hansen-Park) takes research hidden away in archives, [ #### Lois Barrholomew July 18, 2015 at 5:05 pm | # I have a couple of books my husband has compiled that you may be interested in. One is called as the desert blossom which is the story of his grandmothers experience including me. The other is called the Pottter Parriish Murders" turning an incident that took place in Springville Utah during the Reformation. If you are interested please contact me. There will be no charge for copies. I'm enjoying this series very much. Thank you Lois Bartholomew #### Juvenile Instructor » Mormon Studies Roundup August 2015 (New! Improved! Monthly!) August 2, 2015 at 1:22 pm | # […] in the last few weeks, Lindsay Hansen-Park concluded her "Year of Polygamy" series over at fMh with a 100th episode podcast which […] #### Dina September 7, 2015 at 3:56 am | # I actually have litmied my time reading fMh because of some of the postings I read over there (I was offended, ha!). Someone was discussing the divorce of a friend, and how "wild and crazy" they got. Also, someone else mentioned that the person who had left the church "seemed happy but we know was really not truly happy". There was a rebuttal of that, but as you can imagine I get a little annoyed by those kinds of statements. To prevent myself from logging in there and starting some sort of flame war – I decided just to limit the posts there that I read. I have my space, other people have their own opinions and their right to their space, you know?I will read and will comment if I can be civil… #### 79: Sunstone Kirtland Recap, Yo! - Rational Faiths | Mormon Blog October 20, 2015 at 7:48 am | # […] morning there was an uplifting devotional/worship/testimony service in the Kirtland temple led by Lindsey Hanson Park and Jana Reiss. It was hard not to notice the historical irony of seeing such impressive and [ #### essay-zone.com September 9, 2016 at 9:14 pm | # On year of polygamy pod cast on 1890 manifesto and something about Mormon writers response the numbers in the late 50's. Error 404 comes up. I'm enjoying your cast and thank you so much for a fine job. #### Kenneth Shaw February 3, 2017 at 6:17 am | # love love love your podcast! #### Janella Martello March 15, 2017 at 5:22 pm | # Great article, show me more! #### Alexandra April 3, 2017 at 5:23 pm | # None of your long podcasts play all the way through. They always cut out after about 23 minutes. I like listening to them, but I want to hear them entirely. #### JamesNep June 4, 2017 at 12:08 am | # Ich habe hier mein Sofa im Test online gefunden. Lounge Sofa Outdoor !.. #### angelsr2 June 6, 2017 at 1:20 pm | # My gay pics gay young gay stars gay hotline numbers chris bosh gay gay justin bieber #### Amanda February 13, 2018 at 7:32 pm | # You have the most soothing voice, Lindsay! Thank you for your informative lessons and your compassionate insight! #### Blair November 13, 2018 at 7:14 am | # Fantastic piece! Actually a 100 pure delight to look over it. Congratulation! Well-done! 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Park was raised in the LDS Church, and grew up in the heart of the Salt Lake Valley.