Called to Queer

In this episode, we interview Sam Webster. Some topics we cover include:

• The idea of putting yourself under "self-conversion therapy"
• How coming to terms with being nonbinary and becoming a single pare…

In this episode, we interview Andrés Larios Brown (they/he/elle). Some topics we cover include:

• The incongruence they felt from the Mormon distinction between provider and protector and nurturer
• What i…

In this episode to kick off Pride Month, Kate and Colette discuss:

• Some basic history of Pride
• Why Mormons might be turned off from the word "pride"
• Why Pride is important to them and some Pride memorie…

In our first ever couples episode, we interview Rachel Cox (she/her) and Elihu Vineis (they/he). Some topics we cover include:

• Knowing their identities really young but not necessarily having words to…

In this episode, we interview Chloe Agyin (they/them). Some topics we cover include:

• The complicated nature of being multiracial, especially in a colonized world
• Being at BYU while realizing they were …

In this episode, we interview Chelsea Gibbs (she/her). Some topics we cover include: 

• Falling for friends and the importance of boundaries while healing
• Queer baiting in media and how the church queer …

In this episode, we interview Emilia Bingham (she/her). Some topics we cover include: 

• What asexuality is and how it may be experienced for individuals
• Ace erasure
• Emilia's idea of "collectivist heaven"

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We were able to have our first ever LIVE episode while participating in the Affirmation Connections Virtual Summit. We loved the opportunity and are now able to share that discussion here in your pod…

In this episode, we interview Sami Simpson (she/her). Some topics we cover include: 

• Deciding to do her dissertation on identifying best practices to help queer Mormon youth and young adults and their…

In this episode we interview Dr. Taylor Petrey (he/him). Disclaimer: We recorded this episode before April 2022 General Conference. Since Conference, some of the things we mention in this episode abo…

In this episode, we interview Dr. Lisa Diamond (she/her). Some topics we cover include:

• How she started studying sexual fluidity and some of what she found while doing that research
• The importance of p…

In this episode, we interview Meghan Decker (she/her). Some topics we cover include:

• The changing church teachings about LGBTQ individuals (as highlighted by the document she helped create)
• Removing th…

In this episode, we interview Melissa Malcolm-King. Melissa is an educator, author, and advocate whose work can be found in the Exponent 2 Magazine, Innerversion Magazine, and West View Media Newspap…

Dr. Lacey Bagley, LMFT (she/her) is the Owner & Clinical Director of Celebrate Therapy. She identifies as bisexual and loves celebrating and advocating for her community! She grew up in northern Minn…

In this episode, we interview Debra Asper. Debra is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist and worked at Children’s Hospital focusing on assisting children and their families recover from various types…

You likely know a lot about American anti-LGBTQ legislation, especially if you listened to the "The Family Proclamation with Called to Queer" episode we recorded with The Faithful Feminists. But what…

In this episode, we interview Maggie Slighte. Maggie is a queer disabled autistic lesbian creator. She is finishing her first full-length memoir, The Car that Ran on Prayers, about her experience liv…

In this episode, we interview Freddy Banks. Freddy is a house husband and dog dad. Prior to living the dream, he: was raised Mormon, went to BYU-Provo, discovered he was queer 1.0 (gay), left Mormoni…

In this episode, we interview Elena Joy Thurston. Elena is an inspirational LGBTQ+ speaker, trainer, and founder of the nonprofit Pride and Joy Foundation. A Mormon mom of four who lost her marriage,…

In this episode, we interview Tiana Matson. Tiana's favorite prank is to decorate her friend's cars while they're at work to say, "just married" and tie empty soda cans to the axel so they don't noti…