Unsettling Mormonism
an archive of unsettling histories, mythistories, and mystories
from U.S. & Mormon settler colonialism, white supremacy, and imperialism
from U.S. & Mormon settler colonialism, white supremacy, and imperialism
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I was raised with three central questions:
“Where do you come from?” “What is the purpose of life?” “What happens after you die?” To answer these unanswerable questions the Mormon church offers their “Plan of Salvation” (though I hear it is currently under renovation. leaders no longer teach that “every worthy mormon man (and wife/s) gets his own planet” which is bad timing as we become viscerally aware we may not get this one for much longer.) This is my own response to the unknowability of our lives. Can we hold the multiplicitous and often contradictory “truths” that exist simultaneously across space/time? What does a thickness truth sound like?
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AuthorI am nicholas b jacobsen, an artist, researcher, historian, educator, and organizer. I am a trans-non binary Euro-settler raised in the Nuwu lands of so-called Utah. My family has been Mormon and Utahn for as long as either of those concepts have existed. My ancestors sacrificed everything--their identities, homelands, jobs, health, & safety to become Mormon, Utahn, U.S. American, & white--to settler their Zion. They also sacrificed their humanities as they committed genocide against Kuttuhsippeh (Goshute), Timpanogos Shoshone, Shoshone-Bannock, Eastern Shoshone, Ute, Nuwu (Southern Paiute), and Diné (Navajo). Because my ancestors made my home through Indigenous genocide in their home/lands––I take it as my personal responsibility to unsettle what my ancestors settled, while helping my fellow settlers do the same through reading, writing, art, and community building. Archives
June 2023
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