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
In Mormonism, God’s Chosen People have always been white. God Himself, in all his physical glory, is white. From Adam and Eve, Lehites and Nephites, Columbus, the Pilgrims and Founding Fathers, Joseph, and Brigham — all the way through to today’s First Presidency and 11 of the Quorum of the Twelve — all are 100% PureWhite™️
Mormonism teaches:
Mormonism is inherently and irreconcilably white-supremacist, settler-colonial, U.S. exceptionalist, and Zionist. Mormon mythistries align with U.S. myths of manifest destiny which says that the genocide of Peoples Indiegnous to this land enacted by Euro settlers was a divine cleansing, similar to God’s global genocide event known as the Flood of Noah. These myths serve to deny Indigenous land rights and render Mormonism, Euro-Mormon-settlers and their violent whiteness as Divine, destined, innocent, and indigenous in and to this land. Arguments and apologetics about whether or not this church still teaches white-supremacy are irrelevant. White/Christian-supremacy, settler-colonial-Zionist-imperialism, heteronormativity, and US-exceptionalism are the soil in which Mormonism is rooted, the foundation upon which this church is built, the straight and narrow path on which it clings, the fuel on which it feeds and grows. This church is and will always be embedded in these ideologies.
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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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