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
This is part of a three part series using mostly quotes to trace the string of history that ties together US anti-polygamy/anti-Mormonism & US/Mormon anti-queerness, anti-Blackness, anti-communism, & eugenics which all stand under the banner of Family Values.
- These “family values” are directly tied not only to eugenic history but also to settler history, as part of Teddy Roosevelt’s fear of “race suicide” was his belief that this land belongs to a white-protestant nation. - His misogynistic anti-birth control, pro-large family, anti-immigrant, ableist stances is based on this belief. - As I’ve written about elsewhere on this page, the US has consistently (and continues to) worked to sterilize Black, Brown, Indigenous, disabled, neurodivergent, & poor ppl with uteruses. - In Mormon polygamy, like a page out of Puritanical ethics book, the richer a man was the more women he was able to marry thus the more children he was able to have. - In the Homestead Act the nuclear family is a central part of it logic. This act created private property by stealing communally managed lands. The US system of private property requires nuclear family blood-descendants in order to keep this “free land” in the hands of individual white families—to keep this land a white-protestant nation. - This fear is ongoing. Whether is is called “race suicide,” or “the great replacement,” or “white genocide,” it is part of the motivation behind anti-abortion laws, anti-queer laws, anti-CRT, mass-shooters, white-nationalism/Trumpism, Nazis/Neo-Nazis, and Fox News fodder. - THE QUOTES:
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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. I take it as my personal responsibility to unsettle what my ancestors settled. and to help my fellow settlers do the same through writing, art, and community building. ArchivesCategories
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