376: Margaret Young - Race and Gender Dynamics in Modern Mormonism

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2012

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

A Thoughtful Faith's Kylan Rice presents an interview with LDS author, filmmaker, and playwright Margaret Young. In this interview Margaret shares her story of how she became enthralled with Mormon Race Dynamics, and how she has spent her life as an advocate for Black Mormon issues in LDS culture. Margaret also discusses how gender dynamics present challenges to her and other LDS women, and how she reconciles these issues with her faith in the Gospel. Guest host Kylan Rice is a producer for BYU Radio, a poet, and a student of English literature. He also contributes, as a guest writer, to the blog RationalFaiths.com, which seeks to"provide a safe, fair, and balanced space to discuss the complexities, difficulties, and beauty of the Mormon tradition."

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0:45.6	Hello and welcome to A Thoughtful Faith.
0:47.9	My name is Kylin Rice and I'll be your host.
0:50.7	Our guest is Margaret Young, a professor of creative writing at BYU and a frequent award
0:56.1	recipient from the Association for Mormon Letters.
0:59.1	Margaret is also a novelist and a playwright known for her work co-written with Darius Gray
1:04.9	regarding the African-American Mormon experience.
1:08.2	She and Darius also created the documentary film called Nobody Knows, the Untold Story
1:13.5	of Black Mormons.
1:15.2	Margaret, thanks so much for joining me today.
1:17.0	It's a pleasure to have you here.
1:18.2	Good to be here, Kylin.
1:19.4	So to begin, I'm curious if you could talk to us about your childhood and how you decided
1:25.8	on your current vocation.
1:27.3	That's a big question, but maybe we can take it apart piece by piece.
1:30.6	Well, I didn't decide on my vocation as a child, but I was born in a very cool year.
1:35.8	I was born in 1955, which I consider one of the most important in the Civil Rights Movement.
1:42.8	That's the year of Rosa Parks, refusing to stand for a white passenger.
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