Being ignored as a Black woman

Girlscamp

Hayley Rawle

Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Feeling entirely overlooked on the front row during Relief Society was Brialee's last straw that led to her leaving the LDS church. Before that, she had given Mormonism - which she was baptized into at age 9 without her mom's permission- her all. Bria speaks about navigating foster care and adoption as a child, facing intense pressure to dress modestly and discovering historic and current racism toward Black people in the church.

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0:00.0	G-I-R-L-S-C-A-N-P-S-C-A-N-P it's Girls Can. Hello everyone, welcome back to Girls Camp. It is me, Haley Rawl, your host. Happy
0:18.6	Wednesday or happy day of listening, whichever day that may be. I am so happier here and I cannot wait for you to
0:26.8	listen to today's interview with our guest, Bria Lee Nelson. Bria's story is so impactful and so powerful on so many
0:36.8	levels. I've been reflecting on it so much since we interviewed a couple of
0:40.6	weeks ago. Bria was baptized into the church at age nine without her
0:45.5	mother knowing and soon after she was placed into foster care and then adopted
0:50.3	by a Mormon family in Idaho and she has so much wisdom and insight.
0:56.8	I found her story really illuminating to a lot of aspects of Mormonism that I hadn't quite understood in the way that she articulated
1:06.2	them and it's kind of helped me to reflect differently on my own experience with Mormonism and also just to learn a lot about others
1:15.6	experiences in Mormonism and post-mortem. Bria is a woman of color and she
1:21.6	also shares how that has shaped her experience both as a Mormon and as a post-Morman as a woman, a working professional in Utah.
1:31.0	There is just so much goodness and so much learning that is in this episode.
1:37.4	Before we dive in, a little campfire chat, I just wanted to say, I am really in the Halloween spirit this season. I don't know what it is because I was kind of
1:48.4	resistant to it at first, but I am loving all things spooky.
1:53.0	I actually did the recording for next week's episode today.
1:57.2	I did the Mormon horror stories and horror
2:00.9	lore that you all wrote in, and there are some spooky stories and also just so much interesting
2:08.8	intersection between the Mormonism thing and the paranormal thing and I think it's just going to be such a fun
2:15.6	episode. I had my friend Bailey join me to help me react and break it all down and I've just
2:21.5	been kind of head- first into the spooky Halloween vibes.
2:26.7	I'm planning a fun Halloween party with some girlfriends.
2:30.7	I'm just loving Halloween this season. Maybe having kids makes it exciting in a different way that I haven't felt in a long time or maybe as Russell M Nelson said I've just been, what is it, seduced by evil spirits and
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