Ep. 468: Joey Sheppard (queer BYU student, they/them) and Dr. Sarah Coyne (BYU Professor, she/her)

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

My friends Joey Sheppard and Dr. Sarah Coyne talk about their new research project to better understand how church culture impacts LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. Their qualitative research (interviews) is open for new participants who are 1) 18 and older; 2)LGBTQ+; 3) Current or former Latter-day Saints. The goal of the research (supported by BYU) is to better understand how to improve the experience for LGBTQ members in our Church. You can learn more about the research project in their flyer posted here or by emailing [email protected] Take the survey to see if you qualify: https://byu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6SDF8GLegAWyOBU Joey (who is genderqueer) and Sarah share helpful insights to better minister to and support LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. Thank you, Joey and Sarah, for being on the podcast and your groundbreaking work. Your voices and work are very needed. I encourage everyone to listen to the podcast. ** Please Check Out My Book At: ** Deseret Book: www.deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-and-love-embracing-lgbtq-latter-day-saints Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1462135773

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.7	My guests on today's podcast, I have two guests that are connected to BYU that are in my home.
0:15.9	My friends Joey, Shepard, and Sarah Coyne.
0:19.8	Welcome to the podcast. Hi, Richard. How's it going? Hey, thanks for having us.
0:25.0	Let's have Joey introduce himself first. Just however you want to introduce yourself.
0:33.7	Yeah, so I'm Joey. I use they, them pronouns. I'm in my, uh, first semester of my
0:44.6	master's program at BYU, studying human development. Um, I consider myself a nomad. I moved around
0:52.5	my entire life.
0:56.9	Ben & Jerry's is my favorite brand of ice cream.
1:02.8	Yeah, I think that's a good summary of myself. Oh, I like playing D&D with my friends.
1:09.1	And yeah, I'm genderqueer. I'm not sure what else I need to say.
1:11.1	You're doing a good job. It's kind of just an open-ended question. Tell our listeners, two more follow-up questions. What was your undergraduate
1:15.4	and what school did you go to? And then tell people that have not familiar with the term gender
1:20.9	queer what that means. Okay, so I did my undergrad, my bachelor's at VYU as well.
1:30.6	I studied family studies, which is kind of psychology of the family unit.
1:37.8	To me personally, gender queer, I like that term because I'm still kind of figuring it all out if that makes sense.
1:49.4	So I really like genderqueer, gender fluid as I'm trying to navigate this.
1:54.7	So it's kind of a nice space for me to be in to have a label that isn't totally a label. Does that make sense? Does that make
2:04.0	sense? And if anybody, maybe you're a podcast that someone's listened to for the first time
2:11.4	that's taking they-them pronouns. Give our listeners a little education one-on-one on that. Yeah. So using the then pronouns for me,
2:25.4	it's, well, first off, it's gender neutral, right? I think in the English language, we think
2:32.6	our language isn't that gendered, but it is.
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