Episode 282: Rebekah Leavitt-Hatch, BYU Student, Abnormal Family Project

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

My friend Rebekah Hatch (BYU Psychology student, RM, married) joins us to talk about her initiative called the Abnormal Family Project, which uses art to bring a voice to families that don’t fit the traditional family stereotype that is strongly endorsed in the LDS culture. These families can include those who experience racial diversity, adoption, divorce, death, LGBTQ, immigration, poverty, etc. Rebekah has experienced the stigmatization directed towards nontraditional families as her parents divorced when she was seven years old. Rebekah’s project can be found here https://www.facebook.com/theabnormfamproject/. The central idea of this project is to utilize art as a nonthreatening form of communication to illustrate and better understand these family experiences by both reducing stigma and increasing empathy towards these families. These pieces will be edited together into a published book of art that shares stories of all marginalized family types. Submissions are due by December 31, 2020, and can be done through this link: https://forms.gle/kHVKd1FwReEqKq5d6. Thank you Rebekah for your needed work to help all LDS families feel welcome in our congregations and society. Honored to have you on the podcast. You are doing needed work!

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.2	A guest on today's podcast is my friend Rebecca Hatch.
0:12.8	Welcome to the podcast, Rebecca.
0:14.6	Thank you.
0:15.8	We're going to talk about Rebecca's work that she's doing as a BYU student. It's not necessarily part of her
0:24.3	BYU work, but she's just taken this on to make all family types within our church feel
0:31.0	welcome. That would be LGBTQ, families that have divorced members, adoption, different races.
0:38.9	And we're going to talk about a Facebook page she's put together, and we're going to talk
0:43.3	about the role of art to help kind of develop, build empathy for different family types.
0:50.9	There's obviously the traditional family that's part of our faith, but as our listeners know, and many of you are part of, not everybody's part of a traditional family.
0:59.0	And we need to do better culturally so that all families feel welcome.
1:05.0	And we better understand what it's like to grow up in a divorced family or an interracial family or for some family members are
1:13.1	LGBTQ. I became aware of Rebecca. I went and taught the BYU gender of psychology class last May.
1:22.3	Professor Wood and Rebecca is a member of that class, Tying for that class. And I talked about LGBTQ in that class, and Rebecca reached out to me and shared with me her project and want you our listeners to be aware of it.
1:37.7	She, as I mentioned, a psychology student graduating in 2020.
1:41.9	She served admission in the Dallas, Texas area, English speaking.
1:49.7	Rebecca and her husband Hunter have been married two and a half years. They were high school
1:53.8	sweethearts at Copper Hills High School here in the Salt Lake Valley. Hunter served
1:59.0	admission to Mongolia. And they're just a great couple,
2:02.7	been married two and a half years, both in school. Rebecca's plan is to eventually go to law school
2:07.8	and possibly practice family law or policy. But one of the tender spots for her and her long-term
2:16.8	career goals is to help children have a voice
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