Latter-day Saint scholar Melissa Inouye reflects on her many crossings [MIPodcast #111]

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🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This episode features Melissa Inouye, a self-proclaimed “bald Asian American Latter-day Saint woman scholar,” talking all about her “ventures through life, death, cancer and motherhood (not necessarily in that order)”—which happens to be the subtitle of her latest book, Crossings. It’s part of the Maxwell Institute’s Living Faith book series.

About the Guest

Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 2011 and served as a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Auckland. She previously served as an associate editor of the Mormon Studies Review and now works for the Church History Department with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is author of two books: China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church (Oxford University Press) and the imposibly-titled Crossings: A Bald Asian American Latter-day Saint Woman Scholar’s Ventures through Life, Death, Cancer & Motherhood (Not Necessarily in that Order).

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0:00.0	It's the Maxwell Institute podcast. I'm Blair Hodges.
0:04.2	In this episode, we're joined by a bald Asian-American Latter-day Saint-Woman scholar
0:09.1	to hear all about her ventures through life, death, cancer, and motherhood, not necessarily in that order.
0:15.4	And that description is actually taken directly from the subtitle of Melissa Inouye's book,
0:19.9	Crossings. It's part of the Maxwell Institute's Living Faith book series.
0:24.0	Dr. Melissa Inouye joined me to talk about the book months ago when it was first released.
0:28.5	We talk about her cancer in this episode, and since this episode's been recorded, she has some health updates,
0:33.3	so stick around after the interview and I'll give you the latest.
0:35.9	Questions and comments about this and other episodes of the Maxwell Institute podcast can be sent to me at mipodcast at bYU.edu.
0:45.4	Melissa Inouye joins us today.
0:47.0	Melissa, thank you for coming on the Maxwell Institute podcast.
0:49.8	Thank you so much for having me.
0:51.2	And we're talking about the book that you published here with the Maxwell Institute's Living Faith series.
0:55.7	It's called Crossings, and it has a really long, really cool subtitle, which is A Bald Asian American Latter-day Saint-Women Scholars Ventures through life, death, cancer and motherhood, parentheses, not necessarily in that order.
1:08.5	How did this book come about?
1:10.0	It was kind of born in a panic when I was
1:13.3	diagnosed with cancer in 2017 for the first time. And I thought, oh my gosh, what if my kids never get
1:21.9	to hear me talk about kind of grown-up things? Because they're little. They're currently 13, 11, 9, and 7 thereabouts,
1:29.7	but before they were... You don't have deep existential conversations with them each night.
1:33.8	No. And this was like even two years ago, so they were even younger then. So yeah, I just thought,
1:39.0	I need to write this stuff down. And also on our family were famously forgetful. So I thought, if I make a binder,
1:46.0	like four versions of a binder, they're going to lose it. So I need to make a lot of versions of this.
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