Not Masculine Enough for Mormonism with Benny Cardullo

Girlscamp

Hayley Rawle

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

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Benny grew up feeling like something about him was “wrong.” After pushing through the Mormon path—full-time mission, BYU education—he eventually came out and began learning how to love himself for who he is. With his expertise in gender and sexuality, we talk about Mormon manhood, coming out at BYU, his continued fascination with deep-cut LDS doctrine, and how he’s embracing new forms of spirituality today. Join the Girlscamp: After Dark Patreon account ⁠⁠here⁠ for two bonus episodes per month and more. For more Girlscamp content follow along on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. For ad inquiries please email girlscamppodcast@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Girls' Camp podcast.
0:46.5	I'm your host, Haley Rawl, and I am joined today by Benny Cardulo.
0:51.0	Welcome, Benny.
0:51.9	Thank you.
0:52.5	Happy to be here.
0:53.2	I'm so excited you're here here we have so much to talk about
0:55.6	because you have a very fascinating Mormon story religious story and you have also studied gender
1:03.4	and sexuality is that fair to say sexuality was my emphasis okay i see so you were studying gender
1:08.2	with an emphasis and sexuality. How deep into your program
1:11.9	in religion are you at this point that we were talking about? Oh, in religion, I've only done like
1:17.4	a semester of religious studies. Okay. And during my first master's, I like independent studied religion.
1:23.4	Got it. Got it. So you have like a lot of good religious knowledge to pull from as well.
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