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Camp Shame

Conversion therapy, often imagined as a bygone practice of bunk science, is alive and well– especially in the niches where religious institutions and … 
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Mormonism has always had a complicated relationship with America. This episode traces the religion from persecuted frontier movement to powerful Utah institution.  From  Mormonism’s westward expansion and Indigenous dispossession, to their  eventual effort to shed its outsider status and enter the American mainstream, Kate charts how that transformation cemented Mormonism’s focus on gender, sexuality, and eventually, conversion therapy.

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Camp Shame

Conversion therapy, often imagined as a bygone practice of bunk science, is alive and well– especial… 

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