Lindsay Hansen Park

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Lindsay Hansen Park
Born1982 (age 42–43) [1] [2]
Occupationactivist, blogger, advocate
NationalityAmerican
Children3
Website
www.yearofpolygamy.com/about/

Lindsay Hansen Park (born 1982) is an American Mormon feminist blogger, podcaster, and the executive director for the Salt Lake City-based non-profit Sunstone Education Foundation. [3]

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Park has self identified as an "Independent Mormon." [4]

Life

Born in 1982, [5] Park was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and grew up in the heart of the Salt Lake Valley. [6] Her mother was a public historian, often speaking on pioneer history. [4] She describes her family history: "I grew up very chapel Mormon. My parents are smart people, but we come from seven generations of Mormons, both sides, of poor Danish farmers, basically. We were not the wealthy elite Mormons; We were the stalwart-on-the-ground Mormons, and that is who we are." [7]

Park currently resides in Salt Lake City with her family. [5]

Activism

Park co-founded Utah For Congo to raise awareness for post rape survivors. She has been the Director of Counseling Services for the Whitefields Education Foundation, which "offers professional counseling and resources for Latter-Day Saints struggling with a disruption in their faith identity." [8]

In the media

Park blogged for many years with Feminist Mormon Housewives (FMH) about women's issues inside and outside of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was the main voice behind FMH's podcast, [9] [10] which has been recommended by New York Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein. [11] Her work and voice have been referenced in The Wall Street Journal , [12] The Salt Lake Tribune's Trib Talk, [13] [14] Salt Lake City Weekly , [15] The Guardian [16] and Quartz . [17]

As the Executive Director of Sunstone, [18] Park has been credited with expanding the Sunstone audience to be more diverse. [2] The 2015 Sunstone Symposium was described as having "many contributors from the millennial generation, racially diverse communities, and non-Americans," along with "the sea of white, gray-haired presenters and participants" [2] that have frequented Sunstone's events throughout its history.

She worked as a consultant on the TV show Under the Banner of Heaven [7] and the Netflix limited series American Primeval .

Television

YearTitleCredit
2025 American Primeval Historical Consultant [19]
2024 Daughters of the Cult Consulting Producer [20]
2022 Under the Banner of Heavan Historical Consultant [21]
2021Was I in a Cult Co-Producer [22]

Podcasting

Year of Polygamy

In 2014, Park founded the Year of Polygamy podcast, where she details the history of Mormon polygamy with particular emphasis on the lives and experiences of women. [23] Starting with individual episodes giving biographical sketches of 34 women who were sealed to Joseph Smith, it goes on to cover the impact of plural marriage on the history of Latter Day Saints in the nineteenth century, and on to the present day continuance of the practice by Mormon fundamentalists. [24]

The podcast was referenced in a New York Times article on Leslie Olpin Petersen's Forgotten Wives series of paintings. [25]

Sunstone podcast

In January 2019, Sunstone launched a new family of podcasts. [26] Park has participated in a number of them, both as a guest (reviewing news in Mormonism [27] [28] [29] and introducing Sunstone's equivalent of Firesides [30] ) and as a co-host with Bryan Buchanan covering the Mormon context for topics such as women's work with refugees, [31] healing from abuse, [32] the murder of Matthew Shepard, [33] how various Mormon communities can better converse with one another, [34] and history [35] (including the creation story in Mormonism, [36] Lucy Mack Smith, [37] Joseph Smith's siblings, [38] magic and Mormonism, [39] Mormon scriptures, [40] stories from Kirtland, [41] and early “bad boys” in the Mormon movement including Hiram Page, Oliver Cowdery, and William McLellin). [42]

Blogging

For six years, Park blogged at Feminist Mormon Housewives under the pseudonym "Winterbuzz." [43] [44] She published on various topics [45] from critiquing the CES letter to violent Mormon fanatics. Park has blogged at Patheos [46] on topics such as the use of the word "Mormon" [47] and she has also contributed to Quartz. [48]

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  2. 1 2 3 Stack, Peggy Fletcher (1 August 2015). "Sunstone puts on a younger, more diverse face as symposium explores hipper Mormon topics". The Salt Lake Tribune . Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "The Sunstone Education Foundation—About Us". Sunstone Magazine . 3 May 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  4. 1 2 "r/mormon - I am Lindsay Hansen Park, Mormon podcaster, Host of the Year of Polygamy podcast, Story of Woman podcast, and FMH podcast. Ask me (almost*) anything". reddit . 2015. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  5. 1 2 "About Year of Polygamy – Year of Polygamy". 10 March 2015. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  6. ↑ "About Year of Polygamy". Year of Polygamy. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  7. 1 2 Lindsay Park, Rebecca Bibliotheca, Steven Pynakker (May 28, 2022). Lindsay Hansen Park's Take on Under the Banner of Heaven! The Aftershow (YouTube). Mormon Book Reviews.
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  16. ↑ Edmunds, Tresa (9 February 2012). "It's time for Mormons to accept gay marriage". The Guardian . Retrieved 21 May 2019.
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  26. ↑ Pool, Grace (19 December 2018). "Episode 0: John Larsen". Sunstone Magazine. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  27. ↑ Larsen, John (14 January 2019). "Episode 3: Cristina Rosetti and Lindsay Hansen Park". Sunstone Magazine. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  28. ↑ "Episode 8: February 2019 Mormon News Round-Up". Sunstone Magazine. 18 February 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  29. ↑ "Episode 11: Changes in Mormonism". Sunstone Magazine. 11 March 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  30. ↑ Larsen, John (21 January 2019). "Episode 4: Sunstone Firesides". Sunstone Magazine. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  31. ↑ Park, Lindsay Hansen (14 February 2019). "Episode 3: Mormon Women's Work With Refugees". Sunstone Magazine. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  32. ↑ "Episode 7: Abuse and Healing in a Mormon Context". Sunstone Magazine. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  33. ↑ "Episode 10: The Mormon Story of Matthew Shepard's death". Sunstone Magazine. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  34. ↑ "Episode 18: Making Connections Between Mormon Communities". Sunstone Magazine. 1 May 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  35. ↑ "Episode 9: Sunstone History Podcast". Sunstone Magazine. 25 February 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  36. ↑ Park, Lindsay Hansen; Buchanan, Bryan (20 February 2019). "Episode 1: The Creation". Sunstone Magazine. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  37. ↑ "Episode 2: The First Mother in Israel". Sunstone Magazine. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  38. ↑ "Episode 3: The Smith Family". Sunstone Magazine. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  39. ↑ "Episode 4: Magic and Mormonism". Sunstone Magazine. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  40. ↑ "Episode 5: History of the Scriptures". Sunstone Magazine. 26 April 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  41. ↑ "Episode 19: Our Favorite (Weird) Kirtland Stories". Sunstone Magazine. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  42. ↑ "Episode 6: Bad Boys of Early Mormonism". Sunstone Magazine. 10 May 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
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  44. ↑ "And I'm Afraid of No One – Feminist Mormon Housewives" . Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  45. ↑ "Winterbuzz – Feminist Mormon Housewives" . Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  46. ↑ "Mormon Fundamentals - Putting the "Fun" in Fundamentalism"". Mormon Fundamentals. Patheos . Retrieved 21 May 2019.
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