Tara Herbert opens up about how her identity was repeatedly erased: as a transracial adoptee in a white Mormon family, as a Black woman misled about the church’s problematic past, and as a mother excluded by men from spiritual rituals. She also shares her journey of rediscovering her identity and worth outside the confines of the Mormon church.

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References:

Tara’s podcast “Pouty Mouth”

Mormon Stories episode with Courtney Kimpel

Jane Manning

Green Flake

Curse of Cain

Breaking Down Patriarchy podcast

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