Brittany Romanello

BRITTANY ROMANELLO {[email protected]} is a sociocultural anthropology doctoral student at Arizona State University and current Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship consultant. Her work centers on understanding what intersectional impacts immigration policy, social justice, and gender have on immigrant mothers’ domestic care decisions. She is additionally interested in exploring how unprotected legal status may influence migrant mothers’ social network development and resource accessibility within US religious contexts. Her dissertation will document how Latina migrant mothers perceive and negotiate personal and social belonging while navigating majority-Anglo US Church spaces.

Feeling Seen | Kerry Spencer Pray and Jenn Lee Smith, eds. I Spoke to You with Silence: Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders

Articles/Essays – Volume 57, No. 3

I didn’t open it for a few months after receiving I Spoke to You with Silence: Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders. I had been delighted when asked to review it, but when the time came, anxiety overwhelmed me. I knew I would see myself in this book in an intimate, painful way, even though many of the narratives don’t directly reflect my own lived experiences. It was clear that reading this anthology of essays would make me feel vulnerable, striking close to my little queer heart, but I knew it would be healing to feel seen.

Review: An Excellent Historiography into the Complexities of Mexican Mormondom Elisa Eastwood Pulido, The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista: Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878–1961

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 2

Spanish Version: MULTICULTURALISM AS RESISTANCE: LATINA MIGRANTS NAVIGATE U.S. MORMON SPACES

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 1

Multiculturalism as Resistance: Latina Migrants Navigate U.S. Mormon Spaces

Articles/Essays – Volume 53, No. 1

Dialogue 53.1 (Spring 2020): 5–32
I cannot help but smile when she calls me hermana, her “sister.” Her reference to me signifies a dual meaning: I am not only like a family member to her, but additionally, the term hermana is used among Spanish-speaking members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as Mormons) to signify solidarity and integration with one another.