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This session will discuss the many ways different bodies experience garments. We will explore the lived experience of garments through the lens of garment history, sexual health, neurodiversity, and race.

Nancy Ross is an associate professor and the department chair of the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Department at Utah Tech University, where she has taught for 19 years. She researches LDS and Community of Christ women, women’s ordination movements, and issues related to Mormon feminism. Her book, co-authored with Jessica Finnigan and Larissa Kanno Kindred, is titled “Mormon Garments: Sacred and Secret” and was published by the University of Illinois Press in February. The book examines the meaning and lived experiences of those who wear garments through the lenses of gender and belief. She is an ordained elder in Community of Christ and pastor of the Southern Utah Emerging congregation and still loves and claims her Mormon feminist community.

Larissa Kanno Kindred holds a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Massachusetts Boston and is currently a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology at Tennessee State University. Her clinical and research interests center on identity development, racial socialization, and the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion. She works as a mental health therapist and has published research on neurodiverse-affirming approaches to couples counseling and the online tradwife movement. Larissa also writes at the intersection of religion, embodiment, and lived experience; she is a co-author, with Nancy Ross and Jessica Finnigan, of Mormon Garments: Sacred and Secret, published by the University of Illinois Press, which examines the meaning of garments through the lenses of gender and belief.