Sex Life of a Mormon Missionary / La vida sexual de un misonero mormón by Lars Peterson
DESCRIPTION
Sex Life of a Mormon Missionary / La vida sexual de un misonero mormón by Lars Peterson is a limited edition handcrafted do-si-do chapbook, a Spanish & English lyric essay in translation with fifty physical copies in circulation.
Written from the lived experience of a closeted Mormon on their mission in nineties Argentina, Sex Life of a Mormon Missionary / La vida sexual de misonero mormón explores the tensions between sugar cane workers & management, internalized religion & suppressed queerness, unparalleled sexual desire & the heavenly loophole of auto-cumming (to be clear, not masturbation—) in the middle of the night on a crowded bus.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lars Peterson (they/them) is the author of Sex Life of a Mormon Missionary / La vida sexual de un misonero mormón (Death Drive Press, 2023). They’re a writer, researcher, journalist, translator, historian, and activist. They earned their PhD in History, with an emphasis on Latin America, from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014; they received a Fulbright scholarship to Uruguay to study the origins of Uruguayan anarchism and the country’s welfare state. At present, they’re a board member for the Thomas Merton Center and a collective member of The Big Idea Bookstore where they serve as the editor of The Big Idea Newspaper.
Sex Life of a Mormon Missionary / La vida sexual de un misonero mormón by Lars Peterson
DESCRIPTION
Sex Life of a Mormon Missionary / La vida sexual de un misonero mormón by Lars Peterson is a limited edition handcrafted do-si-do chapbook, a Spanish & English lyric essay in translation with fifty physical copies in circulation.
Written from the lived experience of a closeted Mormon on their mission in nineties Argentina, Sex Life of a Mormon Missionary / La vida sexual de misonero mormón explores the tensions between sugar cane workers & management, internalized religion & suppressed queerness, unparalleled sexual desire & the heavenly loophole of auto-cumming (to be clear, not masturbation—) in the middle of the night on a crowded bus.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lars Peterson (they/them) is the author of Sex Life of a Mormon Missionary / La vida sexual de un misonero mormón (Death Drive Press, 2023). They’re a writer, researcher, journalist, translator, historian, and activist. They earned their PhD in History, with an emphasis on Latin America, from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014; they received a Fulbright scholarship to Uruguay to study the origins of Uruguayan anarchism and the country’s welfare state. At present, they’re a board member for the Thomas Merton Center and a collective member of The Big Idea Bookstore where they serve as the editor of The Big Idea Newspaper.