Makoto Hunter

MAKOTO HUNTER is a graduate student in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She researches gender, sexuality, and religion, especially as they intersect with cultural history and legal history. Her current projects include examining the interpersonal relationships of Latter-day Saint plural wives and studying the overlap of antipolygamy and antiprostitution in United States policy and media during the Progressive Era (1870s–1920s).

Sam’s Finest Students

Articles/Essays – Volume 59, No. 1

Neighbors
they were, when they broke up your baptisms
Americans
they were, when they scattered your press

Before Thou Camest Forth: Belonging, Desire, and the Exclusion Policies

Articles/Essays – Volume 59, No. 1

I don’t know where I was or what I was doing when news spread about what has become known as the November 2015 exclusion policy. I might not have known about it at all. At the time, I was a high school senior, a member of the debate team, an active Latter-day Saint, a Boy Scout, a priest. Devout, in a way that doesn’t ask too many questions.