![]() “This is (Joseph) Smith’s story,” she says. Even as a child, she gathered from Mormonism that it was highly valued to have questions and take them to God directly. “But even as a little girl I also knew the ERA and other progressive issues were important to me.”īrooks has traversed these seemingly divergent paths ever since. ![]() “I knew the Mormon Church was committed to defeating the ERA,” says Brooks, now 40 and department chair and professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University. When assigned two term papers in fourth grade, she chose to write one on Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, the other on the Equal Rights Amendment, which at the time (1980) was the subject of heated nationwide debate. ![]() At age 9, Joanna Brooks was already deeply committed to two things: her Mormon faith and progressive political causes. ![]()
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