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đź‘‹ Hey there, I’m Ethan Gregory Dodge, an autistic and ADHD writer and photographer. I was raised Mormon in a Utah County, Utah during a very strict era of the LDS Church. My indulgences of Taking Back Sunday and muttering swears under my breath caused me tremendous guilt despite my best efforts to be the perfect Peter Priesthood. To use an overused cliche, I was a square peg and the church was trying to shove me violently into a round hole. I ended up losing my faith at 25 and felt beyond liberated. When I was diagnosed neurodivergent at 34, I finally found the mould that fit me.
Since 2018, I’ve written journalistically about surveillance, investigations into the LDS Church’s inner workings, and the culture and history of modern tattooing—another childhood guilty pleasure. My writing here in my personal blog will wax more memoiristic as I unpack what it means to be a post-religious secular Mormon is a world that wasn’t quite built for my brain.
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Ethan Gregory Dodge is an autistic and ADHD writer, photographer, and documentarian based in San Jose, California whose work explores the dynamics of identity, community, and power.
Raised in Utah Valley, much of his personal work wrestles with his identity as a non-believing Mormon. He was one of the journalists who exposed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ hidden stock and real estate portfolios. Since 2022, his journalistic work has focused primarily on documenting tattoo history and culture—a lifelong fascination that was previously forbidden by his religious upbringing.
Ethan is driven by a deep belief in speaking truth to power and preserving culture through careful, human-centered storytelling. His work has appeared in VICE, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Salt Lake Tribune, and many other outlets.
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