[21][22] Kelly subsequently demonstrated on Temple Square during the church's April 2014 General Conference,[21] after which she was excommunicated in June 2014 in absentia after declining to attend a disciplinary council.

[23][24] She instead submitted a written defense through her representative Nadine Hansen, a fellow Mormon feminist attorney, and hundreds of letters on her behalf from supporters.

[25] In the weeks before and after her excommunication, Kelly urged followers to stay in the church and "raise hell" if they could do so while maintaining their mental and emotional health.

[40] In January 2020, with a group of other women and activists, she performed the viral anti-rape protest anthem "Un Violador en Tu Camino" (The Rapist in Your Path) outside the Harvey Weinstein trial in New York City.

Kelly said of the action, "pointing the finger of blame for sexual assault at the appropriate target ... was a cathartic experience, to feel our collective feminist power as a force for good.

"[41] In August 2012, the same year she graduated law school, Kelly attended her first rally for the ERA on the front lawn of the United States Capitol.

"[50] In December 2019, Kelly led a group of ERA activists in a demonstration on Temple Square in Salt Lake City.

The title of the podcast was chosen from a quote by Alice Paul, the author of the ERA in 1923, who said of the amendment: "Most reforms, most problems are complicated.

[58] Kelly wrote in The Advocate in August 2020 that the LGTBQIA community needs to be more vocal in its support of the ERA, "to get the protection and recognition that well over 50 percent of the population deserves — for women, girls, nonbinary folx, our transgender siblings, and all marginalized genders and sexual orientations.

"[60] On June 29, 2020, Kelly was co-counsel on an amicus curiae brief filed on behalf of the ERA youth activism organization GenERAtion Ratify in the case Commonwealth of Virginia v. David S.

"[4] Kelly served a one-and-a-half-year mission for the LDS Church in Barcelona, Spain, and as a result is a fluent Spanish speaker.

Kelly experienced controversy in spring 2015, one year after her excommunication, for a GoFundMe page she created to raise $1,448 to replace her broken MacBook Air laptop.

While Kelly did successfully raise funds in excess of her goal, some critics accused her of having inappropriate or subversive intentions for how she would use the newfound fame she gained from her Ordain Women activism.

[66] In 2018 she founded "Sacred Space", her own feminist/womanist, interreligious, inclusive celebration of women and nonbinary people of all faith traditions, along with Yale divinity professor and Baptist preacher Eboni Marshall-Turman and trans Jewish activist Abby Stein.