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This boy wasn’t mean. But he was very clear that I, as a woman, had no place in any part of that Sacrament ritual or preparation. That it would be...
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Now it’s time to stop waiting and get to work.
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As I’ve reflected, I’ve come to believe that one of the reasons the pants initiative and the letter-writing campaign have struck such a nerve is because they threaten cherished narratives...
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Skirtism doesn’t imply that there exists no universal Mormonism — for all we know, One True Mormonism is floating out there in the noumenal — it only requires us to...
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There is room enough in Christ for all of us.
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We’re not just losing the voice of someone who would say the same things as everybody else in the conversation.
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That, my friends, is how you maintain a cultural norm, and in that context, press releases telling women they can decide for themselves what to wear are meaningless.
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Feminism can, and should, be explained in a way to men that is not only understandable, but also sympathetic, without making them feel like complicit conspirators in the patriarchal society...
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So, here it is, The D&S How to Be a Woman Week, wherein we’ll be discussing our favorite parts of the book and that scariest of all F-words — feminism
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Dunham’s points about women’s issues are worthy of serious discussion and consideration. But she undermines her credibility in the way she presents them. We still have a long...
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Where does your head go when you want to channel some power?
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Mormonism isn’t going anywhere, and it’s not going to stop being a conservative institution. But Brooks and other liberal Mormons aren’t enabling Mormonism’s reactionary side.
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You might deride liberal Mormons for their heterodoxy, but they are doing your job for you. They have translated Mormonism into a language that is intelligible to the larger public,...
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This is a guest post by Mark B (aka, Mark Mighty And Strong) about an early Mormon feminist and her husband, who is the most effective Mormon missionary you’ve never...
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1) Why is it so hard, when it comes to women, for Mormons to understand that being valuable is not the same as being equal?, 2) If King Benjamin were...
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I think I had, in some way, consigned poetry readings to the territory of performance art and local avant garde theater — embarassingly earnest and unintentionally hilarious events featuring...
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[This week we pass the microphone to Heidi, a fellow cheap-seater. Heidi, it's all yours. . .] Like many cheap-seaters and feminists, I’m not a fan of the modesty discourse...
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Part One, ages 6 to 18
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This is a post about men. This is a post about women. No wait, this is a post about ‘men’. This is a post about the relationships between women and...
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I love memoirs. And I love Tina Fey. So I was just salivating as my friends and co-bloggers raved about Bossypants when it came out. Finally, on Mother’s Day, I...
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“It’s not about masculine or feminine. It’s about power, and passion, and weirdness”
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The willingness to spend tons of money and time grooming or getting surgery is born of a desire to control outcomes, to dictate the potentially unpredictable vicissitudes of desire and...
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This is a guest post from a favorite reader and commenter, Corktree. It may sound simplistic (or just serving of my purpose), but I’ve always read the parable of the...
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But, there is so much more to Exile than sexual frankness. Exile is about finding your way in the third wave of feminism, when you believe in equality, but you...
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The opposite of life is not death, rather never knowing. Yet knowledge has been called a forbidden fruit and a poison … the root of all evil … a bitter...
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Stefan Schaefer’s Arranged (2007) is a beautiful presentation of the ordinary life of women in patriarchal religions, and gently portrays the way that they find choice in their religious adherence....
