More than anything, women need for God (and men) to expect more of men. We need men to not be threatened by female leaders sitting on the stand. We need men who don't just say they wouldn't mind if women held the priesthood, but actively risk their status and standing by praying and speaking up about it. We need men who disrupt sexist jokes, actively engage women as leaders to both men and women, and call out outdated nonsense - even from revered men.

My heart is broken because we champion motherhood so much in the church, but the church shows so little understanding about the intimate details of how a woman and her needs actually change with motherhood.

In the 15 years that I wore garments I never once thought of them as a symbol of Jesus.

Viewing an eclipse, the difference between 100% totality and anything less, is a factor of thousands.  We learned this in 2017, when we were able...

"I know my Heavenly Mother didn’t create garments. If She did, She’d know She had children all over the world who live in drastic climates, unable to easily wear another layer without rashes and heat stroke. She’d know that Her children all come from different cultures, with different standards of beauty and modesty, that white western puritanism isn’t supreme."

"As a young woman, I didn’t have the statistics to back up the distrust for female strength and intelligence in Utah’s culture, but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t aware of it, or that it didn’t impact my decision to spend most of my life outside of the state...."

"A pain I can’t describe washed over me, as I cuddled and cared for my sweet child, fulfilling what this church has taught is the highest honor of women, unable to ignore the stark contrast between the closet-sized space for the mothers, and the big, comfortable room used by the men. Broader gender disparities I try not to focus on suddenly felt illuminated in floodlights. I felt for the other moms pacing in the halls who didn’t have access to this space."

"I wanted to show what a typical mother’s room looks like in a church building in 2024, but it was very hard to find images online anywhere. (Apparently, our mother's rooms are not worth bragging about on the internet.) So after dropping my kids at school one morning, I headed on a whim to the local stake center and made this video of myself touring a problematic mother's room."