The Exponent

Author: Lavender

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Belief / Culture / Family / feminism / Gender / women

The Majority . . .

I sat in a ward council meeting and listened to men fret about statistics, about the percentages that represent the dwindling numbers of youth who remain in the church. “Sixty percent of missionaries come...

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Belief / Body / Culture / Family

Cemeteries, Death, and Holy Places

“And as to you Corpse I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me” -Walt Whitman, Song of Myself Silent like the trees, like human roots in the soil, the dead...

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Belief / Body / Culture / feminism / Gender / Gospel / women

Blood

Blood leaked onto my clothes on the first day of our family vacation in North Carolina. As always, I was melancholy, annoyed, and even surprised that blood gushed from my vagina without permission, my...

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Body / Culture / Family / feminism / Journeys / women

Trust Women

“Regardless of the cost even now, their eyes see, their ears hear, their tongues speak, and they are kind.” Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves, pg 193 Menstrual stories, pregnancy stories,...

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Family / women

Roots

“There is that in me – I do not know what it is – but I know it is in me.” Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 50 My great-grandmother’s handwriting loops and ducks, evidence...