Trigger warning for mentions of sexual assault, rape, and abuse. I’m a mental health therapist in Utah and treat many survivors of first and second-hand sexual violence. The stories and experiences my clients have...
There is a pivotal moment in “The Wizard of Oz” when in Munchkinland Glinda is protecting Dorothy from the Wicked Witch of the West and declares to the green witch that “You’ve no power here!” ...
It is with great sadness that the Exponent II memorializes a woman of great stature and her husband. Rebecca van Uitert and her husband, Jason Howell, were killed in a tragic accident while they...
bell hooks, largely regarded as the Mother of Black Feminism, died yesterday at the age of 69. We at The Exponent II feel it’s important to honor hooks and her contributions to feminism, academia,...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a song in their hymn book called Do what is Right. The chorus reminds us to “do what is right, let the consequence follow.” Four...
I don’t remember if it is a parable or an old satirical cartoon, but there is the story of a drowning man caught in the waves as they crest above him. He cries out...
At this April’s Bi-annual General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Russell M. Nelson made some curious statements about those who have left the church. In his talked titled...
On April 20, 2021, 20 minutes before the Derek Chauvin verdict was read (guilty on all 3 counts), police officers in Columbus, Ohio shot and killed a 16-year-old black girl, Ma’Khia Bryant. Bryant had...
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