Equal in Faith: Salt Lake City
On Monday I fasted. I fasted for the first time in years. It was completely different than I remember. I remember fasting being about food, about missing food, wanting food and taking a long...
Author: Whoa-man
Spiritual Ambivalence
I have been trying to figure out my relationship to the church for close to a decade now. Over the course of this time I have felt a lot of sadness, betrayal, fear and...
Eschewing Approval and Validation
“You are forgetting one thing,” I pause and stare directly into the eyes of the man sitting across from me, “I do not need your approval or validation.” This sentence is a feature of...
Shades of Power
I have been thinking a lot about power, empowerment, and disempowerment recently. For me, the root of religious empowerment is access to decision making power. As such, I feel that the structure of the...
Mormon Male Privilege and How to Make Apparent Gender Disparity in the Church
Many people are concerned with a very basic question right now: Why do some women feel unequal in the church? A few years ago I wrote a post for LDS WAVE about why I...
Virtual Mormon Women’s Line Up
I am a biological anthropologist and one of my favorite classes to teach is about modern human variation. I ask my undergraduates to line up in front of the class according to their height....
The Churchmen’s Voice, Mansplaining and Mormons
On Saturday, August 18th 2012 I attended the We Are Woman Rally in Washington, D.C. which was organized to protest the war on women, evaluate the current state of women’s rights and make our...
Are you Honest in your Dealings with your Fellow (Wo)man?
My temple recommend interview is coming up. One question that always confuses me is: are you honest in your dealings with your fellow men? I think this question is asked to make sure you...
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