Guest Post: My Experience as a Caribbean Latter-Day Saint in Utah
By Ramona Morris I didn’t hear what I thought I heard. I had to be hearing things This didn’t make sense. Even know as I write this article, two years after being called the...
Category: Culture
Guest Post: My Relief Society’s Anti-Racism Discussion
By Nicole Sbitani The Relief Society mission statement declares that sisters in Zion “work in unity to help those in need.” The past few months have reminded me that there is much work for...
Guest Post: Reckoning with the Great Man
by Anelise Leishman On July 4, 2020, the Black Student Union at BYU addressed a letter to the university’s president Kevin J. Worthen, Russell M. Nelson, and the NAACP. In it, black students call...
Shorts, Garments, and Hairy Legs: Taking Ownership of My Body
Three years ago, I stopped wearing garments. I’d worn them about half the time the year before during pregnancy and after having my son. I eventually became used to the feel of my clothes...
Idea: Make Statues of Polygamous Wives
Statues of slaveholders and colonizers are coming down left and right these days, and the controversy is intense. I’ve tried to imagine how it would feel to be a slave from the 1800s and...
Guest Post: “For the Weak and Weakest of All Saints”–The Word of Wisdom in the Time of COVID-19
by Aimee Hickman While most members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints practice the Word of Wisdom as a law of health which offers “temporal and spiritual blessings” to the body,...
An Open Letter to the LDS Church: Addressing Our History of Structural and Cultural Violence
#Blacklivesmattertochrist organized a letter-writing campaign to the LDS church calling for anti-racism training to be included in the church’s curriculum and manuals. You can find out more about them here. What are the two...
Be Kind to Your Web-footed Friends
I woke up on Saturday morning with Stars and Stripes Forever stuck in my head. That immediately reminded me of a record full of silly songs I had as a kid. One of them...
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