Artist Spotlight: Tiare Terrill on Painting and Motherhood
Spotlight is a new feature on the Exponent II blog to shine light on individuals or projects in the world of Mormon Feminism outside of book reviews. In launching this feature, I knew I...
Category: Family
BIPOC LDS Sistas Q&A Fireside – This Sunday!
As a way to continue the pursuit of Anti-Racism work in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a Q&A fireside will be offered this Sunday, June 6th, 2021 to all LDS women and young...
Guest Post: Mother’s Whisper
Can anyone see me? Here, me, tranquility You know my name Feminine divinity. I am the earth Renegade Steady, strong, and sure Mischievous, full of hearty laughter and mirth I am heaven Pure, Celestial...
A Parable of Fruit and Thorns
A black raspberry bush grows by my garden gate. I worked hard to compose that sentence. Originally, I had written, “I have a black raspberry bush,” but that implies an ownership neither the bush...
Mother’s Day: The Manliest Day of the Year
Sunday was Mother’s Day. As it sometimes can, it brought up feelings of frustration for me. While we pay lip service to mothers and may give them breakfast in bed or a chocolate bar...
Book Review: Sharla Goettl’s Spiritual Resilience
It took me a long time to become a mother. Years of infertility treatments and a most unconventional adoption finally turned me into a mother. The next step for me was to become the...
Tell Me Her Name
In a religion that names and renames, that blesses with names at birth and in all our sacred spaces, that repeats those names in whispers, this religion is built on a tradition that tore the names from women, buried them in the desert along with their whispered stories, their prayers and visions. Silent and silenced, our nameless matriarchs have become a pillar of salt.
Normalize Paid Childcare for LDS Services and Activities
A friend of mine organized a group in Iowa City a few years back called “Interfaith Moms.” Her goal: to bring women of varying faiths together to learn, discuss, support, and build community. Women...
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