Heavenly Mother wants us to feel safety, comfort, and pleasure in our bodies.
By LMA November 2018 I want to write about the most delicate and powerful thing about who I am. Even with all of the work I have done in therapy to talk about...
Category: feminism
#hearLDSwomen: Inequality between Activity Days and Cub Scouts
I’m serving in Activity Days. The girls expressed to me that they wanted to do a pinewood derby like the scouts. At our next planning meeting, we got a member of the Primary presidency...
#hearLDSwomen: Single Sisters and the Jedi Hand Wave
I could fill volumes because not only am I a woman, I’m single, so I don’t have a man attached to me. Doubly invisible. When I move to a new ward, I show up...
The Harms of Projecting the Mormon Male Gaze Onto Young Women
Last Sunday a male speaker visiting my ward repeated a variation of a joke that always makes me cringe, “the more doors that get slammed in your face as a missionary, the prettier...
#hearLDSwomen: My Voice Is Dismissed; Men’s Voices Are Heard
I started bringing my husband to all one on one interviews such as callings because if a calling was not right for me and I asked for time to think/pray about it, the bishop...
#hearLDSwomen: My Bishop Asked Me Sexually Explicit Questions I Didn’t Understand, so I Researched Them. I Was Eleven
I was eleven years old. I had been called in for a pre-YW/Primary graduation interview. Towards the end of the interview, the bishopric member asked me if I obeyed the law of chastity. When...
#hearLDSwomen: Getting My Bishop to Staff Primary Callings Is a Nightmare
I was Primary president in a ward that wasn’t huge, but we did definitely have plenty of adults who could’ve helped out in Primary. I suggested name after name and nothing. ever. happened. So...
#hearLDSwomen: My Face Drives Away the Spirit
Going through the temple the first time was overwhelming to say the very least. The fact that I had to veil my face to talk to Heavenly Father in prayer was a total knock...
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