Guest Post: Cut Grass
by Miriam Cut Grass Sometimes I’m like green grass Growing millimeters At a time. But just as I reach the heights, There comes the lawnmower– Loud, menacing. In straight, orderly rows I’m shorn, Hot...
Category: Gender
Toward Intersectionality: Censuring White Mormon Feminism
A few weeks ago I watched the Tournament of Roses parade perched atop a cold ladder set up on Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena, California. I observed several floats and entries that were thematically related...
“I can’t be a feminist. I’m raising boys.”
I’ve heard it many times. A woman explains that she can’t support feminism because she is a mother of sons. If my feminist goals for equity within our faith community were realized, opportunities that...
Guest Post: You Can End My Waking Nightmare
By Abby Kidd For the last year I’ve taught Sunday lessons to a class of eleven, twelve, and thirteen year-old young women in my ward. Each Tuesday they emerge from the sliding doors of...
Guest Post: Zion’s Suffragists Podcast Launch
By Dianna Douglas It’s a year of grand anniversaries for American women: One hundred years since the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed women’s suffrage nationwide. Fifty-five years since the Voting Rights Act protected racial minorities at...
No Cleavage Allowed in The Cultural Hall, Ladies
I fell in love with group exercise classes thirteen years ago, after my first baby was born. I’d gone to classes at the local rec center before that, but never consistently enough to make...
Diversity is a Necessity, not a Nicety
This year I started working as a writer and media specialist for the Utah Women & Leadership Project at UVU whose goal is “To strengthen the impact of Utah girls and women through informing,...
Guest Post: Toward a Gender-neutral, Gender-inclusive LDS Hymnal
by Bob Rees “A hymnbook is as good an index to the brains and the hearts of a people’s as the creed book.” —Alexander Campbell One of the enlightened revelations of the Restoration is...
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