Guest Post: Premature Birth
by TMarie On Mother’s Day last year I found myself pregnant with my second child (a girl), dealing with an intense fear that she would be born early. My pregnancy was considered high risk...
Category: Gender
Guest Post: Swallowed Up #CopingWithCOVID19
by Anonymous It is only great upheaval that truly destabilizes the structures of power and allows that which was held by the few to be claimed instead by the many. The act of taking,...
Guest Post: An Open Letter to My LGBTQ+ Siblings
by Brooke Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee… (Jeremiah 1:5). For I know the thoughts I think toward...
Guest Post: Dear Phil Donahue
By Kristin Lowe February 4, 1980. The credits began to roll on the Phil Donahue show. Director. Executive Producer. Senior Producer. Superimposed titles and names washed over General Relief Society President, Barbara Smith. She...
#hearLDSwomen: My Bishop Ecclesiastically Abused Me, and My Stake President Refused to Stop It
Name Withheld A year and a half ago, my husband and I were called in to meet with our bishop. I had been released from my calling a few months before and was excited...
Guest Post: Reflecting on a Queer Mormon Pioneer 30 Years Later
By Corey Clawson Growing up just outside of Logan on through my studies at Utah State University, I regularly crossed paths with May Swenson’s ghost: the poem “Two Part Pear-Able” hanging over the drinking...
Emergencies and a Male-Only Priesthood #CopingWithCOVID19
I’m noticing a lot of people praising the implementation of home centered church right before Sunday meetings were temporarily shut down, which is fine – but I have something to add. Wouldn’t another great...
Let Me See if I’ve Got This Straight
For decades, the Church told people of African descent that they may be baptized, pay tithes and offerings, marry, have children and raise them in the faith, and otherwise participate in the...
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