Guest Post: The Limits of Orthodoxy
By Lindsay Hansen Park When I’m not running a non-profit that gives platform to marginalized Mormons or podcasting about Mormon fundamentalism, I’m usually online talking about Mormonism. Hey, who says I’m not...
Category: Gender
Guest Post: Radical Love Manifesto
By Bryn Brody I don’t want to give it any more airtime, this not-radical, very-much-orthodox manifesto. I don’t want us to read it, or think about it, or spend (more) time arguing with the...
Guest Post: Heartbroken
By Blaire Ostler I am heartbroken to learn that the “Radical Orthodoxy” manifesto co-authored by Nathaniel Givens, Jeffrey Thayne, and Jonathan Max Wilson is intended to be anti-queer. I’m heartbroken. I’m utterly heartbroken. The...
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. It was first held November 20, 1999, marking the anniversary of Rita Hester’s death, an African American trans woman who was killed in her apartment. Now on...
Hey Man, How Are You? (Yes of Course, Lady – That Obviously Means You!)
On my Utah ballot at the beginning of this month, we had a constitutional amendment up for an approval vote. It looked like this: A female state senator named Deidre Henderson (also Utah’s...
Guest Post: A Call for Victim Advocacy in the Church
by Sisyphus I have attempted several times to write this post—a story about me opposing a man called into a bishopric, the stake president (SP) believing me but not acting on the information, that...
How the Oakland Stake Center now has Gender-Neutral Bathrooms
If you’ve ever been to the Oakland, California temple, you may recall there being two large buildings: one is the visitor’s center, and the other is a large, misshapen building that looks and is...
From Conception to the Grave: WHO Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
Guest Post By Karen Ady Karen lives in the Central Valley of California with her husband. When she is not writing or catching babies you can find her singing at the piano, schlepping...
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