Is Shaming Ever Helpful?
When I was in first grade, I wrote a journal entry about how I’d just learned about Santa Claus and about how babies are made in the same terrible week. I remember it was...
Category: Relationships
We Must Use Our Eyes to See: A post for white people
CW: Discussion of police violence against people of color, problems of whiteness I’ve seen a number of posts on social media in the last few days related to the acquittal of the police officer...
Mormonism and the Focus on Sex
I made this comment in a friend’s facebook thread a few months ago. My friend was finally leaving her marriage and was blaming herself for her husband’s infidelity, a theory in which I adamantly...
Guest Post: Waiting for the Glass to Shatter
By MJ Eight months before I told my husband that a single man in our ward left me feeling uncomfortable, I noticed that Carl (name changed) was very kind to me in praising all...
Women and the Mental Load
I went away this weekend for the first time in a year. (To the Rocky Mountain Retreat which was awesome and you should totally go next year but that’s a post for another day)....
Cracking Open the Secrets: My Journey Because of the Abuse of My Son by his Grandfather
Yesterday, Anonymous posted about her trauma upon learning about her grandfather’s sexual abuse of children. Today, Anonymous’s mother tells her story. By Anonymous My brave daughter asked me to share my story in conjunction...
Guest Post: Temple Recommend
By Anonymous My grandfather was a very bad man. Have you seen the movie Spotlight, about Catholic priests who were sexually abusing children back in the 1970s? He was the Mormon version of that,...
Guest Post: Virgin Sex
by AmyPH Amy is a Mormon mother of three from Massachusetts. “Virgin Sex” is the result of a Moth Radio Hour-type monologue exercise. Mormon young women are taught to guard their personal home plate...
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