Dreams of (and for) my daughter
When my only daughter was not yet two years old, I had a vivid dream. It was soon after the emergence of Ordain Women, and I was trying to sort out my feelings on...
Category: Relationships
A Love Letter to My Fellow Mo-Fems
I just wanted to send off a quick missive to let you know that I see you, and I love you. I see that you notice the damage that white patriarchy does to people...
Wolf Pack Patriarchy
Earlier this year I helped my 1st-grader make a wolf habitat diorama and discovered that wolves take their pack hierarchy very seriously. Remember Benevolent Patriarchy and Chicken Patriarchy? Today we’re adding Wolf-Pack Patriarchy™ to...
Whiteness Strikes Again
I am a white woman who claims Mormonism (it’s complicated, I do Community of Christ now) and Feminism. This week we saw the a fake news hoax in the Mormon corner of the internet...
Guest Post: Things I would tell my daughter (or son) if she was going on a mission
by Ashley Your mission president is probably a good man, who has been called because he has held many church callings and been very professionally successful. Unless he went to medical school, he is...
Mother’s Day is the Worst
CW: Suicide The twentieth anniversary of my mother’s death is in eighteen days. I was seventeen years old and one week away from graduating high school. When I decided on a simple black prom...
Mother, Mother, Mother
My child isn’t a baby anymore. When he prays, he says, “Dear Father, Mother, Mother, Mother…” Soon I will teach him to censor his prayers. But it was after his birth that She came...
What comes next?
Things I miss about going to church every week: Developing deep relationships with people from many different walks of life Singing the sacrament hymn, focusing on the love of Christ together with a group...
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