Guest Post: First Halloween
Guest Post by Alma. Alma is a transgender stay-at-home mom, still exploring what being a woman means to her. Halloween, throughout my life, has been my most hated holiday. Every year involved hastily thrown...
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Guest Post: My First Day in Relief Society
Guest Post by Alma Pellet. Alma Pellett is living the dream as a stay-at-home mother of 5, while also somehow continuing to do software development work from home in American Fork, Utah. She is...
Guest Post: Seeking the Divine as a Nonbinary Mormon
Guest post by Arawn Billings. Arawn is a transmasculine nonbinary artist whose works center the marginalized to help broaden perspectives and make spirituality a place of belonging. You can find his art and spiritual...
Guest Post: #ReconstructingFaith about Sexuality and Gender
Guest post by Alma Frances Pellett (formerly Frank Alma Pellett). Alma has been happily married 20 years and has sired 5 children. She has enjoyed being a software engineer for the Church History Library...
Floral Handkerchiefs
I was a tomboy as a kid. If there was a tree, I climbed it. If there was a bug, I caught it. I kept snails as pets. I was practically allergic to pink,...
Smash the Plate-riarchy: A New Feminist Ritual
I grew up hearing the legend about the early Mormon pioneer women who sacrificed their china to be smashed up for the plaster on the Kirtland temple. I imagine it was told as...
Paint your barns, ladies
“You beautiful girls – don’t wander around looking like men. Put on a little lipstick now and then and look a little charming – it’s that simple. I don’t know why we make this...
Guest Post: Response of a Home Teacher to my Coming Out as Transgender – A lesson on Charity
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility and we are sharing a guest post from Linda Gifford which documents her home teacher’s (HT) response to her coming out, and her reply. She shares an...
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