World Childless Week
A friend of mine posted on Facebook the other day about World Childless Week. I had never heard of it before, but I felt seen and validated. At church, our worth as women is...
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You Know Someone Who’s Had an Abortion
Content Warning: abortion, infertility, pregnancy loss Statistically, you probably know someone who has had an abortion. Were you a safe enough person for them to trust with that information? Did you work to create...
How Shall this Be, Seeing I Know Not a Man? #CopingWithCOVID19
When Mary is told that she will give birth to a son, she responds logically with “How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?” (Luke 1:34) Fair question. Rather than chide her...
Be Kind to Your Web-footed Friends
I woke up on Saturday morning with Stars and Stripes Forever stuck in my head. That immediately reminded me of a record full of silly songs I had as a kid. One of them...
Musings on Mother’s Day: Fertility Privilege in Mormon Systems of Power
I’ve written before about how Motherhood may be hazardous to a woman’s health. In this post I’ll discuss how fertility privilege functions in Mormon systems of power to disadvantage childless women and what...
Motherhood May Be Hazardous to Your Health
LDS teachings on motherhood are incomplete. Here’s what I wish I had been taught before having children. As a struggling parent to a newborn and a toddler, I visited the home of a friend...
We Are Not All Mothers
So often at church, womanhood and motherhood are seen as synonyms. There’s no concept of a woman who is not a mother. The concept of a non-mother woman is so foreign that people feel...
Sisterhood on Mother’s Day (and Book Reviews!)
It was more than a decade ago, and I was in a new branch, and just called to be a Relief Society Teacher. I wasn’t thrilled. I had only recently found the Exponent Blog...
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