Mother’s Day: The Manliest Day of the Year
Sunday was Mother’s Day. As it sometimes can, it brought up feelings of frustration for me. While we pay lip service to mothers and may give them breakfast in bed or a chocolate bar...
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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...
Guest Post: A Poem for Mother’s Day
by Laura Riddle Parry I watch my mom cradle my newborn baby. She is so gentle, exquisitely gentle, as she lowers the babe from her shoulder to gaze into her eyes. She coos and...
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...
Guest Post: Reclaiming Mother’s Day
By Ariel Wootan Merkling Anna Jarvis was forever changed by a simple prayer offered during Sunday School by her mother Ann. Her mother, an activist who organized around maternal and infant public health, stated...
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...
Book Review: Once There Was a Mom
I recently read Deseret Book’s new book, Once There Was a Mom, written by Emily Watts and illustrated by Destin Cox. I hoped to share some thoughts on it before Mother’s Day, but that...
The Mother’s Day Conundrum
I am debating whether or not to attend church on Mother’s Day next week. On the one hand, I love that on Mother’s Day we hear stories about women and often even quotes by...
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