I was plucking my eyebrows one morning last fall when she walked into the bathroom. “Mom, does that hurt?” she asked with big eyes. I hesitated as I thought about whether it was hurting, “Um, I guess it’s not comfortable. The first time I did it, it definitely hurt, but now it doesn’t hurt too bad.”
She looked at me incredulously, “Why would you do it if it hurts?”
Belief / feminism / Gender / Gospel / women
by ElleK · Published June 21, 2022 · Last modified June 20, 2022
A few weeks ago, a man gave a talk in a sacrament meeting I was visiting. He spoke on a Come Follow Me lesson that included the book of Numbers. He said that Numbers...
Guest post by Katy Stovall, a lover of nature, baking, reading, and learning. She lives in upstate NY with her amazing husband, two lovely stepchildren, busy twin toddlers, and a neurotic rescue dog. I...
Guest post by Janine Weaver Chase. Janine graduated from BYU in communicative disorders and education. She has an extensive background in integrative, holistic therapies and has worked in that field for 30 years. She...
I am a member of the Relief Society Presidency and a few weeks ago we got an assignment from the Bishopric to “think of someone who could sit in on Seminary lessons” in order...
I’m a lawyer in solo practice in the southwestern United States. I cover a large state and parts of surrounding states, representing disability claimants before the Social Security Administration. And the patriarchy makes my...
Family / feminism / history / Journeys / Relationships / Uncategorized / women
by Bryn Brody · Published April 14, 2021
In a religion that names and renames, that blesses with names at birth and in all our sacred spaces, that repeats those names in whispers, this religion is built on a tradition that tore the names from women, buried them in the desert along with their whispered stories, their prayers and visions. Silent and silenced, our nameless matriarchs have become a pillar of salt.
It has been many years since I have read the Book of Mormon on a regular basis, but in the last few months I have returned to studying it as part of my spiritual...
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