Weaponizing The Word Strong: A Black LDS Woman’s Guide to VulnerabilityBY RAMONA MORRIS | AUGUST 12, 2021the-exponent.com/weaponizing-the-word-strong-a-black-lds-womans-guide-to-vulnerability. . . As a twenty-four-year-old convert, the word “strong” super-glued itself onto my entire existence as a saint of color . . . Despite its definition in any dictionary, the s-word isn’t a friend for women of color in the church. . . . Instead, the s-word is violent. It’s problematic. It forces us to be something that we’re not sure we can be and binds us into a contract with people’s expectations of the person that they assume we should be. . . […]
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