Exponent II Blog is a feminist forum for women and gender minorities across the Mormon spectrum.
The weekend after I gave birth, a friend sent me a poem. She’d written it months before, early in this pregnancy, on a day when
“We teach self-reliance as a principle of life, that we ought to provide for ourselves and take care of our own needs.” 1 – Work
The Deseret News is reporting Pants for women, parental leave for all LDS Church employees. In celebration of this landmark, I am reposting the Put
What do we mean when we use the word doctrine? Is doctrine eternal, unchanging? I have been teaching gospel doctrine for three and a half
By SEP I am back home from BYU in between semesters, and I am feeling nostalgic. Relief Society is what really gets to me. Growing
Looming large in this tapestry you’ve woven, In the warp and woof of misdirection That dangling thread. I could be dead; will I keep my
[Image: Superhero Kid by Laura Powell on Flickr] A friend recently posted this on a private social media group I belong to (reprinted here with
When I was in first grade, I wrote a journal entry about how I’d just learned about Santa Claus and about how babies are made
Hi Fun Kou Gai: (Japanese) righteous, miserable anger, a frustration and despair over a situation that seems terrible but cannot be changed. Weltschmerz: (German) a
For years I tried to be perfect. Because that’s the purpose of life, right? To perfect oneself, in order to earn a place in the
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