Barbie, the Real World, and My Mission
I hadn’t planned on seeing Barbie. I didn’t play much with dolls as a child, and my 90s self saw Barbie as perpetuating a narrow
Exponent II Blog is a feminist forum for women and gender minorities across the Mormon spectrum.
I hadn’t planned on seeing Barbie. I didn’t play much with dolls as a child, and my 90s self saw Barbie as perpetuating a narrow
Here at the Exponent blog, we’ve had a lot to say about the recent Barbie movie directed by Greta Gerwig. Abby wrote about how being
After our sons enter the young men’s program, the scales shift dramatically. It’s as if they are handed a pair of priesthood blinders, allowing them
Today, it is 22 years since my father died. In a few days, I will be having major surgery. And I don’t know if the
Here are 5 more nuanced views of swearing I am teaching myself.
All of this avoidable pain, suffering, and confusion from McConkie’s Mormon Doctrine just to save one man from “embarrassment” and “lessened influence.” This is what
Disabled folks are extremely marginalized in the world today as they were in Biblical times, but Jesus shows us another way. We should follow His
So the next time you hear an LDS woman saying she’s so grateful to *not* hold the priesthood and worry about the responsibilities that the
I always felt I didn’t exist in the language of their stories and I understand now why that matters: because there are words where I
When I was 12, standing in line with girls who came in all sorts of shapes and sizes, we stared straight forward, trying not to
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