Blog Tag: intersectionality
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Out and Loud Representation
When it comes to historically oppressed communities, not all representation is good representation.
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The Atlanta Shootings: One Year On
Today, March 16, 2022, marks the one year anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings where eight people, including six Asian American women, died. Do you remember where you were when you heard of the murders? How you felt when the news reached you and your loved ones? Like many Asian Americans, I remember feeling a visceral pain at the news. After a year of increasing anti-Asian hate and violence during the pandemic, especially against our community’s most vulnerable members such as women and the elderly, it heightened an already existing sense that our families’ safety and security were more...
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This Bridge Called My Back
You didn’t think I was going to stand on that corner by myself(arms and legs like board, mouth full of cement) forever, now did you? To Be Continued by Kate Rushin
I told my husband once, in the midst of little children and their constant, unsatisfiable needs, that I could go entire days without seeing another woman. I felt, often, like I was standing on a corner, stiff and silenced, unseen. In those days, Relief Society provided some respite, if only for a moment between dropping children off at nursery and taking the baby out for a diaper change. But...
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BIPOC LDS Sistas Q&A Fireside – This Sunday!
As a way to continue the pursuit of Anti-Racism work in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a Q&A fireside will be offered this Sunday, June 6th, 2021 to all LDS women and young women. This fireside is in connection with the Black Lives Matter Sunday Discussions held earlier this year and posted about and endorsed here.
The fireside this weekend is for BIPOC LDS women and all anti-racism allies, including Non-BIPOC women and young women. The fireside will be offered as a larger gathering of those who have completed the 3-week Sunday discussion series, as well as anyone joining in for...
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Christlike Attributes, Implicit Bias, and Loving Your BIPOC Neighbor as Yourself
By Michelle Franzoni Thorley
In the October 2020 General Conference, I was struck by the address from Elder Scott D. Whiting, “Becoming Like Him.” In this talk he spoke about the process of attaining Christ like attributes. He spoke about being brave enough to look inside and see where we might improve. He even spoke about the possibility of being unaware of imperfections we have. This immediately made me think of implicit bias - the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner.
Elder Whiting goes on to say “If we are honest with ourselves,...
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Guest Post: Our “Go Set a Watchman” moment
By Mindy Farmer
Are white Gen Xers and Millenials having our Go Set a Watchman moment?
Have some of the very people who taught us integrity and morality--who helped shape our essential views on justice, love, and fairness--suddenly revealed their flaws through elections, ignorance, and clear racism and/or bigotry? Are we struggling because the people we held up as super-human idols of integrity are now crumbling under the weight of our hero-worship? Do we now have to decide if those ideals can stand on their own--if we can stand on our own? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions,...
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Surviving Coronavirus While White: Systemic Racism & A Call to Action...
My Story
It was the last day of March this year. My family and I had been in lockdown for the better half of a month, the beginning of which had been self-imposed. Masks were not yet required or even recommended, except for medical professionals. I had hardly left my two-bedroom apartment in New York City for over two weeks. And when I did, it was to get my two small daughters some outdoor time in a city park where we stayed at least six feet away from other cooped-up city-dwellers trying to get some fresh air. Admittedly, keeping a...
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At the Crossroads of Being Black and LDS
Guest post by Dumdi Baribe
I remember when I made a Facebook post commenting about how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’ leadership lacked diversity, especially for it being a global church. The post was made about three years ago and slowly I believe it’s improving. At the time I made that comment, a former friend’s sister commented on the post and asked me if I even had a testimony of the gospel. I didn’t have a clue as to what that had to do with me pointing out that global church leadership should be a bit more...
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I am not free while any woman is unfree.
June 1, 2020
By LMA
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of colour remains chained. Nor is any one of you.”
-Audre Lorde, “Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”
One week ago today, on May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Many people in the United States and around the world are responding to the systemic racism, trauma, and injustice in his death, and the deaths and pain of so many other...
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Come Come Ye Queer Saints: Pride ,Prejudice ,Persecution.
As a Queer,Disabled, Person of Color, I have suffered much in this life at the hands of those claiming to act in God’s name. The message is loud and clear : You are not worthy and you are not wanted here. I am mentally exhausted by the narrative given and the harshness of its supporters. In other words, get straight,get white ,don’t fight and then you’ll be alright. With recent events surrounding BYU and the CES system, I stand in solidarity with my rainbow family.
Don’t get me wrong this message is not new. The issue of Pride,Prejudice and...
What is Exponent II?
Exponent II provides Mormon feminist forums for women and gender minorities across the Mormon spectrum to share their diverse life experiences in an atmosphere of trust and acceptance. Through these exchanges, we strive to create a community to better understand and support each other.
Exponent II was founded in 1974 by a group of Mormon women in Cambridge, Massachusetts. These women were inspired by the original periodical, “The Woman’s Exponent,” to create a forum “posed on the dual platforms of Mormonism and Feminism.”
For 50+ years, Exponent II has shared women’s voices in its quarterly magazine, and members of the community have convened at an annual retreat. Our reach has expanded as technology has advanced: the blog, founded in January 2006, has reached millions. As we look to the future, we are focused on growth and building a more inclusive community.
