Vol. 44 No. 1 — Summer 2024
Navigating tension appears to be the heart of this open-themed collection.
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Navigating tension appears to be the heart of this open-themed collection.
This open-themed issue reveals the things our writers are thinking about, puzzling over, and processing without a specific prompt. Their voices invite us to reflect on what we, too, are going through at this individual yet collective moment in time.
One day will we meet in heaven? Will you condemn me or embrace me? I hope we can hold each other — in sadness, in joy, in fullness.
I can already see how my daughter’s body is barreling toward its inevitable conclusion, like my body barreled before hers and my mother’s body barreled before mine and her mother’s body barreled before hers
Just as the Savior’s efforts to heal were focused on those at the margins of his society, so our efforts at inclusion should focus on all of our Heavenly Parents’ children, but especially those who often get overlooked or left out.
Tell her who she is
slap a sticky label
around her humble head
shroud her ankles
[This book] is a collection of stories by queer current, former, and adjacent LDS people.
Having tasted a greater fullness of joy, I hope to live each day with courage, not fear — in honor of the pain and lost years it took to get to where I am — and to inspire others to do the same.
Eve was a serpent
until she tasted fruit.
Drawing from the essence of my Maori heritage, and the knowledge that we are constantly surrounded by our tipuna (ancestors), I aimed to capture the spiritual energy that flows through all living things, in this realm and the next.
Exponent II provides 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.