A Conversation with the Exponent II blog
A CONVERSATION WITH THE EXPONENT II BLOG Q: Why the blog? A: We started the blog to support the Exponent II organization. We felt that a blog could help connect the younger generation of Mormon feminists who interact online with this oldest Mormon feminist...
New Year’s Resolutions: Breaking Bad
If books like Not Even Once Club are any indication, we Mormons hold ourselves to some pretty strict standards. As I’ve mentioned before, we often forge these standards as weapons and use them against each other. We create a picture of what a good Mormon looks like,...
Leaving the Garden and Companying with Sinners.
Most of my Mormon friends aren’t actively involved with the church. More than half of my core group of friends from high school haven’t participated since college. A surprising number of the friends I made on my mission and at BYU are now disenfranchised...
Essential Questions for the Resurrection
When I was on my mission (as all good Mormon stories start), we were teaching a young woman whose mom had just been baptized. We were on the Plan of Salvation and had just finished explaining about the three degrees of glory and how our bodies will be perfect in the...
The Modesty Conundrum
I feel like sometimes we are painting ourselves into a corner with all this modesty stuff. We’re at a point where women’s underwear and bathing suit ads are considered pornography by some (because that is apparently where many men’s problems with...LGBTQ Mormon Crisis
Two Printable handout for bishops and stake presidents that talks empirically about LGBTQ suicides:
The LGBTQ Mormon Crisis: Responding to the Empirical Research on Suicide
Youth Suicide Rates and Mormon Religious Context: An Additional Empirical Analysis
The Barker Brothers’ Projects
These videos were created for Latter-day Saint parents and allies to voice their love for their LGBT brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. They want to give a message of comfort and support to other parents who are navigating the difficult conflicts that can arise in families around this issue.
“Cogito!” (“I think!”) follows the intellectual adventures of a recovering academic outside the walls of academia.
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