I Sold My Birthright
This is about my birthright. This is about my potential. This is about what I was made for. This is about what I gave away when I was convinced it wasn’t worth anything. I grew up knowing I was meant for one thing. I was called to the highest, holiest, most noble...
A Father’s Day Plea
There are many reasons why motherhood rhetoric is harmful for women. It doesn’t matter how you dress up this mold, many of us simply do not fit into it. But that’s not my point today; what I want to focus on now is how harmful motherhood rhetoric is for men. I’m...
Silver Linings Playgroup
Urie, Wyoming. Population: 262. Actually 263. A baby had recently been born into our family. And I was her stay-at-home dad while her mom taught school. Wyoming isn’t really made for stay-at-home dads. It consists mainly of empty, windy, baby-unfriendly sageland...
Infertility: Sometimes it hurts to be a Mormon.
As Mormons we are so focused on families. It’s really a kind of beautiful thing. Children are wonderful. Families are wonderful. However this purpose becomes so singular it doesn’t always leave room for any deviation from the ideal picture. As a woman...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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