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- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
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- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
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- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
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feminism Archive
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Guest Post Invitation: Feeling “Less-Than” at Church
This boy wasn’t mean. But he was very clear that I, as a woman, had no place in any part... -
Parenthood Juggle: I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself
Now it’s time to stop waiting and get to work. -
The False Gods We Worship
As I’ve reflected, I’ve come to believe that one of the reasons the pants initiative and the letter-writing campaign have... -
Mormonism is a Skirt, Not a Pair of Pants!
Skirtism doesn’t imply that there exists no universal Mormonism — for all we know, One True Mormonism is floating out... -
Pantsgate 2012: There Is Room Enough for All of Us
There is room enough in Christ for all of us. -
46 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Girls Can Change the World
We’re not just losing the voice of someone who would say the same things as everybody else in the conversation. -
45 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Pants-Wearing Women Running Wild
That, my friends, is how you maintain a cultural norm, and in that context, press releases telling women they can... -
Dudes–How To Be A Woman is a Must-Read!
Feminism can, and should, be explained in a way to men that is not only understandable, but also sympathetic, without... -
How to Be a Woman Week
So, here it is, The D&S How to Be a Woman Week, wherein we’ll be discussing our favorite parts of... -
Lena Dunham’s Sex Joke: A Missed Opportunity
Dunham’s points about women’s issues are worthy of serious discussion and consideration. But she undermines her credibility in the... -
Powerful
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What’s the Harm: Utilitarianism and the “Mormon Moment”
Mormonism isn’t going anywhere, and it’s not going to stop being a conservative institution. But Brooks and other liberal Mormons... -
An Open Letter
You might deride liberal Mormons for their heterodoxy, but they are doing your job for you. They have translated Mormonism... -
Our Favorite Mormons: “We Believe in Equal Rights”
This is a guest post by Mark B (aka, Mark Mighty And Strong) about an early Mormon feminist and her... -
23 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: A Few Questions?
1) Why is it so hard, when it comes to women, for Mormons to understand that being valuable is not... -
Serious Concerns
I think I had, in some way, consigned poetry readings to the territory of performance art and local avant... -
11 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Modesty? (Guest)
[This week we pass the microphone to Heidi, a fellow cheap-seater. Heidi, it’s all yours. . .] Like many... -
A Chronology of Pop Culture Heroines
Part One, ages 6 to 18 -
‘Men’ in the Dock
This is a post about men. This is a post about women. No wait, this is a post about ‘men’.... -
You Can Recognize Them by Their Hand-Carved Daggers…
I love memoirs. And I love Tina Fey. So I was just salivating as my friends and co-bloggers... -
In the Gut
“It’s not about masculine or feminine. It’s about power, and passion, and weirdness” -
Fancy
The willingness to spend tons of money and time grooming or getting surgery is born of a desire to control... -
Talents: Addition and Multiplication
This is a guest post from a favorite reader and commenter, Corktree. It may sound simplistic (or just serving of... -
Seminal Works – Exile in Guyville
But, there is so much more to Exile than sexual frankness. Exile is about finding your way in the third... -
Blessed Eve, Mother of All Living
The opposite of life is not death, rather never knowing. Yet knowledge has been called a forbidden fruit and a... -
Arranged
Stefan Schaefer’s Arranged (2007) is a beautiful presentation of the ordinary life of women in patriarchal religions, and gently portrays...