feminism Archive

  • Guest Post Invitation: Feeling “Less-Than” at Church

    Posted on April 22, 2013 | 6 Comments
    This boy wasn't mean. But he was very clear that I, as a woman, had no place in any part of that Sacrament ritual or preparation. That it would be wrong for me to be. He seemed frightened that the very fact of my touching that cloth might have destroyed the sanctity of the Sacrament.

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  • Parenthood Juggle: I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself

    Posted on March 15, 2013 | 14 Comments
    Now it's time to stop waiting and get to work.

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  • The False Gods We Worship

    Posted on January 22, 2013 | 22 Comments
    As I've reflected, I've come to believe that one of the reasons the pants initiative and the letter-writing campaign have struck such a nerve is because they threaten cherished narratives that have become, in many people's minds, the gospel itself.

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  • Mormonism is a Skirt, Not a Pair of Pants!

    Posted on December 18, 2012 | 7 Comments
    Skirtism doesn't imply that there exists no universal Mormonism -- for all we know, One True Mormonism is floating out there in the noumenal -- it only requires us to admit that we don't possess it, no matter where we got our beliefs.

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  • Pantsgate 2012: There Is Room Enough for All of Us

    Posted on December 14, 2012 | 6 Comments
    There is room enough in Christ for all of us.

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  • 46 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Girls Can Change the World

    Posted on December 14, 2012 | 7 Comments
    We're not just losing the voice of someone who would say the same things as everybody else in the conversation.

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  • 45 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Pants-Wearing Women Running Wild

    Posted on December 12, 2012 | 21 Comments
    That, my friends, is how you maintain a cultural norm, and in that context, press releases telling women they can decide for themselves what to wear are meaningless.

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  • Dudes–How To Be A Woman is a Must-Read!

    Posted on November 12, 2012 | 17 Comments
    Feminism can, and should, be explained in a way to men that is not only understandable, but also sympathetic, without making them feel like complicit conspirators in the patriarchal society they inherited, but did not intentionally design.

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  • How to Be a Woman Week

    Posted on November 12, 2012 | 8 Comments
    So, here it is, The D&S How to Be a Woman Week, wherein we'll be discussing our favorite parts of the book and that scariest of all F-words -- feminism

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  • Lena Dunham’s Sex Joke: A Missed Opportunity

    Posted on October 30, 2012 | 3 Comments
    Dunham's points about women's issues are worthy of serious discussion and consideration. But she undermines her credibility in the way she presents them. We still have a long way to go until women can be perceived as powerful without the cover of sexuality to make it "palatable."

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  • Powerful

    Posted on September 11, 2012 | 3 Comments
    Where does your head go when you want to channel some power?

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  • What’s the Harm: Utilitarianism and the “Mormon Moment”

    Posted on August 14, 2012 | 9 Comments
    Mormonism isn't going anywhere, and it's not going to stop being a conservative institution. But Brooks and other liberal Mormons aren't enabling Mormonism's reactionary side.

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  • An Open Letter

    Posted on August 5, 2012 | 49 Comments
    You might deride liberal Mormons for their heterodoxy, but they are doing your job for you. They have translated Mormonism into a language that is intelligible to the larger public, a language that speaks to the issues the public cares about.

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  • Our Favorite Mormons: “We Believe in Equal Rights”

    Posted on May 29, 2012 | 10 Comments
    This is a guest post by Mark B (aka, Mark Mighty And Strong) about an early Mormon feminist and her husband, who is the most effective Mormon missionary you’ve never heard of. Their names are Louisa and Addison Pratt. We need to begin by clarifying […]

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  • 23 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: A Few Questions?

    Posted on March 20, 2012 | 55 Comments
    1) Why is it so hard, when it comes to women, for Mormons to understand that being valuable is not the same as being equal?, 2) If King Benjamin were put in charge of church finances. . .

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  • Serious Concerns

    Posted on October 11, 2011 | 6 Comments
    I think I had, in some way, consigned poetry readings to the territory of performance art and local avant garde theater -- embarassingly earnest and unintentionally hilarious events featuring Very Serious Artists.

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  • 11 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Modesty? (Guest)

    Posted on September 17, 2011 | 14 Comments
    [This week we pass the microphone to Heidi, a fellow cheap-seater.   Heidi, it’s all yours. . .] Like many cheap-seaters and feminists, I’m not a fan of the modesty discourse at church. There have already been many great  conversations about what’s wrong with four-year-olds […]

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  • A Chronology of Pop Culture Heroines

    Posted on September 13, 2011 | 17 Comments
    Part One, ages 6 to 18

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  • ‘Men’ in the Dock

    Posted on June 22, 2011 | 14 Comments
    This is a post about men. This is a post about women. No wait, this is a post about ‘men’. This is a post about the relationships between women and men, ‘men’ and ‘women’: in a time of war. Of course, the work of feminism […]

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  • You Can Recognize Them by Their Hand-Carved Daggers…

    Posted on May 19, 2011 | 36 Comments
    I love memoirs.   And I love Tina Fey.   So I was just salivating as my friends and co-bloggers raved about Bossypants when it came out.   Finally, on Mother’s Day,   I stuffed myself silly on waffles, settled back in my bed, and […]

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  • In the Gut

    Posted on May 3, 2011 | 11 Comments
    "It's not about masculine or feminine. It's about power, and passion, and weirdness"

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  • Fancy

    Posted on March 30, 2011 | 15 Comments
    The willingness to spend tons of money and time grooming or getting surgery is born of a desire to control outcomes, to dictate the potentially unpredictable vicissitudes of desire and power associated with beauty in our culture.

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  • Talents: Addition and Multiplication

    Posted on March 10, 2011 | 9 Comments
    This is a guest post from a favorite reader and commenter, Corktree. It may sound simplistic (or just serving of my purpose), but I’ve always read the parable of the talents to mean actual talents.   It’s just easy to see how one might be […]

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  • Seminal Works – Exile in Guyville

    Posted on January 11, 2011 | 13 Comments
    But, there is so much more to Exile than sexual frankness. Exile is about finding your way in the third wave of feminism, when you believe in equality, but you aren't quite sure how it is supposed to look.

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  • Partake so that we might live ...

    Blessed Eve, Mother of All Living

    Posted on November 13, 2010 | 8 Comments
    The opposite of life is not death, rather never knowing. Yet knowledge has been called a forbidden fruit and a poison … the root of all evil … a bitter token of death. And Eve, she who was tempted to partake, has been made to […]

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  • Arranged

    Posted on October 22, 2010 | 19 Comments
    Stefan Schaefer’s Arranged (2007) is a beautiful presentation of the ordinary life of women in patriarchal religions, and gently portrays the way that they find choice in their religious adherence. Based on the real-life story of Yuta Silverman, Rochel Meshenberg (Zoe Lister-Jones) portrays a young […]

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