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Recent Posts
- Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
- 122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 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?
- Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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gender Archive
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Equality is not a Feeling, 19.0
Today’s Equality is not a Feeling post comes to us from a Mormon mother of 11 children who compiled this... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 18.0
Today’s guest post is a continuation of Equality is not a Feeling 16.0 and Equality is not a Feeling 17.0,... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 17.0
Today’s guest post is a continuation of Equality is not a Feeling 16.0, by Laura C., and depicts references to... -
Equality is not a Feeling, 11.0
Today’s Equality is not a Feeling post takes a quick look at the 2014 Primary Sharing Time outline. I... -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 9.0
Today’s illustration depicts the official duties of Mormon young men and women, ages 12-18. Each group has duties and... -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 7.0
Today’s Equality is not a Feeling post is a depiction of the number of General Conference speakers, by gender, from... -
The Next Generation
I’ve written plenty here about the (what feel to me like unrelenting) gender inequities in the Mormon church. And... -
37 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: The 1800s Called
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20 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Half a Church
I have brought my daughter, dressed up and nervous with anticipation, gift in hand, to a birthday party where the... -
Defying Gender Stereotypes
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. I’m thrilled to share this with... -
And You and Me Are…
My mother made the dolls by hand. She lovingly stuffed their life-sized bodies, making small neat stitches in their elbow... -
Assertiveness Training
I knew that even small acts of assertiveness would be important. Maybe it didn’t change the world but for that... -
Book Lover
I’m not afraid to admit it. I have a problem. I’m addicted to books. I thought I had kept it... -
We Are Pioneers
As I was telling my Kindergartner earlier this month that we’re all pioneers in some way. Whenever we stand up... -
The Gluttonous Baby
For as long as humans have made objects, there have been baby dolls. It’s an almost universal phenomenon that... -
‘Men’ in the Dock
This is a post about men. This is a post about women. No wait, this is a post about ‘men’.... -
Welcome to ‘Mature Masculinity Week’
Grr! Hmph! (Flex!) It’s Father’s Day, and that means that the next seven days on D&S will be dedicated to... -
I Love the Smell of K-Y Warming Jelly ® in the Morning, or, Marital Apocalypse Delayed
Although best known for “The Seventh Seal” and other serious “art house” films, I suggest Ingmar Bergman’s best work is... -
Sometimes it pays to be the squeaky wheel
My son Stuart’s end-of-the-year dance recital was last Saturday night. He looked like a million bucks up there on stage... -
The Illusion of Equality
Today, a guest post from Helen. I read a review of Rebecca Asher’s book the week it came out in... -
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... -
I’m Not Fancy
; “At fifty, every man has the face he deserves. To erase the lines and change the contours of... -
The Big Lebowski
‘Sometimes there’s a man. . . and he’s the man for his time and place.’ The Big Lebowski (1998) is... -
Talents: Addition and Multiplication
This is a guest post from a favorite reader and commenter, Corktree. It may sound simplistic (or just serving of... -
Blood of Eden – Part 1, Metaphor
Madame Curie engages with the Garden of Eden story over on Sapphic Soliloquies, exploring a role-reversal where Adam stands as... -
“Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?”
“Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?” I’ve been asked this question many times. The first few... -
Urban Camping Part II
My husband had just offered me the deal of the century: one month, completely kid-free, so that I could...