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- 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
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gender Archive
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Equality is not a Feeling, 19.0
Posted on March 5, 2014 | 6 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post comes to us from a Mormon mother of 11 children who compiled this list after seeing her sons get much more public recognition in church meetings than her daughters. Some of this recognition (or lack of recognition) is […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 18.0
Posted on February 26, 2014 | 4 CommentsToday’s guest post is a continuation of Equality is not a Feeling 16.0 and Equality is not a Feeling 17.0, by Laura C.–both of which depicted gender references in our LDS hymnal. Today’s post is the last in the hymnal series and shows the […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 17.0
Posted on February 19, 2014 | 1 CommentToday’s guest post is a continuation of Equality is not a Feeling 16.0, by Laura C., and depicts references to deity (by verse) in our LDS hymnal. [For more posts in this series, click here to see the archive.] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 11.0
Posted on January 8, 2014 | 14 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post takes a quick look at the 2014 Primary Sharing Time outline. I printed out the outline and did a count of the following issues that are relevant to this series, which focuses on gender inequality in the […] -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 9.0
Posted on December 4, 2013 | 21 CommentsToday’s illustration depicts the official duties of Mormon young men and women, ages 12-18. Each group has duties and responsibilities specific to their class that are not listed here. This chart depicts the official duties and responsibilities that each group has that are […] -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 7.0
Posted on November 20, 2013 | 4 CommentsToday’s Equality is not a Feeling post is a depiction of the number of General Conference speakers, by gender, from 1984-2013. Four women spoke in April 1984, when I was 11. Not surprisingly, I don’t remember that at all (again, I was 11). […] -
The Next Generation
Posted on August 10, 2013 | 18 CommentsI’ve written plenty here about the (what feel to me like unrelenting) gender inequities in the Mormon church. And then I got tired of it. I just ran out of fight. I feel like I want to take my energy somewhere else, […] -
37 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: The 1800s Called
Posted on July 25, 2012 | 6 Comments. . . they want their magazine back. -
20 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Half a Church
Posted on February 19, 2012 | 60 CommentsI have brought my daughter, dressed up and nervous with anticipation, gift in hand, to a birthday party where the boys will decide what games to play and what the rules will be. . . -
Defying Gender Stereotypes
Posted on February 15, 2012 | No CommentsThis is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. I’m thrilled to share this with y’all and hope that some of you participate in the contest. My friend and fellow Huntsville High School graduate, Jeremy Hilton, recently won a contest […] -
And You and Me Are…
Posted on January 11, 2012 | 10 CommentsMy mother made the dolls by hand. She lovingly stuffed their life-sized bodies, making small neat stitches in their elbow and knee joints to make them seem articulated. She chose wigs and painted their small faces on the smooth nylon surface of their skin. Never […] -
Assertiveness Training
Posted on September 29, 2011 | 14 CommentsI knew that even small acts of assertiveness would be important. Maybe it didn't change the world but for that individual woman, it was world-changing. -
Book Lover
Posted on September 6, 2011 | 7 CommentsI’m not afraid to admit it. I have a problem. I’m addicted to books. I thought I had kept it hidden for many years, but when my wife finally catches me looking at the most recent Library of America catalogue with lust in my eyes, […] -
We Are Pioneers
Posted on July 28, 2011 | 4 CommentsAs I was telling my Kindergartner earlier this month that we're all pioneers in some way. Whenever we stand up for what we believe in or do something because we know inside it's a good thing to do, we are pioneers. -
The Gluttonous Baby
Posted on July 21, 2011 | 10 CommentsFor as long as humans have made objects, there have been baby dolls. It’s an almost universal phenomenon that young children play with dolls. Especially if they have younger siblings or see babies being taken care of in their daily life, little […] -
‘Men’ in the Dock
Posted on June 22, 2011 | 14 CommentsThis 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 […] -
Welcome to ‘Mature Masculinity Week’
Posted on June 19, 2011 | 11 CommentsGrr! Hmph! (Flex!) It’s Father’s Day, and that means that the next seven days on D&S will be dedicated to that strange cultural elaboration on the XY chromosome: it’s ‘Mature Masculinity Week’! “‘Mature’ masculinity?” I hear you cry! “Isn’t masculinity, by definition, more mature than […] -
I Love the Smell of K-Y Warming Jelly ® in the Morning, or, Marital Apocalypse Delayed
Posted on June 10, 2011 | 8 CommentsAlthough best known for “The Seventh Seal” and other serious “art house” films, I suggest Ingmar Bergman’s best work is his delightful “Smiles of a Summer Night.” Whether you watch it as a momentary diversion from a sweltering evening this summer or view it as […] -
Sometimes it pays to be the squeaky wheel
Posted on May 25, 2011 | 15 CommentsMy son Stuart’s end-of-the-year dance recital was last Saturday night. He looked like a million bucks up there on stage and handled himself swimmingly when the dance moms and girls looked askance at him as one of only three boys in the dance studio. […] -
The Illusion of Equality
Posted on May 22, 2011 | 21 CommentsToday, a guest post from Helen. I read a review of Rebecca Asher’s book the week it came out in print, and decided to order it straight away. One of the most exciting things was reading a book written right now, talking about things happening […] -
You Can Recognize Them by Their Hand-Carved Daggers…
Posted on May 19, 2011 | 36 CommentsI 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 […] -
I’m Not Fancy
Posted on March 29, 2011 | 52 Comments; “At fifty, every man has the face he deserves. To erase the lines and change the contours of one’s face is a way of obliterating one’s history.” –George Orwell ; When Kennedy was about 9, I started a mother/daughter book club. At the […] -
The Big Lebowski
Posted on March 11, 2011 | 11 Comments‘Sometimes there’s a man. . . and he’s the man for his time and place.’ The Big Lebowski (1998) is a film about a man who ‘nobody calls. . . Lebowski.’ He is ‘The Dude’ (Jeff Bridges): and his journey to secure a replacement rug […] -
Talents: Addition and Multiplication
Posted on March 10, 2011 | 9 CommentsThis 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 […] -
Blood of Eden – Part 1, Metaphor
Posted on February 8, 2011 | 3 CommentsMadame Curie engages with the Garden of Eden story over on Sapphic Soliloquies, exploring a role-reversal where Adam stands as a mother figure to Eve that came from his side. The myth of Adam and Eve has always seemed to me to be one of […] -
“Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?”
Posted on November 17, 2010 | 23 Comments“Aren’t you afraid you’re going to turn him gay?” I’ve been asked this question many times. The first few times, I was speechless (which pretty much never happens to me). After those first few times, my canned response became: “Well . . . if […] -
Urban Camping Part II
Posted on October 20, 2010 | 13 CommentsMy husband had just offered me the deal of the century: one month, completely kid-free, so that I could focus all my attention and energy on writing my dissertation proposal. Of course I took him up on his offer ...