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- 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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patriarchy Archive
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Gender Equality and the Mormon Church: Why Progressive Mormon Men are the Problem
Posted on January 31, 2014 | 59 CommentsHere's the reason you're the problem: You benefit from all the perks of patriarchy, but you won't own it in a way that motivates others to change it. You want to smooth out its rough edges, polish it up a bit, so you're not embarrassed by it. -
Smog-Breathers
Posted on October 1, 2013 | 4 CommentsI just read an amazing book called “Multiplication is for White People”: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children by Lisa Delpit,an insightful writer whose work I have admired for the last ten years, which is about when I was first exposed to her. I […] -
41 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “Sons”
Posted on January 17, 2013 | 3 Comments"I believe / you put the compass in me, / you are the needle / that directs us on the / path to godhood; . . . " -
39 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Please Don’t Tell Me I Don’t Understand the Gospel
Posted on August 28, 2012 | 11 CommentsHad I simply refused to see it? Turned a blind eye out of conformity? Why, after decades in the church, did these things suddenly bother me? -
Unforgettable Images
Posted on April 11, 2012 | 21 CommentsMany Mormons (adults included) don’t watch R-rated movies. The oft-cited rationale is that once you see those images (“those images” = depictions of violence or sexuality), you’ll never get them out of your head. They’re seared into your brain forever. I for one […] -
On Being Cut Out of the Program
Posted on April 9, 2012 | 50 CommentsWe had a beautiful Easter weekend that included a blissful day of cousin-ing with two out of my three siblings (we definitely missed our oldest sister and her gang!) and my parents. Everyone got dressed up Sunday morning in new clothes for Easter-new dresses […] -
14 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Uchtdorf Steps In It
Posted on October 15, 2011 | 92 Comments"But PLEASE, for the love of God, don't tell us that God hasn't forgotten us. We're not that small. Or stupid." -
A Man of Letters
Posted on November 6, 2010 | 24 CommentsEverything I have learned about God is written in a book. In fact, it's difficult to imagine how my worldview might differ had certain ideas not been memorialized, glorified, and canonized in the form of holy books ...