women Archive

  • Equality is Not a Feeling, 2.0

    Posted on October 19, 2013 | 34 Comments
    I have “equality” on the brain these days. What does it mean?   What does it look like?   How do you know when you have it and, more importantly, how do you know when you don’t?   As Kate Kelly mentioned a couple weeks […]

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  • Ordain Mormon Women

    Posted on October 1, 2013 | 5 Comments
    Doves and Serpents just received word that the fantabulous Cate has penned a song for the women (and men) of Ordain Women, who plan to stand in line this Saturday, October 5, in order to get into the priesthood session of General Conference.   If […]

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  • Women, the Priesthood, and the Cookie Jar

    Posted on September 25, 2013 | 16 Comments
    We don't like to frame it that way. We like to talk about how men and women are equal partners (as long as it's understood that men "preside").

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  • 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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  • Grondahl 47

    Posted on January 6, 2013 | No Comments
    1980. Not sure we’ve made any progress.For other cartoons in this series,  click here.    This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of    The Sunstone  Foundation  and  Calvin Grondahl.

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  • Heather Wears Pants

    Posted on December 14, 2012 | 28 Comments
    I was pregnant with Stuart, my third (and last) child when I decided I wanted to get a Ph.D.   By the time he was three months old, I had already started my coursework.   It was invigorating.   I was excited to be reading […]

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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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  • Why This Mormon Woman is Voting for Barack Obama

    Posted on October 23, 2012 | 17 Comments
    Today’s guest post comes to us from Karin Olson of Huntsville, Texas. Yesterday I cast my vote for Barack Obama for president on the first day of early voting in Huntsville, Texas, wishing I lived in a swing state.   I see him as the […]

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  • 31 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Straining at Gnats

    Posted on May 24, 2012 | 17 Comments
    Aah, yes, the "don't sweat the small stuff" argument. It's as familiar as Wonder bread in a sacrament tray.

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  • Grondahl 14

    Posted on March 18, 2012 | No Comments
    For other cartoons in this series,  click here.    This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of    The Sunstone  Foundation  and  Calvin Grondahl.

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  • 21 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Half a Foot (or Church)

    Posted on February 26, 2012 | 14 Comments
    The "nicer" men are about the patriarchal structure of the church, the more likely it is to be perpetuated. The best way for men to promote change in this context may be to act like authoritarian jerks.

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  • 20 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Half a Church

    Posted on February 19, 2012 | 60 Comments
    I 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. . .

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  • Grondahl 9

    Posted on February 12, 2012 | No Comments
    If you’d like to see other cartoons in this series go to  https://dovesandserpents.org/category/columns/grondahl-restored/ This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of    The Sunstone  Foundation, the publisher, and  Calvin Grondahl.

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  • Why All Mormon Women Should Wear Pants to Church

    Posted on January 12, 2012 | 191 Comments
    [Photo Credit] This guest post is written by BDBeal.   Yes, it’s a post about women’s dress written by a man . . . ; All groups have their idiosyncrasies.   Mormons are no different, although there are days when I suspect we have more […]

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  • 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."

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  • Assertiveness Training

    Posted on September 29, 2011 | 14 Comments
    I 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.

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  • Ride to Rocky Mountain Retreat

    Posted on September 18, 2011 | No Comments
    Today’s ride to church comes to us from Paula, our favorite Ride to Church veteran. ; I have one last Ride to Church, a ride to The Rocky Mountain Retreat, a yearly ritual for me. Eighteen years ago, a group of my friends and I […]

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  • The Gluttonous Baby

    Posted on July 21, 2011 | 10 Comments
    For 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 […]

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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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  • Mirror, Mirror, on the wall . . .

    Posted on June 15, 2011 | 8 Comments
    My 14-year-old daughter recently said, “Mom, do you realize how many of your sentences begin with, ‘I just finished reading a book . . .’?” I paused for a moment, thinking about her question, and then realized-somewhat sheepishly-that she was right. So, in order to […]

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  • Angels with Power Tools

    Posted on May 12, 2011 | 9 Comments
    When you hear the words “Compassionate Service” what comes to mind?   This is like one of those word association games- just go with your gut feeling.   Macaroni and cheese?   Sign up sheets?   Relief Society Board Meeting? A calling you hated (or […]

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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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  • 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 […]

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  • Parallel Journeys

    Posted on March 24, 2011 | 20 Comments
    By Claudia On my personal blog, I am known as “The Faithful Dissident.” For the past three years, I’ve been hiding behind that alias. Afraid of what, I’m not exactly sure, but some of my experiences during the past yearhave made me realize that I’m […]

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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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  • Allaho: An Afghan Lullaby for Daughters

    Posted on February 23, 2011 | 4 Comments
    I just got this video in my inbox from a listserv I’m a member of. I loved seeing all the Afghan girls playing and learning to read. And I loved the beautiful lullaby. Does anyone know anything about Samar Minallah (the maker of the video)?

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  • Elaine Bradley: ‘Marching to the Sound of Her Own Drum’

    Posted on February 13, 2011 | 3 Comments
    For the most recent addition to the ‘Mormon Women Project’, Krisanne Hastings has interviewed Elaine Bradley, the drummer and backing vocalist for Billboard top #100 alternative rock band ‘Neon Trees’, and an active member of the LDS Church. Her story takes her from sixth-grade ‘New […]

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