feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 11, 2019 · Last modified June 7, 2019
We liked to play Mormon Jeopardy and similar things with the Young Men when I was in Young Women. I was told several times that I needed to just sit quietly and let the...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 10, 2019 · Last modified June 6, 2019
I had a number of problems with a previous bishop. I had gone to the stake president multiple times and was ignored. It finally got to the point where I wrote a letter to...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 9, 2019 · Last modified June 6, 2019
My bishopric forces me to go through them to ask permission for every little thing for my calling, and they often say no and more often never respond at all. I’ve sent the bishopric...
feminism / Gender / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published June 7, 2019 · Last modified June 6, 2019
At the time of Kate Kelly’s fight for women to have the priesthood, I served on our ward’s Ward Council. I am pretty vocal and at one particular meeting shortly after Kate’s excommunication, a...
Family / feminism / Policy / women
by Guest Post · Published April 25, 2019 · Last modified April 27, 2019
My bishop told me if I’d hearken to my husband, he would feel better about himself and stop abusing me. I literally told my bishop that the phrase was to hearken to the counsel...
One that comes to mind is when I was called as a Relief Society activity committee person. Every year we asked for a budget and every year it took them months to get back...
I was asked (as a working mother and previous single mother) to speak in sacrament about the Family Proclamation and specifically about God-given role of women to stay home and care for their children.–...
I was asked to serve as a stake young women leader at a very stressful time of my life; the calling completely took me off guard. When I asked if I could think about...
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