Tag Archives: gender
After Which I Promise To Shut Up About Pants Forever
I wore pants to church the Sunday before the Sunday before Christmas. It wasn’t any big deal in my urban ward where one or two other women wear pants on the regular. In fact, it was among the least significant … Continue reading
How To Have An Interfaith Mormon Feminist Marriage
I started writing here ostensibly to talk about marriage, and how it works as a Mormon and a feminist. I didn’t know any other Mormons in interfaith relationships and for years I couldn’t even find any on the Internet. After … Continue reading
On Food And Not Eating It
This is the post where I talk about body image. This is the post I very nearly deleted after typing most of it up months ago because I think it is (1) way too personal and (2) kind of irrelevant. By … Continue reading
Why Marriage Turned Me Into An Angry Feminist
I started this blog with a post called On Feminism. I wrote about how I never really thought about feminism or women’s issues, but how I suddenly felt compelled to talk about both of these things and had no one … Continue reading
These Things Happen
I know it seems like all I do is talk about Mormonism, but that wasn’t the point when I started this blog. I know nobody really cares about liberal Mormonism except for other liberal Mormons (and oh do we care) … Continue reading
The Pros and Cons of Being a Young, Hot* Lady Attorney
Sometimes it’s hard to see the ways that my sex and gender affect my life. After all, I don’t know any other life other than the one I’ve got. Part of the reason I speak so much about being a … Continue reading
Mormons and the Law
There are a bunch of lawyers and law students in my ward in Chicago. Most of them are young married men. Several of us teach Sunday School and other classes. I don’t know if other people find us irritating in … Continue reading
Mormons at Work
What do you do when you run out of things to say? Tell stories. Your own. Other people’s. Past and present. What do you do when you forget how to tell a story people want to hear? Write badly, often … Continue reading
The Worst Of The Worst
So I don’t talk about exercise on my blog because I have a personal policy against contributing to a conversation that pressures women, however subtly, to use diet and exercise as a means to chase down the ideal body, look, … Continue reading
Bending the Rules 