Exponent II
A feminist forum for Mormon women and gender minority voices
I object mostly to the lack of love accompanied by professions of love, those honey-coated lozenges of turpentine: “what I wrote was the truth” and “I wasn’t attacking anyone’s beliefs.” I seek opinions widely— some temporarily satisfy some don’t take my bait one asks me about my…
Book review of Rosalyn Eves’ Beyond the Mapped Stars Beyond the Mapped Stars by Rosalyn Eves (Knopf, August 2021) is a powerful coming-of-age story about a 17-year-old Mormon girl, Elizabeth, who wants to become an astronomer despite her self-doubt and the traditional expectation…
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I don’t remember her crying. I don’t remember her fear. I don’t remember him leaving to serve a country that hated him. I don’t remember him coming home to the shouts and slurs spewing forth from neighbors who only saw him as different. None of them remember that he saved their f…
From a Stake Conference address in Highlands Ranch Stake, Colorado My husband, Joel, and I love to ride our bikes. We use a program to see how far we’ve ridden, how fast we’ve gone, and how many feet we’ve climbed. This program also breaks the distance up into segments, anywhere …
please bless the brothers the fathers, the sons to see themselves in God / to see in God themselves to hear their lives through hymns, scripture, law to find their self on top, in language, in all fields, positions, roles, openly worshipped and unconcerned with my prayer Brinn El…
Book review of Allison Hong Merrill’s Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops Abusers hate nothing more than when those they’ve harmed speak up. If we evaluated books based on the courage it takes authors to write their painful lived experiences despite threats and the fear or reliving trauma, Al…
Easter is one of my favorite holidays. It is a time we get to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. After Jesus died on the cross, His body and spirit were separated and were not reunited again until His resurrection three days later. Latter-day Saints testify of Jesus’ res…
In the shadow of the hospital, he cradles a box of Triscuits to his chest — tenderly, like a more delicate load. I joke about the familiar gesture, then when my empty arms return home, I find I am craving pears: sweet weight I’ve been allergic to for years. I wash myself of the s…
On a deep-green April afternoon, Oriental poppies at the height of their orange perfection, my daughter draws with chalk on the driveway while I begin mowing the last section of lawn. I turn a wide arc around the maple tree, the mower’s metronome thrum silencing the paws of the n…
Star child, I wanted to believe in you For so long— Ever longing, I cherished you Holiest of babes born to mankind! I grasped at the clear glow that surely Must have slanted from the straw Cradling you in a stone manger Over two thousand years ago. I wanted to swaddle the warm pr…
Compiled by Tirza Davis Behold, Your Little Ones: A Woman’s Witness KAYLEE | JUNE 23, 2021 exponentii.org/behold-your-little-ones-a-womans-witness I am the mother of young daughters. I do the majority of childcare and spend the most time with them. I witness their dreams, their s…