Exponent II
A feminist forum for Mormon women and gender minority voices
I walk into my abuelita’s room and she’s hunched over a book of genealogy- the old ones with the long horizontal pages of lines and brackets that fan out into generation after generation. She has a pencil and is making notes, small scribbles about memories or facts, reading and r…
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BY GUEST POST · PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 23, 2021 · UPDATED NOVEMBER 15, 2021 Guest Post by McArthur Krishna and Martin Pulido. McArthur comes from a pack of storytellers. And while the pack rightly insists she’s only in the running for third-best storyteller on a good day, she’s made …
BY RAMONA MORRIS · PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 22, 2021 · UPDATED NOVEMBER 21, 2021 Unlike many across the world, I chose not to watch too much of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. As a black woman, seeing the gross disrespect to the American court system was triggering. I learned during the va…
BY APRIL YOUNG BENNETT The Vision of the Redemption of the Dead In 1918, Joseph F. Smith had a vision. He witnessed an event that was previously unreported and unexplained in scripture: Jesus Christ organizing missionary work in the Spirit World, during the time after his death a…