[…] isn’t hers to keep. She’ll steal; she’ll hide; she’ll change her identity; perhaps especially, she’ll lie. “In writing there are rules,” says Bennion. He continues: In the fictional parts of this book it’s expected […]
[…] biblical hermeneutics in antebellum America via the apocalyptic unveiling of the text’s own “human conditions of scripture writing and scripture reading” (288), a “metatextual navel-gazing profoundly destabilizes its self-canonizing narrative, opening it to ethical […]
[…] relationship with Dale. He sang and I played. We performed most weeks at the Mexican Hat church service. On one Sunday, Dale wanted his solo performance of “How Great Thou Art” to have a […]
[…] I interviewed seven trans and/or gender nonconforming Mormons between eighteen and forty-four years old living in various regions of the United States as part of my graduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College in New York
Podcast version of this piece. I pause on the path, drop my sticks,and bend to read them like runes.Tell the stars, They said. So I do daily— I chart their breathless turning asI gather berries…
Dialogue 55.1 (Spring 2022): 169–178
Our goal is for the Seeking Heavenly Mother Project to have this empowering effect on all who participate. We see a strong need to ensure that our community is inclusive and intersectional, creating spaces wherein LGBTQ+ individuals and other members of marginalized groups can be affirmed in the knowledge that they too are created in the image of God.
[…] Taylor G. Petrey criticizes certain Mormon scholars (namely, Janice Allred, Valerie Hudson Cassler, and me): “Mormon feminists writing about Heavenly Mother have been complicit in heteronormative narratives that universalize a subset of women as […]
[…] a memorable class of villains, including bad King Ammoron, the “bold Lamanite.” The documents also rehearse unfor gettable accounts of adventure on the high seas, the rise and fall of civilizations, the agony of […]
[…] Fawn Brodie has said, “It may never be proved that Joseph saw View of the Hebrews before writing the Book of Mormon.” She, however, lapses into the genetic fallacy by continuing, “but the striking […]
[…] postmortal (but not yet divine) being. Do we know of anyone who was proficient in reading and writing the reformed Egyptian characters recorded on the plates, who also spoke English, and who tended to […]