[…] school district was recently redistricted to dip into the “close to downtown” areas and therefore includes many blacks from lower income and middle income homes. The make-up of the school is forty percent black, […]
Rachel Farmer guest posts at Feminist Mormon Housewives to discuss her new art exhibit in New York, and describes her encounters with the archives of Dialogue.
It’s funny to exhibit my little ceramic pioneers here on the east coast. People wonder who they are and what they are doing. Are they prairie moms? Eastern European peasants? Pilgrims? What are those carts they are lugging around? Are they peddlers? One thing is certain – these women know how to work!
This fascination with my ancestry — and questions about my own place in the Mormon narrative — led my young nerdy self on a quest to read all the back-issues of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (that my parents kept conveniently stacked in their study).
The women I met on these pages forever changed my worldview: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Lavina Fielding Anderson. Though they wrote about contemporary feminist issues, it was their insights into Mormon women’s more independent and expansive role in the early church that gave me some extra backbone.
[…] opened every major revelation from the First Vision to the 1978 revelation on priesthood ordination for worthy black men. Questions such as those orbiting a reconciliation of evolution and our faith are difficult and […]
[…] Cabin 5, Roadrunner, opening the car door to a thicket of bird calls. Ducks, grebes, mourning doves, blackbirds. Other voices I could not name. It was too dark now to see the creatures but […]
[…] called them humble), to give them our saving pitch, do whatever it was we did. The body— black, limbs splayed like a doll’s—couldn’t have been much more than my age (twenty), couldn’t have been […]
[…] Joseph Smith, Sr. at this trade in Canandaigua. Pomeroy Tucker refers to the “manufacture and sale of black-ash baskets and birch brooms” on the Smith farm, handicrafts utilizing coopering skills. This type of activity […]
[…] leaned forward a little he saw tops of heads and the silver sign that said “MEN” in black letters. The little blond boy who had gotten on at Denver came lurching down the aisle […]
[…] at the sky. “The environment,” she says. Early Years For his eighth birthday Richard receives a small black tag in scribed with the words Future Missionary. He wears the tag to church, to school, […]
[…] off the backs” of the slave-holders? Many of these same slave-holders believed that God had cursed the black people and that they were created to be servants to the white man forever. Even Brigham […]
[…] articles by Shipp and Oaks detail in part the gross injustices which have given rise to the Black protest movement, and it is against this background that Oaks asserts two basic propositions which elicit […]