When it comes to sacred places, I feel considerable holy envy toward the Latter -day Saints. Their sacred sites stretch across the continent, from Vermont to California. Mormons can visit their founding prophet’s birthplace, […]
[…] to apply an insight confirmed by one of my research papers: Those within oppressive systems are well -placed to advance social progress over time. Bias against LGBTQ people seethes within a misperception that one’s […]
[…] Republic with a flippant “if . . . poetry can show any reason for her existence in a well -governed state, we would gladly admit her,” Western poets have largely been on the defensive, mounting countless […]
[…] to Indigenous land. I believe that BYU and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints need to recognize that colonial constructs such as the Doctrine of Discovery and the belief […]
[…] passes for truth is entirely a fabrication, or lifted from somewhere else: that the deeper truths of human telling are fictions or plagiarisms or both. Even when Madden’s play strains credulity, playfully or confessionally […]
[…] the collection Essays on American Indian and Mormon History. I approached the book as an Indigenous, Latter -day Saint woman, steeped in both my Yurok culture and my Mormon faith—one by birth and one […]
[…] to revise the narrative, thanks to the work of Parry and others who have called out the human injustice and crime of massacre and genocide, but there are still claims that the violence turned […]
[…] my heroes, but I never imagined that he would be a hero on the frontlines against COVID -19. He told me and my family in a Zoom video meeting from his trailer in Monument […]
[…] always like this? Did her family play a role in civic or economic matters? I saw no design in our wandering up and down the streets other than just getting to know the town, […]
[…] a shade of skin pigmentation. Criminals exist in every culture, in every race, in every shade of human. The world does not exist in categories of righteous races and wicked ones. And it came […]