Archive for the ‘women’ Category
Recently a group of progressive Mormon women decided to organize a Wear-Pants-to-Church-Day. Really, it’s hard to believe that in the 21st-century that skirts or dresses are still the mandated attire for Mormon women, but it’s true. Growing up LDS, I was told my some stalwart church leaders that I should not even enter the Chapel [...]
FYI for any new readers…I was a married-stay-at-home-Mom for eight years–from the time my first child was born until my youngest entered school. Now I’m the single mother of two teenagers who works full-time at a white collar “desk” job. The topic of ‘mother-work’ has been on my mind with the recent media kerfluffle about [...]
One of the biggest compliments that I received recently was from someone that I know professionally, who just learned that I’d been practicing LDS for most of my life. She was shocked, only because she said that I didn’t behave like any of the LDS women that she knew–who she said were all the kind [...]
Recently I told a friend the story of the print that hangs on my bedroom wall. It’s a Mary Cassatt, called “Summertime,” and I purchased the print in the spring of 1987. How do I remember that date so well? Because I’d just turned 16 and attended a local painting exhibit with a boyfriend–my first [...]
Another post in the series of Traveler’s Tales A Guest Post by Jeanne When my sons were small, I used to tell people I was divorced with two children. Full stop. End of story. Of course, people who knew us wondered how I got one Asian child and one pale-skinned red head with only one [...]
Within moments of John telling me that he was leaving our marriage, I texted a friend: John is leaving me. In despair. Can I come over? I remember almost nothing of that night except that I had a shoulder to cry on and a friend who listened and offered every imaginable support, while serving me [...]
Tonite’s post finds me snuggled in on the couch. I’m sneezy right now, and my glands are swollen. That’s probably far more than you wanted to know about me, but this post is going to have a bit more TMI than my usual, so I thought I’d just get warmed-up from the get-go…. For quite [...]
Just for the record, I’m a big fan of bullshit. In fact, I buy huge bags of it every spring to use in my garden. Sure it’s stinky, but it gets the job done. Recently, the Feminist Hulk (a tongue-in-cheek twitterer) sent out a tweet about bullshit and it was widely “re-tweeted” (or copied, with [...]
Put Your Gender in the Blender, originally uploaded by Peter John Chen. About ten years ago began to think deeply about the ways I was gender-typing my children. Though I’ve always been a fairly open-minded parent, I could see that my gentle teasing to my son about his interactions with the cute girls in his [...]
Originally posted May 13, 2007: The celebration of Mother’s Day originated with poet Julia Ward Howe, as a movement for women to fight the devastation of war and to show the way towards peace. Today’s sentimental-flowers-&-Hallmark-card bedecked event hardly measures up to the fiery rhetoric of the day’s founding mother… Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day [...]
On Monday when I voted, I was ebullient. I Love Voting. Just love it. Although it probably sounds really corny to say this, I felt the spirit of folks like Martin and Alice and Harvey right there alongside me there in that uber hi-tech voting booth. I was also surrounded by dozens of undergrads who [...]
I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance. –Jane Addams, in a speech to the Chicago Political Equality League in 1897 This quote from [...]
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