Lately I’ve been feeling a desire to write more about my departure from Mormonism. I have a few drafts in my folder with scattered thoughts, and as I was unraveling one of them into a potential post I had the idea that it might be interesting to open up the floor to all of you […]
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Making Amends
I’ve had this post on my mind for a long time now, but I felt I couldn’t write it until I revealed the enormous shift I’ve made over the past year. If you didn’t know that I had left Mormonism how could what I am about to say come across as anything other than pandering? […]
I’m Coming From Where I Have Been
Prints available via HJDStudio I was raised in a tiny town. It seemed to me that everyone was either Nazarene, Catholic, or Mormon. Growing up I never heard anyone vocally identify as a democrat. There was one African-American in my school, otherwise everyone was either Latino or White. I didn’t personally interact with a gay person until […]
An Open Letter to the LDS Leadership Regarding Breastfeeding
Written in response to this. To the leadership of the LDS Church, I am a born and raised member of the LDS Church. My mother wasn’t able to breastfeed me, and I don’t have many memories of women breastfeeding around me when I was young. In 2006 I had a breast reduction, and […]
Pants. At Church. On A Female.
The shooting in Connecticut is devastating. The children. The parents. The families. My thoughts are with them. I’ve always been a dress girl, even for occasions when a suit was appropriate. For me this isn’t about not liking dresses. There are three areas where members of the Church, influenced by social and political unrest, are being caught up […]