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When You’re Selling Nineteenth-Century Heteronormativity and Kids Today Aren’t Buying It

Holly, April 14, 2022April 15, 2022

Remember back in 2021 when the COJCOLDS canceled the Saturday night gender-specific session of conference? Yeah, me neither, because I almost never pay attention to conference anymore. For some reason, though, in March the church announced the addition of a hastily arranged Saturday night Young Women’s session of General Conference…

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The Brethren Want Us to Shut Up About Heavenly Mother Already, Again

Holly, March 11, 2022March 11, 2022

Discussions are proliferating among liberal Mormons on social media about recent efforts by the Brethren to let the Saints know that they better stop talking about Heavenly Mother, ASAP. Here’s a good early summation of what’s going on, from Twitter. In 1985, when I was a missionary, a relative sent…

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God as a Black Woman

Holly, May 28, 2017March 11, 2022

Enjoy this gorgeous depiction of God as a black woman creating a black Eve. Read more about it here.

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: Where’s Mom edition!

chanson, September 11, 2016

So, what’s up with Heavenly Mother? What do Mormons even believe about Her? Here’s an interesting theory (and rebuttal): Recently, it was suggested in another blog post featured in Young Mormon Feminists that Heavenly Mother was Lucifer and that Heavenly Father viewed her as narcissistic and attention seeking. As a…

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