third hour previsited: lesson 41

Each week, Hannah and Asriel will discuss the Young Women’s and Young Men’s lessons for the coming week from a feminist perspective. This week is lesson…

elder’s quorum observations – a female perspective

By Hannah Wheelwright So yesterday I went with Asriel to Elder’s Quorum for the third hour of church. After so many weeks of writing about the…

a reason to change my name

Name-changing in marriage is a fascinating concept. Or perhaps just the attitudes around it are fascinating, since the name change itself isn’t (typically) that interesting. It is…

me and my god

Guest post by Corrine Christison Corrine discovered yMf through Twitter (follow her @SomeCallMeJoni) and submitted two posts to us. This is the first installment. In my twenty-five years…

third hour previsited: lesson 39

Each week, Hannah and Asriel will discuss the Young Women’s and Young Men’s lessons for the coming week from a feminist perspective. This week is lesson…

pro-(need-to-have-a)-choice mormonism

US Rep. Todd Akin’s comments on the Jaco Report this past Sunday morning lit up everyone’s newsfeeds and set the tweets to rapid-fire. Todd Akin currently…

third hour previsited: lesson 38

Each week, Hannah and Asriel will discuss the Young Women’s and Young Men’s lessons for the coming week from a feminist perspective. This week is lesson…

“i’m the athelete,” or, toward a more sympathetic view of gender essentialists

By Nicias Growing up, Briony (name has been changed), the youngest of the spawned-in-the-90s half of my family, was the funny kid. Even though my older…

a radical mormon marriage

A few weeks ago, my grandpa got re-married in the temple. His first wife – my grandma – has been dead for about five years now.…