Maggie Mae looked out over the pond and grasped Eric’s arm like a rope in gym class. It was April, and the canopy of blossoms above smelled mostly like heaven…
Noticing something like the fact that you’re the only Black person in the room isn’t entirely innate. At least not to me. It took me a while before I really…
Tucked away in the sacred mountains of Utah County, in a city founded by the hands of their ancestral pioneers, college Mormons are having weird sex. Or so I was…
I used to believe that consent was power. That was the message sold to me by teen feminist magazines, Young Women’s chastity lessons, and BYU Title IX campaigns: “consent means…
What is occurring right now in Palestine is genocide, a textbook case of it, a direct result of seventy-five years of occupation and apartheid. Following Hamas's attack on Israel, killing…
I am Mormon in the same way I am American. I can never not be born into the covenant in the same way I will forever have been born in…
Humans need everything to make sense. That’s why we humans turn to stories. A story makes sense of the mess of life and gives purpose to the pain we feel.…
I am a queer, nonbinary Mormon at BYU. As I navigate this seemingly contradictory space, I am sure of one thing: this is who I am. It’s worth noting that…
When it comes to sacrament talk testimony rankings you'll find (somewhere above food storage but below repentance) the hands-on-hips declaration; "now I know God has a sense of humor." You…
November 8th, 2016, marked a turning point for the United States and the Republican Party. In the span of one election they transitioned from the party of conservative values into…