You don’t need to be white to support white supremacy
White supremacy isn’t just being a Nazi. White supremacy is the idea that whiteness is better, that it’s a default. Continue reading You don’t need to be white to support white supremacy
How the Sacrament is communal
While participating in the sacrament recently, I was contemplating the communal nature of it.
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How we frame the Proclamation is homophobic
I attended a meeting where someone discussed the Family Proclamation. They used coded language about how much society had changed since it was announced. Continue reading How we frame the Proclamation is homophobic
LDS concept of God perpetuates prejudice
The LDS concept of divinity perpetuates the sexism, homophobia, and transphobia inherent in the LDS church’s teachings and traditions.
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Why Conservatives are wrong about late-term abortions
About a month ago, Conservatives were up in arms with Virginia introducing the Repeal Act in their House of Representatives. While the bill will improve access to abortions for pregnant women, it doesn’t change when women can access an abortion. Conservatives were claiming that the changes would allow so-called “late-term abortions”, but third-trimester abortions are already legal in Virginia.
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If you make it about race, it’s racist
In a Facebook group I’m on, someone posted the following: “I opened my inside door to find a native female … Continue reading If you make it about race, it’s racist
We force gender and sexuality onto our children
Gender and sexuality are things we all force upon our children, as society and as parents.
If our child is born with a penis, for example, the doctor tells us it’s a boy. We believe that doctor and raise that child as a boy. We assign him gendered pronouns and give him a gendered name. We envision him growing into a man one day. We dream of him falling in love with a woman and providing us with grandchildren one day.
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Being an ally of non-binary people requires action
Being supportive to and an ally of non-binary people requires more than using their proper name (rather than the name you’re used to using). That’s actually the easiest part of it all.
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Billionaires become rich on the backs of the poor
The only way to become a billionaire is on the backs of poor people.
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Trans athletes don’t have a physical advantage
Over the last few months, I’ve seen people sharing memes and links about trans women athletes competing on primarily cis women teams. They’re worded in a way to get people worked up over having a “biological male” or “genetic male” competing with “biological/genetic females”, with the assumption that being assigned male at birth gives athletes some sort of advantage.
This just isn’t true.
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