This weekend, Brigham Young University’s queer students are celebrating Pride. The celebration is spearheaded by Raynbow Collective, a Provo non-profit organization that focuses on creating and identifying safe spaces for LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and staff at the LDS church school. The collective invited allies and queer studentsto chalk the sidewalks just outside of campus asContinue reading “Chalking the Block: an interview with former BYU students on being queer at a church school”
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Housing a Community: Marianne Hales shares her tale of a quilting club
All good family’s (houses)are (not) похож MaryAnn Taylor The story of the Little House Quilting Club (LHQC) is a bittersweet work of art patchworked together with painstaking love. In addition to quilting, Marianne Hales is single-parenting two kids, Emily Laura and Micah, caring for her aging parents, teaching college courses, and courageously battling Multiple Sclerosis. ItContinue reading “Housing a Community: Marianne Hales shares her tale of a quilting club”
Cutting Wiseteeth: an interview with songwriter Justin Duckwitz
Provo singer/songwriter Justin Duckwitz is an adjunct professor of English at Salt Lake Community college. He has an MFA in poetry from BYU, as well as extensive experience as a chef. In 2012 his street-folk band, Ferocious Oaks, released the album It’s Better This Way. In July, Duckwitz fronted the Provo psych-folk band Wiseteeth, whichContinue reading “Cutting Wiseteeth: an interview with songwriter Justin Duckwitz”
The Biology of Transgender
As a transgender woman that teaches and writes about the philosophy of gender, I find it frustrating that certain arguments persist concerning transgender people. One of these is that gender is determined entirely by biology and that the biology is simple: you are born a male or female, exclusively and exhaustively. According to this perspective,Continue reading “The Biology of Transgender “
Third & Forthcoming
Matthew 25:40 What if we’ve got it all wrong and there isno Second Coming, but instead He comes again and again; like an Indian Brahman, the Dalai Lama, or a porn star great at their job? What if every time He returns to us, we crucify him again? A Jew in 1940s Germany, with the audacity to believe hisContinue reading “Third & Forthcoming”
South Provo Prophet 