Mary Walker has an infectious laugh and a natural talent for putting people at ease. She is a 29-year-old single mother living in South Provo with a dog, a cat, and her two young daughters—Summer, 3, and EJ, 5. She grew up, the daughter of a white father and a Filipino mother, in what sheContinue reading “Genuine: the poetry of single-mother, Mary Walker”
Category Archives: Milk & Honey
Raynbow Collective’s Back to School Pride night promises to be a real drag
As Raynbow Collective gears up for Saturday’s BYU Back to School Pride night, Provo is suddenly in the national spotlight again. Planned festivities at Kiwanis Park include LGBTQ speakers, a Pride march, live touring bands, vendors and food trucks, but the highlight of the evening is a “family friendly” drag show at 6 p.m. TheContinue reading “Raynbow Collective’s Back to School Pride night promises to be a real drag”
Chalking the Block: an interview with former BYU students on being queer at a church school
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”
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 