Yesterday, a group of queer BYU students ventured into the Honor Code Office to confirm whether the removal of homosexual behavior from...

Instead of tears the words come spilling out of me, and I’ve grown weary from trying to divert the flow of them. I’ve grown weary from...

Ask me to change I don't see why not Thrifty? No Dedicated? No Level headed? I could go on but what would that do Ask me to change any...

How do you know how to cure the woman’s limp if you’ve always walked with two evenly healthy legs? Don’t you know she’s prayed for two...

Hi, it’s me. The girl you almost married. The one you tried to control within an inch of her life so my life could bend to fit yours. It...

The first time I step into a Mormon church, I am fourteen. I’m not quite sure why I’m there. I’ve been hopping around different faiths...

In the evening when the boys have gone to be with you my fingers trace the edges of book bindings. I trace them like old memories of when...

We have covenanted--not to break--many things. To never be wicked Wickedness never was happiness. To bury our weapons of war Let the soil...

(Setting: Dressing room. Scene: Middle school.) "Have you ever seen gay people make out? It's disgusting," my friend said. "Marriage is...

I remember sitting in class at church at age fourteen and listening to a leader tell a story. When she was in college, she took a...

If you call on love, but it doesn’t answer don’t assume it is indifferent, or yourself unworthy. Not if you call with the most wounded...

I left her office after being shaken like an etch-a-sketch. The emotion coming just to the surface in my chest, my gut, my breath. When...

There is a certain satisfaction that comes from holding space for yourself. Setting out two cups while you wait for the tea kettle to...

My husband is still my husband even though my body has nothing left to give him when we are stripped of all mortal attachments. When we...

You were not one to see details in faces, until hers – flecks of gold in her eyes, age-worn parentheses framing pink lips, undulating...

The first time you see her, your heart stops for a second. Try not to think about it too much. The more she lets you in, the more at home...

Come to think of it, I always wanted to be friends with the prettiest girl in class. The desire to strike such a friendship was always...

Clean the kitchen; secure iron pipes under the sink Bedside table: finish tile mosaic, reread dead teacher's letter; clean spilled ink...

The words have become comfort I’ve learned to inject into myself when my mind won’t stop reminding me that I’ve been broken. Broken...

I heard his voice call from the path that I had boarded up and sealed off long ago. In my mind I knew where that path led, and I was...