When Corrie was asked what motherhood looked like to her as a woman with no children of her own, she shared her experience as a teacher, and how she becomes a mother figure to many of the children she has the privilege of teaching and the impact good parents have in their lives: Which children…
The month of May is a beautiful one—bright and bold flowers begin to bloom and the earth warms under a gentle sun as it recovers from the frigid cold of winter and the pervasive damp of early spring rains. Maybe this is why it seems so natural to celebrate mothers during this month. It is…
One of my favorite stories is Cinderella. I fell in love with it somewhat recently when I researched it for my master’s dissertation. It is a story that has existed for a very long time and has hundreds of versions from nearly every culture around the globe. It is so old and so ubiquitous that…
I had four beautiful children. My new baby was healthy and perfect in every way. My husband was supportive and loving. I had a safe and comfortable home. We were a happy family. So why wasn’t I happy? Why was it so difficult to get off the couch and care for my children? Why couldn’t…
The Spring Fling Fundraiser was born out of the desire of the Provo and Provo Student Cottages to grow something good from the #metoo campaign. We wanted to take the awareness #metoo has brought to the issue of sexual violence and reframe it, to find a positive and generative solution in our community. We chose…
If we had to choose one tenet that encapsulates maternal feminism, this is it. There are five major things happening in this one small tenet. Let’s investigate. We [Big Ocean Women] are (1.) empowered by our (2.) feminine nature and (3.) biology, and we (4.) honor our [personal and collective] (5.) procreative power. The…