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Out/Into the Closet, Anonymous
Yesterday, a group of queer BYU students ventured into the Honor Code Office to confirm whether the removal of homosexual behavior from...
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Feb 20, 20201 min read


Skipping Stone, by Sariah Starr
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...
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Dec 4, 20191 min read


Don't Ask Me Not To Love Her, by Alyssa
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...
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Oct 24, 20191 min read


The Activist, by Moira Rose
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...
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Oct 17, 20191 min read


A Letter to a Homophobic Ex, by Andi Ybarra
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...
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Oct 11, 20194 min read


Maybe, by Anonymous
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...
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Oct 1, 20196 min read


The Tropics, by Alma Linda Martinez
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...
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Sep 17, 20191 min read


Sign of the Covenant, by Elle Mae
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...
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Sep 16, 20191 min read


Stranger in Voice, by Elle Mae
(Setting: Dressing room. Scene: Middle school.) "Have you ever seen gay people make out? It's disgusting," my friend said. "Marriage is...
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Sep 5, 20194 min read


Blessed, by Ashley Coombs
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...
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Sep 4, 20192 min read


Love's Call, by Gabriela Amada
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...
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Sep 3, 20192 min read


Neurological Sudoku, by Sariah Starr
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...
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Aug 29, 20192 min read


Satisfaction, by Moira Rose
There is a certain satisfaction that comes from holding space for yourself. Setting out two cups while you wait for the tea kettle to...
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Aug 28, 20192 min read


Still my Husband, by Sariah Star
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...
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Aug 23, 20192 min read


How it Ends, by Zhen
You were not one to see details in faces, until hers – flecks of gold in her eyes, age-worn parentheses framing pink lips, undulating...
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Aug 22, 20191 min read


Try not to think about it, by Anonymous
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...
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Aug 21, 20191 min read


My Story, by Chris
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...
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Aug 16, 20196 min read


The List of Undone Things, by Anonymous
Clean the kitchen; secure iron pipes under the sink Bedside table: finish tile mosaic, reread dead teacher's letter; clean spilled ink...
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Aug 15, 20191 min read


Self Medication, by Sariah Starr
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...
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Aug 14, 20191 min read


The Forbidden Path, by Alma Linda Martinez
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...
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Aug 14, 20194 min read
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