The No Longer Quivering Carnival has kept me hopping, first with writing material in advance for the news items that are being posted throughout each day, short essays on different aspects of our experience by several women, really dynamite stuff. Then I'm running the body image workshop and that's been quite active (yay!) and there have been lots ( Read more... )

You can look at my introduction and first assignment on the Body Image Workshop pages today and get started on your homework and thinking about your questions.

Here's what Vyckie says:

Beginning Sunday evening, Nov. 1st until we collapse sometime before midnight on Wednesday the 4th ~ we’re creating a party-like atmosphere here at No Longer ( Read more... )

The latest installment of my story for No Longer Quivering had been posted and is entitled "I Will Lay Me Down." This covers half a year in the early days of my marriage to Mahasraya (Michael Cody).

Part 7 of my guest series for No Longer Quivering is entitled I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You). In this installment my mom takes me back to Keokuk but invites the man I've just started to date, Mike, to join us. To my surprise he said yes.

Previous installments can be found under the heading Patriarchy Across Cultures.I previously wrote a ( Read more... )

Here's another installment in my guest blog series at No Longer Quivering.

Patriarchy Across Cultures: Magic Man.

No Longer Quivering has its own domain now: nolongerquivering.com.

My latest guest post for the No Longer Quivering blog has been posted. It is entitled Over The Rainbow.

My new post at No Longer Quivering is entitled All Things Must Pass.

This was a hard one to write since it brought back a lot of unpleasant memories.

Feel free to ask any questions you may have. I'll be away today but back tomorrow.

There is a new installment of my series at No Longer Quivering about my time in the Hare Krishna Movement and how it connects with the lifestyle of women in Quiverfull groups or other fundamentalist traditions. It's entitled Summer of Transcendental Love.

Previous installments can be found here and here.There will be future installments; I won't ( Read more... )

I've been up all night reading in fascination about the lives of two women, Vyckie and Laura, who spent years in the "Quiverfull" movement and finally broke free. They started a blog entitled "No Longer Quivering" There is also a Salon article about Vyckie ( Read more... )

I've been reading about the FLDS (fundy mormon sect) in two books, Under The Banner Of Heaven by Jon Krakauer and Escape, by Carolyn Jessop.

It is pretty clear that while it was always a very strict environment where women's lives were very controlled, once Warren Jeffs gained power (as his father became ill and then died) it took a turn into full ( Read more... )