Did you hear that BYU is closing the Women’s Research Institute (WRI)?
This makes me want to cry.
The WRI was my haven at BYU and I owe much of the peace I feel now about being an active LDS woman and a mother to the women and experiences I had there. I wrote more of my feelings here.
BYU needs the Women’s Research Institute because LDS women need it. There are many LDS women who never struggle with questions of gender inequality, but for those of us who do the WRI represents hope. Hope that there will always be an open dialogue between LDS men and women on gender. Hope that if we keep searching we will find answers to our hard Gospel questions. Hope that one day men and women will be able to live together with out violence or inequality. And hope that our daughters will inherit a world that is safer and kinder to women.
I don’t want to give up that hope.
If you don’t either you can join the facebook group “Save the Women’s Research Institute” , join the protest at BYU (oh how I wish I was there), write a letter, and pray… a lot.
