Episode 138: Finding Your Voice...and Using It | A Conversation with Afton Southam Parker

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Religion & Spirituality, Feminism, Motherhood, Ldswomen, Spirituality, Lds, Thechurchofjesuschristoflatterdaysaints, Mormonwomen, Religion, Marriage, Mormon, Faith

5 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Bringing attention to issues affecting Latter-day Saint women requires us to be opportunistic about using our voices. Even those in leadership callings don’t always find their ideas and opinions are welcome. And when chances to be heard do arise, the power dynamic of our culture and organization may make it hard for a woman to find the courage to express a non-traditional view. In Episode 138, Cynthia and Susan are joined by Afton Southam Parker, a woman who knows how to speak up about things that matter to her. It’s a conversation about finding ways to make individual opinions, ideas, and experiences known in a church where sharing them is rarely encouraged.

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0:00.0	Even if you can do things anonymously, if that's where you need to start, if you want to see change, like,
0:09.0	change isn't going to happen if people don't try to make a change.
0:12.0	And so I want to be in the church. This is my church. I know you
0:16.4	gives it so this too. This is my church as much as anyone's. Yep. And I find so much
0:20.1	value in it. So much goodness. And when we make it so restrictive in some ways and people
0:24.8	start feeling choked out or suffocated and it makes it hard for them to speak up
0:28.6	because we're told that there are certain things that are just right and wrong. But if
0:31.7	you find little ways in your local sphere
0:34.6	or even sending letters to the Salt Lake
0:36.4	building, you know, general building,
0:38.2	whatever you could do, I just see so much value in it.
0:41.1	It just brings awareness and it can ultimately with
0:43.2	them bring us together. It doesn't need to be divisive.
0:47.0	Hi, I'm Cynthia Wynnward And I'm Susan Hinkley.
0:54.0	And this is at last she said it.
0:56.0	We are Women of Faith discussing complicated things.
0:59.0	And the title of today's episode is
1:02.0	Finding Your Voice and using it.
1:06.2	I still need help with this, Cynthia.
1:08.2	Well, that's why we're talking about it today
1:11.0	because we all need all the help we can get. I feel like even though I feel like I'm okay, I have found my voice. I am always willing to learn more and better ways to do it because I've said before I'm kind of a fire hose I like to just
1:24.4	spray people really hard and I need to follow the drinking fountain approach and so that's
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