Episode 853: Amy Watkins Jensen, “Women on the Stand”

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

My friend Amy Watkins Jensen (teacher, writer, active LDS, founder of “Women on the Stand”) join us to share her story including: * Growing up Mormon in Chicago * Mission to Argentina—first awareness of gendered imbalance * Brother coming out as gay * Carol Lynn Pearson’s living room * Y/W LGBTQ service project * Backstory starting “Women on the Stand” * Area Presidency ending practice, heartache, letter writing * President Oak’s recent invitation on the need to do better * Best practices Any shares powerful and important principles behind the movement (which isn’t asking for doctrinal changes) including: * Aligning of practices with our doctrine (which is divine equality) * Respectfully relentless If you are looking to better support Latter-day Saint women, please listen to this podcast and connect with Amy’s work. As Amy teaches “It will help us come closer to the divine equality that is our doctrine—and part of our beautiful theology—allowing us to thrive”. Thank you, Amy, for your great work. You are making a difference. I learned so much from you—you give me hope! Links: Best practices link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xuxe0qF_naSVfF3FifQzvv9AAQeHdzD5LU-AaZ_mlws/edit?usp=drivesdk Hope for Future practices link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19RuApg_1a-GGZYERHhvVRjI23IKPI3ooAdjUHE-gZAs/edit?usp=sharing Instagram account: @womenonthestand Substack: https://womenonthestand.substack.com/

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.0	Our guest on today's podcast is my friend joining me from the Bay Area, San Francisco area,
0:15.0	Amy Watkins Jensen. Welcome to the podcast, Amy.
0:19.0	Thank you. I'm so happy to be here.
0:22.6	About three or four weeks ago, I've been following Amy and all that are involved in her
0:28.6	work on women on the stand.
0:30.6	That's an Instagram account we'll talk more about in about four weeks ago.
0:34.6	I just had this impression to reach out to Amy and invite her to be on the podcast.
0:38.1	And I realized we had communicated like five years ago. And I had declined the chance to,
0:43.3	I declined Amy's request to be on the podcast. And I think it's because I was just so busy and
0:47.4	overwhelmed. But in a rebuke of the spirit, I felt impressed and so glad we're doing this
0:53.6	five years later, but you probably
0:54.9	have more to stare after five years.
0:57.6	Let me give you a little bio about Amy.
1:00.6	Amy Watkins-Gensen is a Bay Area Humanities teacher, writer, and founder of Women on the Stand,
1:07.9	an online community exploring women's experiences, and equal partnership within
1:13.3	Latter-day Saint theology and culture. Her work blends storytelling, faith, theology, and
1:19.1	lived experiences as she fosters thoughtful conversations about equality, equal partnership,
1:26.0	and belonging in religious life.
1:28.2	Through her platform, she amplifies the voices and stories of other Latter-day Saints
1:32.5	who are seeking more equal partnership in their families, wards, communities.
1:37.4	She shares her work on the Instagram account, Women on the Stand.
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