Exponent II is a quarterly periodical that publishes essays, poetry, and art created by women and gender minorities on the Latter-day Saint spectrum.

Exponent II continues to publish its print magazine and has grown to include a Mormon blog and annual women's retreat.

In 1972 Susan Kohler was browsing the stacks at Widener Library of Harvard University and discovered a 19th century Mormon women’s newspaper called Woman's Exponent.

They named their newspaper after the recently discovered Woman's Exponent and hoped "to give Mormon women greater status, share news and life views, and foster friendships.

[2] Shortly after the first issue of Exponent II was published, Robert D. Hales, then an assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve, was sent to Massachusetts from LDS Church headquarters in Salt Lake with a message[6] for "Claudia Bushman’s Women’s Lib magazine.

"[8] The founding mothers of Exponent II were encouraged by local church leader and historian Richard Lyman Bushman, who was the first person to suggest the women start a newspaper.

LDS Church Historian, Leonard Arrington[6] helped the women secure a small grant from the Mormon History Association for library and copying expenses.

[9] During the first years of newspaper publication, layout was completed in the homes of group members at events called Paste-up Parties.

In Sisters Speak a question is posed by editorial staff and then debated by readers who submit their responses for publication in the next issue of the magazine.

[12] Poetry by LDS women is published on a variety of subjects including family, love, divorce, death, childbirth, peace, sorrow, and pain.

Exponent II also publishes poetry about women's relationship and confusion about heavenly mother, the LDS feminine divine deity.

The keynote speaker at that event was Heather Sundahl, who co-wrote a book, Fifty Years of Exponent II, with Katie Ludlow Rich.

The book includes a history of Exponent II's founding, its struggles, and a selection of essays and poetry that have appeared in the magazine during the past 50 years.

[16] Roughly two dozen Mormon women blog at Exponent II as part of the staff, rotating in and out of service as circumstances permit.

[17] The Exponent II organization has also produced, and sold, some supplementary items, which have included at least two books a set of Mormon feminist stickers.

Also sold through the magazine's website was the book "All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir" by Laurel Thatcher Ulich and Emma Lou Thayne.