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Queer Mom Chronicles: Tips for Navigating Back-to-School Time for LGBTQ+ Parents
Establishing a good relationship with your child’s school when you’re a queer parent is incredibly important.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: How Do You Create Queer Community for Your Family?
I grew up around my mom’s queer friends, and I wanted my son to have that, too.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: 10 Things I’ve Learned in My 10 Years of Motherhood
9. There will never not be laundry.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: When You’re the Only Lesbian Mom on the Playground
There’s a certain amount of risk calculation you have to do when you’re the only queer mom in a group of parents.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: I Don’t Want To Be a Parenting Influencer
There are plenty of ways to be visible as queer parents without subjecting ourselves to the hate and vitriol of social media.
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Queer Mom Chronicles: How I’m Approaching the “Sex Talk”
“Mom, why do people have s-e-x?” my son asks, stopping me dead in my tracks.
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You Need Help: My Sister Loves Me, the Sinner, but Hates the Sin
I’ve been willing to put this aside and accept the love she’s willing to give me. But it’s all come to a head now that my health insurance finally approved my top surgery.
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“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 201: Mommi Culture
Honey, we’re home!!!! “Wait, Is This a Date?” is back and we’re talking all things mommi culture! And all things dating as an actual mom!
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Things That Have Mothered Me That Are Not My Mothers
I think of all the things that have taught me lessons and made me the woman I am and feel that, even if my mothers didn’t care for me the way I wanted them to, I still came out on the other side, not unscathed, but survived.
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Queer Co-parenting Helped Me Unlearn Everything TV Taught Me About Family
Queer parenting insists that parenting is a verb, an action and identity available to any and all adults who take on a shared responsibility.
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Into the A+ Advice Box #77: Should You Co-Parent With Your Queer Friends?
Plus self-harm scars and dating, crushing hard on your married coworker, learning to celebrate yourself and more!
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We’re Stressed the F*ck Out: Practical Tips for Queer Parents in the Pandemic
Parenting during the pandemic is a wild ride, so consider this our queer parenting circle, a safe place to share the good and the bad!
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Raising Anti-Racist Kids: A Guide and Book List for White and Non-Black POC Parents
Protecting our children from hard conversations about race is actively aiding and abetting white supremacy. We can’t afford to stay complicit.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: Airplanes, A-Camp and Abdominal Pain
Even though I didn’t get to experience A-Camp in the traditionally transformative way, I got an even deeper peek into the ways that this community is both very real and deeply caring.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: Marsha Pizza Johnson and Queer Family Matters
I want Remi to be able to write and narrate her own life. I owe her that as someone who had to reclaim my story.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: You Can Always Have a Hug
I want Remi to know that I’m here for her while also cultivating her skills for independence.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: The Art of Having A Good Time
Everything my toddler taught me about prioritizing play.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: Dinos Resist! A Guide to Raising a Little Activist
“What I’m saying is, if you’re sitting in the legislative chamber trying to hear the floor debate and someone’s kid starts crying or yelling “Baby Shark!” please be kind to them.”
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Raising Baby T. Rex: Having It All Is a Big, Heteronormative Lie
What I’ve learned is that parents and moms especially, even cool radical-minded queer moms, even boss-lady moms with lots of confidence in their own abilities, really can’t escape the “working mom” BS.
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Like the Other Kids
On top of how hard it is to be transgender in a cissexist world, it’s also really hard to be a child. It can be hard to have two moms in a heterosexist world. It can be hard to have a transgender mom. Put that all together, and I’m just one giant ball of anxiety who is frequently at a loss for the perfect way to help my child navigate the world.