Results for: queer parenting
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Black, Trans, and Alive
There is joy here. I have dreamed of this 100 times, prayed for it twice as many.
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I Grew Up In A House That Was Haunted
In finding out that the legacy of redlining was so connected to my childhood home, I started to wonder what else I harbored that no one had ever thought to explain to me. I wanted to understand how my family and I became this way: so oblivious to our direct complicity in white supremacy
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The Public Education System Sucks (Especially for Queer Black Femmes)
If the Dean positions are largely dominated by men, guess who the most punished group in school is.
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5 QPOC Visionary Fiction Projects to Look Out for in the Not-So-Distant Future
Our ability to conceive of ourselves surviving and thriving into the future is a crucial part of manifesting it as a lived reality.
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Crafting The Narrative Of Abuse
Narratives of violence and abuse are so familiar in our history and culture that we hardly notice them. Corinne Manning shares what it took to notice and transform these narratives in their own fiction and their story collection, We Had No Rules.
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The Utopian, Queer Promise of Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend”
“Call Your Girlfriend” is not just a song that holds up as a classic sad bop — but as a work of art that asks us to radically reimagine how we might uncouple ourselves from each other in gentler, more entangled ways.
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8 Amazing Books about Queer/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Women with Superpowers
Is it too obvious to say that reading books about queer women with superpowers can be very… empowering?
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Cutting Out the Middle
I would spend many hours trying to diagnose the emptiness Amanda left in her wake. I had lost something, but didn’t know what. Surely there’s a queer space on the page for stories that lack a middle?
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On Saying No
Saying yes almost destroyed me, but I was still afraid to say no.
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Being Queer in My Mother Tongue
I keep looking for labels. When I first read about nonbinary identities, I think of my family, and whether there might exist a word in Polish that means the same thing.
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Always In The Middle: On Being Biracial & Bisexual
Perhaps my identity oscillates at times but in a world that attempts to force me to choose one side of a binary, I remain firmly in the middle.
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Asbury Park’s Queer Community, Post Ruins
When I do hear Springsteen’s “4th of July, Asbury Park,” I won’t long for something I never had because I was born too late. I’ll let the song wash over me gently, wistful for all the people I knew who made the best of bad luck down the shore.
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Looking for Love in the Wrong Place
“We were talking about all the places we wanted to visit, all the people we wanted to be. When she asked to kiss me, I said yes.”
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Small Waves
I don’t think anyone looks at the introverted, disabled woman, and thinks she’s powerful. But my family chose to. They are the reason that I can pushback against the stereotypes society holds for a quiet blind woman, and assert my place in this world. They taught me to swim in the waves.
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Writing Queer Ugandan Futures into the Present
The story of queerness in Uganda, bound as it has been to fictions about who we are and who we ought to be, is a story of resilience, love and community.
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Like a House on Fire
Everything looks better when you’re in love, and Nevada City was no exception.
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Who Do You Meet On the Greyhound?
A teen dyke wanders around the country in the early 2000’s, armed with an Ameripass and a journal.
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The Color of the Sky
I could be anything, my mother taught me. I could be anyone I wanted. Except for being an atheist lesbian — that wasn’t really on the menu.
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Don’t Ask Me About the Veil: A Queer Rock Climber’s First Time In Iran
I am a first generation Iranian-Canadian queer on their first trip to Iran at the age of twenty-seven, forming connections to the land.
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Sanctuary of the Pines
The mountains and forests of Northwest Montana were where I felt the freest as a lesbian, but I didn’t know that feeling had queer roots going back 100 years, to when my doppelgänger was wandering these woods.