Results for: meet up
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VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Three — Let’s Go Sperm Shopping!
“I kept having this ridiculous vision of, say, five years down the line being at a filmmaker meet up, looking across the room and recognizing my child in a stranger’s face, being like holy shit, I think that’s our donor. It’s a little absurd, I know, but San Francisco is a pretty small town!”
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Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Eleven — My Birth Story Wasn’t At All What I Expected
“The moment I met my child for the first time was nothing like I imagined it would be.”
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I Thought Getting Pregnant Was Hard; Then I Had a Toddler
“It’s funny. We have legal documents declaring our marriage valid in two different states. We’ve been together and in love for years. But it was the birth of our daughter this daredevil, this personality, that really made our home feel like family.”
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The End, The Beginning: Notes from the Last Weeks of Pregnancy
We’re almost there! The interminable countdown to actually having a real, live baby is almost over!
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VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Eight — The Baby Shower
“I started looking at lists of what a baby “needs,” and, despite my supposed desire to raise my children with nothing more than a bearskin rug and my bare breasts, I started thinking maybe there were just a few things that might come in handy once the baby arrives…”
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VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Ten — Third Trimester
“Y’all, I managed not to cry in this third trimester video, but here I am now, writing, tears rolling down my face at my desk, just a few feet away from our new rocking chair where I plan to spend hours nursing my baby.”
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Where Hope and Grief Can Co-Exist
How do we both honor our child’s memory and prepare to open our hearts again to a new child?
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VIDEO: Queer Mama Episode One — Meet Haley and Simone!
“But no matter what, I’ve always, always, always known that I would be a parent. I’ve always wanted to have a baby. Actually babies, plural. Lots of them. One miscarriage, four embryos, dozens of pee sticks, 18 months, and approximately 132 injections later, I’m 18 weeks pregnant!”
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VIDEO: Queer Mama for Autostraddle Episode Four — First Trimester Realness
Fatigue, nausea, boobs like bowling balls, mood swings, the sweetest moments you keep to yourself, and so much more. It’s the first trimester and wow it’s a roller coaster!
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Taking a Chance on a Second Chance: Managing Fears, Anxiety and the Unknown When Getting Pregnant
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. After losing my first pregnancy at 24 weeks, how could we face the conception process again, with the added physical and emotional complications?
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Adventures in (Lesbian) Baby-Making
“Whose sperm is this?” she asked me once. Maybe it was the first time. “It’s mine,” I said. I didn’t know what else to say. I had paid for it. No one else was coming to get it.
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“The Fosters” Episode 121 Recap: 10,000 Chickens Come Home to Roost
“That’s right — the characters on this show abusing their power has become so commonplace that I am now desensitized and can only think of denim.”
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“The Fosters” Episode 112 Recap: Callie Takes An R Family Vacation
“Mariana sits at a table alone and takes her fancy plastic lunch container out of dumb paper bag. Why doesn’t she have a reusable lunch bag? What kind of family are these lesbians running?”
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Shake, Don’t Wipe!
“Sometimes, when you’re in the business of parenting, you have to phone a friend for a bit of perspective and advice. Sometimes, you have to phone more than one.”
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How My Motherhood Made My Mother Accept My Lesbianism
She didn’t say “I have suspected this for years and I still love you.” It went more like a Scared Straight kind of thing but instead of scaring me about drugs and a life of crime, she wanted to scare me straight, straight. “Just Say No to Lesbianism” straight.
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Straddler On The Street: Juliet
Juliet is an Australian mum, sexologist, and traveler extraordinaire. She talks about all that and more in this lovely interview.
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Defining For My Own “Right” Way To Be A Mom
“As a lesbian mom, it was especially hard to fight the urge to do the “right” thing, however slippery a concept that was, because I was representing a community, not just myself, I thought.”
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“The Fosters” Episode 110 Recap: The One With the Lesbian Wedding
“They ask Stef and Lena about their vows and Stef says they’re not doing vows and I start to think that Stef doesn’t understand what a wedding is.”
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“The Fosters” Episode 106 Recap: Houses of Horrors
In which there is a party, halibut, and a knock at the door.