Results for: queer parenting
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Begging to Be Sterilized
“It seemed at the time to be exactly what life was about, and only just barely staying alive, curling up in corners of lonely, unclean rooms in shaking fits of sadness too raw to keep inside my head, screaming into my bent knees.”
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9 LGBTQ People Speak Out About Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder
The following are stories from LGBTQ people living with PMDD — how it manifests for us, what helps and what doesn’t help, and any challenges or opportunities we have found in seeking help.Â
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What Planned Parenthood Means to LGBT Women: The Roundtable
Autostraddle and A-Camp staff and family members are here to talk about what PP means to us as LGBT folks, and why we need it to be around for a very, very long time.
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Gal Pals, Community, Money, Marriage, Bike-Riding and Acceptance Make LGBTQ Women Feel Healthier
Welcome to the first in a series of exciting discoveries from our survey of over 4,000 Autostraddle readers over the age of 29.
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Meet the Reproductive Rights Group Pushing the Movement Even Further Left
Reproaction was borne out of a simple observation: the pro-choice movement is losing in America.
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Daily Fix: This Straight Couple Will Divorce If That’s What it Takes to Save Marriage and More News Stories
Eric Casebolt of McKinney is resigning, Apple’s new period-inclusive HealthKit, India has its first lesbian couple in a commercial, abortion access restrictions being upheld in Texas, and more!
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When We Talk Reproductive Justice, We Need to Talk About Surrogate Parents
Surrogacy agencies within and without the United States are using legal loopholes to profit from poor women and women of color’s bodies.
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Black Advocates Address Stigma, Discrimination Around Breastfeeding and Black Motherhood
“Black motherhood and bodily autonomy has been historically undermined and often robbed from Black women in numerous ways. From this country’s first visions of us as wild oversexed Jezebels able to easily produce the next generation of slaves and doting mammies, caretakers and nannies for our slave-master’s children, we haven’t been seen as individual and capable loving nurturers to children.”
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“Mother Blaming” Is Bad Journalism, Shaky Science
The cumulative effect of media coverage on pregnancy paints a pretty warped picture: that pregnant people are the number one health threat to their future children.
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Everything Hurts All The Time
“I hated my body and punished it, and it hated me and punished me back. Is that what happened? That’s the thing about getting sick the way I got sick: nailing it down.”
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Six Gay Benefits of Yoga
What on earth could the gay benefits of yoga be?! (Spoiler Alert: Number five is “Have Better Sex”)
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How (Not) to Quit Smoking: What Will Occupy Your Lesbian Hands?
Lesbians and bisexual women are 2-3 times more likely to smoke cigarettes regularly than straight people, which might be one of the 46 reasons I’m finding it hard to quit.
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Why Are Gay Ladies So Afraid of the Gynecologist?
“We saddle up, feet in stirrups, ready to go and … bam! suddenly all become heterosexual women with one interest: reproduction!”