Results for: queer parenting
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Are All the Queer Moms Hanging Out Without Me?
As we start to shift the narrative about raw honesty online about motherhood, I wish that queer moms opened up more about how hard it is to create their inner circle.Â
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What To Expect When Your Friends Are Expecting (as a Childfree Queer)
As my community transforms, I’ve developed a curiosity on how to transmute isolation into connection.
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Before and After the Library
Author Kristen Arnett writes on growing up in a house where books were banned and becoming a queer librarian in Florida.
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Homoerotic Friendships, Mosquita Y Mari, and the Things We Never Said
My friendship with her actually ended twice.
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I’m a Psychologist Who Didn’t See My Own Divorce Coming
Psychologists can see potential in every patient who is seeking therapy. I can’t look at my marriage without seeing all the ways we could still fix it.
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Calling Myself a Lesbian Has Been a Lesson in Self Acceptance
I think this is always who I’ve been, and the other words were the ones I was trying on to see if they fit.
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The Names We Call Each Other
On specific language, families, mispronunciations, and revisiting Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake.”
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To Be Trans Is To Refuse Borders
In 2022, I brought my girlfriend daddy to my homeland.
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You Came Out As Queer; Now Come Out as an Artist
I still have a hard time saying: I am a writer. I am an artist.
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I Don’t Want To Write Beautiful Things
I am in the business of writing honestly, especially about the things that hurt — heartbreak, disappointment, shame, poverty.
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Overheating: Leaving My Home State of Florida
I have not given up on Florida, even if for now it is best we spend time apart.
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Elm Street Was a Nightmare Before Freddy Made It One
Elm Street was just another part of a society — our society, where people are taught to care very little for each other.
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Slow Takes: We Come to This Place for Magic
A movie theatre was the first reason I left my apartment after the 2016 election.
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“Middlesex” Has a Complicated Legacy — 20 Years Ago, It Changed My Life
When I read Middlesex, I felt that tinge of recognition I think a lot of queer and trans people look for when they realize something is different about themselves.
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On *NSYNC and Being a Lesbian Who Loves Boy Bands
If you had to make me into a pie chart, being queer and loving *NSYNC are basically the same size.
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Finally — A Rainbow That Feels Like Home
I was in California for a conference when I heard about the Club Q shooting.
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Seltzer Tastes Like Punishment
There are so many good songs about drinking but none about seltzer, have you noticed that?
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As a Nonbinary Abortion Activist, Planning a Pregnancy Is Complicated — And Hopeful
Just after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, my doctor asks if I’m excited to have another baby.
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You and Me Against the World
The first time I told you I was queer. You didn’t speak to me for 24 hours.
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Slow Takes: “Pen15” and Embracing Alternate Girlhoods
Watching the first season during what I considered my second puberty was miserable. I could acknowledge its effectiveness, but I felt alienated.