Establishing a good relationship with your child’s school when you’re a queer parent is incredibly important.

There are plenty of ways to be visible as queer parents without subjecting ourselves to the hate and vitriol of social media.

I am a big advocate of parent-teacher conferences, and I always make it a priority to go.

I know I write about our experience as a two mom family, but here’s the thing: My son has a dad. And he has been sleeping on my couch on and off for the last four months.

Plus self-harm scars and dating, crushing hard on your married coworker, learning to celebrate yourself and more!

Queer parenting insists that parenting is a verb, an action and identity available to any and all adults who take on a shared responsibility.

When you’re a queer parent writing for a largely hetero audience, it feels like you’re pleading your case to exist.

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!

I grew up around my mom’s queer friends, and I wanted my son to have that, too.

Tig Notaro recently discussed what it was like to come out to her eight-year-old sons. Hearing Tig’s words made me think about my own kid.

I was 22 years old when I donated my eggs anonymously at a fertility clinic in New York City.

There’s a certain amount of risk calculation you have to do when you’re the only queer mom in a group of parents.

One of my biggest issues with mom-fluencer culture in general is that there is a lack of ability to create meaningful conversations around the issues that plague motherhood.

Desi parents get a bad rap in America. Across TV and social media, immigrant aunties are typecast as judgmental or conservative, or else passive victims of circumstance, unable to navigate American society as fluently as their children.

My wife, novelist Kristen Arnett, hasn’t had any real contact with her parents for about eight years.

“Suddenly I was pregnant. And then I was a dropout. And then I was a single mother. I had no money or resources outside of my deeply evangelical family, the same people who’d taken me to picket outside of abortion clinics when I was six years old.”

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. 

I’ve been thinking about it almost every day lately.

I think it’s really admirable that you’re thinking about the ethics of having a kid. A lot of people don’t, and there is value in doing this kind of consideration before having kids. But I think there’s a difference between being aware and letting it keep you from doing something you have always wanted to do.

As a parent, I can’t imagine the pain Nex’s family is going through right now.