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Results for: queer parenting

  • Raising Anti-Racist Kids: A Guide and Book List for White and Non-Black POC Parents

    By KaeLyn | June 10, 2020

    Protecting our children from hard conversations about race is actively aiding and abetting white supremacy. We can’t afford to stay complicit.

  • An animated rendering of a black woman in an orange jumpsuit reaching for the hand of a Middle Eastern woman in hijab and with her left leg and arm amputated. The text above them says "Disability justice means resisting togther from solitary cells to open-air prisons," and the text below them says "To exist is to resist."

    Be the Change: Six Disabled Activists On Why the Resistance Must Be Accessible

    By Carrie | February 13, 2017

    A roundtable with disabled advocates, leaders, and protesters on how they came to activism, building an inclusive movement, and resources you should know about.

  • Photos of five disabled queer people, of various ages, genders and races, arranged in two rows.

    “I’m Not Done Living My Damn Life Yet”: Disabled Queer People Speak Out on the American Health Care Act

    By Carrie | June 12, 2017

    “It’s a harsh reality that I will be priced out of my own life at this point if the AHCA gets passed and, quite frankly, I’m not done living my damn life yet.”

  • Eight photos in a collage of the participants in this roundtable discussion on the Disability Day of Mourning

    “We Are Not Burdens and We Don’t Deserve to Die”: A Disability Day of Mourning Roundtable

    By Carrie | March 6, 2017

    “In the midst of all this grief and uncertainty, we must rise up and practice pride every day.”

  • India Beaty, Queer Black Woman, Killed By Police in Norfolk, Virginia

    By Yvonne | March 22, 2016

    India Beaty, a queer black woman, was fatally shot by Virginia police for carrying a replica handgun, bombs in Brussels kill at least 31 people, a new study finds Canadian LGB people have chronic stress and drink heavily, The Bronx Trans Collective opens and more news!

  • Score One for Lesbian Parental Rights with Judge’s Landmark Ruling

    By Yvonne | January 12, 2016

    A Virginia Beach judge ruled a lesbian parent has the right to custody of her non-biological child, California’s got a lot of LGBT-friendly laws going into effect this year, more “religious freedom” bills in Georgia, Creating Change un-invites ICE from speaking at the conference, and more!

  • Also.Also.Also: Listen to Angry Punk with Rachel Maddow and Other Stories We Missed

    By Laneia | October 22, 2014

    Potatoes, bisexuals, cat crafts, Ellen Page, feminist echo chambers, Mars, swimming, Dear White People, life lessons, rituals and spells, racism in the newsroom, movies, the sex talk, teen pregnancy, cookie butter, other things, stuff you’ll like, words to read, pictures.

  • The QPOC Speakeasy Speaking Out With Love To Mike Brown

    By The Speakeasy | August 14, 2014

    “It is a crystal clear, paint-by-the-numbers picture of chronic police hostility toward African-Americans. This is anti-blackness in America. Make no mistake.”

  • NJ’s Gay Conversion Therapy Ban Is Great, Not Indicative of Christie’s Conversion to Decency

    By A.E. Osworth | August 20, 2013

    Perhaps Christie’s evolution could help push Republicans into being less bigoted and terrible to queers. But that, of course, might be pie in the sky.

  • Survey Says: Gay is Still Not Okay in Singapore, Won’t Be Any Time Soon

    By Fikri | August 27, 2013

    A national survey using homophobic language yields homophobic results: 47% of Singaporeans “reject gay lifestyles.” What does this mean and why is it important?

  • The Atlantic Tells Us Why Women Can’t “Have It All” and What We Should Do About It

    By Rachel | June 25, 2012

    Having a job, having a family, having feminist principles and having it all.

  • Bevan Dufty Reminds Us Gay Candidates Have Kids Too

    By Rachel | October 4, 2011

    This gay man thinks that watching him ride the train with his daughter will make you more likely to vote for him.

  • For The Sake of the Children: Why America Needs to Realize Gay Families Are Real

    By Rachel | October 26, 2011

    “Public discussion about American families often assumes the nation is largely made up of married heterosexual couples raising their biological children. Yet less than a quarter of all U.S. households fall into this category”

  • Day Five of the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: Everybody’s Hiding Except Me & My Monkey

    By Rachel | January 16, 2010

    A day of many feelings. We laughed, we cried, we asked “is this really happening?” incredulously, and the world spun madly on. Welcome to Day Five of the Prop 8 Same-Sex Marriage Trial Recap: Judgment DAZE.

  • Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial Closing Arguments Recap: This Time It’s Personal

    By Rachel | June 17, 2010

    Are you ready to get this Prop 8 thing taken care of once and for all? SO ARE WE. We recap today’s closing arguments on the Prop 8 trial on gay marriage in California, with characteristic Autostraddle style and class.

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