Results for: queer parenting
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What Does It Mean To Be A Queer Adult? The Autostraddle Roundtable
What does it mean to be a queer adult? We’ve got mini-essays from our writers over thirty and three glorious infographics that look at census data and our own Autostraddle Grown-Ups Survey Data to get a grip on what happens next.
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Visiting Family After Marrying my Wife, Part 2: In the Safe Zone
“I felt I was gradually becoming like those newly married Indian women with henna on their hands at JFK or Heathrow… Of course, I didn’t look anything like them and my wedding bowtie was probably the only equivalent to their bridal henna, but I couldn’t help noticing parallels.”
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Butchbaby & Co. Brings Maternity Wear Out of the Women’s Section
Their philosophy is one of the best I’ve ever heard: “Don’t change just because your body does.”
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Here’s What You Need to Know Before DIY Insemination
Did you guys know that in many states, if a physician doesn’t conduct the insemination, then the parental rights of the sperm donor might not be terminated?
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How to Get a Credit Card and Not Totally Ruin Your Life Forever
All credit cards are not created equal. Here’s what you want to look for in a new card or your very first card.
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“Untold Stories” Help Us Transform the Culture of Stigma Around Reproduction
Untold Stories directly disrupts the ongoing and frustrating conversation around abortion and reproductive health as a political wedge issue. It drives home the point, without proselytizing, that people’s complex reproductive lives should be at the center of conversations about reproductive health and rights.
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Adventures in Baby Making as a Single Black Lesbian
So maybe my pregnancy path isn’t as simple and straightforward as baby books would have you believe it should be because I’m a poor QPoC with anxiety, but it has been an interesting worthwhile journey so far. I can’t wait until I can take the next step.
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40 LGBTQ-Friendly Picture Books for Ages 0-5
Spread the gay agenda with these colourful, easy-to-read books teaching love, acceptance, and science.
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Wedding Feelings I’m Powering Through: 40 Day Countdown
I’m getting married in 40 days! Here are some unfiltered feelings and things about that, because what else was I supposed to do?
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We’re All About It: A High Velocity Love Story Starring My Fancy Vacuum
Is that your Tangle-free Turbine tool or are you just happy to see me?
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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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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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6 Kids’ Clothing Lines That Know Your Daughter is More Than Just a Pink Princess Glitterbomb Who Can’t Do Math
Now that back to school sales are in full swing, it’s hard to look through clothing catalogs without becoming irate. Here are some retailers that don’t think your kids are damsels in distress.
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Choosing Jonah: A Family History of Abortion, Choice and Love
Sometimes the gulf between my own experience and “typical” parents is the same as that between parents and non-parents. And yet, on a fundamental level it’s also the same joy and the same challenge that we all face.
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Are Male Role Models Necessary?
A new study shows that boys raised by lesbians are properly gender socialized. Um, yay?
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How To Live With Kids: Four Zines You’ll All Like, Probably
Zines for gender-neutral kids, unschooling kids, kids and their parents, and totally Wild Children. BAM.
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For The Sake of the Children: Why America Needs to Realize Gay Families Are Real
“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”
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The “Institution of Marriage” Goes Gay in New York and It Looks Good
As is only reasonable given the fact that we’ve been denied access to it for all but the last decade of our nation’s history, “the institution of marriage” has come to mean something unique and unprecedented to the gay community.