Results for: queer parenting
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Raising Baby T. Rex: Potty Training, Patience and Pride
It’s literally a social science experiment every day and we don’t have any control. That’s how it is with toddlers, I guess…
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I Want You to Touch Me: Skin Hunger and Digital Dysphoria in a Pandemic
Chances are, you know someone who is quarantining alone right now. Maybe even you, yourself, are alone, and have been for the past several weeks. If so, it’s important to learn how this extraordinary circumstance might be effecting your mental, emotional, and physical health – and what steps you can take to mitigate and reduce that harm.
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Autostraddle’s Ultimate Holigay Toolkit
A handy collection of our very best holigay content to help you make it through this special time of year. Good luck out there!
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Gey in Kikh: Happy New Year!
Celebrate the New Year with Soviet mayonnaise.
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Holigay Gift Guide: Gifts for Your Fave Baby Gay
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a newly-out baby gay must be in want of rainbow-bedecked everything. Here’s a guide to the easiest holiday shopping you’ll ever do.
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Prone to Wander
“Selfishly, I’m worried about what will happen if I say out loud that I’m uncomfortable with all this God, if I let my brain run its anxious course. If my atheist, queer, bipolar self comes to choir with me in all its unkempt glory, will I lose my safest place?”
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There’s No Right (or Wrong) Way to Go Home for the Holidays
No matter what happens, this is a firm truth: You deserve to be seen, affirmed, and loved for exactly who you are.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: You Can Always Have a Hug
I want Remi to know that I’m here for her while also cultivating her skills for independence.
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Queer Crip Love Fest: Parenting at the Intersections
“Before becoming a parent, I looked at parenting through rose-colored glasses — with an able-bodied person’s perspective. It was drilled into my head by other people, well-meaning as they were, that I probably shouldn’t have children.”
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How These Lesbian Couples Decided to Get Pregnant
For queer couples, deciding to get pregnant often involves a lot of planning, money, and time.
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Queered & Careered: Things to Bring and Leave Behind
Queered & Careered is a column that offers tips and tricks on how to navigate career development as a queer person — from job searching to career inspiration to dealing with straight nonsense in the office.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: Temper Tantrums and Dinner Dance Parties
Dealing with a toddler having a temper tantrum is a lot like putting out a fire, plus mom bod nudies, Remi’s fav song for dinner dancing, cat baby watch update, and more!
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The Invisible Addicts: Addiction and Treatment in Black LGBT Communities
In my own struggle to get sober, I would spend days telling myself that my bottoms were “not that bad.” That the next day I would drink lighter, drink less, have water between glasses. For black gay addicts, we’re pressured at both ends. One of the reasons I’m sober today is because people around me talked about it, they extended their hands and hearts to me without knowing it.
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OPEN THREAD: Listen I Just Like The Word Christmakwanzakah Okay?
You will have a better time hanging out in this Autostraddle open thread than you will hanging out on Twitter today, I promise. It’s science!
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OPEN THREAD: Can We Make Today Extremely Gay?
Can I just say – how is it the end of November…again?
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Future Present: Change Happens When We Are Embodied
I knew we all wanted justice, ease and wellbeing, and that our anger was a manifestation of our love for each other. But I also watched as my own fight or flight response kicked in in group dynamics, as I felt habitually roped into defensive positions that felt out of my control. I couldn’t reconcile this big gap between intention and action, so I knew I needed to withdraw not out of avoidance but out of commitment to my own healing. In retreating to understand my own depletion, I discovered somatic practice.
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The Autostraddle Guide To Queer Mental Health
An epically organized guide to some of our best work on topics including depression, anxiety, grief, eating disorders, substance abuse and other legitimately important topics.
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A Therapist on What You Need to Know About Your Own Mental Health in the Time of COVID19
We all must do the internal work of unpacking how the harms of our social structure have become internalized, have lived in our bodies, have shown in our relationships. We must allow ourselves to feel the weight of it.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: Terrifying Sharks for a Toddler Ocean Explorer
Remi loves the ocean so very much wow, baking cookies with a two-year-old, some very cute holiday-ish pics, having it all is a lie, #Cativan, and more Baby T. updates for your face!
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Gayby Maybe? The Epic Queer Parenting Roundtable!
Our panel answers your questions about getting knocked up, adopting, the challenges and rewards of queer mom life, and so much more!