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Parenting & Family

Mom Dresses Daughter Up As Historical Badass Ladies, Is Awesome

Vanessa’s Team Pick: Awesome mom dresses 5-year-old daughter up as independent strong women from history, results in infinite cuteness and warm fuzzy girl power feelings.

Vanessa May 15, 2013 32 Comments
Parenting & Family

“Is She Gay? Should I Ask Her?”: Advice To Moms Who Have Queer Daughters

A mom turned to an internet message board to ask how she should handle the fact that her daughter is a lesbian and people actually responded and gave great advice. Then we wanted to give some advice, too.

Vanessa March 8, 2013 104 Comments
Parenting & Family

Modern Babies Totally Know How Gay And Drunk You Are

Personally, I blame the hit sequel “Heather’s Two Mommies Have Two Kegs Of Miller Lite.”

Riese January 22, 2013 22 Comments
Parenting & Family

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.

Kristen January 22, 2013 97 Comments
Parenting & Family

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.

Laneia January 10, 2013 48 Comments
Gender Parenting & Family

What’s It Like Growing Up With A Transgender Parent? Sharon Shattuck Knows.

“I think the one thing that really sticks with me from my childhood is that I felt very alone–I felt like no one else’s family was like mine, so I just sequestered that part of my life and didn’t talk about it with my friends or acquaintances.”

Gina June 28, 2012 42 Comments
Parenting & Family

Every Badass Woman Was Once A Mighty Girl

Gabby’s Team Pick: I might just spend the afternoon brushing up on my female empowerment media through AMightyGirl.com because then it’s not slacking right? Then it’s Feminism.

gabby April 18, 2012 42 Comments
Parenting & Family

19 Terribly Interesting Tips On Raising A Trans Kid (From A Trans Kid)

“There is no Parenting Trans Kids 101 textbook. All there is is showing up to class.”

Morgan M April 13, 2012 47 Comments
Parenting & Family Queer Pregnancy

A.K. Summers Draws The Life And Times Of A Pregnant Butch

Jamie’s Team Pick: What to expect when you’re expecting, and identify as a butch dyke.

Jamie J. Hagen January 3, 2012 12 Comments
Parenting & Family

How to Live With, Be Around and Give Gifts to Kids: Holiday Season Special

You may soon find yourself in charge of or surrounded by one or more children. They may even be expecting gifts. This will help.

Laneia December 13, 2011 62 Comments
Parenting & Family

How to Live With Kids: Chores and Responsibilities

The joys of child labor and indentured servitude.

Laneia September 29, 2011 42 Comments
Parenting & Family

How to Live with Kids: Food & Cooking

You can either make your own coffee seven days a week, or you can teach your kids how to do it for you.

Laneia September 21, 2011 51 Comments
Parenting & Family

How to Live With Kids: Toys & Entertainment

In which this is not a mommy blog and we talk about how to live with kids without becoming a crazy person. This week’s specialty: toys!

Laneia September 13, 2011 50 Comments
Parenting & Family

Canadian Parents Raise Gender-Neutral Baby by Not Revealing Its Sex

What happens when a family decides to kick “It’s a boy!”/”It’s a girl!” to the curb.

Laura May 24, 2011 136 Comments
Parenting & Family

In Which This is Not a Mommy Blog and I Need Gluten-Free Advice

“Despite strong suggestions / all-out requests, I’ve successfully avoided writing about parenting or my children for two years! And now that’s over.”

Laneia April 20, 2011 118 Comments
Parenting & Family

What It Feels Like For A Lesbian Household: Recent Studies On Gay Families

Lesbian families are a thing – but to the scientific community, they still sometimes seem like an enigma wrapped in a mystery wrapped in Melissa Etheridge. Here are some of the hard facts.

Rachel February 22, 2011 16 Comments
Parenting & Family

My Two (Lesbian) Mums

Look at the cute British lesbian couples and their children! Also, do you have two moms or two dads? We care. More inside.

Riese December 13, 2010 51 Comments
Parenting & Family

Zero Percent Of Kids With Lesbian Parents Report Abuse, Gay Moms FTW

Zero percent of teens with lesbian parents report instances of abuse; probably this means everyone should have two moms, like Riese. Also: You can get married over Skype now, Dan Choi is eloquent on Veterans/Remembrance Day, and meeting Autostraddlers and making friends will make you happy.

Ryan Yates November 12, 2010 21 Comments
Parenting & Family

Things Laneia’s 5-Year-Old Son Said

“If you loved me then you should’ve put some cheese on it.”

Riese November 11, 2010 27 Comments
Parenting & Family

Editors’ Team Pick of Happy Gay Happiness: Dara & Helena’s Wedding by Robin Roemer

THERE IS LESBIAN HAPPINESS IN THE WORLD THIS WEEK AND WE HAVE PROOF.

the team October 5, 2010 13 Comments
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