Results for: queer parenting
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The Life We Never Knew Would Find Us: Navigating Loss as an Interfaith Queer Couple
“We’re in Lancaster County at Erin’s family’s house, surrounded by plastic Bible quiz trophies adorned with gold crosses and family portraits taken at national parks. My bewildered partner comes to me, face slack, and tells me I need to call my mother.”
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Weekender: Miami and Miami Beach Pride
I spent five days in Miami and Miami Beach, and it was not nearly enough! Here are some things I checked out and would recommend.
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Holigay Gift Guide: Fancy Wedding Gifts, but for Your Single Friend for the Holidays Instead
How unfair is it that everyone who gets married and has a wedding shower gets a lot of nice fancy home goods (including a KitchenAid!!!) and I, a boss bitch forever single kitchen witch Capricorn femme queen, do not??
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“Age-Appropriate” Sex Education Leaves LGBTQ Kids Behind
Models of sex education that focus on what is “age-appropriate” for children inevitably leave LGBTIQ youth in the dark about their own identities.
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25 of Your Most Alarming Travel Nightmare Stories
You shared some very thrilling stories with us on our recent Queer Travel Survey. Here are highlights of your adventures!
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Queer Girl City Guide: Los Angeles
It’s our epic guide to some of the best places to eat, learn, walk, shop, party and be queer in Los Angeles.
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The Might-Have-Been
I was only pregnant for seven and a half weeks before my miscarriage. There was no body, no breath; there was no measurable part of a lifetime spent together. I’d only known there was life inside my body for three and half weeks, and yet the experience seems to still have a heartbeat.
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Bearing Life With and Alongside: On Masculinity, Pregnancy, and Medical Trauma
I hadn’t experienced transphobic violence in medicalized form before. But I’d experienced it in many others: in punches and pushes, through threats with weapons, or by being run off the road by cars while I was on foot.
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Raising Baby T. Rex: The Soft Underbelly of a Hard Femme Mama
I love how soft I am postpartum. It’s a reminder of how my body stretched and grew and changed to grow a tiny human. I didn’t know I could be that strong and that soft simultaneously. I didn’t know my softness could be my strength.
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Queer Girl City Guide: Paris
Two queer American expats want to tell you everything that made them fall in love “Gay Paree!”
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Queer Girl City Guide: Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti
Two of the cutest cities in the Mitten State want you to come say hello! Yes, “the mitten state.” How adorable is that?
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Daddy Issues: Some Queer Father’s Day Reading for You From Autostraddle
Some essays and stories about our Dads — the good, the bad, and the very complicated.
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Queering the Jewish Holidays: How I Celebrate Passover
In a couple of weeks I’m hosting my very first queer Seder. Let’s talk about how we celebrate Passover!
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Raising Baby T-Rex: My Mom Says We’re Exactly The Same
I wasn’t at all ready for the feelings I’d have about being adopted and queer and raising a toddler who still isn’t as old as I was when I came to the United States on an airplane.
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Monday Roundtable And New Year Open Thread: Let’s Shape 2019 With Our Words
Tomorrow is a brand new year! Here are the words we’re thinking about when we think about 2019. Tell us the words you’re claiming in the new year! Tell us what you’re doing for New Year’s Eve! Tell us all your hopes and dreams! Tell us everything! We love you! Happy New Year!
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Queer Girl City Guide: Indianapolis
The Indystraddlers take you on a tour through Indianapolis!
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Gift Guide: Badass Gifts for Cool, Feminist Babies
Are you the hip AF parents of a small human? Do you aspire to the be the quirky aunt (or auncle) who always brings cool feminist gifts? Let’s shop for the babiiiiieeeees!
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9 LGBTQ People Speak Out About Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder
The following are stories from LGBTQ people living with PMDD — how it manifests for us, what helps and what doesn’t help, and any challenges or opportunities we have found in seeking help.Â
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Queer Girl City Guide: Iowa City, Iowa
Hey, we may be small – but that doesn’t mean we’re small-minded!
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD & ROUNDTABLE: It’s Gonna Be A Happy New Year!
We’re over New Year’s resolutions – here’s what we’re looking forward to in 2018. What about you?