One thing you have in common with every contestant on the classic CBS reality television competition program Survivor is that you are not pregnant.

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.

I am not white, and I don’t particularly want white kids. I definitely do not want to pay for white sperm.

Our Leo/Virgo cusp baby is definitely moving into Virgo territory.

I’m not a crier. I really resist the idea that hormones affect me, but pregnancy hormones affect me. OMG.

Our panel answers your questions about getting knocked up, adopting, the challenges and rewards of queer mom life, and so much more!

“There were good reasons we hadn’t started trying. But the bigger reason, which came out right there in a flood on cobblestones in the French Quarter, was that Simone wanted me to carry her baby, and that was maybe going to be impossible to achieve.”