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Results for: queer parenting

  • A woman with long brown hair wears light pink lipstick and a light blue button up shirt that's unbuttoned at the top stands against a grey background. Her face and chest are covered in blank yellow Post-it notes.

    Queer Co-parenting Helped Me Unlearn Everything TV Taught Me About Family

    By Kate | August 8, 2022

    Queer parenting insists that parenting is a verb, an action and identity available to any and all adults who take on a shared responsibility.

  • a Black mom reads a book to her son while they lay on the floor

    Queer Mom Chronicles: There’s No Manual for Navigating Co-Parenting

    By Sa'iyda Shabazz | June 19, 2023

    I know I write about our experience as a two mom family, but here’s the thing: My son has a dad. And he has been sleeping on my couch on and off for the last four months.

  • three iphone frames displaying a photo of a Black mom with her son

    Queer Mom Chronicles: I Don’t Want To Be a Parenting Influencer

    By Sa'iyda Shabazz | April 10, 2023

    There are plenty of ways to be visible as queer parents without subjecting ourselves to the hate and vitriol of social media.

  • photo 1: a pink lit christmas tree in the background. a small red and white puppy in a black shirt with white penguins looking up at the camera. photo 2: turquoise background. a black woman with short brown hair and glasses smiling. she is wearing a black tee shirt with Sanrio characters. a tan skinned boy smiling in a blue and black shirt with Stormtroopers. his arms are around her head. photo 3: a turquoise background. three people in matching black pajamas with white penguins on them. one white woman with short brown hair and glasses smiling, one black woman with short brown hair and glasses smiling, one fair skinned boy with short brown hair sticking his tongue. photo 4: two cats laying on a black blanket with purple, orange and white letters. the cat in the foreground is grey with black stripes and a white chest. the background cat is orange and grey with black stripes and a white chest and paws. they are looking away from the camera

    Queer Mom Chronicles: This Is Not Your Typical Mommy Blog

    By Sa'iyda Shabazz | March 13, 2023

    When you’re a queer parent writing for a largely hetero audience, it feels like you’re pleading your case to exist.

  • Two mothers hold and laugh with their child. The mother on the left is Black and wearing a cap, glasses and black shirt with hair in long locs. The mother on the right is white with dyed strawberry hair. The child is a mixed-race toddler with curly dark brown hair.

    A+ Roundtable: Do We Have Kids? Do We Want to Have Kids?

    By the team | May 5, 2022

    “I don’t know, y’all, being a parent is so scary, and sweet and weird and hilarious and exhausting and ugly and lonely and suffocating and perfect.”

  • Two lesbian recline while reading on their couch

    These Queer Books Databases Make It Easy To Search for Your Next Favorite LGBTQ+ Read

    By Sally | October 14, 2022

    What exactly do I mean by database? Well, I want it to be something that can be queried or filtered; it’s not just a long book list, and searching isn’t limited merely to title or author but allows you to interrogate every intersection of queer interest.

  • A scene from The Drop. Two women stand at an altar in white with a man between them also in white. They are under an arch on the beach, getting married by the man.

    Hulu’s “The Drop” Review: Lesbian Destination Wedding Goes Wonderfully Wrong

    By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya | January 17, 2023

    The movie delightfully mines marital conflicts for humor, but it falters in the writing of its lesbian characters.

  • Queen Latifah wears a leather jacket and looks like a badass in a promo photo for CBS' Equalizer.

    Pop Culture Fix: Unparalleled Queen Latifah Kicks So Much Ass in “Equalizer”

    By Heather Hogan | January 11, 2021

    Hunter Harris in GQ, Javicia Leslie in the Los Angeles Times, Lily Singh in the New York Times, and more!

  • An Asian person with short hair and pink lipstick is writing in a notebook next to a MacBook computer, at a wooden desk overlooking a window with greenery.

    Autostraddle Is Hiring New Writers for Our Team! Is That You?

    By The Editors | February 14, 2022

    We’re looking to bring some more writers on our team and listen — maybe perhaps you are one of them?

  • We’re Stressed the F*ck Out: Practical Tips for Queer Parents in the Pandemic

    By KaeLyn | May 16, 2020

    Parenting during the pandemic is a wild ride, so consider this our queer parenting circle, a safe place to share the good and the bad!

  • What to Read When You’re Queer and Expecting: 6 Parenting Books That Smash The Patriarchy

    By KaeLyn | January 29, 2019

    Unfortunately, most parenting books weren’t written with queer moms, trans dads, non-binary parents and gestational carriers, and families that look like ours in mind.

  • Raising Baby T. Rex: Marsha Pizza Johnson and Queer Family Matters

    By KaeLyn | February 22, 2020

    I want Remi to be able to write and narrate her own life. I owe her that as someone who had to reclaim my story.

  • in another world [image of a highly glitchy and alien landscape — an island in water, with a dark purple sky

    Call for Submissions: In Another World

    By The Editors | January 1, 2020

    As we head into the crisp, fresh beginning of 2020 and a new decade, we want to hear about your queerest, wildest dreams for the future. Deadline for submissions is January 31!

  • a chaotic image with an ms paint style cat and two dogs on it - including carol. the cat is heather's cat dobby. there is a rainbow bar chart, illustrations of money, and several other mathematical looking charts.

    Yes, Fundraising Is Part of Our Business Model: Here’s Why

    By Nico Hall | March 15, 2023

    Here are updates to our current financial situation. Still, the essentials of everything we’ve been saying for years are true. Fundraising is a part of our business model!

  • Rachel, Laneia, Carmen, Riese and Sarah all sit together near a couch on their laptops. Sarah's laughing, Carmen and Riese are looking at her, and Rachel and Laneia are looking at their computers.

    Some Answers to Some Things You Were Asking Us # 35

    By The Editors | April 27, 2021

    Why are there so many TV shows about high school kids who don’t act like high school kids at all?

  • A small, brown and white dog peeking over their laptop screen, with a caption that says "Hey did you see that comment?!"

    The Comment Awards Just Want to See Some Kissing on TV

    By Darcy | April 14, 2023

    “Just watched this, and my dog was SHOCKED when they snogged.”

  • a queer couple holds each other, a more masc person with short hair kissing a femme person on the street

    Into the A+ Advice Box #70: LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS

    By the team | October 21, 2022

    The team answers your questions about keeping those fires burning!

  • Sa'iyda looks at the viewer, smiling, in front of a colorful space themed background. Sa'iyda is a Black woman with short hair and glasses.

    Your Comments Showed Me I Wasn’t Alone

    By Sa'iyda Shabazz | October 29, 2022

    “Sharing my stories with that audience never felt right — I always felt like I was explaining, never that I was just telling my truth.”

  • Raising Baby T. Rex: My Mommy Style Profile

    By KaeLyn | September 7, 2019

    I wouldn’t say I’ve escaped the Cult of Mommy completely. I’ve defined it for myself.

  • Two moms and their daughter shop at the supermarket

    Ways To Truly Support and Celebrate Queer Parents During the Entire Holiday Season

    By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya | November 16, 2022

    The parents in our LGBTQ+ community deserve some rest and celebration.

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