Writing for a site every week can be challenging. I spend a lot of time thinking, “What am I going to write about?” or “How can I make this lesbionic?” or “Is that a sea monkey in my water glass?” You will be relieved to know (as I was) that […]
1. It’s family game night and you yell, “Let’s play Earthopoly!” and your kid responds, “Do only lesbian families play that game?” 2. Your child discusses Susie Derkins’ gender expression in Calvin and Hobbes. 3. Your kid says, “Only a lesbian cat would love breasts that much!” 4. Your kid can list every […]
When lesbians have kids, people of the world are suddenly entitled to ask how you got them. No one tells you this and maybe you don’t expect it but it just happens. I remember the first time my partner and I took our newborn son out into the world with […]
It was the winter of 2001 and we were heading to the clinic for an ultrasound that could possibly tell us the sex of our baby. We had not been able to agree on whether or not we would find out, however. Luisa did not want to know because she […]
You have probably noticed the name of this site is “Lesbian Family” and, if you haven’t, I guess I just outed all of us here! Scandalous! The reason I bring up the name is that I want to be intentional in talking about it for just a moment. This site […]
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving – a day of gratitude and tradition, a day when we gather with our families and eat to excess. Huzzah! Like all holidays, Thanksgiving can be a tense time for us queer folk especially if we are mixing and mingling our families of origin with our chosen […]
Recently, my son had to write an essay for school about his favorite family tradition and, had I been asked to place I bet, I would have put all of my money on Christmas. Cookies, candy and gifts – a kid’s dream, right? But I would have lost the farm […]
It was May 2011 when it became clear that the anti-marriage amendment was going to appear on the ballot here in Minnesota. I remember that day clearly because I spent a good deal of it crying. It felt so personal, so intentionally hurtful, and I found myself struggling with a […]
When faced with the daunting task of writing an introductory post, I could only think of Ricardo Montalban. You know – Mr. Roarke? “I am your host, Mr. Roarke. Welcome to Fantasy Island!” That’s what everyone of a certain age thinks about when contemplating greetings, right? Probably not which means […]
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