#queer parenthood

[annieclays]

What greys lacked of (queer representation mostly)

No queer black women

No non monosexual queer man (of color)

-queer black man

Queer parenthood that doesn’t involve a white women

trans characters as in transwomen , better representation and maybe even main character status

Nearly no queer characters that have kids prior whenever with woman or man

[queerliblib]

Have we told y’all about our queer parenthood books yet?!?

it’s a collection we’ve been working on building up, currently highlighted on our libby home page

we’ve got non-fiction from titles like Queer Conception (an evidence-based trans-inclusive fertility resource) to memoirs from trans and intersex parents, as well as fiction with a major focus on queer family making like Detransition, Baby and The Argonauts

as always, available for ✨free✨ with a queer liberation library card!

[kalamity-jayne]

Ordering a box of these to relieve myself of the stress from trying to get my kid to their preschool on time every damn morning.

Otherwise I will go insane!

[kalamity-jayne]

Feeling a lil' emotional today cause, for the first time ever in my baby's life, they wore a mask and rode the bus with me. My lil' one is big time in a cars & trucks phase, so their lil gear-head heart was positively bursting with joy.

The kid was born like a week or two after New York went into it's first lockdown and needless to say Pandemic parenting was challenging in ways my wife and I could never have anticipated. The lil one is almost 2 yrs old now and riding the bus with them to the park, wearing a mask without any fuss, feels like a light at the end of the tunnel moment. We can do pretty much anything now. The world is finally their oyster. 😭

[queernycfosterdad]

Mani Pedi for Me.

My husband has been pointing out to me that ever since I left my last job to pursue a life as stay at home dad/children’s book author, I’ve been doing nothing but childcare, housework, and occasional writing. He’s insisterd i take today for myself.

So I’m getting a mani and a pedi. Or more like, declawing. My appreciation and apologies to the nail techs.

[catiebat]

I know there are so many queers out there who’ve felt this external questioning, or an internal one, emotional or physical, about whether their queerness would prevent them from having children. Will I find a partner to start a family with? Will someone love me in my queer wholeness and brokenness? Do I/we have all the necessary ingredients to make a child? If not, how will we afford them? If not by procreation, will some authority let me take home a child? Will my partner and I be legally protected if we have a child together? Will our child be safe in the world, this child of queers?

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