Melissa Etheridge can now add an Academy Award to her two Grammys. She won the “Best Original Song” Oscar last night for “I Need to Wake Up,” the theme song to An Inconvenient Truth. (You can purchase and download the “I Need to Wake Up” song or video from iTunes here.) The television coverage showed
(Originally published in Bay Windows, February 22, 2007.) One of the ways I judge a children’s book is by how much it captures my son’s imagination. After we read The Different Dragon, he made me run around the house with a blanket over my head, flapping it like dragon’s wings, while he pretended to be
(Minor spoilers below.) Shane is livin’ la vida loco parentis this week. Her nine-year-old brother Shay and his friend Jared got into a fight with some kids who teased them about their moms being gay. Shane goes with Jared’s mother Paige to meet with the school principal, and they argue that the school must teach
The venerable paper had a number of articles of interest yesterday: “With One Word, Children’s Book Sets Off Uproar“: This year’s Newbery Medal-winning book, The Higher Power of Lucky, contains the word “scrotum” in it. It’s in reference to a dog who gets bitten on that rather tender piece of his anatomy, but some parents
Passing along this call for essays. Thought some of my readers might want to approach this from the perspective of a lesbian mom. VISIBLE: A FEMMETHOLOGY an anthology of writing on queer femme identity Editor: Maria Angeline Publisher: Merge Press Submissions Deadline: March 15, 2007 Anticipated Publication Date: Spring 2008 Femmes are still invisible. Society
Parenting as excuse, aggravation, interference, curse, and finally blessing. This episode has it all. In the opening scene, Shane tries to get out of the launch of her Hugo Boss underwear campaign by saying “Well, I don’t know if I can get a babysitter in time.” She ends up going, however, and leaving kid-brother Shay
The Evesham School District of Marlton, New Jersey, under fire over a diversity-education film depicting same-sex families, has bowed to pressure and decided to eliminate the film from its curriculum. (See my original post on the matter.) Garden State Equality is asking everyone who can to join them and many other allies at the Evesham
Fifty years ago this March, Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, published The Cat in the Hat. The little volume revolutionized children’s book publishing with its inventive silliness yet kid-appropriate vocabulary. In honor of the event, the National Education Association is sponsoring a nationwide Read-Aloud of The Cat in the Hat on March 2 as
(Warning: spoilers below.) This week gives us a contrast in parenting styles. Bette’s “manny” Angus drops little Angelica off with Tina’s nanny Hazel, and finds that Tina and boyfriend Henry have decided at the last minute to go out that evening. Hazel points Angelica in the direction of another room and asks if she wants
There must be some cosmic transposition going on in the lesbian blog world today. I’m writing about entertainment news, and AfterEllen is writing about Elmo. AfterEllen’s ScribeGrrrl reports on a serious matter, though. The Bush Administration wants to slash the budget of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She relates that according to TV Squad, “A
