It’s time for the January Carnival of Bent Attractions! This month’s posts ranged from personal to political, sobering to sarcastic. They introduce us to others in the community and ask us to look at ourselves. I’ve included a few posts that weren’t technically submitted to the Carnival, but which I (or Maria, the Carnival’s Über-mistress) […]
With less than two weeks until the season premiere of The L Word, I thought I’d create a special section of the Mombian Shop for L Word books, music, and DVDs. Catch up on the episodes you’ve missed, read academic critiques of the series, or buy some tunes and dance around your living room. (Wear
Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling has revealed the title of her seventh and presumed final Harry Potter novel. She’s buried the answer at jkrowling.com, where you can click several “secret” links and solve a hangman puzzle to find the answer. (Yahoo! News has the solution, as well as the title, if you don’t want
Children born in the year 2000 will be the first in our country’s history to die at a younger age than their parents. More than 35 percent of our nation’s children are overwieght, 25 percent are obese, and 14 percent have type 2 diabetes, a condition previously seen primarily in adults. Current research shows that
Just in time for the holidays, I’m relaunching an updated Mombian Shop, chock full of books, music, videos, toys, baby gear, and lots of things for house and home. You’ll find items geared towards children of same-sex parents and items celebrating lesbian culture, but also more general categories of products. We’re a diverse lot, really,
A trashy lesbian romance? A dark allegory about modern life? A young-adult mystery? If you think you have it in you, give it a try during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), in which participants attempt to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel between November 1 and November 30. The object is not necessarily to produce a
Willa Cather is next in the series, providing us with several portraits: The woman in the chaise longue was still alone. She lay there all day, looking at the sea. The little girl, Carin, played noisily about the deck. Occasionally she returned and struggled up into the chair, plunged her head, round and red as
Virginia Woolf takes the second spot in my series of quotes by famous lesbians about motherhood. I offer these quotes for thought and reflection, and hope they demonstrate a variety of attitudes and viewpoints. There are no yard measures, neatly divided into the fractions of an inch, that one can lay against the qualities of
The chat is now over. Thanks to those of you who participated, and to Rosanna for joining us. Welcome to those of you coming here for tonight’s chat with Rosanna Hertz, author of Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice. The chat will begin at 9:00 p.m. Eastern. At 8:45, this link will become live, and
To pique your interest in the online chat with sociologist Rosanna Hertz I’m hosting tomorrow night, I wanted to share some statistics she sent me about the changing shape of the American family. Less than 25% of all families consist of a married, opposite-sex couple living with their own (biological or adopted) children—down from 40%
