I’m proud to announce the launch of a new venture here at Mombian: the “She Got Me Pregnant” video blog. Published in partnership with After Ellen, the vlog will focus on the intersection of lesbian parenting and popular culture, covering children’s media, depictions of parenting in pop culture, and celebrity lesbian moms. I convinced my
Commentary on J. K. Rowling’s outing of Dumbledore is still flying thicker than owls in the Hogwarts Dining Hall. Michael Jensen at After Elton questions why she didn’t reveal this sooner. John Cloud, a gay writer for TIME, wishes she hadn’t said anything: But as far as we know, Dumbledore had not a single fully
Here’s this week’s post in my Family Voices series. COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere) member Sara tells us about her blended family, the influence of Ellen, and why it’s important for children of LGBT parents to remember that it’s okay not to be perfect. She also relates one of the best coming out
I recently agreed to receive a sample of Squid Soap to review. Despite the name, it’s really a plain liquid handsoap for kids, with once extra feature: a small stamp of red vegetable dye on the top of the pump. When a child presses the pump to get soap, the stamp makes a mark on
On Tuesday, NASA Commander Pamela Melroy is scheduled to blast off in the space shuttle Discovery, headed for the International Space Station (ISS), where she will be met by ISS Commander Peggy Whitson. This is the first time women have been in command of both the shuttle and the ISS at the same time. The
A golden retriever in Virginia has stepped in to mother a stray kitten, and even began producing milk for the tiny feline when she refused the bottles her human rescuers offered. Love makes a family indeed. Virginia. The state where alternative animal families make the news, but where “courts have routinely discriminated against gays and
I’m bringing you a guest post today by Beren DeMotier, author of The Brides of March, a memoir of the brief period of legal marriage for same-sex couples in Multnomah County, Oregon. (I reviewed it in June.) Her piece below continues the tale as she ponders the upcoming legalization of domestic partnerships in the Beaver
Continuing my Family Voices series with the next post by a member of COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere). Below, Scout talks about having both gay parents and gay grandparents, dealing with bias against her disability and her family, and watching her grandfathers marry after being committed to each other for over 50 years.
It’s National School Lunch Week, and I’m glad President Bush has proclaimed it—part of his ongoing commitment to our children’s health. (Yeah, right.) How to celebrate such an occasion? Whip up a batch of “American Chop Suey,” a meat, tomatoes, and macaroni mixture I remember from my own tray-carrying days? Throw some canned fruit into
It’s Blog Action Day today, when bloggers around the world are encouraged to write about a single issue. This year, it’s the environment. Given that this is a parenting blog, however, I want to tackle this from a parent’s perspective. When I think about parenting and the environment, two things spring to mind. One is
