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Jennifer Gennari - My Mixed-Up Berry Blue Summer

Countering Hate With Children’s Books

Ten years ago this week, Jennifer Gennari published a middle-grade book about a girl with two moms in Vermont during the battle for civil unions there. Gennari guest posted here shortly afterward, explaining how seeing homophobia had motivated her to write the story. Today, as the book is one of many being targeted in a wave of book bans, she has guest posted again to talk about the current climate.

David Dodge of Gays With Kids

Should We Rethink Father’s Day and Mother’s Day?

For Father’s Day, I’m very pleased to share a guest post from David Dodge, executive editor of Gays With Kids, a site for gay, bi, and trans men who are fathers or considering fatherhood. Here, he ponders the value of Father’s Day and Mother’s Day for us LGBTQ parents, and finds no simple answer.

Lara Lillibridge

Lesbian Tour Guide — A Guest Post

Today’s piece is a guest post by Lara Lillibridge, whose memoir Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home, I reviewed yesterday. Here, she offers her thoughts on growing up with two moms and being a “lesbian tour guide” to the outside world. She reminds me, once again, that we parents have as much to learn from our children as they from us (maybe more), and we LGBTQ parents are wise to listen to the voices of those who grew up with LGBTQ parents. We and our own children will be better for it.

Lemonade

Former Nanny: “Don’t Serve Me Urine and Say It’s Lemonade”

Today’s post is a guest piece by Sarah Toce, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Seattle Lesbian and a former nanny (who is now a mom herself). She offers us a reminder that nannies are people, too, have lives outside of their jobs, and deserve to be treated with respect.

GLAD

Keeping Families Together, No Matter How They Are Formed

I’m very pleased to bring you a guest piece by Patience Crozier, an attorney with GLAD who was co-counsel in a key case about the rights of nonbiological moms. She not only discusses the case, but also shares some key points that unmarried same-sex parents or prospective parents should know about securing ties to their children.

Dana Alison Levy

On Not Despairing

Today’s post is a guest piece by Dana Alison Levy, author of the terrific Family Fletcher middle-grade series about two dads and their four boys. Like many of us, she has been shaken by the election results. In asking, “What do we do?” she came up with a collection of practical suggestions, links, and wise advice that she emailed to friends and has allowed me to repost here. (Many thanks!) My favorite: “Supporting the vulnerable is far more important than shouting at the enablers.”

Guest Post: Parenting Is the Great Equalizer

I’m very pleased to bring you a guest post today by Dawn Dais, author of The Sh!t No One Tells You: A Guide to Surviving Your Baby’s First Year, which I reviewed earlier this week. Dawn is a lesbian mom, but wrote the book for a general audience, because . . . well, I’ll let her explain.

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