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Infertility Resources for LGBTQ People

Infertility can come in many forms—but no matter how you encounter it as an LGBTQ person, here’s my updated list of resources to help, in honor of National Infertility Awareness Week.

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Alabama Supreme Court Ruling That Frozen Embryos Are “Children” May Have “Devastating Consequences” for Fertility Care

The Alabama Supreme Court ruled Friday that frozen embryos should be considered “children,” in a case that some fertility healthcare advocates are calling “a terrifying development,” with “devastating consequences” for people needing fertility treatments like in vitro fertilization (IVF). My spouse and I created our family via IVF, so this one’s personal to me.

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Infertility Resources for LGBTQ People

This week marks National Infertility Awareness Week. Infertility can come in many forms—but no matter how you encounter it as an LGBTQ person, here are some resources to help.

Two New Memoirs Explore Queer Families

Two new memoirs offer differing looks at queer families. In one, the author reflects on the coming out not only of her and her two siblings (as lesbian, bi, and trans, respectively), but of their dad as gay. In another, the author shares her story of navigating infertility, miscarriage, breast cancer, separation, and adoption.

Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

New Queer Parenting Memoir Looks at (In)Fertility and Its Discontents

Michelle Tea’s new book isn’t the first queer parenting memoir, nor the first by a single queer person who decided to get pregnant, nor the first to look at infertility. Yet the humorous, revealing, sometimes raunchy tale of her path to parenthood at age 40 brings a unique perspective to the genre.

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