An old New Yorker cartoon recirculates every year at this time, in which a child with two moms explains to the teacher where to put the apostrophe in “Mothers’ Day.” But really, queer moms exist in the singular and the plural. Punctuation of the holiday, like so much else about queer parenthood, has many right answers.
I’m delighted to have interviewed GLAAD Media Award-winning journalist Erin Reed for a piece at LGBTQ Nation. Reed, who has a 9-year-old son, spoke with me about motherhood, parenting with spouse and Montana State Rep. Zooey Zephyr, being a trans parent, finding community, building bridges, and more.
Mother’s Day (and Father’s Day after it) can be fraught times for LGBTQ parents and our children, often underscoring that our families are different. I try to see them, however, as opportunities to reclaim and extend the holidays and to remind the world that queer families exist. This year, that’s more important than ever.
Whether you call yourself Mom, Mama, Mommy, Maman, Mamá, Mami, Momo, Momily, MaPa, Baba, Maddy, or any other parental name, if you want to rejoice in your parental identity today (even more than you do any other day), go for it!
It’s nearly Mother’s Day (or Mothers’ Day, if that’s how you roll), so here are some great new LGBTQ-inclusive kids’ books to enjoy this weekend or anytime.
When my son was 7, I asked what he thought I should write about for Mother’s Day, and he said, “Tell them that having two moms is just like having two people of any kind take care of you, except it’s more work on Mother’s Day.”
For Mother’s Day or all year ’round, here are some great picture books about the relationships between queer moms and our children—with married/coupled moms, single moms, divorced moms, cis and trans moms, and even more variety!
Mother’s Day is here, with Father’s Day on its heels. As we head into the season of parenting holidays this year, I am thinking about both parental rights and reproductive rights and our urgent need for actions in support of inclusion and justice.
Mother’s Day (or Mothers’ Day, if that suits you better) is almost here, so why not celebrate with some new picture books featuring queer moms?
When the lesbian mom who’s also the CEO of GLAAD writes a children’s book with her spouse, you can bet your rainbows it’s going to be LGBTQ inclusive. Read on for a review and a sneak peek inside!
