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Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance, by Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1863)
En route to the opera the other night, I saw a car whose bumper sticker read “Question Gender.” It was doubly apropos, since at that moment the beloved and I were, in our own car, talking with two friends about their son, […]

One of the most descriptive anecdotes about my Pops, per his position on my lesbianism, dates back to a bookstore visit we made in the mid-1980s. I had been out to myself for several years, but to my parents for only a short while, and they still daydreamed about it all being a phase. […]

Oh sure, she used the potty daily after it first arrived. I mean, she asked for it, by name.
The thrill wore off 72 hrs later. Now it’s a waiting game. It’s The Treasure of Sierra Madre, and we’re all sitting around the campfire, watching who’ll nod off first.
She […]

Today I succumbed to one of the more insidious of middle class child management techniques, the Strap The Little Weasel In The Car And Squander Fossil Fuels—And Our Children’s Ozone Layer—In A Hail Mary Attempt To Get Her/Him To Sleep.
I was wracked with inner torment that I was indeed doing this, but yesterday’s […]

At San Francisco’s LGBT Pride, June 26, 2005.
So the first, I’m sure henceforth annual, Blogging for LGBT Families Day seems to have been a rollicking success. As of Friday morning, June 2, 120 blogs sent a shout out about queer parenthood. [Update as of June 8: 133.] Reading the entries (cataloged here by […]

June first’s Blogging for LGBT Families Day, the brain child of Dana Rudolph, who publishes Mombian: Sustenance for Lesbian Moms. An exciting idea, especially for me who is: (a) still fairly recently a parent (lil’ monkey is clocking in at 22 mo. old later in June); (b) still fairly new to bloggery; yet (c) […]