Parents have to strive despite our knowledge that we will fail. Living with this cognitive dissonance is one of the hardest lessons of parenting, and one we can only embrace if we talk about our lives with all the doubt, nuance, and contradiction they actually encompass. Last year, in response to an influx of memoirs […]
It might seem frivolous to those who feel right at home being called “mom” or “dad,” but many queer parents agonize over what their children will call them. At my partner’s choir concert, my daughter is disruptive. She wants to sing; she wants to dance; she wants to be held by her dad. The choir […]
Someone I have never met donated a large sum of money, for no other reason than they felt it was the right thing to do, to help my family feel safe. A few hours after my daughter was born, a nurse walked into the hospital room where my partner was recovering. She looked from one […]
