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Should We Be Paying Our Friends To Babysit?

They’re doing well financially and love your kid — should you still offer money? Also; tips on giving complements to mascs…

the team

Aug 29, 2025

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Should We Be Paying Our Friends To Babysit?

They’re doing well financially and love your kid — should you still offer money? Also; tips on giving complements to mascs and butches.

the team —

Aug 29, 2025

parenting & family

A Breastfeeding Journey Of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Baby Step

“I woke up feeling like someone had run me over with a truck and I thought, “I guess this is motherhood.” And probably would’ve died thinking that.”

Riese —

Jul 10, 2025

a group of queer desis at the event Pyar Is Pyar

parenting & family

Can Immigrant Mothers Heal With Their Queer Kids? These Desi Aunties Are Trying

Desi parents get a bad rap in America. Across TV and social media, immigrant aunties are typecast as judgmental or conservative, or else passive victims of circumstance, unable to navigate…

Malavika Kannan —

Jun 10, 2025

parenting & family

I Regret To Inform You That Our Baby Will Be Throwing Up On Your Shirt

At first you don’t really know which of the baby’s behaviors are going to be a Thing and which are just the music playing in the lobby before you sit…

Riese —

May 1, 2025

parenting & family

‘My Partner Is Hurt I’ve Changed My Mind About Having a Baby’

This is one of those incredibly difficult situations where you and your partner are both entitled to your feelings even though those feelings are at direct odds with each other.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Mar 4, 2025

parenting & family

For Many Queer People, Cutting Off Family Is Hard but Vital

My wife, novelist Kristen Arnett, hasn’t had any real contact with her parents for about eight years.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Nov 7, 2024

kristen and her son in front of a fuzzy black and white image from the gilmore girls

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I Am Not Lorelai Gilmore But I Also Kind of Am

“Suddenly I was pregnant. And then I was a dropout. And then I was a single mother. I had no money or resources outside of my deeply evangelical family, the…

Kristen Arnett —

Sep 25, 2024

parenting & family

Queer Moms Discuss What It Means To Come Out to Our Kids

Tig Notaro recently discussed what it was like to come out to her eight-year-old sons. Hearing Tig’s words made me think about my own kid.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Jul 5, 2024

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Should We Be Paying Our Friends To Babysit?

Should We Be Paying Our Friends To Babysit?

A Breastfeeding Journey Of a Thousand Miles Begins With a Single Baby Step

Can Immigrant Mothers Heal With Their Queer Kids? These Desi Aunties Are Trying

I Regret To Inform You That Our Baby Will Be Throwing Up On Your Shirt

‘My Partner Is Hurt I’ve Changed My Mind About Having a Baby’

For Many Queer People, Cutting Off Family Is Hard but Vital

I Am Not Lorelai Gilmore But I Also Kind of Am

Queer Moms Discuss What It Means To Come Out to Our Kids

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