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Always the Daddy, Never the Dad

Milo Longenecker

Aug 22, 2024
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As a Nonbinary Abortion Activist, Planning a Pregnancy Is Complicated — And Hopeful

Shelly Jay Shore

Sep 19, 2022
parenting & family

Queer Co-parenting Helped Me Unlearn Everything TV Taught Me About Family

Kate

Aug 8, 2022
parenting & family

Are All the Queer Moms Hanging Out Without Me?

Sa'iyda Shabazz

Jun 30, 2022
AF Advice Box

A+ Roundtable: Do We Have Kids? Do We Want to Have Kids?

the team

May 5, 2022
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I Wish I’d Medically Transitioned Before Giving Birth

Sage Agee

Mar 24, 2022
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Foolish Child #103: After School Pick Up

Dickens

Sep 8, 2021
parenting & family

Nursing as a Nonbinary Person Was Hard; Getting Back to my Binder Was Harder

Shelly Jay Shore

Jun 29, 2021
lgbt pride

Nudity, Kink, and Safe Spaces for Kids Can All Coexist at Pride

KaeLyn

Jun 22, 2021
queer pregnancy

You Need Help: How Do I Explain Our Sperm Donor to a Five-Year-Old?

KaeLyn

May 5, 2020

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A photo from the 90s of a man with a mustache reading a book with a baby on his chest.

gender

Always the Daddy, Never the Dad

It might seem ridiculous to you, reader, to hear a man compare queer kink to biological fatherhood, but I’m trepidatiously taking the stand in defense of duality.

Milo Longenecker —

Aug 22, 2024

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Against a robin's egg blue background, a white person's hand holds up a pink and white pregnancy test, which reveals two pink lines.

first person

As a Nonbinary Abortion Activist, Planning a Pregnancy Is Complicated — And Hopeful

Just after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, my doctor asks if I’m excited to have another baby.

Shelly Jay Shore —

Sep 19, 2022

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A woman with long brown hair wears light pink lipstick and a light blue button up shirt that's unbuttoned at the top stands against a grey background. Her face and chest are covered in blank yellow Post-it notes.

parenting & family

Queer Co-parenting Helped Me Unlearn Everything TV Taught Me About Family

Queer parenting insists that parenting is a verb, an action and identity available to any and all adults who take on a shared responsibility.

Kate —

Aug 8, 2022

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Photo 1: a Black woman in a navy blue mask leaning into a little boy in a mask wearing a striped shirt holding a puppy with a white woman in a mask standing behind. Photo 2: a Black woman in glasses holding a small puppy, a white woman in glasses, a young boy in a black tee shirt. Photo 3: a Black woman in a navy blue mask leaning into a little boy in a mask wearing a striped shirt holding a puppy with a white woman in a mask standing behind.

parenting & family

Are All the Queer Moms Hanging Out Without Me?

As we start to shift the narrative about raw honesty online about motherhood, I wish that queer moms opened up more about how hard it is to create their inner…

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Jun 30, 2022

a+ roundtable

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Two mothers hold and laugh with their child. The mother on the left is Black and wearing a cap, glasses and black shirt with hair in long locs. The mother on the right is white with dyed strawberry hair. The child is a mixed-race toddler with curly dark brown hair.

af+

A+ Roundtable: Do We Have Kids? Do We Want to Have Kids?

“I don’t know, y’all, being a parent is so scary, and sweet and weird and hilarious and exhausting and ugly and lonely and suffocating and perfect.”

the team —

May 5, 2022

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gender affirming surgery

A shapeless object that is pink and yellow in the background, with a pregnancy test in the foreground.

gender

I Wish I’d Medically Transitioned Before Giving Birth

Less than a year after giving birth, I decided to medically transition. I wish I’d done it sooner.

Sage Agee —

Mar 24, 2022

foolish child

parenthood

Foolish Child #103: After School Pick Up

webcomics

Foolish Child #103: After School Pick Up

I get why you told that woman to kick rocks when she implied you weren’t being a proper parent by not forcing your kid to hang out with her kid…

Dickens —

Sep 8, 2021

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A close-up portrait of someone cradling a very young baby, with the person's arms visible and the baby's bare feet up close to the lens.

parenting & family

Nursing as a Nonbinary Person Was Hard; Getting Back to my Binder Was Harder

My intention was always to go back to my binders as soon as I was done nursing my son. But the longer I waited, and the longer they sat there…

Shelly Jay Shore —

Jun 29, 2021

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pride 2021

The author and her family pose for a photo at a previous Pride event.

lgbt pride

Nudity, Kink, and Safe Spaces for Kids Can All Coexist at Pride

As a gay parent, I have a lot of grievances about Pride — not one of them is about bare body parts or leather dykes and daddies.

KaeLyn —

Jun 22, 2021

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parenthood

You Need Help: How Do I Explain Our Sperm Donor to a Five-Year-Old?

queer pregnancy

You Need Help: How Do I Explain Our Sperm Donor to a Five-Year-Old?

This is going to go great, I swear! Here are six tips to get you started.

KaeLyn —

May 5, 2020

gay families

parenthood

Raising Baby T. Rex: Marsha Pizza Johnson and Queer Family Matters

parenting & family

Raising Baby T. Rex: Marsha Pizza Johnson and Queer Family Matters

I want Remi to be able to write and narrate her own life. I owe her that as someone who had to reclaim my story.

KaeLyn —

Feb 22, 2020

gay families

parenthood

Raising Baby T. Rex: How Being a Mom Changed My Mind About Abortion

parenting & family

Raising Baby T. Rex: How Being a Mom Changed My Mind About Abortion

I was proudly pro-abortion before I was a mom. I’ve doubled down on that belief after becoming one.

KaeLyn —

Jan 25, 2020