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Indigenous Motherhood: Birth Is Ceremony

All My Relations Podcast

In this episode we explore our ceremonies related to birth and question what it means to rematriate through motherhood. Our Moms are everything - supremely important to our cultures, lifeways, health, wellness, and personhood.

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A Burst of Light and Other Essays

This path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer.

Audre Lorde, Sonia Sanchez (foreword)

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What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness

Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated.

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On Trans Motherhood, and My Reality of Never Having Biological Children

“Maybe instead of biology, I should be cursing the culture that taught me I’m less of a woman because I can’t have children.”

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Love, No Matter What | Andrew Solomon

What is it like to raise a child who’s different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently abled kid, or a criminal)? In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents—asking them: What’s the line between...

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15 Things You Didn’t Know about Being a Lesbian Mom

In this 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Being a Lesbian Mom video, we'll try to answer the following questions: What to know about being a lesbian mom? Why Being a mother is so special? What is it like to have 2 moms? What it means to be a good mom? What it means to become a mother? What is...

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Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood

One might be tempted, in the afterglow of Obergefell v. Hodges, to believe that the battle has been won, that gays and lesbians fought a tough fight and finally achieved equality in the United States through access to legal marriage.

Sandra Patton-Imani

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She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood

After ten years of talking about having children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became . .

Amie Klempnauer Miller

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Can There Really Be Two Moms?

A lesbian mother grapples with the pain of a child favoring the mother who gave birth to her.

Stephanie Fairyington

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How Do I React When Strangers Ask Questions About Our Kids?

My wife and I have two children in elementary school. Other parents often ask personal questions about how our family was formed, such as whether we adopted or used a sperm bank, who carried our children, who the real mom is, etc.

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When You're the Mum Who Didn't Carry the Baby: a lesbian parent opens up

Lucy Fry was plagued with a multitude of worries about being a non-biological mum. Now that her and her wife's son is almost two, her fears have diminished.

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