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Category Archives: Parenting

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Your Holiday Mom: Loving Moms Supporting LGBTQ Children This Holiday Season

December 3, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: The Qu The Holidays are supposed to mean love, giving, and family but unfortunately this is not always the case for some people. Some LGBTQ folks have experienced rejection […]

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Ally, Family, LGBT, Parenting
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How to Accidentally Raise a Feminist Daughter

November 9, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Emily Heist Moss Note: This post was originally featured on Role/Reboot and was republished with permission. You can find the original here. In this piece, Emily Heist Moss explains […]

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Family, Feminism, Lady Business, Parenting, Women
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Taking the Exploitation Cake: Why “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” Disgusts Me

October 15, 2012by inourwordsblog 2 Comments

by: Joshua Isaacson If you have not taken a minute to stop keeping up with the Kardashians and to catch up with the Shannon family, I highly recommend you do. […]

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Media/Entertainment, Parenting, Society
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Non-Binary Problems: How The “Breastfeeding Man” Challenges Societal Gender Roles

October 2, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Khai Devon Normally, when I write about (or read about) the struggles of trans people for full acceptance, it is about the struggles of binary-identified trans people to be […]

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Education, Parenting, Trans
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Green Skirt; Or I Love My Mom

September 24, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Caitlin Bergh  I came out to my mom on a Christmas Eve during college and let’s just say it wasn’t exactly the bath salts she had been hoping for. […]

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Coming Out, Fashion, Parenting, Relationships
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Why Uma Left

September 20, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by:  Carrie Kaufman  Well, it finally happened. A clear-eyed understanding of their pain and anger and confusion about their other mother moving to Florida. And it was so simple and […]

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Life, Parenting
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A Human Community: Why We Shouldn’t Hate Rupert Everett

September 20, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Patrick Gill Rupert Everett has spoken with the grace of a toddler throwing a brick.  In an interview with the British Sunday Times, he said, among many things, that […]

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Gay, LGBT, Media/Entertainment, Parenting
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For the Mothers and Fathers Who Sympathize: The Focus of Rev. Rossing’s Pro-Marriage Ad

August 23, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Gail Goldsmith Rev. Gib Rossing isn’t preaching to the choir; he and his wife Beth are trying to get Washington voters to affirm gay marriage in the upcoming referendum […]

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Activism, Ally, Equality, Family, Gay, LGBT, Marriage Equality, Parenting, Religion
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The Jitterbug: How to Remain in Awe

August 15, 2012by inourwordsblog 1 Comment

by: Carrie Kaufman One of my earliest and fondest childhood memories was watching my mom and dad do the Jitterbug. They were good. And I was in awe. I believed […]

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Family, Lesbian, LGBT, Life, Parenting
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Rescued: On Adopting Cats and Becoming a Lesbian Stereotype

August 14, 2012by inourwordsblog Leave a comment

by: Caitlin Bergh I was walking purposefully down Chicago Avenue towards the Anti-Cruelty Society. It was a perfect summer day and I was about to fuck it up. My hair […]

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Cats and Everything in Between, Humor/Satire, Lesbian, Parenting

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