Archive for July, 2007
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
BlogHer07 Rocked – Welcome BlogHers!
I’m back from BlogHer07 (by back, I mean in Milwaukee spending a week on vacation at Grandma and Grandpa’s) and I’m full of excitement and ideas for the blog. Also, the panel I was on was a smashing success! But FIRST, I want to welcome new visitors and point out a few things.
Welcome, BlogHers!
The blogrolls [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in News!!!, The Good, The Political Is Personal, site stuff by Liza
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
Breaking up is hard to do
I’ve been thinking hard about the guest post a few days ago that talked about how the blogs listed here serve as role models for people trying to find their way through queer family making. I agree with that whole heartedly as I, too, have used the blogs listed here to help guide me.
But I’ve [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Non-Bio Mom, The Political Is Personal by Chicory
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
The Politics of Inclusion & Exclusion in Online Communities
As I’ve mentioned, that’s the title of the BlogHer panel I’m going to be on this Saturday.
It also ties quite closely to an essay I’m not done writing for a book on Mothering & Blogging, and with my thoughts about the fact that LesbianFamily.org is approaching it’s first birthday.
I could get all academic about things, [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in The Political Is Personal, site stuff by Liza
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
It’s all relatives
Many of you will have read Peggy Orenstein’s cover piece in this past Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, “Your Gamete, Myself.” For those who didn’t, or who just now linked to it and balked when you saw that it spans nine pages online, here’s a synopsis: Orenstein, an astute writer on matters feminist and maternal, [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in BioMom, Non-Bio Mom, The Political Is Personal by Polly
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
Representing at BlogHer!
Are any LesbianFamily.org readers going to BlogHer?
I’ve been invited to step in as a speaker on the panel “The Politics of Inclusion & Exclusion in Online Communities,” and would love to have you join me and the rest of the very interesting women who will be there. It should be a great discussion.
5 Comments » - Posted in News!!!, The Good by Liza
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Lesbian Families as Role Models (Guest Post)
Reader, thinker, and real life friend Clare sent me (Liza) this message below, and I thought it would be a fabulous guest post here. In the interests of full disclosure, I have been close friends with Clare’s (straight) older sister since I was about 18 and full of radical organizing and world-changing ideas and Clare [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Extended Family, Friends of the Family (Supportive Hetero), Global Families, The Political Is Personal by Clare
Monday, July 9th, 2007
Send a Little Love
Send a little love over to Chris (and her partner Susan) at Not the Mama. Susan had a very bad ultrasound on Thursday and is taking cytotec to help her body deal with the not viable embryo.
So sorry for your loss, friends, and I hope the next insem turns out to make your family a [...]
