Author Archive
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
News from Latin America and a Bienvenida
I have been updating the Spanish blogs– I would like to welcome A. Daniela, a Chilean couple in search of their first child and to create community in Chile for lesbian mothers.
Also, if you want LGBT news (in English) of the happenings in Latin America check out Julieta’s new blog: Get your Queer OUT [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Español, site stuff by Clare
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
More blogs in Español
Here are some new (or better said, just found blogs):
Mamas Lesbianas a partir de los 42 años: about a couple and their adopted daughter
Adopcion nacional: about two able-bodied adult white women in Spain who have one daughter with a disability adopted internationally and who are trying to adopt a second child with a handicap through [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Adoption, Babies, Big Kids, BioMom, Español, Expecting, Global Families, Little Kids by Clare
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Biweekly question: LGBT friendly books?
I have to fess up that I have been miserable at trying to contribute to this site. Perhaps I could blame stressful job and stressful change of job and, most recently, unemployment (okay, admittedly, I do not have the stresses that many of you do while unemployed, so I will not complain). Perhaps [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in Biweekly Question, Weekend Reading by Clare
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Read to your kids in Spanish
There is a lot of chatter about inclusive stories for kids. While in school libraries in the US and Canada these books may be few and far between, they are much harder to track down in some other places (and in some other languages).
Gabi pointed out this amazing site where you can actually download stories [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Español, Weekend Reading by Clare
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Anti-racist parenting
Growing up, my parents devoted quite a bit of time talking to my sister and I about white privilege and making sure that we understood how the world worked and what we wanted it to look like. From them, I learned that this idea of anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-ism parenting started in the home. Living [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in The Political Is Personal by Clare
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
The “bloggeras”: Lesbian Family with a latin twist
(En español abajo)
So, I wanted to have some great post for my first post since joining the team (guest post aside). So I started thinking about what I could talk about—after all, I neither currently have children nor am I in the process of making them or planning them. What exactly do I have [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Español, Global Families by Clare
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Familia Lesbiana– Blogs en Español
This is what I hope will be the start of a list of blogs in Spanish by and about lesbian families. If anyone knows anyone else, please send them this way. Without further ado, I give you:
Julieta and her less-than-legal wife who are still in the planning stages over at http://willowsbrain.blogspot.com/.
Magui, Gabi, a three year [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Adoption, Babies, Big Kids, Español, Expecting, Global Families, News!!!, Non-Bio Mom, TTC, The Political Is Personal, Toddlers, We're a Family! (Just the 2 of us) by Clare
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 [...]
