Español


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 for kids in Spanish. The page is called Stories for Diversity and is produced by the LGBT collective of Madrid, COGAM. According to Gabi, the majority of the .PDFs download without any problem.

I took a look at some of the stories and they are really very cute. Not to mention, some of them are simple enough for a parent with little Spanish to be able to read to her son or daughter.

(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 to contribute?

Back when Mombian had her 2nd Annual Blogging for LGBT Families, I blogged about how the Chilean courts have decided that it is okay to take a child away from her biological mother based on the mothers sexual orientation. But what of other Hispanic lesbian mothers? Where are they? What do they think? Do they have an online community?

After a day or two of obsessive google and technorati surfing, I have found a few Spanish blogs by lesbian families. As I began to leave notes on different pages and meet different people, one thing became enormously clear. In much of Latin America and Spain, women having children for the most part feel incredibly isolated. I actually have received emails from lesbian families without blogs introducing themselves; people who are searching the internet for connection.

One of the first blogs I found is one that is trying to help foster that connection. Julieta has been translating Mombian’s Family Voices series into Spanish to help her friends and family see the multiplicity that LGBT families can have. She also is taping and posting Discovery’s Home and Health episode of Here comes baby that featured a lesbian couple and was dubbed into Spanish.

To do my part to help create community and open lines of connection, I am going to introduce the seven blogs I have found (in a separate post) and Lesbian Family will have a new Español blog category. I know that not all of the Spanish bloggers actually speak English, so it would be great if those English blogs that have a blogger who speaks some Spanish could say so in the comment section. This way the Spanish bloggers will know what blogs they can comment on in Spanish and which blogs they can turn to and ask questions to if they wish.

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Pues, yo querría tener algo extraordinario por mi primer post acá (aparte de mi post de visitante). Entonces, empecé a pensar en lo que podía escribir—pues yo ni soy mama ni estoy planeando ser mama luego. ¿Qué precisamente puedo contribuir yo?

Un tiempo atrás, cuando Mombian tuve su 2º dia anual para blogear por familias LGBT, yo escribi un post sobre la decisión del corte supremo en Chile que niños podían ser sacado de la casa basado en la sexualidad de sus madres. Pero, ¿Qué hay de otras madres latinas lesbianas? ¿Dónde están? ¿Qué piensan? ¿Tienen una comunidad online?

Después de dos días de buscar obsesivamente por google y technorati, he encontrado unos blogs de la maternidad lesbiana en español. Mientras que dejé notitas en distintas paginas web y conocer unas parejas, se me aclaró una cosa. En mucho de Latinoamérica y España, las mujeres lesbianas teniendo niños se sientan aisladas unas de otras. De hecho he recibido emailes de familias lesbianas quien no tuvieron un blog introduciéndose; gente que estaban buscando el Internet para formar una conexión.

Uno de los primeros blogs que encontré estaba crear esa conexión. Julieta ha traducido la serie de voces familiares de Mombian en español para ayudar a sus amigos y familia ver la multiplicidad que tienen las familias LGBT. Ella también ha grabado y colocado un episodio de La llegada del bebé en el Discovery Casa y Salud que tenia una pareja lesbiana y era doblada al español.

Para hacer mi parte en crear un comunidad y abrir lineas con conexión, voy a introducir los siete blogs que he encontrado hasta ahora (en un post aparte) y Lesbian Family tendrá una lista en su blogroll de blogs en Español. Sé que no todos las bloggeras latinas hablen ingles, por lo tanto sería genial si los bloggeras (que tienen blogs en inglés) que tienen alguien que habla un poco de español se lo puede comentar acá. Así las bloggeras latinas sabrán donde pueden comentar en español y donde pueden ir a preguntar si quieren o necesitan.

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 relationship, a cat, a dog, and the desire to start a family in Argentina at http://quemarnaves.blogspot.com/

Florencia and Gabriela who are TTCing in Argentina at http://maternidadeslesbicas.blogspot.com/

Guza and Oruga waiting for their Juan in Argentina at http://saltorana.blogspot.com/

Tilvy and Andre have triplets Abril, Jazmin, and Santi who were born at 27 weeks and are still in the NICU, but doing well in Argentina at http://ellalostrillizosyyo.blogspot.com/

Ana and Paula with their 1 year old twins in Argentina at http://piedralibreparadosmamas.blogspot.com/

Cris and Ana with their twins Diego and Santi in Mexico at http://dosmamis.blogspot.com/

Roma, Triana, and their 4 year old son Tati in Argentina at http://mamispordos.blogspot.com/