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In Good Faith? U.S. Legal Battle Over Gay Adoption Intensifies

By Oscar Lopez — 2020

When Fatma Marouf and her wife Bryn Esplin decided to foster refugee children in their home state of Texas, being rejected because of their sexual orientation never crossed their minds.

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Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women

Mignon R. Moore brings to light the family life of a group that has been largely invisible―gay women of color―in a book that challenges long-standing ideas about racial identity, family formation, and motherhood.

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Mignon R. Moore
2011
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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.

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Sandra Patton-Imani
2025
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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

The story every mother in America needs to read. As featured on NPR and the TODAY Show. All moms have to deal with choosing baby names, potty training, finding your village, and answering your kid’s tough questions, but if you are raising a Black child, you have to deal with a lot more than that.

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Nefertiti Austin
2019
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