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10 Things I Learned As A Lesbian Mom

By Brit Sharon — 2019

Being a mom for a year now has been such a crazy experience. Nobody can prepare you. It’s exhausting! Like really exhausting. But ultimately, I’d never change a thing about choosing to be a parent and choosing how we are raising Thea (co-sleeping, no pacifier, no bottle, etc.).

Read on www.thesharonmoms.com

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Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child

The discovery that a child is lesbian or gay can send shockwaves through a family. A mother will question how she’s raised her son; a father will worry that his daughter will experience discrimination.

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Michael LaSala
2025
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We’re Raising Our Kids with No Gender | My Extraordinary Family

A THROUPLE are bringing up their two-year-old baby as ‘theyby,’ a term that refers to gender neutral parenting where the baby isn’t outwardly identified by its parents as either a boy or a girl.

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2020
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The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children

Written by two experienced lesbian therapists and parents, this second edition of Lesbian Parenting has been updated to reflect the contemporary cultural and political landscape, as well as current trends in parenting.

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D. Merilee Clunis, G. Dorsey Green
2025
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If These Ovaries Could Talk: The Things We’ve Learned About Making an LGBTQ Family

Jaimie Kelton and Robin Hopkins, the creators and hosts of the popular podcast If These Ovaries Could TalkK, realized the world needed to know there was more than one way to make an LGBTQ family.

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Jaimie Kelton, Robin Hopkins
2025
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Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience

Originally developed to help heterosexual couples, fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and sperm donation have provided lesbians with new methods for achieving pregnancy during the past two decades.

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Laura Mamo
2025
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Trans Motherhood

In this week’s episode, Imara welcomes incredible activists and mothers on to the show to commemorate the celebration of Mother’s Day on May 9th. Imara is first joined by Terri Edmonds, mother of Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells.

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2021
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The Other Mother: A Wickedly Honest Parenting Tale for Every Kind of Family

I’m Jen Brister: stand-up comedian, middle-aged adolescent, and mum. But not that mum—I’m the other one. Confused? Two years ago, my partner (a woman—we’re not solicitors) gave birth to twins. (I know! Believe me, I’m still reeling myself.

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Jen Brister
2020
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Love, No Matter What | Andrew Solomon

What is it like to raise a child who’s different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently abled kid, or a criminal)? In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents—asking them: What’s the line between...

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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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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