By Kate Mason — 2016
New motherhood changes you in ways you’ve never even imagined.
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CLEAR ALL
Your child just came out to you. Now what? Here are some things to keep in mind.
Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.
A conversation with the sociologist Mary Robertson on how some queer youth are pleasantly surprised with the lack of family drama the news causes.
When many LGBTQ people look back on their childhood, we remember a mixture of confusingly feeling different; being harassed for our sexual identities; and realizing how important our parents, teachers and other authority figures were in either helping us through those years—or making our lives worse.
“Maybe instead of biology, I should be cursing the culture that taught me I’m less of a woman because I can’t have children.”
Don’t wait for the most convenient time to rebuild intimacy. You’ll be waiting a long time.