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Raised by Lesbian Moms (My Experience)

2021

A long overdue video sharing my story of being raised by 2 moms.

26:00 min

Frumpy Middle-Aged Mom: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Motherhood

Never mind the Real Housewives of Orange County―Marla Jo Fisher is the woman everyone can relate to, complete with bad parenting, rotten dogs, ill health, and fashion faux pas.

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Marla Jo Fisher
2025
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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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The Other Mothers: Two Women’s Journey to Find the Family that Was Always Theirs

An LGBTQ memoir about one couple’s struggles to defy the patriarchy and redefine the nuclear family, The Other Mothers dives into the history and social challenges queer couples face when trying to make a family.

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Jennifer Berney
2021
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She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood

After ten years of talking about having children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became . .

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Amie Klempnauer Miller
2011
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Can There Really Be Two Moms?

A lesbian mother grapples with the pain of a child favoring the mother who gave birth to her.

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Stephanie Fairyington
2018
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How Do I React When Strangers Ask Questions About Our Kids?

My wife and I have two children in elementary school. Other parents often ask personal questions about how our family was formed, such as whether we adopted or used a sperm bank, who carried our children, who the real mom is, etc.

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Steven Petrow
2014
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When You're the Mum Who Didn't Carry the Baby: a lesbian parent opens up

Lucy Fry was plagued with a multitude of worries about being a non-biological mum. Now that her and her wife's son is almost two, her fears have diminished.

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Lucy Fry
2019
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10 Things I Learned As A Lesbian Mom

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.).

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Brit Sharon
2019
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5 Ways It’s Hard to Be a Lesbian Mother

Here are five ways it’s hard to be a lesbian mother…

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Charisse Oates
2016
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