By Miriam Genao As parents, all we want is the best for our children. We want them to excel in any and everything they do. It’s my job as their mother to make sure that happens. I envision certain things for them based on their personalities, athleticism, and talents. My oldest child is José. He’s […]
By Miriam Genao Raising a teenage son isn’t easy. I can honestly say, that as I’m writing this, I can feel my stress levels rising. I don’t say it because my child is a bad kid, I say it because of all the challenges coming from the outside world that may or may not influence […]
By Rob Watson Rose McGowan’s opinions have been all over social media the past few weeks. She started in an interview with a now infamous diss that gay men are “more misogynistic than hetero men”. She then “apologized”. In the Huffington Post, she writes, “Where does it say that because of a man’s sexual preference, […]
By Madge Woods The holidays are upon us and my head has been spinning since October. The culmination of the imagined spinning has morphed into real spinning (benign positional vertigo). It all started in August when I decided to end a 12-year relationship and, without this person in my life, I went off to Provincetown. […]
By Meika Rouda I’ve always hated my nose. It is short with a wide bridge that plateaus off the tip landing with a thud. There is nothing elegant or sculpted about it, unlike my mom’s nose, which could have been the prototype plastic surgeons used for rhinoplasty in the 80’s. My nose has […]
By: Shannon Ralph There are many things my partner and I considered before becoming parents. There are many situations for which we prepared. Many anticipated questions for which we concocted answers. Many scenarios we envisioned in our minds. What would we do if our child was bullied for having two moms? How would we handle […]
By: Shannon Ralph Generally speaking, I am not a big fan of the Boy Scouts of America due to their stance on gay people. I am, however, a firm believer in their motto. “Be prepared.” Like generations of Boy Scouts before me, I pride myself on being prepared for any situation life decides to […]
By: Shannon Ralph Why do mother-daughter relationships have to be so complicated? When I was an adolescent, I vividly recall despising my mother. There was a point in my childhood that lasted about two years or so when I could barely stand to be in the same room with my mother. We didn’t talk. Our […]
By Brandy Black When I was 24 I had a job in event management, I traveled a couple weeks out of the month going to events like the MTV Movie Awards, The Grammy’s, and VH1 Awards, there was never a dull moment in my twenty somethings. I got up at 5AM and stayed out until […]
Our family has always loved Doc McStuffins, but who knew we could love it even more? In a new episode titled, “The Emergency Plan,” Doc McStuffins features a two-mom, interracial family! Better yet, the actresses playing the two moms are voiced by LGBT actresses, Wanda Sykes, and Portia de Rossi. Chris Nee, the show’s creator […]
