By Miriam Genao Are you her nanny? Are you babysitting her? Who are her parents? Those are the questions I’ve been asked when out in public with my daughter, Jailani. Normally people start the conversation by complimenting my daughter and asking her age, and then they drop the much anticipated question,”Are you her nanny?” You […]
Lesbian Couple Loses Suit against Clinic For Receiving Black Man’s Sperm & Having a Mixed Child
By Alex Temblador For same-sex couples, it takes time and effort to create a family. There’s the question of whether to go with adoption, IVF, or surrogacy. Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon of Ohio, a white lesbian couple, decided to go with IVF. After Cramblett and Zinkon chose a sperm that reflected a white, blonde-hair, […]
Race and Ethnicity on a Napkin (Yes, Really!)
By: Mark Hagland Having been brought over to the U.S. in the first wave of transracial international adoption (I arrived as an eight-month-old, in June 1961), and having grown up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the 1960s and 1970s, and having experienced fairly intense racism and social marginalization, one of the things I […]