Archive for June, 2007

Baby Einstein, Berkeley, CA.

[With apologies to Julia Ward Howe.]
Whereas there have always been womanly men and manly women, and Baba’s in the latter camp, always has been, always will be, and we like it that way; and
Whereas people like Baba, even if they may constitute a minority of the general populace, constitute at least 50% of the parents [...]

I can’t help myself. Big week of I can’t help myself.
I just learned this news, via Round is Funny via her post at LesbianFamily.org. She linked to this boston.com piece:

Legislators vote to defeat same-sex marriage ban.
Of course I darted over to Pam’s House Blend to see more. Here’s her [...]

Call me a breathless groupie, call me what you like, I don’t care. I’m all a-dither because I just read on Echidne of the Snakes that Katha Pollitt has a blog, entitled And Another Thing!
I mean, her Subject to Debate columns have been run on The Nation’s online venue for quite [...]

After stumbling across Steven Colbert’s reference, a week ago Tuesday, to covens of lesbian feminists inseminating themselves with turkey basters, I felt it necessary, as a self-appointed agent of public enlightenment on matters pertaining to lesbian parenthood, to clarify the real relationship between lesbian gals trying to conceive (or TTC, as we call it) and [...]

A feminist vapor trail

Feministing’s in your face (or on your mudflap) logo.
What with the time-sucking combo of an infant plus a toddler around the house, and the honest labor I do from time to time for a buck, I’m often late to the party. That is, breaking news, for me, is stuff that to other folks is [...]

Nonsense fun-fest #2, Whose shoes is whose? Or, find the lesbian! has drawn to a close, and we have us a winner. Her name is Liesel, and she writes the blog Dante’s Inferno with Children. [Liesel, I'll write you later today to get your contact info & further skinny re: choice of booty.]
Now [...]

Watching big sister, Berkeley, CA.



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    Archived material about the 2008 California marriage equality fight and this site's treatment of it can be found at an LD No on 8 page. There you'll also find links to background info on the marriage equality issue & sources of info on current campaigns, like The Courage Campaign's Equality Hub. For ongoing news roundup on national marriage equality issues (updated daily), check out Stop8.org.







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    Lesbian Dad Lesbian Dad is written by a parent who answers to the name "Baba" and works toward a world in which amor does indeed vincit omnia.

    Still curious? You'll find a ton more on the About page. Or the Glossary. Or the Best of LD. The closest thing to an origin story can be found in this six-post series, excerpted from an essay of mine describing the dawn of my lesbian fatherhood.

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