Archive for January, 2008
Where the diaper meets the road
2 Comments Published January 31st, 2008 in Anima animus, Baba familias.Part five of a six-part series of excerpts from “Confessions of a Lesbian Dad,” originally published in Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-biological Lesbian Moms Tell All (Ed. Harlyn Aizley. Boston: Beacon, 2006).
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The birth of our child was a lot easier than I thought it [...]
Gestation: Baba goes to Pride
0 Comments Published January 30th, 2008 in Anima animus, Baba familias.Part four of a six-part series of excerpts from “Confessions of a Lesbian Dad,” originally published in Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-biological Lesbian Moms Tell All (Ed. Harlyn Aizley. Boston: Beacon, 2006).
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Happy as a clam was I, when I went to my first LGBT Pride Celebration [...]
Part three of a six-part series of excerpts from “Confessions of a Lesbian Dad,” originally published in Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-biological Lesbian Moms Tell All (Ed. Harlyn Aizley. Boston: Beacon, 2006).
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I confess: coming up with the name “Baba”ť for my kind of parent — a [...]
Baba, a name I call myself
10 Comments Published January 28th, 2008 in Anima animus, Baba familias, Nomenclature & taxonomy.Part two of a six-part series of excerpts from “Confessions of a Lesbian Dad,” originally published in Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-biological Lesbian Moms Tell All (Ed. Harlyn Aizley. Boston: Beacon, 2006).
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A few months after I outed myself as a butchy lesbian not-mom at a family [...]
Weekend bonus shot, 01.26.08
0 Comments Published January 26th, 2008 in Mostly a picture, Weekend bonus shot.Lunchtime, Berkeley, CA.
Parenthood is a very gendered thing
6 Comments Published January 25th, 2008 in Anima animus, Baba familias.Part one of a six-part series of excerpts from “Confessions of a Lesbian Dad,” originally published in Confessions of the Other Mother: Non-biological Lesbian Moms Tell All (Ed. Harlyn Aizley. Boston: Beacon, 2006).
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I didn’t always know I would be a lesbian dad. Sure, I always knew I [...]
Recent illustration of goddess knows what, hopefully not Baba, by the lil’ monkey.
Baba’s mood is…skittish. Or maybe brooding. Yeah, that’s it. Brooding in a kind of a skittish sort of a way. Later today I’m to have minor surgery (I check into the “In N’ Out” floor of the hospital), during [...]
“That’s all I’ll watch. Only thiiiiiiiiiis much.”
(Archival photo — diapers a give-a-way — of the lil’ monkey trying to wheedle her way in front of Sound of Music yet again. Or was it Mary Poppins?)
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. 
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