(via Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood | Hipmama.com)

Feminist Review: Who’s Your Daddy?

One generation ago, some queer individuals would not have considered parenthood feasible. However, this book shows the many creative ways families have been built and children have been nurtured outside of the nuclear, heteronormative ideal. Open adoption, the experience of queer spawn in schools, the ways in which queer parents challenge gender stereotypes in raising their children and the experiences of involved donors are discussed alongside a transgender man’s experience of being treated at a fertility clinic. A letter to an unborn child lists a mother’s intentions to parent equitably, regardless of the child’s gender, while another piece discusses the importance placed upon biological ties within lesbian-led families.

Lately I feel grateful for any writing about queer families that avoids reducing the variety of queer [and any kind of] families into oppositional caricatures of Radical Anti-Family Queers and Assimillationist Gays for Wedding Planning.

It’s surprising how many people who are anti-homophobia, don’t make the link to normative Family Values. I forget that not everyone likes sexual politics nerding out.