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Selves and Identities

Nonbinary Parents Day 2024

Celebrate Nonbinary Parents Day With a New Lullaby and New Books Featuring Nonbinary Parents

For Nonbinary Parents Day today, listen to an absolutely beautiful, brand-new lullaby celebrating nonbinary parents and their varied parental names—a sneak peek from the upcoming album by award-winning children’s music trio Ants on a Log—and learn about two upcoming books and other resources for and about nonbinary parents and what they call themselves.

A Parent By Any Other Name: What Kids Call Their LGBTQ Parents (2024 Update)

One of the most frequent questions I’ve heard from prospective LGBTQ parents is “What should our kids call us?” Here are just a few of the 400+ real-life names—and the stories behind them—that people have shared with the Mombian LGBTQ Parental Names Project since it began in 2011. Have a read and add your own!

Jack o'lantern face over rainbow gradient

Queering Halloween

October is LGBTQ History Month and includes National Coming Out Day, Spirit Day, Ace Week, and Intersex Awareness Day. By Halloween, my head is abuzz with ways to support and sustain our multifaceted queer selves. Here’s how the spookiest day of the year can bring it all together.

15 Kids' Books, Songs, and Games About Pronouns

15 Kids’ Books, Songs, and Games About Pronouns

It’s International Pronouns Day, so once again, I’m rounding up some great kids’ books, music, and games all about pronouns, including several that are new this year—for you and her and him and them!

Dana Rudolph and family. Photo (c) Dana Rudolph

One Tyke and You’re Out

Even though I was out before becoming a parent, having a kid meant being out to people I would never have shared anything with, about my queerness or otherwise. One toddler call of “Mommy and Mama!” in the supermarket, however, and everyone could see our rainbow halo.

Some artifacts of lesbian mom history

For International Lesbian Day: Some Highlights of Lesbian Mom History

For International Lesbian Day and LGBTQ History Month, here are some fun moments of lesbian mom history to know and share! (This is an enhanced version of a piece I posted for Lesbian Visibility Day in April; clearly lesbians are so awesome that we need two holidays to celebrate!)

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