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I HAVE A DATE ON TUESDAY!
OH GIRL.
do you have wisps? you need to get some wisps. check your pedicure. are you taking spare underwear? i don’t know much about dates, but i feel like extra underwear is never a bad idea.
I’M VERY EXCITED FOR YOU AND I WISH YOU LUCK !!
What is it like raising kids in a lesbian relationship? Do you face a lot of challenges? I am really worried that my kids will get teased.
your kids will be teased, either because you’re gay or because they are or maybe they’ll have weird hair one year or they’ll be too smart or too pretty or too tall. one way or another, your kids will be teased.
the good news is, since you’re queer and a woman and therefore face oppression on a daily basis, you’re uniquely qualified to demonstrate how self-awareness, confidence and kindness trumps judgment, hatred and ignorance.
of course, hatred sometimes comes in the form of a fist, or worse, and that’s something all parents worry about.
i don’t know, i’ve had a really hard time answering this question because i actually think that raising kids is serious business no matter who you’re doing it with or how you identify. you basically just try to get them to eat enough green things and stay away from meth and fall in love with books and knowledge and empathy and their future.
and i don’t think that’s unique to queer parents, though i do think we’re better at this than straight people. but i generally think that about all things, so.
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how did you and laneia become friendos?
many moons ago, we entered each other’s ‘universes’ through the planet podcast, which first linked to my l-word recaps in late 2006 which’s how l word online found me. laneia had a blog connected to it that i started reading. she read me, i read her, we emailed a bit sometimes. i felt like we understood each other somehow, which is difficult to explain but i did. i just had a feeling but it wasn’t time, it wasn’t possible then, but occasionally there’d be brief, manic bursts of Real communication. often followed by silences.
in march '09 when i wanted to ask a few friends if they wanted to do this autostraddle site i was gonna do, i asked my nyc friends– carly, robin, stef, natalie, alex – and also crystal in australia, tess in chicago and laneia in phoenix, but laneia went by 'green" then. laneia seemed to understand how to talk to the internet in a way few people inherently “get” and i knew she knew a bit about the lezerwebs from OurChart and The Planet and I wanted her to write DIY stuff, but also be my friend.
so then autostraddle began in march '09. then she went away and came back. and then we talked all the time both online/phone/skype/email and pretty much every single day and then we finally hung out IRL at Dinah Shore 2010, and then again this past month when she came to New York City
So on twitter in late 2008, it was a lindsay lohanish night: i was devastated about a terrible thing that happened and my friends were over me. they wanted me to stop being public about my sadness. but laneia – “green” then – emailed my friend and i to check up that i was ok. at the time, i’d been surprised by the gesture. but now that i know & love her as i do now, it’s not surprising at all. she just knew, you know?
also a long time ago, maybe in 2008 as well, around that time, she mailed me something she made that i look at every day, and it reads: “the world is yours.”
