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PHOTO CREDIT: JUSTICE4JANE Last month, US District Judge Barbara Cobb struck down the marriage ban in my supremely divided state. Queers in our urban areas (Madison and Milwaukee) spent the weekend...
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Raccoon Summer
In June, I ask my partner if we can foster a dog. “We won’t just foster it,” he says. No. Our elderly sheepdog was put down in May, and she left a 90-pound vacuum in the house that I wasn’t ready to...
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He’s Not Your Kid
“He’s going to grow up to be gay. Yeah, you’re making him gay and you look gay too.” I wasn’t there but I can feel the heat of the exchange in my partner’s words. I can feel the stab of hurt in...
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The OTHER L-word: Lice!
Rainbow troll probably does not have lice. Probably. Our family got lice over the summer. It was absolutely awful. Truly terrible! It was expensive, and it was stressful, and it lasted far too long. In...
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The Salvation Army and the LGBT Community
When do we start to forgive? Personal anecdote time: I was abused as a small child. I’ve held a grudge for the last twenty-five years, and it has only began to heal in the last two years. So I’m not...
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The Blazing Fire: LGBT Jewish Identity on Hanukkah
Hanukkah, for those of you who are unaware, is the holiday where we Jews, lead by the Macklemores, defeated the Egyptians, stormed the castle, and had eight nights of drunken, pyromaniacal revelry, as...
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Saying Goodbye to Screen Time
Winter break is my least favorite break. Aside from the complex and difficult emotions it can contain–no matter how much we queer it up–it’s tough. There’s the fact that it is two whole weeks, which...
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A Dad by Any Other Name
There’s a dilemma that pretty much faces every parent who transitions after children come into their lives. What does my kid call me? There is usually a post about this on the more popular trans...
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Interview with Author of Jacob’s New Dress
Photo Credit: Albert Whitman & Co. One day, a few months ago, I happened across a book at A Room Of One’s Own, our locally owned feminist bookstore. It was called Jacob’s New Dress. I cracked it...
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Trans 101: DOs and DON’Ts
So someone you know is transitioning. Maybe it’s someone you know closely, or maybe it’s someone you’ve never heard of, but who is famous even though you’ve never heard of them until people started...
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Target Goes Beyond Gender Stereotypes
When you think of Target, do you think of: A) the place you go for a package of toilet paper and come out with sixteen different household items? B) that little bull terrier (whose name, I just...
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To the Bigoted Mom at Walgreens
To the bigoted mom at Walgreens, Hi! I don’t know you, and you don’t know me. But I do know your son. He was in my kid’s class last year and this year. He has trouble reading. I know this because I...
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Sex is a Funny Word: Interview and Giveaway
In 2012, I donated to a Kickstarter campaign for a little book called What Makes A Baby, which is STILL on the top of my list to recommend to parents. (You can see my blog post about it here.) To my...
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