Who’s Your Daddy?:And Other Writings on Queer Parenting

Who’s Your Daddy?:And Other Writings on Queer Parenting
Editor: Rachel Epstein
ISBN: 9781894549783
Published: June, 2009
Format: Paperback; 351 pages




This groundbreaking collection of writing brings vital and refreshing insights into current discussions about queer parenting, blending narrative and academic voices from Canada, the United States, England and Australia. The contributors are parents, prospective parents, writers, academics, lawyers, activists, health care professionals and — most significantly — queer spawn, the children of LGBTQ parents. The themes represented in these 40 essays include butches raising sons; queer youth as parents; trans experience in fertility clinics; legal and historical reflections; bisexuality and adoption; race relations in the family; heteronormativity in queer family kids' books; class issues within families; dealing with infertility; polyamory and parenting; discussions with sperm donors, single moms, gay dads; developments in reproductive technologies; rural and urban experience; and reflections on the meanings of biology and of "queer" parenting.

Who's Your Daddy? is a timely and dynamic collection that moves queer parents away from the defensive position they have historically been placed in having to prove that they are "normal" and that their kids are "okay." Instead, it offers a more honest exploration of the diversity that exists within queer families and a broader understanding of the complex issues that concern both queer parents and their children.

These writings make a profound contribution to queer parenting discourse, looking at issues that have been previously unaddressed and introducing new and vibrant perspectives.
Editor

Rachel Epstein has been a queer parenting activist, educator, and researcher for close to twenty years and co-ordinates the LGBTQ Parenting Network at the Sherbourne Health Centre in Toronto, Ontario. She has published on a wide range of queer parenting issues, including assisted human reproduction, queer spawn in schools, butch pregnancy, and the tensions between queer sexuality, radicalism, and parenting. Rachel is the 2008 winner of the Steinert & Ferreiro Award (Community One Foundation), recognizing her leadership and pivotal contributions towards the support, recognition, and inclusion of queer parents and their children in Canada.
Features

- valuable information and new perspectives for queer parents and prospective parents and for health, legal, social work and education professionals

- recommended readings, websites, organizations and support groups

- original writing and first publication of interviews, with Anne-Marie Macdonald, Elizabeth Ruth, Emma Donoghue, John Greyson and Makeda Silvera

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